The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1919, Page 20

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1919 tere’s How Rev. Dr. Straton Would Have Women Dress “Ry or ‘Standardized Modesty’ és itt Wide Enough to Leap a Gutter; Ankle! ‘ Length. k Cut Not Over Two Inches Below the _ Collar Bone. ‘ ditle Hat, Little Trimming, Not Costing . Over $i0. se—Not to Be Seen Through. es—Round Toed and Flat Heeled. By Zoe Beckley. “Copyrieht, 1919, by the Press Publishing On (The New York Reening World.) Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton bas a rather stiff task before him. ag ‘He would standardize the American Woman—in dress, of course, for she is already standardized in other things, being the most inte!ligent, the best educated, the most courageous and most beautiful of all women, according to the pastor of Calvary Baptist Chureb, But she has run mad, he thinks, on clothes. The American Man is being bankrupted financially and 5 morally by the too free employment, so to say, of silk when it comes to stockings, and its too sparse use otherwheres, . It ts easier to ascertain what Dr. Straton disap- is proves of than to get a specific formula for the Great q American Costume, the need tor which he strongly proclaimed in his li Sunday's sermon. He would cast into limbo the “highway-robbery hat,” the “one- cylinder skirt” and the “C-front-V-back” blouse. That much is certain, it 1 am not prepared,” he admitted yesterday, in his study, No, 128 B7th Street, “to cut a pattern of a standard costume for the American 1 prefer this to be a development of public opinion. So long |am able to preach from a pulpit I shall try to rouse public opinion social harm which is brought about by the extravagant and immod- thions of women.” Was Killed by JEAN BAPTISTE TAVERNIERS KILLED BY WILD DOG WHILE HUNTING MARIE ANTOINETTE ae sting = Poain ter & perfect garment. It is a great pity mn PRIM Mines it was not longer lived. ie In our effort to specify morally > nie ESS and financially satisfactory costume Wihisenea for American women, then, we may BeLow set down the tailor-made street suit COLLAR DONE. | | as a basis, 9038, “How about necks?” I urged, point- g TRANSPARENT! | iN to my oWn modest “Vv.” ng “Oh, the low collar is all right," en- ‘= couraged Dr. Straton, “Please do not ws get the idea I want women to look ugly, Quite to the contrary. It is Sxigr every woman's duty to be as at- Gnooset tractive as she can. Many a husband TO LEAP might well leave off his expensive AGUTTER: | habits and buy more and better ; | clothes for his wife.” MANKLE. || Put down the Veo-neck, then, as an | PRINCESSE i , LENGTH. item in the standardized dress, ome ay 5 E Hats? Well, none of those, inflated- - Rove Tes value French chapeaux “trimmed 1 oe nee. with @ carrot’ and labelled ‘From ABDUL HAMID= Paree'” that nick husband's check SePOsED ¥ bo ' Mental picture of the Great | DOK for forty or so, A modest Woman doing a sort of |CmNs bat, preferably ama: Lisa smile always comes to me | Price tag in keeping. And there you Fa fresh attack upon her ex- | “F . Wagant and immodest fashions. | As for the “one-cylinder skirt," Dr + ; have preached to her, re-| Strato, agreed with me that it Is ite } fers of both sexes have tried to /OwP punishment. If any woman can her ever since Eve's grand- | mec Joy out of a garment that makes ter. curtailed the length and| "ier inch along like a lame penguin | By Marguerite Mooers iViarshall an Automobile. May Scan| Unmal Hope Diamo dogs while hunting. M4, FOUQUET—Beheaded. MARIE \NTOINETTE—Gi MAY YOHE—Scandal and ABDUL HAMID—Deposed. JEAN BAPTISTE TAVERNIER—Torn to pieces by wild MME. DE MONTESPAN—Supplanted by her rival. PRINCESSE DE LAMBALLE—Stoned to death. NAMELESS MAN—Suicide. NAMELESS MAN—Starved to death. IIENRY THOMAS HOPE—Family troubles. LORD FRANCIS HOPE—Debts. and unhappy marriage. FRANKEL & CO.—Financial troubles. SEVERAL TURKISH OFFICERS—Violent deaths. SALMA ZUBAYA—Shot by her lover, MR. AND MRS. EDWARD B, M’LEAN—Tragic death of Hoodoo of the Hope Diariond Strange Heritage of Death and Disaster Which Has Passed to Its Successive Owners—Now in Possession of the McLean Family in Washington, Where Son, Heir to $100,000,000, Youe ~ DAL AND PeONess SALMA LUBAYA se TURKS OFFICERS MET VIOLENT DEATHS nd Hoodoos uillotined. unhappiness, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1919 Ignorant Essays BABIES “Babies Resemble Flivvers—You Can Hear Them a Long Way Off, They Require Ptenty of Oil, Water } and Air, and They Are Not Easily Tired.” By J. P. Copyrtaht, 1919, by the Press Punishing Co. McEvoy (The New York Brening World.) They are born without any sease and most of them never outgrow it. All babies Born are the young of the so-called human race. are ugly, but some are uglier than others, if possible. Hence, they Babics are not fully equipped when they arrive, in which they re semble flivvers. They resemble flivvers in other ways also; nearly every- Ce said (> resemble their parents. saplent nature, who insist vpon kissing them. ! body gets one sooner or later; you can hear them a long way off; they re- quire plenty of oll, water and air, and they are not easily tired, You know that last one isn’t half bad. Bad'-« have no teeth at first, which is one of the wise provisions of Otherwise, they would bite the fool relatives and friends I wouldn't blame them, either. Baby girls do not like to be kissed, but they outgrow this later. Babies are not allowed to choose their parents, which is rank injustice, But parents haven't any choice in the matter either, so that makes it fitty-fitty. Babies have no eyebrows, and strangely enough do not seem to miss them, Ususlly they are shy on hair too, which cuts down the cost of their upkeep, as their parents do not need to have the boy babies shaved every other day. Ain't Nature grand! One of the drawbacks to having babies is the naming of them. Every baby must have a name, you knew, so that when they grow up bills can be sent to them, Otherwise the bills would be delivered to the wrong per- sons or would never arrive, and that would be distressing. Very. But naming a baby is very easy, after all, for several reasons. In the first place, no matter what name is finally chosen, the baby can be backed into it and he can’t object. Secondly, there are so many more names to choose from these days than when our forefathers battled with ‘he job. Look at all the Pullman car names we have which they never even sus- pected, And the apartment house names, And such cute little trade names too. faults we leve them still. The st.‘ler the better, ‘Two Little New Fathers and mothers are the first to suspect their babies of intelli- gence, but ;arents are naturally suspicious. But in closing, there is this to be said about babies: With sll their York Girls “Aquatic Infant Prodigies”’ Honors. One Twelve, the Other Thirteen, They Give Grown- Up Swimming Champions Sharp. Tussle for Sescrtbed it as “the blue stone that, leaves its mark In red"—was respon- | able, it has been sald, for the death of several other Turks. The man who’ 4 ~d her figleat petticoat, And /and be muttawed at for her pains ELE Cilithe Te Glee ned hotbe cane basads ieee geet arate Hl ‘ girls, seeing how muc's| deserves it . 2KE w © Hope Diamond hoodoo strike next za y lar tale made them with! «No gress that hobbles the f \V Little Vingon Walsh McLean, famous all over America a8 son and heir. :: younger social set in Eden, hot | anything but retype piebaiode bed he hundred million dollar baby,” whose parents are now mourn- > @apycatied but made Improve-|iiwan no Reabhaniced’ rig Hagel ing his death in an automobile accident in front of bis Not their own. strous." mrt Washington home, seems to have been the last and the|ette could not resiet displaying it on Gthar words, so long as men| ‘rhe ideal dress, then, shall hav most pitiful victim of what the superstitious consider | her lovely neck, and gave @ like priv faree deep around ‘2e fir1 With] ankle length shirt ocd annus 8 the most badly jinxed stone in existence. It also 1s one|"lese to her friend, the Princesse be fee ball gown fot whom t ey |the hem to permit of leaping wrontt of the largest, most beautiful and most famous of the Saas Plo re pape oriests i Aenneray © ane.s roi "ve ter oF & curbstone, say, at the ap- world’s diamonds, Eight years ago, Edward B. McLean, | "04 ‘Ort ea oh a agibas ding in a,svund-necked mus- re a ja “A supe taking a curve father of Vinson, bought the huge 44%-carat diamond while, as every one knows, her il- wham they highly approve), peed limit for Vinson's mother, Evelyn Walsh McLean. In th@|rateq Queen was guillotined. small hope for the standard- FB news to women that three rough it weighed 112% carats, Mr. McLean is said to] in 1830 the great diamond appears of fashion Ly the preachment |'1°) # and pointed toes cause have paid $180,000 for the gem, with the proviso that it/in England, It was exhibited as the . We have got to wait until A oy sks bhine Paralysis, rheu- might be turned back to Pierre Cartier for other jewets| property of a jeweller, David Biisson. : peach the point of boredness | MA’! a dyspepsia, — brainstorms,' if eny fatality should occur in the McLean family within six months. Mrd.|He declared he bought it of a maa | by the, London, bus-cons | one. Not to saumaiure of the MrLean was too ill to wear the diamond, according to report, on the speciat| who dled of starvation the next day, | toe aire: Iedys lege ain't no| At foot, coma, bumons ani2vosl® joccanion for which it was purchased, but she recovered, and many during |*1¢ Who 18 his tur, had Laid , ar foot diseases. ‘The only marvel g|fecemt years have pooh-poohed the notion that the diamond brings bad ——ea k " tat prumteThare cee, lai ay dn ita Wenee, Elisson sold the diamond to Henry Dr. Straton does not agree with ved them so < eae) anne saaiiaissesbiiaie Thomas Hope, and it was henceforth : Patethinks it ts up to the “fino |!2PS Trey must stop, though, i¢/ Mr McLean, however, took nay eee te ache Damo Ab | ‘ to ke thelr they would conform to the standargi. /Chances with the possession he val. [red with blood, black with shame and teas it ae se cvgntry” to ma zation of dress, Wear ved even more than the world-famous |Wet with tears," May Yohe, who wore |Cording to the onetime Lady Hope, i » Vainer sisters wee the light mS uas tose’ afd vie round OF | ywel—his little son. It was as if the|it when she was Lady Francis Hope,|the frat of the line to own the gem f ai) good women,” he said, int. pret speed. your heels ¢ ter matched his love and his mill-|told readers of ‘The Evening World| Suffered family misfortunes, From eee APRS Ae OE | oe, trate 2 fons against all the powers of evil]! 1911, just after Mr. McLean bought |him it descended to Lord Francis, Pee ee Re ee ADDO all comes from Virginia, lenat down the centuries have red-|2¢F former treasure, “It he 1s wise,” | Hope, and in the words of hie former | ‘orat types of foreigners, the it : wa the women are beautiful | one 4 the trail of the Hope Diamond, |She added with what now seems to| wife, “the curse of the great dlamond ‘ 6 logically be effected. mn vino re Pt ag Tt you havely, royal prince was ever more care-|‘%® superstitious a strange effect of | fell on us both, The Hope Diamond % the nationa! spirit of unself- | : a, r Southern story books even fully guarded than Vinson McLean, |PFophecy, * will cast it to the bot- | bewitched me—under its spell I com- ‘ marente to. women's minhe 62 ag Mai, You will know that the |i, nis infancy he received his airings |'™ of the sea mitted the most unhappy mistake of has to thelr hearts, they /Art families are strongly approving |in a’ wrought steel automatically | Tavernier, the first Occidental my life” ‘The “mistake” to which she it is immoral to cater to the | allrooms, and that a belle's busi locked go-cart. Friendship, the home jowner of the gem, according to the referred was her elopement with Capt. | instincts of men, and almost /ness Is to shine therein, front ot which be was struck down, wold It to Louls XIV, for| Putnam Bradlee Btrong, son of a iit as immoral to spend be-| “Hut a girl does not need to aur. eon een eed tect | 3,500,000 france and a barony, Witnia |former Mayor of New York. Lord Heir tusbands’ means in order] "ender her soul nor cause a man tol!™ INV Oh ine gutes are alwaya|® year Tavernier had been torn to| Hope obtained a divorce, and May 1 other women, surrender his,” says Dr. Straten, in eine ane eee eee rnngearm {pieces by wild dogs while on a bunt. | Yohe, baving lost all her chances of| reform cannot come through jensen seve attractive in a ballroom ee and private detectives always [ing trip in Spain, wearing the atrawberry leaves of an| me American man is too in| as, batateeet aired within} ‘yrrounded the boy as a further pre-| Louis XIV, presented the scintiiatt |asiah duchess, married Capt. ft, to bis womenfolk to deny | en ee etieve teat: 1 re- | caution against kidnapping, and five}ing stone to his court's most scintil. |Strons, only to figure in @ second ese luxury in bis power to give.| tresses for women at all denne’ | nurses looked after hiss welfare. lant beauty, Madame de Montespan, |*!vorce after bitter and sensational sully ignorant of women’s in a places, But in the ballecent| Yet in tts own time and way, there|Yet the end of her reign as a mon- | Warrels He is mystified by them, a, ion the street or sma Nine uz |felt upon the best guarded boy InJarch's favorite dates almost trom her| “I've only worn the Hope Diamond Py thcin—and victimized bY Smee a woman's th dnould La | America the Hope Diamond's heritage |acquisition of the Jewel. She waa| twice,” she confessed cight years ago, Ried call upon the American no how far can #he tempt men b tot painful and tragic death, Or if, as|suppianted by demure Madame de| “but better that a millstone be hung BA to do justice to her best self now far can she attract them by her {We strong-minded folk Will assert, the|Maintenon, whose pot pose was an|about my neck than that I should an American style which purity and feminine grace.” diamond had nothing to do with the] interest in things spiritual rather | wear it again!” beautiful, modest, comforta- |" We should like to see all this come|case. We Must at least admit that Its|than things material and who there-| Lord Francis Hope sold the dia- Gistinctive. There is no more! about, Will One please pang history shows a remarkable series of [fore ostentatiously avoided being | mond for $168,000 to the London Jewel | why American women should |iy¢ millennium eB coincidences, Disaster has pursued |made chatelaine of the diamond, In-| house of Frankel. Financial troubles | a dictates of fashion than OES en every possessor of the Jewel from the| stead, one M, Fouquet borrowed it| promptly besct this establishment, hey should speak a foreign lan- BLASTING HIS HOPES. time it was stolen from India in the|for one of his great entertainments—|ang the stone was sold to Abdul ig gir, L want to marry your daughter.» IatteF Part of the seventeenth century |and two years later he was beheaded. ' Hamid, one-time Sultan of Turkey— poms nee Pooshs We “No, you don't, She couldn't keep you DY ® !renchman, Andre Tavernier, Louis XV, left the diabolic diamond but deposed after obtaining posses- suit practically “The immense blue diamond bas/in biding with other treasures during decent cigars at the money she's get- now.” American C siege a tt: Petar sion of the Hope Diamond, out trail down the centuries that talus reign, but Queen Marg Anatole. Ite baleful indusnceMax Yane hag polished it for the Sultan was later beaten to death and thrown into a dungeon. Somebody strangled the keeper of the vault in which the jewel was placed. A Turkish mob did to death a eunuch who had St in his cus- tody. Abdul Hamid himself, in a spasm of fear, mortally wounded his beauti- ful favorite, Salma Zubayda, to whom | the unlucky stone had been presented asa mark of great favor, Shortly after a Parisian me 8. L Habid, had been isganea ae the sale of the Hope Diamond, he was drowned in a shipwreck. The auxt thing anybody knew df tie jew: worth a king’s ransom, it was on ex. hibition in @ Fifth Avenue shop win- dow. Kaward B. McLean ts the only American to brave the unhappy destiny that seems to attend the own- ers of the hoodoo stone. Now a dark shadow has been oast on his house. hold. Will he tempt fate turiner by retaining possession of the diamond now resting in his safety dey vaults? ened Who else would dare—now- to puy or wear the Hope Diamond? Would you? Some Things a Bit Curious HE term “gallery gods,” as ap- plied to the spectators in the topmost seats at a theatre, or- iginated at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. In olden days its ceiling represented a blue sky with clouds and cupids floating about and, as the painted part extended over the gal- lery, those seated there were said to be “among the gods,” “Yo play hookey” originally meant to bide around the corner, Hoekje an old Dutch word meaning “a Title aaraas.* " A-DEES and gent-le-men! Meet the world’s greatest swimmer- ettes, Helen Wainwright and Eileen Riggin of New York, star mem- bers of the Women's Swimming Association, They are nticipating a bit the title “women,” being but thirteen and twelve respectively, But what they cannot do in plain and fancy waterwork has yet to be in- vented. From breaking speed records to saving fat men with cramps, there is nothing these kiddies don't do as part of thelr everyday exercise. Finding that most persons spe- clalize these days, however, Helen chose high and fancy diving, while 71-pound Eileen took to trudgeons and crawls. The sporting world has sat up and taken lively notice, ‘There were a few championships lying around idle the last few weeks, Ho when the Metropolitan A. A. U frered its title event to topnotchers end otherwise from all over the coun- ane’ Miss Wainwright quietly slid trys nd took second place. In the Be jor National Springboard Test she ook third. ‘This event brought to- tooker topnotchers from all over the Kerery, the finest field ever gathered coumhe classic feature, Helen fought for the jaurels like a marine cleaning for thellean Wood, defeating among Otters, the national outdoor champ HH 1918, and being beaten only five ' t place. points for an of Phe High Dive,” Miss ~ AS wright {s really at her best and prettiest. Give her a 2% or 30-foot Drruionary platform, stand from un- fer~and watoh. She will meet all comers on this stunt, but as yet has had no cna © bid for title honors on these heights, If you are looking for @ safe bet, put your money on ber, a2 oboe wil be an excecdingly ORENT:) EI tug GMINA ef . hard candidu.y wv vu. when the championships come up for decision this > Helen can hold her own tn “fre eal amt “back-stroke’ imming and has won many races, but readily con- cedes leadership in these accomplish- ments to her younger teammate, Tho little Eileen has amazed the swimming experts of the country by her speed and endurance. When { comes to the “six-beat double trudgeon-crawl” they pronounce it perfect and let it go at that. She goes trough the water like a little, glori- fied submarine, apparently without the least effort or subsequent strain, In free-style swimming Bileen haa done 50 yards in 34 seconds, 100 yards in 1 minute 241-5 seconds and 220 yards in 3 minutes 27 seconds; at the back stroke she has shown 50 yards in 44 seconds and 100 yards in 1 min- ute 38 seconds. Slower times than these have won championships for women recently in some districts and it is indicative of the small star's standing that in trials held a few days ago she was picked to represent in coming title lesis the Women's 8. A., which has held the national team chompionship for the past two years, The most striking illustration of Eileen’s ability was furnished in a two-mile Marathon race beld last fali in the Delaware River. Fourteen of the most noted swimmerettes in the country took part, including several champions. Conditions were so bad and the water so rough that four (a former long-distance national title- holder among them) were foreed to withdraw before completing the course. Yet Eileen stuck gamely to her task, battled the waves to the bitter end, then crossed the line in sixth place, close on the heels of @ll but two of her leaders, and a scant three minutes behind the winner, who was runner-up in the previous two and @ balf mile national cham Pa ae “e m Sven ‘ si ail Oiithabicshial a ee W “i. DA bi