The evening world. Newspaper, April 3, 1919, Page 28

rs: Br a 1 ee: A New Thrill in Feeding Doughboys Chocolate Cake Katherine Stinson, Barred by Sex From Aviation Service, Went Overseas for Red Cross, Was } First Woman to Fly Over London, but Found New Talents for Feeding Cake and Playing f the Piano in the Rest Camps. ; AKING history for the City of London, for herself and for the Amert- M can Red Cross holds only slightly more attraction for Miss Kath: | erine Stinson, youngest woman aviatrix and first woman ever to! * gy over the English metropolis, than the joy of feeding delicious chocolate » cake to American soldiers in France walling to be sent home. 1 “Ot course all this work was second choice for me,” said Miss Stinson, “Tu never forret that 1 wanted to Cees iget into the thick of the fight as an|® glad shriek from the still lusty Taviator, but fate having created me|throats of the patients greeted mr @ girl, luck was against me. After]One boy wa his hand at me-he having made several attempts to be] "44 only one—and called, ‘I told gecepted in the army, 1 did the nex:|fellers the Red Cross wouldn't f thing and joined the Red Crons,|*t us” ree , entistes I got as much| “Often, as I entered those tong S} pleasure pleasing our boys overseas} "rds and saw the alck men tying & there, staring with their great wide , s, I thought I w an intruder. But the minute they spied the enamel red cross on my shoulder, the instant I said ‘cake,’ there was a change Everyone was alert and propped on his elbow. It made me feel exalted to be serving in that ci ity.” The boys aften prctended they nadn't been served, and Miss Stinson, | while seeing them hide their tnitial portion, letting them believe they ad fooled her, would give them a cond helping. Twice during her stay abroad the wviatrix passed through scarred bat- tlefields, not in an airplane but on foot this time, and reverently. ‘The ‘ight of the scene of so much misery at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Woods made ber feel that any ser- vice no matter how menial worthy, was “I bad come to do motor transport service,” says Miss Stinson, “yet I wasn't surprised when I was asked to play the piano for the boys at the Gare du Nord rest station in Paris on Christmas eve, They were all happy when we played the piano, One soldier with a fine bass voice would accompany, and when the dance music was also that of a popu lar vong, the men would suddenly stop dancing and cluster about the Piano to raise their voices in the chorus, “After that night I was delegated to play on all festival occasions, a task I came to enjoy as much as the | men about me.” Coming home on a transport with returning American troops, Mias Stinson was mado to realize that the real, khaki-clad doughboys counted | her and tho girls with whom she | worked as true compantons-in-arms. Every man on board, she is proud to boast, paid tribute to the organiza- tion, As one aviator said to her: “We always knew the Red Cross would be there when a fellow needed a friend.” w' Chicago of the 1 KATHERINE STINSON: as Tever had while flying,” said Miss "Stinson, as she rested in her room at the hotel where she 1s stopping aince her recent return from England ‘and France. During her five months’ Service abroad she aided the Red Cross with her versatile skill in fy- {img an airplane, driving a motor, Nteeding bungry doughboys and play- ing music for the men in tho rest cams. * “I was too busy and too happy serv- fmg goodies to the boys to be lone fome for my plane. Of course I had _ that one glorious flight in England tn @ Handley-Page machine.” Miss Stin- g0n’s face beamed as she recalled that thrilling passage over English country. “But she modesty neglected to tell that she was the pioneer woman flyer ever London. It was only when aer companion told about it that this dar- » img young explorer of air and land ave the details of her unique ascent » under the auspices of the Red Crosa, smiles, ond the the bth months' best to And t rines 1 fore his By Helen H. Hoffman Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Pubtitiing Co, (The unattached and amenable to feminine ought to send a message of thanks to Father John J, Brady, Chaplain of Father Brady, who has recently re- turned to this country, jn his sixteen the world safe for democracy did his young American Woman, In his datly contact with the ma- of the famous regiment t the smiling friendly face of the Pretty American Girl constantly be- I don't mean to charge these boys RIS’ ATTRACTIONS Now York Evening World.) | EN Jimmy or John or Sam- mie or Bill returns to his home town In New York, in or San Francisco or any ittle hamlets in between, still the Sallies and the Marys Violets of their school days Marines in France, REV. Joun J. 6 who went overseas, with fickleness or with disloyalty to the American girl. But they were a long way from home, and sometimes, as it happened, as they sighed a bit with homesickness and the thought of the movies and Mary, @ little French girl had @ way of putting in an appearance, service in the war that made make the war safe for the his is how he went about it, that broke the back of the German Army “Parley vous Francais? she and won eternal glory at Belleau smiled. Woods and Chateau-Thterry, at Sois- “Wee, mam'moselle,” he had sons and the Argonne, Father Brady learned, A few other words that he had picked up and a few that she had boys, tered of the English vocabulary Katherine Stinson joined the over- ‘ #eas motor corps early last Novem- ) ber, but the unit of forty girls waa! disbanded Fob. 1 Only one girl was retained for emergencies, and Miss Stinson with many of her com- ® panions, was transferred to the can-| Full Explanation of the Governmen the War Risk Insurance Burea piled by the Navy Department. 5 RESEND insurance certificates| surance values are participating and Wonderful smile, which helped, She ra een service. &re one year renewable term| such values are issued in exchange for W498 @ diversion, and because she w e “Serving in a canteen was indeed contracts, and may only be| the full reserve value without sur-|% Pleasant acquaintance she helped | @ novel experience for me,” laughed! Miss Stinson, “I am naturally me-| chanical and things pertaining to ma’ chines and continued for a period of five years from the declaration of peace, At any time during this p. tod of|under a Insurance Information Fer t Policies Issued Through u—From a Bulletin Com- render charge. annual or quarterly premium ts paid | helped to piece together an interest- ing conversation, with the aid of sig- that made a very satisfactory combination language, through which medium they could express thelr thoughts, And, besides, the French girl had a to dispel the clouds of despair that homesickness, sometimes taking pos- session of a tired, weary soldier, If an annual, semi- Government policy and death | motors never seein like) five years |).se insurance certificatos| occura the discounted value of pre-| Would engender, tasks, Why, when I was driving an| may be converted in whole or in part| uJums excepting current month will| “Well enough,” thought Chaplain sutomobile with supplies from the dict| without medical examination into any! ge returned, Brady, as he observed these budding kitchens I would have to get up at| one of the following gix life ins T acquaintances in his long daily u ‘he proceeds of all policies are non-|*cduaintances in his + eg five in the morning, travel a few kilo-|ance policy forms: Ordinary life taxable, Insurance vi ‘anentae xi tramps about the villages where the metres to the garage, attend to my |twenty-payment |i thirty-payment date of issue a |boys were billetted or im reserve motor myself and then work a whole life, twenty-year endowment, thirty- peep Est neopeliaa ses dary and camps outside the little French day that didn't end until halt past etx| your endowment and endowment ma-| ces are free of condition aan | COW at night. The long hours and the hard| turing at age sixty-two. If the pres-| service rive pli eee - to nav; iiara | ant nonAnE) that wAihael work never bothered me. 1 just loved| ent insurance certificates wre to be| ton. . Oe Somiphs [ene ee eee tenes eee the feel of the wheel in my hands For| converted as above, the conversion ee BENE Say nee ee Te motors and J are friends must take place during the five year “But 1 had my lessons tn sorvice| period mer.tioned, when I entered the canteens I had| AN policies contain a waiver of never been used to handling food and| Premium and total disability clause,| “UC I occastonally found the joke was on|™Aking the proceeds payable at any| PT beginnin for ms when 1 didn’t understand what the| “me to the insured when he becomes | PAUNé paid-up or extended insurance | would not deny those boys any little | boys nicknamed certain things totally and p nuly disabled, | “7® sUaranteed on all converted poll-| jeusure these harmless little ac “1 was serving cake to the boys|RHGARDLDSS OF HIS AGH, in| ‘!% quaintancea with French girls gave one afternoon, when one of the or- Monthly installments of §5 per| In the event of denth policies are|them in their idle moments back of Gerlies came rushing after me to tel} #:000 of insurance covering the en-| Payable in 240 monthly installmenta.|the lines, ame I had missed two wards and that | tf@ period of total disability for lite| Pald-up policies are payable at death | the boys were waiting their tea until °f the insured, No policy in any life] !® LT arrived. When I entered the room |™#Urance company contains a sim-| AP Ti) = —— ‘lar clause without regard to age, manner, EXAMPLE OF RATES FOR Gov-| 4"! P London Is A-Jazz. | ERNMENT POLICIES: day of mM) ENSURANC quarter mushrooms al! over London, | For popularity they rival the! 99 Movies, Women who have an hour to spare while on a shopping trip or { Between tea and dinner engagements | 49 } Bow pass the time pleasantly jazzing. ( & syndicate of American business! Men is snapping up every available Wy Life. Anaial Bia 1b 6 J= halls are springing up lize} urer of rier fOnXear Rnd. ; building. pay $d is puzzling to know how decora- enn tors, electricians and bands are S 1 ‘ . i i Fequisitionea so quickly, Building Ww i i. oe Which a few days ago stood drearily| Dividends wil be paid annually— | empty and sadly out of repair, to- they may be taken in cash, deducted | version, Orr Loans and cash values are provided the full may be desired; may be changed at will on notice in writing, should be made payable to the ‘Treas Disbursing Risk Insurance, Wa: A grace of one month ta allowed in nt of premiums and Hberal re- in the policy. Further tnformation concerning con- ed usa ov left making conversions, &., may be #9- from premium or left with the Govern _ by addressin, ¥, nS a the wad of the frm year (Ore: wee money that Bie srienda went 34 per cent, eemece (iM from homme, everything that h eanha Gas ta rake could muster for their benefit, he one the eae cee oe inviahed on “le tora” » of the cash value. Particl’| and certainly his gencrous heart Whether Father Brady ts possessed ‘of prophetic vision I don't know, but uble at maturity in the same | at the aame time, big atiractive litho- sum, and endowment polict , |sraphs of pretty movie actresses, remiuins are due on the first/ representing the heroines of popular each month but may be paid/American dramas, had a mysterious ly, halt yearly or yearly, as|WAY Of appearing in the dugouts and method of payment|the big clubhouse that Father Brady ran for the marines for some time before they went into action, And scattered about berally were American maguazines—not old, fin gered Magazines that grateful house- wives had unloaded on the army from overstocked attics or because of badly needed closet room, but bright-col- ored periodicals, clean and fresh checks and money orders the United States, and sent to Clerk, Bureau of War ington, D. G nent provisions are contained ing quite largely to the movie pro- feosion, with a generous number of includ; verde ah blanks fF | sored photographs of pretty, win- Conservation Sec- tp-| Crete be some young women who played lead- lon, rea ‘ar Risk Losurance, y |W RG ; ing roles in Samtone most papeler from the States, magazines pertain- | The Face of the ‘Girl Back Home”’ | Always in the Trenches With Marines FATHER BRADY, CHAPLAIN OF FIFTH U.S. MARI COMBAT FRENCH pS Regardless of what part of the country the marine hailed from, there was certain to be in this big collec- tton one or more pictures portraying life such as might have been that of us own home town. There was the sunbonnet girl with eingham apron | ‘elping mother with the housework, wnd there was the school girl, that |might have been Mary, whcese photo- graph he carried, and the tennis girl jand the shop girl and the debutante, |There were girls in that collection of magazines that were certain to cause a slight commotion in the heart of every marine in that regiment, | The magazines were bought and paid for out of @ fund Father Brady hao intrusted to him by friends to |help, wherever he could, make life a |bit more comfortable and pleasant for the boys of the fighting Sth, | “The only trouble with the maga- | zines,” said Chaplain Brady, “was | that I had to almost chain them down | to keep them, Iven the officers would [borrow them and forget to return | them, “Perhaps to this may be attributed the Jack of French brides who appear Pareto ieetiaray Get roatar site American officer.” Not that ther Brady is an enemy of romance. No, indeod. One might be more correct in saying that he is its guardian angel. Chaplain Brady laughingly con- fesses to this eubtle spread of propa- ganda in favor of purely American marriages, “You know,” he says by way of Jexplanation, “my church does not countenance divorce. We in the chureh believe that every precau- |tion should be taken by young people who contemplate marrying, so as to insure rly as it 18 possible for human beings to do 90, their future happiness, I did not believe that as | “Personally, these o-called mixed marriages would prove atisfactory,” said Father Brady. “I hold nothing against the French girl as an indi- vidual. She may be a good house- keeper, an agreeable companion and all that, but she has been reared in an entirely different world, One | must consider these things—the great, jyawning difference in tradition and custom. I talked with scores of these \girla, I met them and their parents Jin tho villages where the American mother looked with decided favor on the possibility of her daughter mar- rying an American soldier, But I felt convinced then, and I atill do, that ta American boy by reason of aie the orders and the sandwighes |boys were quartered. ‘The French | would find in Bie RwA Parl, A LE RIES FOUND EFFECTIVE METHOD TO AND KFEP WAR SAFE FOR AMERICAN GIRL THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1919 ‘Snort McCarty’s Snores Killed Horses, Sank Ship, But Saved His Own Life They Put Him Of One Ship, and a “Sub’’ Got It— He Shipped Again and His Snores Attracted a U Boat—He Survived and, Afloat ina Collapsible Boat, Fell Asleep and Summoned Rescuers by Nasal Wireless. By John W. Lawrence Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World) NORT M'GARTY is back in town. S Around the Battery, Gouth Ferry and Gouth Street is was gen- erally supposed that Snort’s singularly unfortunate career bad been brought to an abrupt and watery close more than a year ago when a freighter on which he had shipped as a deckhand was torpedoed seventy- five miles west of Gibraltar. Instead of occupying a permanent berth in D, Jones's Locker, Snort McCarty hove in sight yesterday occupying a spectacular suit of store clothes, large yellow shoes that had the racy lines of carfloats, a minstrel shirt, @ tie that reminded seafaring men of a quarantine flag and a ight brown fedora turned up in front and 5 = down in back, a la George Coban, He also wore a bamboo swagger stick. checked up, But I was a long ways from being drowned. whose customs and ideas are the) same as his, a greater amount of| happiness. I feared the result of| mixed marriages, | “Of course, hundreds of boys car- ried pictures of young women of their home towns in their pockets. I found many of these on the boys I helped to lay away following the desperate en- gagements of the marines with the Germans. I am glad to eay to these girls who are left with these sad memories that the American boys proved their loyalty to them as well as to the great cause for which th fought and gave their lives. Ther was no yellow streak in the American | marine, He was 100 per cent. genuine all through, as his record in France proved,” said Father Brady. So the little French “mamzelles" who looked upon our marines wit! an admiration no one could deny now wonder why these good-lookin;: American boys did not answer their love notes, | “Ah, who knows? Perhaps they were killed like our brothers," slit the little French maidens. ‘Th American boys, when their regimen! | moved, slipped out into space, slipped [out of their lives, never to return, | ‘The American boys themselves, a Father Brady—friend of the Amer: An expansive and stationary grin} “We saileu for an Italian port with lit up his weatherbeaten eountenance| horses for the Italian Government fas he strode into Pizen Pete's tap-|@nd, as usual, when we was two room and called for drinks for the| days out the crew goes to the skipper house. and tells him they can't sleep on There were those gathered at the| account of my snoring. bar who had known Snort McCarty| “The skipper he gives me a berth for twenty yeara. They new him as}@l by myself down in the engine the most unfortunate eailor on the|foom. But it wasn’t long before the Seven s. He was famed asa hoo-|chief engir that ‘my doo from the River Pilate to the the bolts_.* Orkneys. He put the jinx on ever {in his machinery and that the |ship on which he signed. He was|fire room crew was going to quit usually out of funds and always out | because I was kcepin’ them awake of luc It was said of him that ev nights, |the rats would leave a vessel when 9 then they shifts me to the they saw him coming, Rats do this|boatdeck away aft, ‘This didn't do when th have premonitory mis-|4ny good, because the Marconi guy | givings as to a s' s future. went to the bat with the skipper and ‘And Snort McCarty snored, He|Says my snores short-circuited the snored as probably no other seaman| Wireless and other ships were sayin* r| his messages sounded like the echo of a menag in the world’s maritime His tory e' t the usua snored. As a seagoing snore common to every! “The skipper he holds a conference fo'castle, It was a wild, tumultuous. | with his officers, and then I voluntect reverberating trumpeting that shook|to solve the problem myself. I sus- give me a berth in Everybody cheered the stanchest vessels from stem to It was Me st that they with the horses. rty's voleanle snoring| At this and thought it was @ grand that precipitate most of his mis-| idea, , fortune, Crews mutinied and refused “We 150 skates on the Valjend te sleep on the same ship with him. dnd ht I sleep with ‘er Officers objected to him because, they four of ‘em die and had to be chucked said, bis snoring dislocated their over the side next day navigating instruments, The vibra-; “I tried it more night an@ tions caused by his ear-splitting in- twelve horses ‘oke their moorings halations frequc caused barome- and started mpede that almow rs to forec errific ste when cked the nly fair wi er was gn prospect. “We were not infre- r the Azores by that His explosive exhalations time and they put ! and ut me ashore ar uently caused the compass to indi- ,), Fee nore. Ang 5 se to Monae Ae Me. The Valjean goes on heck te that north was south or that V1, aoa i. just in time to Keup twas wi date with a U boa i f with o vont off G 1 Under such aircumstances the skip- “in, Win © 0 boat oft ot ara te wolesventt g merchantmen Ae uiltioe Sear ee a ace : F + Myself out of three sailors’ boarding could do nothing but get rid of Snort par hbionkas houses in the Azores, I signed on a McCarty as qu nsually did. “So you thought T went down when the old Valjean was torpedoed, eh ald Me y to his friends in Pizen k ssible, ‘The y: 88 ne 7 acaal) British freighter bound for 6ts Nazaire. Two nights out the crew urt kickin’ about the racket I madé when I was Four of ‘em sait ep. can gitl—hold the keys to this mys- tery. Pete’ I heard I was lost on that they was sufferin’ from shell shock on shi us the feller says, 1t was a MY account. a waralad canart | “Well, we was just headin’ into the r on the crew Ist of the Val- Bay of Biscay when we meets can and was among the missing W'th a torpedo and the old ship goca when the shipping commissioner down, One of the davits snapped ‘Sixty Sandwiches Built Fortune For This New York Woman IVE years ago Mrs, Helen R. Mascher hapr F in the business district in New of girls stood around the soda fi drug store is not a drug store) dri on the roster of the Sth Marines, ID crackers, Now quick humeh is New York fact I believe the official count 1s only | typical New Yorkers. Perhaps they wi Most | hurrying back to the office. | of Now York's quick lunch places are crowded at noon hour with that spe- | |cles of the human race known as mere man. Perhaps this is one of the reasons the girls flock to the soda | fountains for their light repast. | While waiting to be attended to Mrs, Maascher started wondering. Wouldnt these girls enjoy a more substantial sandwich or two inst of the none-too filling crackers, Now | Mrs, Mascher COULD make san¢ wiches, Her many friends had com- | mented on her achievements tn this) lina, Why not try It out, thought Mra, Mascher, Perhaps her sand wiches on sale at the soda fountain | would find ready buyers. She spoke to the proprictor about it and he| \agreed to try out the idea, | Mrs, Mascher's first order was for sixty sandwiches of various kinds. | These she made in her little kitchen| at home, One day’s trial was enough to prove the idea a success and her! business has expanded steadily since. | Fresh and daintily wrapped in wax | ‘paper, Mrs, Mascher's sandwiche may be found on sale at many first | class soda fountains throurhout New ‘York City, der annual business! {amounts to many thousands of dol- | \lars @ year and her daily orders are for thousands of sandwiches instead jet the first day's order of sixty, Twenty-two women are employed in Mrs. Mascher’s sanitary factory fill- are of the same high standard Hn bien Saal ) at Ld when they were lowerin’ our boat and all hands an unexpected ‘bu much needed bath. “I floated around on the bottom & collapsible boat what had co lapsed, and I never did see what hap- ned into a big drug store Pened to the rest of the bunch, 8 York. It was noon ‘hour and groups drifted about for five hours, I guess, ountain, (without which a New York for I was asleep the last of it, whon inking hot chooolate and munching all of a sudden a submarine swasied middle name and these girls were up to the surface and wakes we ups to do a little shopping befor: | 1 thought she was a whale ut fire: | “A hatch opens and out steps « natty officer, ‘Ullo,’ he says, ‘whers you bound? And T says, ‘Ob, Vin bound for St. Nazaire with passe " and mails 1 a cargo of 1 This here tip is the Maur awfully clevah,’ he ¢ tar laugh. ‘Won't you come and ‘ave something before pulls aboard and I find Britis sub out talkin’ U- They claimed to have got the |German that put our ship down, They j tre ited me regular and put me asl ” | British naval base at Sout! |ampton. Before U Jett sub th shipper says to m ‘IT know now ‘ow that German ‘appened to get your Tho Dlighter ‘eard snorin, | ame as we did.’ i otis =e | hipped back ito the States in HELEN Riiep [a sport and now I'm throuxh INT -FiLMt. SER | With tho sea forever, I've got a swell ashore.” own kitchen five years ago. ‘To this! What you doin’? asked Pizen @ attributes her suc yelng MeCarty's store clothes Pass the Stuff Around "70% 1m suitor of a aeut and dumb asylum up in Albany,” HOUSANDS ¢ fg ish sailors Sr t rep 1 prize fund of $70,000,000, to be obtained val oF Sie $00 elem and Prize ¢ from the sale of ships’ goods seized by | Goody seized include two live alll. naval ships during the blockade of ‘gators, woollen underwear, hairpins, enemy countries, [dried fruits, tobacco, metals, pitrates ‘The sale and the distribution of ‘and other chemicals, pearly fa bu. <a tee eente wiing money la wadeg dizeotion of M, man had,