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FRIDAY, M Sahai Philosopher's Advice © To American Women “BE MAN’S NOT HIS MERE EQUAL”’ By Zoe Comrrtght, 1919, by the Pres Publishing On (The New York Evening World), IRZA AHMAD SOHRAB, formerly Secretary of the Persian Loga- ited on his way to the train by The in the midst of Broadway in Mirza Ahi philosophy, they tion at Washington, was hall Evening World, besought to paus and tell American women how, achieve the ideal. We consider it a tribute not only ‘this kindly disciple of the master, Baha, but to this enterprising that the aphorisms here ®© promptly forthcame. to solve the riddles of the uni- yourself sometime between a corridor and the Penn Station see how easy it te! young (and unmarried) Ori- with the serenity of spiritual m in his eyes, came recently New York from Palestine as emissary from Abdul Baha the National Baba! Convention ended at the McAlpin Hotel, exceedingly modern suiting, and booting give no bint of at he calls his ‘bottling up" for ambole years in Haifa, Syria, Pal- “with no communication with the outside world.” with “The Master” and his Ahmad Sohrab was freed Turkish-German controlled rule famous victory of the British Gen. Allenby tast Geptember. ad permission from AMenty to te Cairo by special army train. Ath great difficulty he managed to Passage on a Japanese freightor, after forty days of—well, we go into particulars (en route Port Said, Egypt)—reached the ly port of New York. Mr. Sohrab " je @ title somewhat similar “professor” or “doctor”) desig- Bites himselt “a plain business man— and lover of Persian rugs.” is keeps him from being too too elevated by the idealis- “teachings of Bahaism. On the hand, his Bahai “revelation” te the rough - and - tumble, -and-grab atmosphere of the World trom sending him to fmsane asylum. To the members fthe Bahai Movoment thie religion| the true faith and in its com-) ely worked out tenets le answers’ every problem that afflicts the! n family. us, therefore,” sald we, “what | your ideals of womanhood and) can we in this terrific preas of | life come somewhere near to ing them?” iret of all,” he answered, with a look In his eye, “do you take ives seriously enough as wom- Don't you regard yourselves as equale rather than thi mu- rs? Do you place enough streas iB your supreme function of mother- seems to me that {n America ‘women, who have such superb tunities, do not get enough odu- for motherhood. fou are educated for earning Iiv- for society, for the arts. But think of those as separate ca- Now, we consider all educa- for women as having one end eim—motherhood, If money is im a family and there is not to educate both the boy and girl, the mor ey must be dedicated ' girl, She is the potential + From her fineness, her hap- her culture, springs the worth race. If the mother is igno- even if the father has great the child's education will fault, for a baby’s education be- | at its mother’s breast, We re-— it a crime not to marry and ehildren.’ | shot our philosopher an accus- qook. He answered the unspoken chi am twenty-nine and unmarried. that is because I have never yet time to think about it, I shall , of course.” Me then put the query which has) standard since the first Ameri- ie “newspaper interviewed the first ‘Shall you marry an FULLY OCCUPIED, HERE seems to have been & pretty bad fire in town here yesterday,” said the guest. * replied the landlord of the Petunia Tavern. “It probably wouldn't have amounted to very | much if the chief of the fire de- partment hadn't been #0 full of local pride, He was in the midst match game of horseshoes the champeen pitcher of Bmack- and the more had been for seven straight innings when AY 9, 1919 SUPERIOR— Beckley New York to London in 48 Hours 800-ft. Dirigibles Designed to Carry 100 Passengers Planned for Regular Transatlantic Service, Will Be Moored to High Steel Towers ING We Caan, FLU 1—EDUCATION, “If money is lacking to educate both the boy and the girl, it must be dedicated to the girl, She is the potential mother.” 2—INTUITION, “To recognize her proper mate, woman must preserve her natural gift of ‘intuition’ or the sixth sense” 3—LOVE. “Without love, woman is but half of herself.” 4—CHASTITY. “Both of thought and of per- son, purity is the first essential of woman's power.” 5—BENEFICENCE, “Good works are an apprentiae- ship to motherhood.” 6—INDUSTRY. “Without work, noge shall live.” 7—MOTHERHOC ». “Wise motherhood is the sum of human accomplishment, | tual motherhood is denied, its essence fs attainable by all women.” sibility of Mirza Sohrab's office tn Washington being flooded with corre- spondence and his wecretary placed in need of medical aid, his exact reply shall be modified. “The kind of woman to marry,” said he in part, “is one who speaks to your mind and your sou as well as to your physical senses. In a macistrom like New York, the mind and soul have to struggle for place. But I will say that more and more American girls are becoming spiiit- ual They are seeking the truc ideals of womanhood, In one of these ideals they excel—in intuition, “I believe marriage—the recognt- tion of one’s true mate—must be a matter largely of intuition, Intuition can be cultivated through education. All children have it more or less, but unless they are taught how to train it, the gift becomes tarnished by con- tact with the world and material things, “Women itn America have it stronger than men, In the Orient, life being slower, there is more chance for men to retain it. I urge the American woman to oultivate this sixth sense, In marriage it is more dependable than reason.” It always seems easier to counsel bell rang. And as the Smac! aarce and double gar: to defend the honor of his! Lill he finally got the game, net on b 1 women to love and marry than to point out how to find a suitable mate, Mirza Sorab goes further than most ophers, however, dn believing ar, ae stele. oF ae re The Seven Ideals of Womanhood || ACCORDING TO MIRZA AHMAD SCHRAB., $$ where young workingmen and work- ingwomen can meet In a proper at- mosphere for the purpose of finding suitable life mates." Without friend- ship and ultimately love, he declares, woman is but half of herself, half alive, “But emphasis must be placed wpon chastity,” says he, “Chastity of thought and of action ts far more necessary in American Ufe than in Oriental. In Eastern countries women are so eecluded that it ts easy. “In America, the constant throwing together of the sexes in social and business life tends either to unsex women or oversex them, either of which is fatal to womanhood's tdeal. Purity is the first essential of woman's power.” There is plenty of sympathy, how- ever, in the young Persian’s philos- ophy, for the tittle weak sister who longs for happiness and finds despair. She should be taken by the hand, he thinks, led back to the crossroads, and started afresh on the right path, ‘This should be the’work of the leisure woman, the woman who has fulfilled her prime mission in life and has time and wealth for lesser ones, “Or for the childless mother,” adds the follower of Baha, “Good works are an apprenticeship to motherhood, and an aftermath to it as well, I admire the spirit of American women in these things, They are sympa- (CMustration Rewrafuced by Permimton From Popular Science Monthly.) F you don't want to be considered “peculiar* or as old fogyish as Uncle Zebediah Fink of Steuben, in Oneida County—who took his first ride in a railroad train a fow weeks “go at the age of elghty-seven—you would better stock up with the proper clvthing for a Zeppelin trip and be ready for brenkfast “the day after to- morrow” in London, Jules Verne was neither romancer nor dreamer, but prophet, The day is almost upon us when men of fairs will be stepping into elevators in lower Broadway, riding to the Zep- Pelin tower high tn the air, walking the gangplank to the Skylark or one of its mates, and setting out for Eng- land, Bach giant airship wil carry 100 passengers at $575 apiece. The crow will number 19. C, A. Oldroyd, a British correspond- ent, furnishes some of the details in Popular Science Monthly for May. Great Britain, Mr. Oldroyd says, has been making plans to institute a regular transatlantic airship pas- senger service between London and New York, Soon you wil book your passage to London by airship and cut in half your time of crossing. Seasickness will be @ thing un- known, You have ocean liner comforts. = the reasons why young girls ‘fall’ I wish all rich women would go into neighborhoods of workers and make beautiful spots of sunshine and happi- ness for the girls who cannot find sunshine and happiness for them- selves, “It is not enough to teach, One must do, Without work, no man and no woman should live, But those who have too much work, and those who have too little, should get together shoulder to shoulder, understand each other and join forces, “That is the only way this high- ly-developed, highly-commerctalized country of America can make a wise future for itself, “You have great extremes In Amer- fea—on the one hand {jdealism, on the other commercialism, The women have it in their power to bring these together, through their vast oppor- tunities and freedom. “There is, in fact, far too much freedom of women in America, It remains for the wise women—the mother-women—to stabilize and bal- ance things, Men give their wives anything in this country, Let them give the money gained in their huge commercial enterprises, for their wo- men to spend in showing other wo- men how to be happy, wise wives and mothers, This is the sum of When you are hungry you will walk into a well-supplied restaurant. Luxurious berths invite you at bed- time, The designers of these giant dirig- | Wles are Messra. Vickers, Ltd, the well known British armament makers, ‘The air-liner proposed will have a length of 800 feet and a diameter of 100 feet. It will surpass any Ger- man Zeppelin in aize as well as in speed. The passenger accommodations will be on top of the airship, for here no vibration due to the cngines will be felt. The crew will be accammo- dated in the keel. However, It costs $2,000,000 to build & shed capable of housing two giant airships and both Mr, Oldroyd and Mr, Carl Dienstbach, another writer in Popular Science Monthly, bint at some of the things that are being done in the way of perfecting a mooring-gear; or, as Mr, Dienstbach calls theun, “hitching posts for Zeppe- ling.” Imagine, Dienstbach suggests, ev- ery important American city fringed with titantic steel towers that resem- ble the famous Diffel Tower of Paris. You go up, of course, in an eleva- tor, You step out on a broad platform that surrounds the tower, A gangplank runs from the plat- form to the moored Zeppelin, stretch- ing away for eight hundred or even a thousand feet. At the top of the tower ts a curious semi-globular, vertical cup, gilded 80 that it flashes in the sun. Into this cup the nose of the Zeppelin is re- ceived and lashed to the tower, ‘The cup on top of the tower and the platform from which the gang- plank runs to the ship constitute a structure independent of the tower. The cup and the platform revolve together. As the Zeppelin is swung by the wind—just a» an anchored ship swings with the current in a river—the platform swings with it. Even though the craft may be in the act of swinging in response to a pass- ing gust, you step on board by way of the gang-plank just as you would climb the stairs lowered down the sides of a ship anchored in a stream. ‘The airship's departure will be curt- ously seamanlike, She casts. off. She drifts away with the wind and sinks a little, with the stern down, until the propellers reverse the motion past the tower, ‘Then she goes up, up, up into the alr and away to distant London, sot? 4 pthaty! saa nen Be AERIS a i aedok MABLE’S LOVE LETTERS TO HER ROOKIE By Florence Elizabeth Summers tm Tilustrations by Natalie Stokes, This Letter Gives Bill Something To Worry About ERD BILL: D You ought to seo what Pa’s office boy brought up tonight Han- and It Isn’t ‘‘Broggins.”, estly hes the cutest thing. Roy says hes the best friend hes got in the world an Ive got to be good to him. I thought wo could keep him right TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich Put Your Thought “Blessed is he who has found his work to do” we sav nowadays, but “thrice blessed ts he who has found a machine to do It for him.” Works on the Job. Fifteen hundred years before the birth of Christ there were drawn upon the tombs tn Egypt pictures depicting slaves reaping with sickles, This tool, used in the ancient Orient, is practically the same imple- ment used in the United States and the rest of the world until the middle of the last century. Since then, McCormick, Marsh, Appleby, Withington, Deering and other successful inventors have emancipated the farmer, made it unnecessary for nearly the entire population to raise crops and yet go to bed hungry—have made it possible for seventy-five per cent. of us to live in cities and enjoy the super- abundance of bread and victuals produced by the other twenty-five per cent. The greatest inventor tn the world will tell you that hardly any Dlece of machinery now manufactured ts more than ten per cent, perfect. There is gold and glory, universal gratitude and gain in store for the men with the will and the skill to improve on the old or find the new—who will devise any device that will save money, save ma- terial and save labor—give maximum utility with maximum economy, ‘The only school necessary ts the the schoo! of experience. trade you've mastered, the handicraft in which you excel, the article with whose manufacture you're thoroughly and fundamentally fa- miliar are the most fertile sof] for your ide Fame and fortune court marketable resourcefulness, ventions are open sesames to success. Put your thought works on the Job, The and for your efforts, Needed in- here at the house but Pa says he ‘would eat too much, so Roy says hell bring him up every night. Hes going to stay with some other friends Roy has in town. His names Brog- gins. Don’t you think that is @ cute name? You would if youd see him cause it fast suits him. Its going to be nice to have him around a good deal for then Il] have something else to think about an wont miss you so much. Last night he sat in my lap an stuck his tongue out at your pic- ture. I didnt have the heart to slap him he looked so cute. Hes crazy about the victrola. I have to play it to him all the time to keep him quiet, Don’t get jealous bevause I'm not the least bit crazy about Roy. The only reason he comes around 50 much {is that he has business with Pa an he lets mo have Broggins while he talks to him. You know me Bill; Hospitable, thats me all over. You ought to know Bill for whether you come when in the shades of eve- nin or with the lights of mornin it was always the same welcome you got. An Broggins is such a dear. Here he comes with Roy now. When he first gets in the house he alwaye jumps around like hes so glad to eee ma I went through the Insane asytum yesterday. There sure are some nuts there too. One old woman thinks shes Queen Victoria. An» other one thinks shes an umbrella and never goes out except when ft rains. The rest of the time she stands behind the door. Another one was running around sorter wild an I asked her who she was, She said she was a poached egg huntin “HE STUCK HIS TONGUE OUT AT YOUR PICTURE” @ piece of toast to sit on. Oh there awful. Guffys out of jaf an some how he got out of his charges. The Judge didnt know him like I do I reckon, Write soon, Goodby for this time, MABLE, (Cupmetgtt, 1910, by Frederick A. Stokes Company.» ‘The complete eeries of “DERE BILL” Lette fe tablished in book form, Fashion Decrees ‘‘Backless Backs’? Evening Gowns Follow Paris Lead Season’s By Margaret Rohe. HIS is ‘the coming out season for dh feminine backs. In fact it's a sort of a backing out. Paris, of course, is back of these backless evening gowns. Goodness knows there Isn't anything else back of them, except perhaps a strap of silk or a string of jet. Gorgeous as an oriental dream are the fabrics and trimmings used to fashion these marvelous evening cos- tumes, They gleam with all-over em- broidery of gold and silver threads, iridescent beads and pailettes, mother-of-pearl sequins or white and black jet, Metallic brocades and shimmering satins, encrusted heavily with gold and ailver appliques, are used to create those models which are turning the vacillating feminine from her straight and narrow che- mise-slip lines into a Watteau Mar- qQuisc, with puffs over the hipa, flamboyant fullness of skirts, a well defined waistline and yet withal a well-defined lack of back. |sate at every move, beaded gowns still follow the straight chemise effects and lack sleeves, as well as rear bodices, The former deficit 1s often made up\by flowing lengths of tulle that float from glit- | tering shoulder straps and, weighted | with beaded” tassels, swing and pul-| What the back | of the gown lacks above the belt Is | usually made up by a trailing bit of train, that swishes its gleaming length behind, below the hem, , A shimmering little straight slip of @ gown of silver gauze, hung over with a splashing cascade of gleaming dew-drop beads of crystal, shows a decorous bodice to the fore that comes up so high as almost to have its wearer by the throat, Alas, she barely turns her back to a cold world, however, totally bereft of covering save for two twisted ropes of the sil- ver gauze that glide, shimmering, over each shoulder and cling despe- rately to jhred of sequined girdle for @ rear support. A decidedly daring and baring Uttle solely of two equally wide bands of the chantilly, that pass from the hixh corsage ginile of chiffon in front, over the shoulders to the low girdle behind and have nothing petween bands but gleaming flesh tints, au naturelle, except for a tiny strand of Jet across the shoulder blades, that holds the lacy straps in place, ‘The skirt is short, fluffy and just eno ruffle of lace and chiffon after an- other, while a glittering rope of Jet, Wrapped around the waist, falls to the’ knees tn front and swings and sways. Though the ‘Up-to-date charmur scorns to cover her back, she his taken to covering her head and with her ortental evening gowns she now swathes her colffure with metallic gauze, sequined chiffon or brilliant satin lengths in contrast to hor gown, —_—_~ ILLUMINATED PORTRAITS, What a Chicaen inventor iuminated portraits are photo; printed on glass, colored Me At f mounted on shallow boxes into whion: Ths