The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1919, Page 24

BS ~ How Would You Pick 9 A HUSBAND é A WIFE ' * Evening World Readers Give Specifications ‘and Rules for Choosing Life Partners. Last week The Evening World published the rules for selecting a Busband and a wife as laid down dy Bdith Eilis and 0. Becher Furness, the “happiest married couple” in New York. An invitation was ea fended to Bvening World readers to give their rules. Some of the Hirst replica are published in todays article. Others will follow. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Ca (The New York Breaing World How would you pick a husband? How would you pick a wife? EV®RAL young meh and women who read The Evening World have sent me their specifications for the mate of their choice, and I hope to hear from many more of you. For the first summer in years Venus, not Mars, is in the ascendant—that is, people are thinking of making love rather than of making war. The hammocks, the ; ' canoes, the lovers’ lanes will be fully populated. The young man just out of uniform—and out of the Valley : s, of the Shadow—will appreciate more keenly than ever t ‘a before the normal, happy relations of life. Chief among them, for him, will be the courting of the one girl. What girl is she? What type of young womanhood ES sis going to make the strongest appeal to our returned soldiers? Let some of them write and tell us the sort of girl they desire for a wife Other things being equal, I suppose the young man from overseas is going to have first innings with the summer girl of 1919. Yet, if uniforms *--are alike, their wearers are not, and there are tremendous differences in « character, temperament and intelligence among the gallant young veterans of the A. E. F. Has life in the army fitted or unfitted them for domestic Mfe? What type is going to make the best husband? The girls who stayed at home must tell us what they think about it. + The war has changed so many of our ideas and ideals. I wonder if Cupid is being reconstructed, along | With everything else. Perhaps he is _ going to take life more seriously, In- stead of aiming his arrows at little , Pleces of blue-eyed Muff, perhaps he Will favor this year those plainiy- dressed, efficient, modest girls whom men have been accustomed to praise |. -77and leave alone. Perhaps the vogue py @f the dancing man will be super- seded by the popularity of the hard- “ quiet youth who ts long on character and short on income. Who knows But wo all can make "am pretty good guess as to the 1919 styles in popular girls and young | ** men, when you bave written out for my eyes, on account of her vanity, selfishness, shallowness, &c. Well-dressed? Yes, by all means, in the sense that her clothes are well- fitting, not too scanty, and up-to- date, without necessarily being the “last word” in fashions, Able to cook and keep house? Most certainly, whether she were obliged to do #0 or not. Do I look with favor upon the busi- ness Woman? Yes, and with great respect; ut the average business woman, as I know her, would not appeal to me as a wife, If, howeve: she has been able to earn her living without beipg drawn away from an “ue your ideas on the picking of « bus- oe interest in the home, it is , arowe. lecidedly in her favor, instead of be- is spe MUST COOK, BE WELL! '* & disadvantage, ax DRESSE OT A'“Goss She must allow the neighborhood Bh carci ‘a Pi man who sketches | news to be disseminated without her Phi ideal by answering vome of the| Assistance, and have enough charity © questions I put to you in| of heart to be able to look upon the ©) The Evening World: shortcomings of others without be- Dear Madam: Must the woman 1/Coming wrought up to a fine state of marry be »retty? It doesn’t interest | indignation, Liberality in thought ® me in the least, for a woman whom/and deed, willingness to “ point out ‘the majority of people would call/my own faults in an unoffensive but fe RCE SA_ bo pertectly hideous tn) matterot-tact manner, and aa. in- te clination toward th. amusemen: “LENGTH OF NECK mycreations that I enjoy, are “pe Ps sirable qualit es GETS VALUE OF |g ay iinitiee And it in adaition ‘ 5 neither far above P BURMESE WOMEN |"°" t#= below me in social position. : odious words! I nate to write them! the happy day cannot come too soon, “STUDENT.” me HIS WIFE CAN “PAINT,” BUT MUST “GROW” WITH HIM, 4 Dear Madam: I don't know ' | whether tasfeel sorry or happy when 1 say that, although I know a number! of girls, I have not as yet met the girl I would want to marry, 1 want a girl who must have com- " mon sense, must be considerate, and 3 must be willing to study to come up to my ideals, that is, if she does not vf possess the education necessary to| j be able to discuss various topos in- - jtelligentiy: She must be a real pal - in all the word implies, I dor’t care oe whether or not she paints, &c, On the contrary, If the moderate use of con. metics improves her appearance, ‘et her use ‘em, If she looks well with. out any “junk” on her, 1 would ad- mire her much more if she would use Nothing, except of course an occa. sional dab of powder ‘The principal requirement, however. is that she is perfectly content with whatever I could afford to" give ber ja! present, but at tho same time be capable of growing ww) b ome a | BAWTAY | WANTS HUSBAND WHO'LL asx HIS WIFE'S OPINIONS. | Here's what one girl wants | Dear Madam: ‘The following are the traits I would require in select ing my lifemate:; He must be a n al |big enough to realize the Jue attention to the little conventionali- | ; tles 80 dear to the heart of woman; . one who does not feel his “manhood” considera. suffe: giving \tlom to every-day courtesies, He t BREWITH is shown the photo-| should be able to bear up, under raph of a lady of the Burmese |pressure-—to sland tho test of ad tribe of Padung. The aim Of | versity: possess a hearty laugh, and a@very woman of the tribe ix to elon-|love children. He should be liberal wate the neck ag much as possiple,|enough to seck his wife's opinions in with due me Ignorant Essays & G& S& FISH ‘Fish Are Said to Be Fine Brain Food, but No One Ever Saw a Fisherman Who Looked Like a Good Testimonial.’’ By J. P. McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, ISH are cold-blooded ani- rivers, delicatessens and They are said to be fine brain food, but no one ever saw a fisherman who looked like Besides, fish intelligent; they think water is good to drink Un cans, found 1 &@ good testimonial, are anythg but and have heads, extremely catorial pests. F dollar, of the fish tribe, happy as when ther many of him in a ca HE thi begs years ago, when declaration of war aga World Republic, The first foreign ruler of the pira f And to effect this a female child has | things intimately concerning both, §@ brass wire fitted round her neck/he goes to his partner in the busi. B she is valued by the length of| I believe the lasting molt over a as Ht whieh additional rings are added /ness world for help In the solution as the years go by until she is fifteen, |of problems concerning that business. love-tide is 84 & wife. |bullt om the foundation of truth, uhder- state had learned tha a large annual American squadron ek Ne BRUM bia in low fore- re are t n. It w inst the atical t the Hiss oe Fe AN Fish consist almost entirely of ales, bones and giblets. BE: cially is this true of perch, Which are the original pernicious pis- reh are served in large quantitios and often there is an ounce of food in a ton of them. Yeu leave most of them behind you on the plate, but what you leave isn't worth more than three cents on the The sardine is the flat dweller He is never so 00 as issued New | e: African United States had paid larger sums to Al- glers than to himself, and demanded tribute, TI refused, and he declared war, der Commo. | eral was An Uncle Sam's First Foreign War. war in which United States was engaged | n one hundred end eight Tripoli a} (The New York Grening Worl), from the sardine that modern traction experts got the inspira- flon for packing straphangers into street cars. However, the sardine has the best of it all the time. He doesn't have to stand up. Fish come in assorted sizes and shapes, from the eel, which is long and practically bipless, to the flounder, which is short and flat, Evidently all fish are | related, because they live on each other like real relatives. | Fish are eaten in large quan- | tities on Friday, hence fish have always considered Friday their unlucky day, They make excel- lent compinions, They are so- ciable, kind-hearted and very good listeners, They can be kept either In a bowl like gold- fish or in a can like sardines or on ice like lake trout, We should advise you to visit them occa- sionally, however, while on Ice, as they get restless, especially in by squadrons commanded by modore Morris . and Preble, 1 war continued until 1805, and was characterized by sev- ts of valor performed by sailors, The Bey of Trip- oli and the other Barbary rulers, who had long preyed upon the com- meree of America and rope, were brought up with a short turn, Com- Commodore | | Prior to the Tripolitan War the United States and France fought sov- ere none to open ORR. oS he re ents, but war was) eiaged, and, te i | the summer, and after the second or third day are liable to become discontented and protest vigor- ously, ’ Fishing is easy for you if you have @ sharp hook or a dull con- science, What you don't catch with your hook you can lie about. In closing, I might say that there are really only two classes of fish—fresh fish which live in fresh water and salt fish which live in salt water, and these are in turn sub-divided into fried fish, baked fish, boiled fish, stewed fish, shirred fish, poached fish and fishcakes. And then there are herrings, which are passionately fond of being kip- pered, Having never been kip- pered I cannot explain the process, but it must accomplish much good, because they look ab- solutely satisfied. Sure Way MacMakin, Is Sorting Bureau’s Work Is Not By Zoe Copyright, 1919, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). HY don’t dreams come true? Tessie dreams of being a stenog- W rapher and marrying the boss's son. She quits grammar school at the 8th B grade, “takes at $8 a week. month and lands Why doesn’t Jimmie, her brother, has toonist with tan uppers and an mad at his teacher one day for middle of grade 7-B, gets his habticy ing papers and after much he : finds @ job in an advertising office. But none of his ideas “get over.” He decides bosses are dlockheads — that “you can’t get anywhere with- out pull.” Jimmie drifts into book- keeping, acquires a chronic griev- ance, and will be a night watchman a yay aoaeary Jimmie’s dream come true? Because he started wrong. Neither he nor Tessie had schooling enough, or natural aptitude enough to be what they wanted to be. No- body told them, Nobody helped them. Yet there were hundreds of niches they could have been fitted into which would have given them a Success. “This prigr the Juvenile Section of the United States Department of Labor's Employment Service steps in. ‘And {t does not step out again until | both ‘Tessie and Jimmie are firmly in- dependent and happy, it any more. one with Fedegal Director George W. Kirchwey, Miss Virginia MacMakin, of Louisville and points wost, east and north, has organized what really might be called “A State Bureau for Making Youth's Dreams % sat? Genes we are really doing,” she told me at the Department offices, youthful pegs and putting the round ones into round holes and the square into square. onrWe do not merely place young folks in touch with positions, We in- vestigate the positions. We study the young person, We tell him or her the truth about the big world of industry he is entering. We find out from employers exactly the chances for suitability and advancement. And when the boys or girls have been placed, we keep in touch with them, helping them in whatever ways they need help, ag long as they will let us.” Suppose Tessie instead of acting upon the wobbly advice of her chum Sarah “to be a stenographer—sten- ogs get grand pay—and It's so classy had come to Miss MacMakin, what would have happened? “Birst I should have told Tessie,” says Miss MacMakin, “that business men do not want elght-dollar be- ginners who cannot spell, Business men can't always spell themselve you know,” she adds, with a twinkle, Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM — By Herman J. Stich (Tee New York Evening World) , 7 A Few Bonanzas. “The ocean's old, centuries old, And forever ‘twill be uncontrolled HAT poet's imagination was 3 at low tide. We haven't yet completely harnessed the sea, bat wave motors and tide motors are in sight. Also smokeless locomotives, flawless incubators, smooth running ker- osene engines, puncture proof tires, draft equalizers, lghter and tougher airplane fabrics, aerial life preservers, cheaper compositions for billiard balls, practicable folding umbrellas, egs testers and automatic type- writer erasers that will save time, trouble and profanity, More efficient foods and fuels are potential millionaire makers, Spark plugs and vacuum clean- ers are still in @ tender stage of their infancy. Chalk is con- stantly breaking. Nuts, too, fre- quently slip from bolts, Alumi- num can't be economically sol- dered, Xour ups ; work loose from your sioc.aces, Guns erode. Automobile tires disgustingly go flat. Car coup- lers snap. Edison sponsors the statement that modern machinery is 90 per cent. inefficient. Railway tes wear out too quickly. Substi- tutes are badly needed for high- priced and scarce rubber and paper. Lathes do not cut clean, Soil enrichers would unprece- dentedly enrich their discover- ers. Typewriters are inconveni- ent and clumsy mechanisms, while a typewriter for musical composers would be an El Do- rado. All industry is agape with holes awaiting filling. Reliable shock absorbers would sell like hot Trousers shapers have thus far failed to turn the trick. Keyless locks would p: ‘ is ‘) name and prove an open-sesame to wealth, Practicable automatic | elevators would automatically | create a Croesus. Every to-day we find a more efficient way of accomplishing what we did yesterday. Good workmen continually quarrel with their tools, Precedent tem- porarily ties their hands, shack- les their ingenuity, fetters their efficiency. But it cannot confine their imagination; it cannot con- strain their vision; it never warps their resourcefulness, Precedent fs Time's refuse. It is the gauge of an age that did not dream of your advantages; that could not utilize your op- portunties; that never conceived our daily commonplaces, Progress is simply the product of men who looked a little deep- er, who worked a lot harder, who dug much further than you. Genius? ROT! Observation? Thought? Grit? Of course— and Iittle else, It might ~ fast ua Wall be 9 How Uncle Sam Found Youth’s Dreams Come True Here in New York His Assistant, Miss Virginia Fitting Them Into Jobs That Suit Their Talents and Even Putting the Jobs Under the Microscope to Be Sure That They Fit. Instead of marrying her, the boss's son tears his hair because Tessie spells hoping with two p’s, and finally “fires” her in language totally unbecom- ing a gentleman. Tessie tramps th@ asphalt for @ @ boss’s son, She works in a stuffy corner and yawns over her duplicate bills until in sheer despera- tion she marries the first male who asks her. And lives unhappily ever after, she started wrong. dreams too, Jim wants to be a famous car automobile and everything. “bawling him out,” leaves school in the and do not: No, 469 Fifth Avenue, “is sorting out) “lyou sprout and | and for Making Out Boys and Girls and Even Then the Ended. Beckley & course” somewhere and is “placed” another place where there isn’t even Tessie’s dream come true? Because So he gets “They want experienced young women who can save time for them. And they are willing to pay $5 a week for such helpers. I should study Tessie thoroughly to be sure she had the makings of a stenographer or whether she would be a far better dressmaker or designer. “Next I should tell her that tf she went to a trade echool instead of ‘business college’ and learned lamp- shade making or mili.aety or\bonnas, she would get $10 or $12 a week to start. There are at this moment 2,000 openings for special work of this sort that cannot be filled because we have not the qualified applicants to put into them. On the other hand, be- ginners’ stenographic positions are harder to find than hens’ teeth. Yet ninety girls out of a hundred yearn to be stenographers whether they are fitted for the work by education and personality or not. “It is only after these girls have tried and failed again and again and been disappointed in everything, trom their working surroundings to the boss's traditional son, that they begin to realize that they did not start right, And by that time they have lost precious years and decided so marry the filing clerk with knock knees and twenty a week rather than |‘learn @ trade’ and make a [resh be- ginning. | “I would prove to Tessie that in many of the trade positions « girl has nicer surroundings, shorter hours and petter chances to get ahegd than |she has in some of those coveted of- | flee jobs. “Finally I should show Tessie how much better chance she has of meet ing the right man to marry if she ts successful in her work, hag money to buy pretty clothes, is contented aad interested, and can therefore take time | to jook around.” | The Department of Labor's Junior Section stresses its educational fune- tion, For instance, suppose Jimmie had come to Miss MacMakin and con- | Oded h love for drawing in general and his ambition for cartooning in particular, 9 would haye made him Junderstand that in order to cartoon, you must have ideas. And that to have ideas, you must have some sort of educational background, You must know geography, history, and that |John Milton was @ poet, not a puytlat. |The more you know, the better ideas the finer drawings you make. So you must stay on at school, and go through high school, learn something about drawing on top of that But suppose your folks aren't rich enough to keep you at school unt jyou are sixteen? Or to put you | through art school?) Miss MacMakin will begin to do things with her tele |Phone, her card indexes, her letter- heads, etc., and the first thing Jimmie knows, # free scholarship has been | found for him somewhere—and there |¥ou are, | | ar Tho ‘Junior department educates employers, too, Miss MacMakin says employers are really rather decent | folks, taking them by and large. They actually do things for employees sometimes that help them to better work and better better fu- deral Em. co takes an interes ge" a certain employer re marked recently, “if the U. 8. is ask. ing me how Peter Dibbs is getting along, Dibbs must be worth ‘soma thing.” And he investigated Peter and raised him $2. Thero is a great deal more th, Miss MacMakin and her departmen do in the way of counselling, thveat: gating and yocationalizing that 1 have not room here to describe, I even make up the mind of Jimmte or an‘uncertain ‘Pewsie as te whether & trade or a commerciat is the one to go after, ise Seollcn, at No, regular d Place tay So ° true,