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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919 What Our Doughboys TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919 Howt o Live Wrote Home to Mother p Little Messages That Make Up the ‘Mothers’ Book,’’ Brought Home From the Battle Lines by Mrs. Maud Balling- ton Booth. And How to Live Long os. wie! Py i ak ar 5 ~~ |A Series of Health Rules Compiled by Life N. Y.’s First Big Apartment House--Built in 1881 Extension Experts. : : i NO. 3.—“PEP” AND PROTEINS. THE DAKOTA, CORNER CENTRAL PARK WEST AND: SEVENTY-SECOND STREET, AS IT AP- By Zoe Beckley PEARED WHEN COMPLETED THIRTY‘EIGHT YEARS AGO, AND VIEW OF BLOCK BELOW | Cah ht hu Pr aie, Tk rine was SHOWING CHARACTER OF SURROUNDINGS IN THOSE DAYS. Ir there.is vay One Ching Ea Aiberions Cone TOT yee es dee Was Just a Loose-Leaf Volume of Blank Pages, and the ‘‘Love Letters’ the Boys Wrote Upon| These Pages Came Home Uncensored. j By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. widely and justly.celebrated “pep.” Detach him from that dear Broad- way {f you like. Deprive him of his highball if you must. Squeeze te the husks his bankroll; take away his lizzie-ford; and cause him to live at the far end of the subway; but spare, Oh, spare his proteins! Let bim have his meat and eggs, his clams and oysters, his bass and shed and tris cheese. Or else kill htm and have it over with. For you have taken the Coprriaht, 1018, ty the Press Publishing Co. “(The Now Yoru Brening World), "I shan never be as good as you think I am, mother, but I have L my promise to you."—Eatract from letter of A. B. F. soldier in Mra. Booth's Mothers’ Book, 6“ MERICANS in the service of their country A went to Burope mothety’ boys; they upheld in Europe the teachings-of their mothers, and they will come back even étronger mothers’ boys than! when they went away.” That is how the “Little Mother of the A. E. F. sums up the epirit of the American soldjer who gave|” her the title. She is Mrs, Maud Ballington Booth, and a8 a representative of the Y. M. ©. A., the Volunteers of America and— mos: of all—of the mothers of America, she has spent the winter among the combat in the American Army of Occupation. want American mothers to know,” Mrs, Booth told me yesterday at No. 34 West Twenty-eighth Street, “that I have ime backfrom Lutdpe wittman even) ~~ opinion of American: manhood | You have always known how much ‘when I went. Our men are won-|I wanted to travel, but when I once I gailed two days after the |it ‘Home, Sweet Home’ again, thero of the armistice and 1 went|!s ome boy that is going to tio himself fht to our troops in the sheil-|to your apron-strifign. dD." elty of Verdun. There were| Here dre three more: | and filth and cold and the ter- “Dear Mother: To-night I have let-down in excitement and in-|listened to the Little Mother who is that must come after fighting. | indeed proving herself OUR Little was the time when our boys|Mother over here, and- she has made have been expected to go tov us realize, as we perhaps never have ever. But they were won-| before, how much you mothers at and splendid. home have done to help win this war, the sacrifices you made and how much we owe you. And now I am wondering if, after all, my impa- tience, dissatisfaction and longing to go home is not simply a desire to see you. But I know you will be patient and I promise to try to bo the same— Tealizing that,1 am being kept here for a purpose, and that whilo here I am serving even as I was while the war was going on. With love, YOUR SON.” “Dear Mother: The Little Mother, Mrs, Booth, bas just brought us a memsage from the mother heart of America and I want to tel! you again, what you already know, that you are the most wonderful mother on earth —and that I love you more than all the world, . Hq” “Dearest Mother: Have just heard the vest heart to heart talk given by xs an American Mothér. Mother, keep , your courage at its highest, as the service stars you wear representing your boys over here will be kept an pure and clean as the stars above. ‘With jove from both, ' NGTOM boys who came frofi® clean im America will go back to ean. While I was overseas ( )the troops of all the other chun- , and I could not help noting the Detween them and the Amer- Our boys were taller, better physically, more alert men- ‘and with a cheerfulness, a sense that nothing could extin- ‘When all the other soldiers ed, ours laughed.” Booth, who !s a littie person ‘warm brown eyes and an equal- smile and handclasp, really a8 liaison officer between | f soldiers and their mother: mot think the Y. M. C. A, could done a more human and tender than in sending this most ly of women on her unique w carried with ber everywhere a| Book. After the two other) of her entertainment unit 'done their acts, Mrs. Booth gave | ‘Mmessage from home” to the boys. * she produced the Motners’ filed with loose-leaves, Each wed a biank slip and was 16 write @ personal message t whieh, by special permis- ‘bf Secretary Baker, Mra, Booth fas permitted to forward directly. “ men wrote little, intimate, things,” she told me, “which sure they never put In their through the regular channels therefore read and censored by What the boys gave me ‘knew only their mothers and I read. One big, strapping fel- a letter “Your Baby Boy,” Y At mother—sixty-four years old Pwith three sons in the army— te me the letter made her feel to him than any time since he at away.” | ere a few of the messages F. men put into the Mothers’ bm, Just imagine how the mother received the following, after years of separation: dear mother: It's been ten gince | saw you, but it is never late to come back. I have just @ good imitation of you to-nignt ‘am very thankful. Love. ©.” a piece of candor I am sure F would have been submitted to mud so deep we were wearing hip C. and 3” “What,” I asked Mrs, Booth, “was the message you gave them from thelr mothers?” ‘ “I told them how thetr mothers loved them,” she said simpty. “I said 1 knew what a sacrifice they were making “for their country, but that the sacrifice of American mothers was even greater because every mother loves ber boy hetter than she loves herself. I told them of a let. ter an A. E. F, boy had shown me, as we sat together in a dugout with rain Jeaking in everywhere and the; boots. His mother wrote him to be suro and keep ‘dry and warm.’ of course, the men roared with inugh- tor, but I explained that letter sim: ply meant the writer was thinking of ber soldier as atill her baby, “And finally I tried to answer their soneliness, their impatient longing to | be sent home now the war was over, by reminding them that they had een sent to Burope not only to figh’ bravely but to show Europe American ideals, to uphold the standards of the American home. “It is the American mother who has helped to make the American soldier xo fine,” finished Mra, Booth, “And she need not worry about how her boy is coming back to her. He's kept his service star bright.” —_——»>——_.. ee ten stories high amid the lowly homes of Shantytown, the Dakota, first apartment house of any preten- New York City’s THE SAME EFFECT, tiousness, was built in 1881, in Cen- HERD was a sound of reveiry py| tral Park West at 72d Street, Despite night, for the Bloggses wére its thirty-eight years of age, it is giving @ party, still occupied by some of the weaithi- Mr, Blogss was singing “Tig Loye est and most exclusive families of That Makes the| tne city. World ¢ > Round,"| when the artist for The Evening and Master Will-| world drew and contributed the lam Bloggs made| drawing to Leslie's back in 1889 the Good the golden|iitue truck gardeners were still ob, moment to take altaining their living from their cab- turn at | page patches, while goats and ducks Bloggs’ pipe inlang chickens and pigs, too, roamed the study, at will as part of the domestic s8~ Shortly afte?-| ings of the Shantytown residents. ward it wes apparent that William! The Dakota was bounded on the was not well. north and south by “Goodness child!” cried his mother, | cottagers. these humbie r + I have just had the ie Booth talk ap laps “Have you been smoking?” The building was , “No, mother!” gasped ber son. “But| Henry Janeway Haidenbdergh, she Mf that song Is trne that father’s been| architect who built the Hotel Plaza ny out—{—must b> Im love|nere and the Wilard Hotel In Wash- designed by tate, whose fortune was made in sew- ing machines, The estate owns apart- ment properties, it is said, which are valued at $12,000,000, Rentals in the Dakota have kept pace with the times, and the> high character of its tenants das been maintained throughout all the years of its existence, It is modernized as progress in saodern dwellings is made, and acec to real estate agents the rentas are as high as those of the most built «partment houses, recently The Dakota is noted among real estate men for its remarkably high ceilings. They are 18 feet high, while the average apartment house room { nly 10% feet from floor to ceiling. his adjled height makes the apart ment as tall as the average twelve- story building in the elty The bulidin js constructed of brown brick trimmed with chocolat colored stone, The interior decora. tions are said to be very rich, black ‘alnut being used in the woodwork, | exclusive, It 18 patronized only by the tenants of the building and few outside of the Dakota know that a cafe exists there, There are a number of three and four room apartments and the roof is planted with grass and shrubbery. It is in fact a tiny park. Bince the erection of the Dakota many more buildings have risen along Central Park West, but the pioneer of them all stands sturdily maintaining’ its position of leader, Real estate men estimate that the rentals in the Dakota run about $4,500 a year, which they Flood Lights on Ships’ Dock Make Night Loading Safe NE of the docks at South Brook- lyn, N, ¥,, has lately been equipped with fourteen power- ful'electric lamps, seven on each side, ways ay is about! peer. equal to that charged in the more recently constructed buildings. There was only one other apart- ment at the time the Dakota was built, It was the Vas Corlean in Sev- enth Avenue, between 55th and 66th Streets, It was smaller and was also designed by Hardenbergh, the archi- tect of the Dakota, Some of the newer apartments have more pretentious entrances, and the apartments are provided with more rooms and baths for ‘servents than was the Dakota When bullt, but in all else the Dakota is theiy are mounted o:. poles sixty feet above |the pier floor and far enough apart |to range the entire deck length of a large ¢..\ght ship, The dock side of jeach lamp is masked, so that all the jumination {4 directed upon the |ship's deck where it is n.-ded, Per- |fect diffusion of light and logation of the lamps outside the workmen's line of sight eliminates all glare, iMustrated article in the|has previously been the cause ol mevs we So jazz out of life. ‘ In its book “How to Live” the Life Extension Institute hae many geod words to eay of American “pep.” It approves of pep, plenty of pep. But it warns against too much. Yor an oversupply of pep-producing proteins, it shows, must be paid for in the long run in much the same way one pays for the excesses of the flowing bowl. “Pep beyond the normal,” it says. “may well be regarded as intoxica- tion—something for which a physio- logical price must be paid.” We pepful Americans, the Instt- jtute finds, over-indulge in proteins. As we have Geen'told at least seven million times, we “eat too much meat.” Meat is concentrated protein. Instead of 10 catories (fuel units) of protein (which is tha tissue-builder, the grower and repairer of the body), many Americans use 20 or 80. This gives more than union-hours of work \to the liver and kidneys and over- {stimulates the circulation beyond the factor of safety. We must, therefore, mix our pro- Jteins with fats and with carbo- hydrates (starches and sugars), from which we can get most of the needed body fuel, and at the same time re- tain @ larger proportion of our bank- roll. Costiy “chop” is not neces- sarily most nourishing. “One may slowly starve,” consoles “How to Live,” “on very expensive food, while it is easy to secure energy food at low cost.” In the following common dishes, taking no cognizance whatsoever of the cherished chicken a la king, the | suceulent blue point or the alligator pear, are 100 calories each, or about 2,500 in all, which is what the or dinary individual needs in a day's going: A small lamb chop. An pes. A side dish of baked beans Cheese in a 11-2 inch block A side dish of corn. A large potato. A thick slice of brend. A® shredded wheat biseuit. A large dish of oatmeal. Seven olives. An ordinary butter pat. A small glass of’ milk. A small piece of cake Pne-third of a piece of pie. One and one-baif lumps of sugar. A dozen peanuts. Bight pecans. Four prunes. Two apples. A large banana. Halt a cantaloupe. A very large orange | A quarter glass of cream. [2m OM 206 toe. Compare that with «an average| day’s “three square meals,” and un- less you are oversize you will prob- ably find you are overeating, . The larger the person or the more muscu- lar the work he does the more he requires in his feedbag. It 1s physi- cal, not mental, work which burns up the greater part of the food. Right here let us ask a very del!- cate question: Are you more than thirty-five? (All replies will be re- ceived in strict confidence.) Because if you are less than that psycholog- ical age you can safely afford to be a trifle overweight. If you have this fatal Rubicon cut down on rea pastries, puddings and candy, for the person who thins down when nearing the forties is the person who has the best chance for life and health. The insurance companies have aire things to relate of the fat-and-fore tes. The habit of “snacking” between meals is what gives you large cottee- tions of chins and puts inches on your waist line. O lady with the box of nutty caramels, O gentleman whe seeks the cocktail at 4 P. M. We de tude ourselves, suys friend book, by thinking that candy, fuits, nuts, pea- nuts, popcorn, ice cream sodas amg other nips “don’t count.” “Nature counts her calories caro‘ fully,” says book. “If the number taken exceeds the number used up by the bogy, tlie excess acournulates in fat or tissue. © * © As age ad | vances, the consumption of meat and jall flesh foods should bé decreased. and that of fruit and vegetables (es- | pecially those of bulky character and low food value, such as lettuce, toma- | toes, carrots, turnips, salsify, oyster | plant, watercress, celery and pars nips) should be increased. Decrease the quantity of food in hot weather. since fewer calories are needed to #us- tain the heat of the body. In jwr- ticular Jess meat and eggs should be eaten in summer on account of their tendency to produce immediate hea! | If your job is hewing trees or joad- | (ng steamships, let the noonday “din- er’ be your biggest meal. .If you lay a “thinking part,” eat lightly at lunch time. Abstain from heavy food | when you are dog tired. Eat green |salads, toast and fruits instead and avoid the torments of indigestion | Hunger “is largoly dependent upom |the contractions of the empty stom- jach, and not upon a general bodily craving for food.” This is why a man can “pull his belt tighter" and get on quite comfortably, though foodless, | for some’ time, | ‘The best way to tell how much eat is by your weight. “We should jty" says the Lite Extension in stitute, ‘to keep our weight approx- imately the average for ago thirty.” | According to the tables attached | based on an analysis in 1912 ef 221,819 men and 186,504 women, theae are the proper weights for age thirty: Men. Women. 6ft. Gin..1401bs. 6 ft ++ 120 tos 5 ft 1tm.. 122 Ibe, 6 ft. 2in., 124 Tor, 6 Tt. 8in., 127 Nhe. 5 ft. 4in.. 181 1bg. 6 ft. Sin, 134 tbs. 5 ft. 6in-. 138 tbs. Sft. Tin.. 148 Ibs, Sft, Bin. 162 Ibs, St Pin.. 156 lbs, 5 ft. 10in.. 161 Ibs. 6 ft. 12in,. 166 Ibs, 6 ft, +172 lbs, B ft. Tin... 14248. 6ft, Lin..178lbs 5 ft. Sin... 146 ibe If you are guilty of being an over weight, you can become moro, syiph- like without sacrificing a scintilis of “pep” by cutting down on sugur fate, milk as a beverage, salmon, lobster, crabs, sardines, herring mackerel, pork and goose, fat meats. nuts, butter, cream, olive oll, pasi and candy, How Those Neat HBRE is a new way of wrapping coins in those neat little pack- ages that the banks supply. It does away with the necessity of hold- ing the pile of coins in a vertical position, which is awkward and re- gults in poor wrapping, ‘The coins rest on parallel rollers spaced slightly apart, but are held between two cylinders of wood upon the wrapper, Popular Science Monthly explains. The accompanying picture makes this clear, By exerting a slight pressure on the coins or on the rollers the pile may be rotated,and the wrap- per adjusted, One edge of the paper is gummed to make the package more ‘Papteated Are Made by a Little Coin Rolls New Invention When the package has assumedthe form described it is removed with the end blocks still protruding and acting as stoppers. The package is placed in 4 vertical position resting on one of the blocks, after which the upper block $8 removed and the end of the wrapper folded inward in the usual manper, The stack is then reverse: and the process repeated at the othe: end. The wrapping is now complete, Different sets of the cylindrical blocks must be ready at hand for wee with the different sizes of caing, ger the diameters of the blocks must be the same as the coins. Grooves in the ‘end blocks permit air circulation