The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1919, Page 24

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1919 | Howto Live + And How to Live Long h j "ca ~- 7 MABLE’S LOVE LETTERS TO HER ROOKIE. A Series of Health Rules Compiled by Life How May R Grom well. a ‘New Yo ot Girl By Florence 'Eltésbeth Summers e y >’ ’ Extension Experts Mustretions by Netotie Stoves. Adopted the Biggest Family in Europe 4 No. 4—“PLENTY OF PLAY” IS ONE OF THE 14 They Were 1,200 Parentless . Little é POINTS OF HYGIENE By Zoe Beckley Refugee Children Driven Before the Out of Her Own Purse, Undertook Their Boche From Their Homes in France— Education by the Montessori Method. And Now Her Work Has Inspired the French Government to Institute MAY 16, 1919 ERE BILL: I thought maybe when Nellie got married shed quit bein spiteful about you but she seems to be still jealous of me and cant help but show it. Weve made up cause she says she knows Roy made up the cong She neednt think I couldnt have done it if Id thought of it first. but I didnt tell her so, She was over this morning an I was readin her parts of your letter She ‘‘ Took On’’ the Lot, Cared for Them conscientious,” says he, holding your willing ear by the sheer solemnity of his tone. “You don’t play enough. Go to Bermdua. Forget everything but to enjoy yourself. You need rest or you'll go to Pleces.” Of course you knew it all the time, and needed but the conscience- Gearing advice of friend doctor to make you put it In practice, So you go t® Bermuda, come back feeling ready to go right out and kiss a policeman, k f yo N’: and then a doctor tells you a really pleasant thing. “You are too f ané you feo) “the change has done you good.” What you really need, points out the Life Extension Institute, Inc., through its recent book “How to Live,” is a constant mixture of work and play, not the fits-and-starts system. “Most people who are ‘overworked’ the victims of bad air, bad diet, Polsons or worry. They believe that Because they are tired it must be the werk which is hurting them. The man who breaks down in middle life imagi.es he has ruined his health by everwork. The college girl thinks she Bas ruined hers by overstudy. “All these ‘overworked’ people seek te prove their case by the improve- ment tn health when given a vacation. ‘This simply shows that a bad condi- tien can often be remedied by improv- fag the general health in any way ‘whatever, even if the primary source of diMculty is not reached.” Bo you sec. ‘Even the healthiest of us commit a Jot of crimes against the laws of hygiene. We eat too much. We take tee much red ink with our spaghetti. ‘We permit naughty poisons to stay te out long-suffering bodies, Woe walk two blocks and wheezily tell ourselves how strong we are on exercise. We worry. And when we catch cold (from &@ germ, not a draft), or have the pip, grow obese, or get the willies or hypoes, we either “take a vaca- vr adopt a fad. ‘We suddenly meet Gpink, say, on the street. We clap Spink on the shoulder and say, “Well, Gpink, old Boy, I've found the answer to all my ills. I've given up red meats. Yes, sir-oa, red meat is the root of all evil, Come on in and lemme about it!” Spink escapes. time he is not so lucky. meet Spink when we have that vegetarianism is the real ‘We get him in a corner and tell is making a fatal mistake not oD raw potatoes, carrots and with barley water on the Later we discover that playing is the cure-all, Or maybe fletch- gee 2F mot any one correction of our way of living, but the adoption ef an all-round, well-balanced regime of work, fresh a! eige and plenty of play. @eems rather idiotic to tell the man working ten hours a day itary shop and living in a tenement to take plenty of air and play a lot. And not to GH HE day when women and other have a hand in law making, i way of Mving a healthy life, In the teats and roof hammocks, or live in +@uburbs. Or perhaps change their oc- Gupation or get work in a better shop. Bt costs nothing to take deep breath- ing exercises. Or to stand, sit and ‘walk erect. Or to eat the right food (which is often the cheapest). And there are few s0 poor that they cannot get via trolleys and boats into the gountry at least once a week for a Fomp and a smell of green things and 00d brown earth. Excuse us for repeating it, but it erism. ‘What we really needed all this while, right foods, exer- | will not be such obstacles in the | re more properly speaking simply ent fields of achievement of many of the world’s great men who actually made over their constitutions from weakness to strength. Cornaro says that it was the neglect of nygienic laws which made’ him af but a dead man at thirty-seven, and that the thoroughgoing reform of thid habit which he then effected made him a centenarian.” The hardest thing of aM in the health line, perhaps, is to banish worry. “Even mild worry,” says “How to Live,” “is more exhaust! occasional fite of intense anger or fright, just as we waste mc-o water from a spigot left slightly open all the time than from one which is al- ternately wide open and shut, Worry, if unceasing, will drain away the largest store of nervous energy. Worry seems, as it were, to short- circuit nerve currents in the brain which normally form a long circuit through the body. One man with this simile before him has found he can stop worrying almost at will, avoid the supposed continuous short By Marguerite Mooers Marshall cireult and save up his nervous en- Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (Tho New York Rrening World), ergy until it Is needed.” HIS is a story about a New York society girl who adopted the biggest The health rules drawn um by Cor- family in France. naro four centuries ago and described She is Miss May R. Cromwell, sister of Seyraour Cromwell, {n his work “The Temperate Life") banker and broker, of No, 169 Hast 74th Street, who was living in Paris at are, s0 far as they are explained, al- Most identical with the rules given the outbreak of the war. Like Miss Anne Morgan and many other Amert- below, which aum up the advice given | C42 women to whom France is @ second home, Miss Cromwell felt a deep by the Life M&tension Institute in aympethy for the “How to Live 1, Ventilate every room you oc- cupy. 2. Wear lighty loose and porous clothes. 3. Seek outdoor occupations and recreations, and sleep out of doors if you possibly can. 4. Breathe deeply. 6. Avoid oyereating and over- weight, being sparing with meat and enemy drive which most helpless of t! Oo 6, Eat some hard, some bulky and the children were little derelicts and some raw foods. It was these emall boys and girls 7 Eat slowly. whom Miss Cromwell chose to make 8 Drink sufficient water (about | her “family.” She formed a founda- six glasses dally), tlon of ber private income, approxi- 9 Eliminate thoroughly, regularly, | mately $40,000, and undertook the frequently, tremendous task of providing for 10, Stand, sit and walk erect. and educating the 1,200, 11, Do not allow poisons and infec-} To “take on" 1,200 normal young- | tions to enter the body, sters of pre-school age !s a social 12, Keep the teeth, tongue and‘ adventure which would give pause to gums clean, most of us. But Miss Cromwell's 13, Work, rest, sleep and play in| problem was even more acute. since proportion and moderation, Espo-|her “family” consisted of little ones cially play—mentally and physically, | just out of babyhood who had been 14, Keep serene no matter what, burried out of burning homes, who, happens and avoid worry, which ac-)had seen their parents butchered, | tuaily short circuits nerve currents in} who had been caught up in a head- the brain, (The art of shutting off'long fight from @ horror they could destructive mind forces can be ac-|not comprehend, but which for that quired by will power and practice), | very reason was the more terrible. iearitonaiieiainaiie How could these children be brought back to a sane, normal interest in The Japanese Way picture books and mugs of milk? ore +] "Tho Montessori Method” was Miss of Mailing Mail} cromwet's answer, She voted her- ats self the same salary she pays her teachers, and lives on that salary alone, “For tho last three years," ghe says, “) have adapted the Montessori method to several groups of little refugees and orphans in Paris and its suburbs. | These children, exiles from the front, slaught, many of whom flocked into Paris innocent victims of the German on- fter the first at the eleventh hour was turned back from the French capital, its objective. Of all the refugee appealed to Miss Cromwell. It comprised perhaps the however, one group especially he harried creatures who fell back before the terror of the Boohe. For 1,200 of the earliest refugees were little children, around three years of age, oo who had become separated from their parents or other natural protectors, who were fatherless, motherless, poe homeless. In many instances, of course, the nearest relatives had perished, on the sea of an unknown future. eye a la Montessorl, writing, counting, gardening, playing on sand-piles and forgetting the war. Nearly a hun- dred such schools are now in oper- ation, There is still another angle to Miss Cromwell's fine and ingenious phil- anthropy. The little tables and chairs used by the children, as well as tho rather elaborate Montessori appara- Similar Kindergartens Throughout France. children prove to the workmen the development of their intelligence which the material furthers to such a remarkable extent.” { Also, all the teachers In the refugee schools are themselves war refugees, jbeing the young widows or the daugh- |ters of men in service, and all pos- \sessing their two French brevets. | Thus the philanthropy provides with SSS TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich NOW IS YOUR TIME! by way of lettin her keep up with the times an things of interest an importance. I read about the inspecshun on Saturdays. She says she bet the tooth inspector had to put on smoked glasses to kep your gold teeth from puttin his eyes out. Then she says “What did Bill have them gold teeth put in for anyhow? Because the lights on his flivver are so dim he thinks the re- filecshun will help him keep in the road at night” She makes me sick. Everybody knows she adores your gold teeth an used to tell you they were ristocratic, which they are. Your poetry was alamageorgeous Bill an Ma plum caflabagated in a chair when she heard it an said it was awful, meanin the pictures it presented to her mind. Its nice to have a fello who shows some new talent every day or two that you hadnt even suspected before, I was surprised enough when I found you had the'makins of a officer an was “MA PLUM CAFLABAGATED.” a corperal, but a poetical offlcer-is great. Im writin some to you that IU send next time. I tried to get it. finished but Im not so smart as you I guess. Itll give you somethin to look forward to. Yours till you get it MABLE Gutfit by “ Dozen Lots.” | By Margaret Rohe Most stunning togs of every sort For every sport has May; For polo tennis, motoring, Golf, fishing and croquet ; | For basket ball and swimming, too, But at the end of day, lanes changed those togs so many times Bhe’s had no time for play. Sete in rage—glad rags; some in tags—large and jutey price tags—and some in velvet coats, the sport girls are coming to town. Most every one knows that the smart. est sport togs are worn in town, any- way, strolling down Fifth Avenue | rather than through open fields, and a swagger sweater and tricolette skirt are just ag much in evidence |teaing at the Ritz as teeing on the golf course, | But be that as it may, the newest |, | velvet sport coats that are crowding ‘the ubiquitous sweater for sport su- |premacy this season are certainly | winners. Some are cut on Tuxedo lines, while others affect the belted Norfolk style and both are equally | effective. | One stunning belted model in black | velvet has a panel collar bound with | black braid that ends in two novel | pockets, button trimmed at each side of the front. Two buttons embellish the plain tight sleeves and two also | fasten the braid trimmed belt. The coat is lined with white silk. | ORS |e nee ae (The New York Rvening World). (Coperight, 1919, by Frederick A, Stokes Oa) “Sport Togs” This Summer Will Keep Milady Changing There Are So Many Kinds for So Many Cccasions to Be Worn in So Many Ways at So Many Times That You’l. Have to Black satin coats are sla emart and wool jersey Norfolk jackets, all vivid shades, turn the swea! pale with envy. Still sweaters are by no means to be cold-shouldered out of the picture. Coat sweaters of silk and woo! still cling to sporty shoul- ders and the slip-on ones of wool or silk, either with or without sleeves, have taken on a new angle or two, with a filet weave that opens up new Possibilities within its crocheted squares and filet motifs. Vivid and hectic shades of sweaters are stil) in the running, though guaranteed not to run, yet the pure white sweater or the one black as the Kalser’s con; science are the two chic favorites - It is the sport skirt that le a per- fect riot of color this season—so much #0 that it is indeed almost necessary jfor a subdued black velvet or @ chaste white sweater to top off such frivolities with a dignified finish. In tricolette, Georgette satin and Fantasi silks they are tucked and pocketed, platted and button- | trimmed, In ballroom shades of pink, | turquoise, orchid, apricot and Nile green they combine satin stripes upon & Georgette base in a manner to re- veal much shapely symmetry, Hardier, more durable but no less smart, are the skirts of flannel and of serge, All white serge skirte show & penchant for many pin tucks bi- secting them round and round, with rows of bone buttons down one side or both and always tucked and but- toned pockets. ‘The tricolette skirts weave their silken charms around fair nether limbs in all colors of the rainbow, but depend rather on their color and material beauty than op \trumming and ornate garnishment for the effect. Flannel and serge skirts run to large and colorful plaide and wide stripes in black and white or color Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Oo. fie Bot Mts and spurts of playing and exercising that keep us prime, but @ONSBTANT doses of play and the Pest of it. Two doses of relaxation a Gay is none too much. Five minutes stil under the impression of the|tus of wooden frames, blocks, &c.,{an interesting career this group of 'AR'S demands played heartrending havoc with your hopes. PN ee eee he Fale petting shock and suffering endured, are|are being made by the “mutiles,” the | war victims, sxampled contingencies turned your ideas \ ’ Unexpected and unexamp. pink, ‘Copenhagen or light blue are especially benefited by this method, | wounded soldiers of France and Bel- During the period of reconstruction end your purposes topsy-turvey. War's pranks dumped you Ais tate oae ganda vaneviheinl vhic litat el and q | which facilitates their physioal and|gium. The work, though Fequiring | it is the desire of Miss Cromwell to In despair and bogged you in uncertainty, You did not dare build is a new crinkly weave silk in all spiritual development. a certain deftness, 1s light and can ¢ollow the children back to thelr lib- Yow it ie all over. each. Just leave your desk or ma- “This education is based upon an| be easily performed by the armless, | erated villages with these child cen- because no foundation was Hy nee our plans. No polictes of re ns en came Bae cag @hine if you possibly can, run up absolute faith in the living source of|the legless and even the blind men |tres, One of them can be furnished Mo. miliary Gratis. will Foe bition No governmental restric: 4 Pi cats Wee m to the roof, or out into the street, energy of the child, and has produced | from the armies, Miss Cromwell has and completely equipped with Mon-| trenchment will becloud your ambitions. No § em, or stand by an open window and do @ few simple stunts of reaching, bending and breathing, with utter * ht reso astonishing results in arithmetic, jobtained Mme, Montessor!'s permission ' tassori material—the money of course} tions can curtall your imagination, By the might pr a th on oe Hf sth to, actaa Sivee writing, drawing and music since we|for the construction of her didactic! peing paid to the mutiliated soldier- Jution you are given a fresh start and you ought to pluck r ying ae amy na } woes ere adapted {t to our groups of little| material by these men, and the first | workers—for only $300. For $30 more| heart. oe @etachment of mind from your toil, refugees. This real physical and| “Atelier de Fabrication,” or work-|4 harmonium may be added, or piano ‘The United States has become the banker, the savior and the gran- radipredd By eee Hae tam AS an Ulustration of how the fol- mental hygiene, which permits, the| shop, was opened last autumn at No.|rented from a family in straitencd| ary of the world, Our ships are already congesting the ocean, Our | {0% “Winners ‘only when. they “ace ere se mmpie Teles of byeleue ; ‘ child to grow joyously in the freedom | 88 Rue Marboeut, Paris, | cireumstances because of the war, Aircraft will soon darken the ckles. Our submarines will dispute with | crowned with a floppy wide brimmed an transform the poor, abused, dis- 7X mail-box looks Ike} o¢ activity and co-operation, las} ‘There is a charming entente be-! Mrs, Whitney Ws Mrs. Everit] the fishes the deeps of the seas, From the Strats of Dering to jagged hat of hectic hued and coarse meshed @ase-ridden human body into a splen- a combi fire-hydrant andjawakened a general interest in| tween the little child scholars and| Macy, Mrs, John Henry Hammond - ’ 4 ané about cad through and unde the catire globe straw, garland. e boon or | erultes 414 living machine, “How to Live” water- , and it 1s painted! Trance. Each day brings @ cor-|the men who make their school!and Mrs, Robert Hoc are among tho} C#P@ Horm, around ane , dors of commerce will abound | ting, shiny black straw gallor, banded fells this incident: belght rads) Wious a donnt ie in thal re ponhuene cohsmratamere tua’ det liteianal New York women who have helped in| 9UF @vating, flying and diving ambassa ars of commerce wil abound | AA pity, Pace cesta” bateea "A certain young man was scarcely | most startling and sudstantial thing| ferent towns in France, expressing| ‘These mutilated soldiers, some of |the work of Miss May Cromwell, if| 24 will carry the product of your hands and yout 1h AL care | | rived oF Wuturist Aeured silk, able to drag himself into the sun out|in that dainty country, But tiis is|/their desire to repeat, themselyos,|whom are fathers,” says Miss Crom- you fecl like adopting » school of Never before in history has the call been so.compelling for wo! > im Colorado, where he was endeavor- | fitting, for mail Is considered a serl- tng to ria himself of city contracted | ous matter by the Japanese Govern- tuberculosis. By dint of following | ment, says Popular & substantially the Fourteen Cardinal! When the kimonoed gentleman in| French Government is planning to|force to the physical force which Rules of Hygiene here laid down, hs|the picture above reaches the mail- A NEW BREED. my own experience.” well, “feel that in fabricating this|tittle war children, send her your| trained workers, efficient workers, ambitious, earnest and honest And, indeed, owing to Miss Crom-| material they give to the children the |check of $300, care of the Mexsrs| men and women—who will think and search and find and found. And | 6 NL er), ane we dines “1 enee Monthly. | woll's' work with the children, the|means of substituting their young! Munroe & Co., No. 4 Rue Ventadbur,| with unprecedented generosity the world stands eager and ready to teen Gnelisen?* Paris, You will hear frequently just| reward munificently any kind of productive endeavor. “Yes, sit, That means fresh—righ® inetitute kindergartens for French | they, themselves, have sacrificed for| how your little group of “war babies” We are in an era of construction and reconstruction, of accomplish- sa them. There never was and there probably never will be a period to from the water, sir.” an athlete and capable of |/box he will turn the dial until the| children generally, their country. is being trained to repair the ruins of! ment and achievement unrivalled, Unparalleled and unlimited oppor- “Nonsens said the diner, “You Funning twenty-five miles for sheer | slot in it coincides with a slit in the In the “maternal schools” or “child “The understanding between these} the war. tunities awalt you. Take them—make them—you can almost pick know well enough they do not tale Jove of sport and apparently without | box. io slips the letter in the slot | colonies” hundreds of little French|men and the children becomes even wale ai beeen 8 Se “4 ‘Y eae and the dial swings back where it be-| children are, following the example ODD SHIP REPAIR JOB. closer through the visits made by t for wealth of chances to achieve. NOW IS YOUR | the disputed item, longs. When tho postman comes! sct by Miss Cromwell's “fumily,” and| groups of little refugees to the | Am, A"sentine shipyard repaired a | mateh the present fo! Soh, that sir, take the mall through | are. building ‘with biGoks, prosten orn “tad ‘uid lower! “TIME! And if you've got the goods to make good, the signing of peace ea aK A AY The waiter came up and looked at overstrain experienced by Mara- “ 5