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‘ So clyrba big : ar aE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, “Pictures in Music, 4 PY; 5] eee | DX WA \W 2) i New Art, Puts Thrills ; | _ In World's Old Songs Simmer Girl Must Dress in Frills "| To Welcome Hero Home to Romance His Eyes Are Eager for a Sight of Silks and Laces; For the Beauty and Charm He Fought to Make Safe By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ae Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Ca (The New York Evening World). HE return of the summer girl! 1 That is what the wild waves of 1919 are saying—and what the wild and tame men of 1919 are praying. Excellent confirmation of the report that the charming young stranger is on her way has just been given by Major Helepv Bastedo, who announces the mustering out immediately of the Women's Motor Corps of America, “Back to our babies and husbands for us,” says Major Bastedo, who has a sample of each. But ever so many of the attractive young members of the corps are not married —yet. Surely it will be back to the chiffons and sum- mer resorts for them. And it should be! Out of the uniform by June! That, it seems to me, is an admirable slogan for most American girls. Some of them, perhaps, will still be needed in the last, Mngering canteens and other forms of war service not yet demobilized But our men, by the thousand, are leaving behind them the khaki and blue. Screly our young women may do likewise—and won't it add to the joys uf peace! 1919 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919 Where Can I Live? A Question That All the World Is Asking The Housing Problem in France And the City of Paris Warp of Music, Woof of Romance—Mabel Wagnalls Tells How You Can Weave Thrilling Love Tales . In With the Fabric of Harmony, Making Two Emotions Grow Where Only One Grew Before. By Zoe Beckley. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World). 'USIC-IMAGERY is @ new art. It is designed to aid the ayerage per- son to get as many thrills out of Beethoven's Sonata Apassionata as from “Pals” or from. a police quartet's blending of minor cadences in “Fires of Faith.” To those millions of us whose blood circu- lation leaps wildly to jazz and subsides sluggishly at Chopin's Polonaise in D minor, notwithstanding our fervent desire to be musically highbrow, thie new key to the emotions should fill a long felt want. Its inventor is Mabel Wagnalls, daughter of the dictionary man, and & well known author and musician in her own right. Mrs. Wagnalls says music-imagery “is simply a picturization of music.” * "Phe reason a song like “The Long, Long Trail’ is beloved by everybody,” | Which she sees and makes her audi- she says, “is because it makes a pic-|¢nce see the colossal story of the ture in your mind. It visualizes Creation. In plain words, Mrs, Wag- something. It stirs your emotions by | nalls turns any given piece of music ty showing you something yout recog-| into a sort of song. And song, you 4 nize, something you have felt or | Will admit, ts the most popular form Jong to feel. It tells a definite story,| of the musical art. @weet and simple. “Pepecially romantic ard dramatic “Now if classical music @id the|#ong,” she adds, “What is ‘Over game you would enjoy it just as | There’ but the event of the hour eet much, More, even, because the cheap, t© music? The more dramatic and gy Paris Commission Appointed to Build “ Garden: Cities”’ in the Suburbs First Bought 3,000 Acres of Land for $2,000,000 to Check Land Proftteer-'’ ing When Building Should Begin—The “Garden. City” Plan Is Here Described. BECOND ARTICLE OF A SERIES Written Especially for The Evening World, By Charles Harris Whitaker Pe in OPN RAS te te nan oe Editor of The Octagon, Journal of the American Institute of Architects, ONG before the war was ended, the Government of France began = to make plans for rebuilding the devastated areas. The archi-' tects of France were invited to submit drawings for various types of houses, and in studying the programme which was issued with the invitation, one is struck with the manner in which the traditions of France have survived, in the past, and how strong they still are, The Government asked for houses for blacksmiths, carpenters, plum- bers, wheelwrights, plasterers, painters—for plans for little inns, littio shops for the grocer, the butcher, the hardware man, the chemist, or druggist as we call him—and the architects of France were even to desiga a little house for the village dressmaker. Each house must have its, own special thought and be designed especially for the workman who was to live in it, for in France the workman is still more of an individual -. ‘intertwined with mhythm and jingle of popular tunes make you tire of them soon, The harmonies of the classics keep their beauty forever.” ‘ Mrs. Wagnalis’s two arts, literature and music, grew up with her from Debyhood. Every day from the ‘time she learned to print her first tig, wigsly capitals sho was re- to write a little essay, The one she remembers best, done at the age of five, began, “My mother is a tice American lady who lives with daddy and me.” So, you see, writ- ing was almost first nature with her. ‘When still so small that her toes @id not reach the plano pedals by half a yard she invariably “storied” ber exercises to make them more in- : ? 5 3 2 3 ; ~ “ tow SF sctementi's Sonatinas” became sll _p fey with fairies, goblins and the do- ‘= ings of giants and super-kni, b a» When she grew one. love tales opin preludes and Moszkowsk! waltzes, so that they + were almost as good as “Keep the «. Home Fires Burning” and “Where Do We Go From Here Boys?” elemental the event and the simpler the music the more it appeals, “Birth, work, laughter, love, strug- gle, victory, peace, death—those are the fundamentals around which any- body can weave a successful piece of music. Among Beethoven's works are numberleas music-stories of creation. I have never yet failed to make my audiences Visualize through the ‘Apas- sionata’ this mighty drama. “Take the ‘Anvil Chorus’ from ‘ll Trovatore’ as a sample of the work theme. It is so descriptive that it needs no words. It makes @ picture in the mind. Everybody likes it, But I could help people through music- imagery to get just as vivid ‘work plotures’ from dozens of other com- positiona that the erage person now ‘sees nothing in.’ “The old ‘Stein Song’ from “The Prince of Pilren’ was a sample of @ delightful laughter-and-merriment theme. Now you could get the same pleasure out of @ Classic—out of dos- ens that I know—if the picture of laughter and joy were made plain to you through spoken words before the playing of each passage. sO net No one yields to me tn admiration for the work accomplished by Amer- fean girls and women, and in many inetances, of course, for performing that work a uniform was the moet Bb Sets than in most other countries, He is his house and shop combined. This accounts in large measure for the fact that the housing problem in France is of quite a different charac- ter than elsewhere. It is more of a small town or small village problem, and especially so in the areas laid waste by the Germans. But the prob- lem of bad housing exists, just the same, for the average small house in France is unsanitary, inconvenient, with sma! chance for a circulation of light and air, Now the Government is planning to rebuild all of the de- stroyed towns and cities, as far as possible, so that the workers shall have decent homes in which to live. But the housing problem in the large cities is as bad as in all other large cities. It has grown so bad in Paris that just before the war a com- mission was appointed to see what could be done about building some garden cities in the suburbs of Paris. A garden city 1s really a little village where the number of houses to each acre of land is limited, and where each very often a master workman, with outlying nearby areas that it was very dificult to find any land om which to build a garden city. “Other cities,” says the report, “have taken pains to acquire control of land awaiting development. We in Paris have pursued the foolish policy of al- lowing speculators to take control of it, and now the evil is almost impos- sible of being cured.” Tho commission had been given” 10,000,000 francs, or about $2,000,000 of our money, What do you think they did with it? They spent it all for land, because they recognized thu fact that the first thing to be dome’ with the money was to buy land. Otherwise, just as soon as the first garden city was built, and people be- gan to see the advantages of living. in such a place, the price of the reat “er land would go up to such « polht that the commission could build no more garden cities, When you have to pay a higher price for land, then you have to give a smailer lot for the house, and as land goes up you have to give a smaller house, and as land continues to go up you have to give smaller room, until final- ly you have squeezed human beings into the smallest possible space intu which they can be squeezed, That is sultable costume, But I do think it ought to be listed among the horrors of war. Efficient the putteed maiden in a.Sam Browne belt unquestionably was. But could she be truthfully described as a decorative addition to the landscape? In war or peace, men, to all in- tents and purposes, wear a uniform, Khaki, with its trimmings of braid and buttons, its excellence in line, is far more attractive than the sombre stuffs in which the civillan male goes habited. But the partial adoption of uniforms for women ought to end— until we forget how they looked—all talk of a uniform dress for the femi- nine sex. |house has a small garden, while there are open spaces of land for the chil- dren to play in. ‘The commission has just issued its | report, and in reading it one finds that although Paris is always pointed out as the one great city of the world that has taken special pains to make itself beautiful—that although it has! the simple process by which we maka a magnificent system of boulevards, | UMs and tenement houses. After the beautiful public squares, fine vistas, | Process reaches a certain point, some and a general architectural perfection, | */nd and thoughtful people have a+ as far as appearances go, it has al- |!4W enacted under which they specify” lowed itself to become congested and |Ji'st how much room, tight, sun, to acquire a system of slums of the |Privacy and enjoyment each human worst description. Worse than that, the | being shall get. This they call a ‘Rea- commission made the discovery that |¢ment House Law, and it very soon land speculation had so ruined the|™eans that no one can get any more ‘What more natural than ‘that ehe @bould finally combine her two aris and make a quite new third one, just as a painter mixes blue and yellow \© amd produces green? “Tt seemed to mie,” says this charm- © ing lady with the lovely voice and the ‘slender lines and the pretty clothes * © gnd the hands that are made for piano keys if ever hands were, “that by “As for a love story, I know of nothing more bursting with Jove than the opening bars of Chopin's B Fiat Scherzo" — She turned to the keys and began it, improvising some words to fit, and well, our physical corpus may have remained seated on a rose silk chair in Mrs, Wagnall apartment over- looking Grameroy Park. , But our soul went floating out the window, high above the rumblous commotion vf Fourth Avenue, the trolley bells, the sinister subway, into thin, golden ethers peopled with yearning swains more handsome than Francis Bush- man, more spiritual than Richard , “T felt that I could make anybody “enjoy classic music if I could make < ‘them get the human pictures and the ~ *buman drama of which the musical ‘would seem the melodic story of most thrilling love affair. the could with her alternate word play and Style No ” By Margaret Rohe corre Cmte Mey ask orcsne Went) Sidi © taffeta or jersey cling the emartest mermaids this season, or rather the taffeta and jersey © lings to them in the shape of cun- "mime little flounced and puffed and Fuffled batting suits, if they be taf- feta, and straight-hung one-piece af- _ fens if they be of other stuff, - ' & stunning marine blue taffeta model whose abbreviated skirt 16 just * one scalloped ruffie after another, "“each scallop piped in vivid gréen, hae a eurplice waist, scalloped edged, _ ond just am outlining of the scallops There are things to be said in its favor. Many of them were repeated recently in a letter I received from a business woman who advocates a re- form in the clothes of office workers, “I have had ample opportunity,” she writes, “to observe the jealousy existing between girls, provoked by the fact that so many girls are able to use their earnings entirely for wearing apparel, whereas their less fortunate rs are forced by cir- oumstances to hand over part or all of their salary, and receiving only a meagre allowance, fret their hearts out for the pretty things they want and cannot get. “When the business girl gets mar- Med, tf #he ts not lucky and marries money, there results discontentment, and instead of being a help to hubby, wifey 9 only a drawback. There are quarrels, separations, divorces, al! because the modern girl has been ac- customed to go to business looking Tike a society lady, instead of the Plain working girl #he really is. Barthelmess with the cleft in his Chinese chin. Gone was Broadway. Vanished Forty-second Street and the rest of Modern Babylon, even to the doughnut wagons .of the Galvation Lassies-O. And profiteering land- lords, And problems of shoes and steak. * °° “Arla so it goes,” Mra, Wagnalls ‘was speaking and we returned with a jolt to the World of matter, “through musical themes of love, struggle, vic- tory, peace and death—whioh becomes almost a popular song when we lis- ten to the Chopin or the Beethoven Wunera! March. “All we need in order to enjoy the Dest classic music ever written is for ft to have MEANING. Imagery, I Rot enly want to show grown-ups through this idea how to revel in mu- sic, but I want to put it into the schools so that children can learn to love good music by having it epeak @ story to them.” If we had to define our meaning of “Music-Imagery” we should say it is putting @ sort of jazziess jazz into the classics ané making them all palat- ab! tes on 1919 Bath who affects the jersey suit of Copen- hagen ‘blue, its straight lines bound by deep organdie fringe around the skirt, armpits and oval neck. An amicable agreement between the Chinese and Japanese is evidenced by the Chinese blue bathing euit, cut after the long trousered and hip length coated fashion of a Chinese girl's usual apparel. A touch of black and scarlet embroidery finishes the sleeves, edges of the coat and high, close-buttoned collar, and froes of black and scarlet fasten the coat. | w, A dashing scarlet and black Jap- | nat anese parasol and a perky little blue and black cap splashed wRb a scarlet ing Suits in this season's bathing modes. The stunning on_every thing else. © eround the armholes. A quaint tat. © fete nat with a broad scailoped brim, edged, tops off the deep sea tassel complete this novelty in bath- ing attire, As always, the black taffeta or black and white costumes are dear! needs first ald and favorites and this year they are| waves bave been too and the bathi: with mirrors “If this reform was accepted by the large offices first, others would soon adopt the same plan. The result would be more efficiency and concentration brought up to date with vivid touches here and there of yarn embroidery or Large figured foulards in blue and white, black and white or more hec- tic colorings strike the newest notes In- deed they strike so loud a note that the deep sea fish will have to learn to swim with their fins over their ears, cape mantles, to be cast aside only at the water's edge, are usually of one-toned material whose gurface is broken by appliqued or embroidered hieroglyphica in the form of cryptic monograms and al- @ the linings are most vividly or- Fringe now sprouts effectively on @ome of the bathing mantles, as Cute little gilken bags, rubber-Nned and monogrammed to match the cape suit, are aerae necessary adjuncts to the deep sea complexion which when over the work at hand, there being no excuse to fret over Sally’s new satin dress, or Louise's perfectly stunning Georgette crepe waist, which leaves no doubt as to her shape, No brain work would be required to solve the mystery as to how some girls can dress as they do on $10 and $12 a week, and it would undoubtedly save many a serious illness if open work stockings and low dance slippers were abolished for working hours. “A tailor made suit, plain waist (no Georgette or net waists tolerated), no extremely low neck or short skirt Is my suggestion, What an improve- ment it would make tn our big modern ‘business offices!” ‘These suggestions, I feel eure, would commend themselves to the Rev. John Roach Straton. But I am equaily certain they would be buried under a landslide of negative votes if New York went to the polls on the bubject. Down with uniforms and uniform dress for the summer girl of 1919! Let @ peace conference of chaperons wet some Limits, if it will, to the free- dom of the V's and the freedom of the knees, But now that the American motor girl, farmerette, canteen worker, munition maker, has won the war with khaki, let her win her deserts of admiration and attention with all the cool, fluffy prettiness she can buy and wear during the oom- ing vacation season. If she wishes to show her gratitude to the returning hero from overseas, to show him that he has indeed fought to make safe romance, beauty, charm, all the loveliness of life, she should dress the part. His eyes are sore for the sight of dainty eilks, ribbons and laces. ‘When Neysa MoMein, beautiful and acomplished young poster artist, re- turned from entertaining the A. E. F., she told me how doughify after doughboy drew her aside afd mur- mured bashfully, “Excuse me, but I've got sisters of my own, and I'm sure you'll understand—say, you just don’t know bow good it Is to see a pail alg stockings again” 4: Every fluttering ribbon worn by the summer girl of 1919 will be a little flag of welcome to the American who, to serve his country, has en- dured mud, suffering, loneliness, hard- | ship and the utter absence of every amenity of life. Not all our boys} have left their horrors overseas. Some | are bringing them back in memories | that are too faithful. To these som- | bre-eyedgyoungsters the best of mis- sionarie#@will be the gay, dgintily dressed butterfly of a summer girl— the kind America used to make be- fore the war. More power to the summer girl! Confusion to our modern Puritans, who are discovering all sorts of mora! horrors in the feminine frocks of the moment, We have supped full of horrors—let us have peace. And let us have @ peace summer at last, full of moonlight, waltz music, roses, fiirtation—and SUMMER GIRLS in all their adorable varieties of mufti! pasted tO A hai teccl Camouflaged Sheepskins HEN Missouri —_- University W graduates receive their sheep- skins at this year’s commence- ment, they will not be sheepskins at all, 80 charge one more item against Bill Hohengollern, Missouri will not be alone in the | has not yet been able ¢o replenish the exhausted supply of t paper, bagful of {Il-gotten marbles and has | his fame had hivconne rested audi reduced the use of soap and water to|ence of local youngsters. a fine point. The other morning he “What's this?’ demanded the was, as usual, late at breakfast, F\-|choleric one. “What do you want?" nally his father mounted the stairs,| ‘Nothin’, was the noncommittal re- only to come on Jimmy in the bath- “" ate room door looking complacently into|" “Then clear off, everyone of you!" passing out of “bogus sheeps.” All] {00m door, jong Sony exclaimed the player, “There isn't graduation certificates are being) “wnat are you doing with that mir- | anything here for you to watch!" issued on plain paper, as Europe—| ror?” his father asked brusquely. “We didn't come to watch,” re- which furnishes diploma material “Trying to see which part of my|turned the youngster, without at- face to wash,” he answered.—dndian- “We came to apolis News, TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich ‘Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York lvening Mack’s Leavings Are Jack’s Winnings HE KOHINOOR came from Kimberlite mud) The gold in your : i watch was strained from slush and dirt. The lilies in your wife's corsage sprang from the swamp, Few situations are so black that there isn’t a ray to light the way to something worth while— if you'll find and mind the ray. When Roosevelt was Police Commissioner of New York his party sent him one of their pets who was dissatisfied with his work and who wanted to be sinecured. During the interview the young man admitted to half a dozen jobs in as many months, “What's the matter?” asked the Police Commissioner, you stick to a job?” “Well,” drawled the young fellow, “I don’t stick because I can’t find the right opportunity, 1 can’t get a job I'd like.” “You can't get a job you'd like,” echoed Roosevelt cryptically. He thought for @ few seconds, “Neither can I!” he suddenly ejaculated. “I would like to be President of the United States! But I can't! So I’m doing my best ‘at the job I’ve got! You can't get a job ypu'd like!” be shot out con- temptuously; “then do your darndest at the job you've got—LIKE THE REST OF US!" ° The humblest opening you can think of has at one time or another been filled by some man who made much out of little—who took the blindness out of a dark alley—and who made the alley lead to name and fame, It is not only what you are doing IN your job—it is what you are doing WITH it—that will determine your destiny. Mack’s ieavings can frequently be made Jack’s winnings—if Jack will take the trouble—to look not at—but INTO—his prospects. “Why don’t CAME TO LISTEN. RATHDR choleric golfer went out to play for the second time on acertain course, Evidently | his fame had preceded him, for at the CONSERVATION. UMMY is a ten-year-old and very unpopular with the family just now. He reckons time from @ joinder of the leader of the bunch. |.But the rent for the land is paid into tempting to move on. Usten!"—Los Angeles than the law allows, and that only © certain kinds of houses can be built. eee Paria is going to make an expert- ment with her garden cities, She has bought six parcels of land of about 600 acres total area, and on each of these Parcels she proposes to build a little village where people can be housed decently and where children can have a chance to grow up like human be- ings instead of like animals. 6he is not the first city to do this, for some of the English towns have carried out large schemes of this kind, but it is very significant that Paris hes learned at last. As a city, she has paid too much attention te appear- ances and not enough to living con- ditions, Her garden cities will no doubt . Prove to be profitable investments for her, Having control of the land on which they are built, she oan pre- vent speculators from getting in to ruin her work, she will enjoy all the Denefits that may come from a ris in the value of the land, amd the people that live in the houses will not have their rent raised every few minutes, The principle on which a garden city makes a profit is this: As it grows, it becomes necessary to have shops and stores, These have to be built on land belonging to the garden city itself, (which may be owned by the Government or by all of the people who live in it,) and thus the land on which the shops or stores are built is rented to the shopkeeper. Of course it commands a higher price than land on which to build a house. the pockets not of some outside land-owner but goes directly into the pockets of the people who live on the land and who made the shop ® profitable thing for eome one to run, These earnings from land may go to reduce rents, or to reduce taxes, or to help pay off the loan with which the garden city has been built, in caves where the money has been lent by the State or by private in- dividuals, In a nutshell, that is the secret of cheap rents and good houses. Make the increased value of land.go to the people and not to pri- vate owners, There is no solution for the house problem until that is dese, in some way,