The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1919, Page 16

Pena MONDAY 9 A JUNE 23, 1919 ~ How Would You Pick HUSBAND A WIFE ? More Evening World Readers Tell How They Would Choose Life Partners Two Young Men Write Having Apparently Not Met the Really Repre- sentative Types, and a Girl Writes, ‘We Have No Opportunity to Pick. The Evening World resently band and a wife as laid down by the “ happiest married couple in sive their own rules, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Covrright, 1919, by The Frees Publishing Oo, (The New York Rrening World). nil Ys New York girl is all shows, but she fs not the sort any man in his senses would pick as a wife.” There you have the text of two letters I have received trom cynical ; young men who seem convinced that the mates of their choice can never be found in this city. “The Now York girl,” they say in effect, “is vulgar, loud- voiced, uneducated, mercenary, devoted to nothing bat superficial pleasures, When we want to marry we shall look further.” “And fare worse!” 1 hope the feminine shock troops among my correspondents will retort. depending on them to repel the charges of the ungal- lant pair whose & class? There is another question I should like to ask. Suppose we grant that the typical New York girl wears ax good clothes as she can afford—some- tmes better. Suppose we concede that she had rather go to a dance than stay at home darning stockin, that her face is laughing instea: long; that she reads Robert C: ders ingtead of the New Republic; that she is @ parlor orhament rather than a kitchen utensil. Would young men iike her any better if she were ‘Useful instead of attractive? Is it the quietly dressed, sensible girl who has to pick and choose among a crowd of masculine admirers—or the pretty filbberty-gibbet? Doesn't the typical New York girl simply obey the law of supply and demand—supplying the qualities and general appearance demanded by the typical New York man? And how about this chap—does he measure up to what the girls of his acquaintance really admire in their heart of hearts? Do they pick him for a husband—if they have the chance to choose between him and some other man? Suppose we invade the enemy country and tell the young men so critical of us what we think of them as raw material for husbands, They must not have things all their own way, and be allowed to think they alone do the “picking.” Let me hear from some of the young women who read The Evening World as to their ideals and how New York men conform to them. SAYS N. Y. GIR FAULTS MAKE IRABLE, cannot for one moment be compared with girls in other parts of the U. 8. A. when it is a matter of choosing wire, manner that is the hall-mark of the New York girl. Of course there are New York.” Some of the replies were published last Thure- day, others are printed here to-dey. sirl, here and there, cisms, but do my readers consider they Arraigning New York Girls, printed the rules for selecting @ hus- Bdith Eilts and 0, Beecher Furness, Readers were invited to right to take to dances and summer I am letters I quote today. A New York may deserve some of the criti- apply to THE New York girl as metropolis, during which time I dedi- cated myself mich to the etudy of A Beautiful C. metery---Just for Dogs Most Exclusive Burial Place in for Here May Rest Only th Americans, especially of the fair sex, oT HER Seman TED my candid opinion is that the Yankee girl is not what even her Pleasure loving compatriots would cherish as an ideal wife. A French gentleman of advanced age, who hag been in America for about thirty years, with whom I was discussing just this subject a few days ago, aswured me that the jdeal girl could be found, and easily, in some of the States further west, but absolutely not in New York. stranger among your fair sex, apd the very businessfied girl seems to find no other relish except in dressing @xceptions, but I am talking about in the great majority of cases is positively il-bred, ‘To compare the average New York wirl with the Yankee or Dixie girl is ‘There can be no compari- for they are as far apart as the in everything that is most de- sirable in woman. I do net mean that any girl is superior to the New York girl #0 far as morals are con- Gerned, but I do say that the real ‘ American girl is not onty moral, but ‘the possessor of qualities that are too often lacking in the New York girl, who Is careless in manner, slip- shod in language (no matter if she is a college graduate) and absolutely vulgar. Straightforward, clean-cut, inher- ently refined and, above ail, with the womanly sweetness and broad-mind- e@mess of true womanhood—that ts the resi American girl, God Liess er! She is beyond compare. And when I see the ill-bred, vulgar girl of Mew York I cannot help wishing that mbe could be placed with some real American people for a while and maybe she would see the faults that make her so undesirable for a wife and mother. J.K, CAN'T FIND RIGHT KIND OF GIRL IN NEW YORK, Dear Madam: 1 was born of English parents in fe Island of Malta and am highly edmacated. Mel, after two years in this ert I (perhaps @ little above the acknowl- 4D escort and @ pocketbook to satis- fy her whims. And eventually a “life- time” escort. I am not an. Adonis, although con- sidered quite attractive (for a man), having what was termed by some Yankee lassies, very expressive, but too naughty and scrutinizing ark, | brilliant eyes, Although they were! ready to acknowledge my being an interesting talker, they did not seem to consider my friendship valuable ner in lively cabarets, &c. Now I do not especially care for beauty; just a pleasing personality, a decent dose of brains, a handful of education, and @ pinch of sentiment | ty all I look for—and fail to find in| New York! v.C. WORKING GIRL8 HAVE NOTHING! TO PICK FROM, Dear Ma We girls have no choice in the mat- ter of husbani-picking. We hav: nothing to pick from. Most of us working girls in big cities get one or two offers of matrimony, which in many cases we have to decline as undesirable, although we would glad- ly swap the typewriter for such in- ventions as fireless cookers, vacuum cleaners, electric irons, sewing ma- chines, &c. I think the five rules of Mrs. Edith Ellis are all right, but I never had a chance to say yes to any man who combined them ‘all; re are thou- sands of girls who would pick wisely if they had the opportunity to do so, LULU v. ago. dressed little girl were placing flow than one of Sentiment seems to be quite a/dogs and other pets of the wealthy. The Evening World present inter- esting photographs of York Dog and Pet Cemetery,” dicating that the well-to-do in this the girl one meet in everyday Life |¢dged standard of morality), dancing| part of the world are not less mind- here in New York. She may be a|—!% dim-lighted cabarets preferably |ful of their dumb friends than they graduate of some college, or she may |—*24 frequenting men's society with|are of the needs of suffering hu- dust one of the “Dusiness” girls,|20 other idea except that of having|manity at home and abroad Dogs are not ground” at Hartsdale, nor are they left with merely a stick of wood to indicate where they Hartadale tombstones cost as much and are quite as imposing as the av- erage stone over the average per- son in the common run of cemeteries. | There probably [they are wble to, “Prine tand ‘Towser’ may be gone relief, maybe, of butlers and grooms (and footmen), but they are not for- gotten by their friends, One of tho larger stones at Harts. | dale is erected to Carronvale Laddie, aged ele and seven months, who, the ins was Death.” Another and even more pre- tentious tombstone, bearing the name of M. I, Place of “Sally” and Toodles,” There were fifty persons in cemetery tion records, Walsh, A majority NE of the mos: remarkable buria places in the world is situated at Hartsdale in Westchester County,’ New York, a short ride from the largest city in the world, It is the Jast rest- ing place of the the “New in- “thrown into the lie. Many isn't a girl in the world, of whatever age, who does not | recall her grief when, one night back | home, Pa or Brother Bill set off for unless invited pretty often out to din-|the creek or the lake or the river to toss overboard all but one or two of Tabby Cat's latest batch of kitchens, Boys in like manner recall a ' diffe; uy because and “Duke” (to the the me ry of en years Dp. unto oP ithful marks the | the when @ reporter for The | Evening World Visited it a day or two | of them were well | Many of them their | broidery slips of black taffeta are the very have LITTLE — nD, GRAVES OF >A CEAR LITTLE FREND &, KIDDIES TRIMMING THES nS ey the World Is Located in Hartsdale, N. Y., e Remains of Loved Pets of the Wealthy What the Summer Girl Ts Wearing From Her Dark Lined Diaphanous Lingerie Frocks to Her Huge, Floppy, Decorated Hats With Their Lace Edged Frills By Margaret Rohe NLIKE clouds, the summer girls are not to have silver linings this season, to dusky black ones. At least for their diaphanous lingerie frocks with cobweb lace and There is They run rather and gossamer sheer em- materials, smartest foundations to show off or @ “Spot” who died and was planted | their fairy-like oharma {back of the red barn, | é Well, the cemetery up at Hartsdale! Lingerie frocks have been worked means merely that th children of out to more exquisite perfection than n of means—and the | evey th Heh Te ee themselves, in many r this summer and in the fin ness of their materials and the artistry-of their handwork and de sign the: really dreams, course, are to be worn over the start- ling new black taffeta slips, of color, be it ever so on them, however, one & quaint flower at the girdle or caught at some puffed up portion of skirt, while rainbow girdles of three burial|or four shades of pale bons is a favorite finish, y are Not all of them, of A touch slight, is noted and all, Some and vivid ribbon the bouffant tinted rib- no such thing as the simple life for a skirt any more on these lingerie models—or on any of on the graves j the sheer organdieg and thin summer of their departed loved ones and more | frocks, for that matter, them was crying, Indeed, they are all leading double or even triple lives, with two and three tiers or one long tunic effect over a ght under- skirt, or else a much puffed up and fluffed up overskirt over a tight ankle length under one. These tight underskirt portions are very elabor- ately fussed up with tiny lace rufe fles, tucks and insertings and their hems strive for just one startling ef- fect after another. One of the most novel hems is on a dove gray or- gandie, and the bottom of the skirt is loosely rolled up in a crushed mass and caught every now and then with a wine-colored rose, This same mode! has flowing bell sleeves and a crushed surplice collar caught at the girdle with three of the same antj- prohibition flowers, Some of the underskirts are so draped in the middle as to simulate pantalettes, and beneath an overskirt of flowered organdie they are espe- clally quaint and effective, The lovely huge floppy hats of leg. horn, milan and crin, loaded with novelties in the artificial flower line, like {iger lillies, orchic morning glories) nasturtiums, dahlias, hydran- geas ghd even snowballs, ‘and always the more commonplace but effective field combination of corn flowers, daisies, buttercups and poppies, are fit crowning glories to the lovely ‘in-! straw ones. serie frocks and organdie dresses of the summer girl, bats to match the organdie dresses are making a great bid for summer girl favor, but as yet they have not gone to her head like the charming Distracting little white lace edged frills, peeping out around the head below tho hat brim, like the lacey frills below the overskirt hems, smack of Dolly Varden days. Even with such a charming head- gear a wise maid has to keep her nind on her feet these days, for the startling new hem finishes to the fashionable frocks do eyes of all beholde: ot bo A Sine) ESN ANYMORE." £4 6 6 x more; lose her MONDAY, Be a Better And Earn than the best previous record, Phra ever before, The two hundred word « ling gun shoots bullets, forgetful the greatest number of syllables into Just so with the witness in cou hundred words a minute, essary to use shortcuts—brief sym- bols which express between three and ten words, Phrasing is not alone an ald to fast shorthand writing. It is indispensa- ble to the achievement of any speed. And by making high speed writing easier it does away with the mental and physical wear and tear of fast work, Each lift of the pen is equivalent to the writing of one or more words. To cut down the number of lifts by the legitimate combining of words or groups of words is therefore one of the most obvious methods of increas- ing one’s speed. In court certain combinations of| ‘The all.ergandie attract feetwards, «tence much care and attention must be paid to just the right dainty pump of satin or suede, glistening with its huge cut steel buckle, and the exqui- site silken hose that now covers or rather uncovers her ankle must vie with the lingerle frock for delicate lace work and diaphanousness, RECOVERED, doesn't sing any “Did “No, she found her | How Many Stars In the Sky ? Astronomers Say There Are Between 700,000,000, and 1,800,000,000 in Our Stellar System Alone — What Un- known Reaches of Limitle: Space Contain Cannot Even Be Guessed. HERE are in the whole sky only 5,000 stars visible without the ald of @ telescope; that is, 5,000 stars of the sixth magnitude or brighter. Since énly one-half of the sky 1s visible at any one point and since faint stars near the horizon are invisible on account of the greater density of the earth's atmosphere in this direction, there are only about 2,000 stars to be seen at any one point on a clear, cloudless night, though one receives the impression that an infinite number of stars exists. A small three-inch telescope, says an article in the Electrical Experi- menter, will show stars down to the ninth magnitude and there are 200,000 stars brighter than the ninth magni- tude. Vainter stars are far more numer- ous and it has been estimated that there are approximately — 55,000,000 stars in the first seventeen magni- tudes, The forty-inch Yerkes refractor will show stars of the seventeenth appar- | ent magnitude and the great 10-inch | Mount Wilson reflector stars of the twentieth magnitude, This represents the mit of telescope power at the Present time, and it js doubtful if it ever can be greatly surpassed, It has been estimated on basis of counts of stars in sample regions that there are three hundred million stars in the sky within reach of the great reflector, It is assumed that there is a definite limit to the number of Stars within our own sidereal system, but it 1s conceivable that there may be other stellar systems far beyond our | -own, and light from such exterior JUNE 23, HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR SHORTHAND, INSURE ACCURACY, Third of a series of twelve articles written especially for stenog rapher readers of The Evening World by Herman J. Stich, wo 7 champion high speed shorthand writer and international authority om the subject. Mr, Stich, who is a court reporter, is the first shorthand writer to obtain a speed of 300 words a minute, twenty words more By Herman J. Stich Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, 9 | 0-DAY people speak ‘aster and reporters have to write faster than ively, pausing frequently, would talk slowly, dignifiedly and impressively, But to-day the speaker is full of fire and vigor, emitting words as a Gal ff breath, seemingly intent on crowding against witnesses who testify at the rate of two hundred and fifty to three The only way to write at a very high rate of speed on testimony is through intensive, scientific phrasing. aystems May be in some manner shut 1919 Stenographer Bigger Pay INCREASE EFFICIENCY. i (The New York Evening World) sing. minute speaker used to be a rarity, @ cramped space of time, rt, Not @ day passes but I rum up Every good reporter finds it nec- words are spoken at such a terrific rate that without the use of light- ning-like phrases they would be un- reportable, These are the characteristics of a good phrase, It must be distinctive, It must be easily written, It must be instantly legible, It must be of frequent occurren It must be based on a principle your shorthand system. It should, if poss —that is, convey an kK It should preserve should not extend too too far below the line too much time will be to the line It should not contain more than three or four strokes, which, of course, may represent from three ‘o! ten words, The words phrased must-_belong to- gether naturally and grammatically. Phrases have “saved my life” times without number. But at this point let me say a word of warning. The ad- vantages of phrasing tempt the tyro’ into all manner of ridiculous an‘! hurtful excesses, Use the phrases of ! experts, Phrases of your own con-'! coction abould be based upon thc’, previously mentioned _ principles There are one or two books on thel market which contain practical! phrases for free lance and court re-* porting, { There are what are known as sp¢-/ cial phrases which are adopted by the reporter on the spur of the oc casion, These are devised when, ‘nt the matter being reported, 4 certain’ combination of words such as the name of a firm or & group of wordy, , Peculiar to the subject being “taker occurs again and again. principle of intersection is " employed for the frequently recurrin, combination. For instance: In court to-day the name of one of the defendants was we shall say Horatious Vayonadsky The first time this name was spoken it was written out completely, The second time it was written by inter- secting the “v" stroke through tho “hay.” Your shorthand textbook contains several hundred phrases that are in common use. Practice these phrases in the same way outlined for the learning and reviewing of your shorthand principles, Practise no more than five or six daily, The mind will not assimilate more, This holds good of course for the free lance and court reporting phrases, Memory is the progeny of repe tition, Practise the phrases until they are @ part of you. When you think you know the five or six you have practised, have them dictated to you until you can write them as naturally and as instinctively as you write your name, Once a week re- view all the phrases you have, learned, This review should take tho| form of writing the phrases from dic- tation, Any phrase that gives any difficulty should be written an written until absolute physical mental facility is acquired, With each dictation, have the dic- tator change the order of the phrases, Let him skip about, dictating eriss- cross, up and down, from top to Rot- tom, from side to gide and inter~ mingled generally, Save the gen- tences you have consposed for the mastery of your shorthand princfples e have them dictated along with phrase This be ideograph' lineality; it far above er of writing ox, lost returning> i fifteen to tw. more tha dally. It can be done time.’ But the point is to Get the drill and concen practising. off from our own. Nothing is elther to prove or disprove this belle Some astronomers have devi formu proxir * based on star counts to ap- ate to the total number of They have ag: 1 magnitude of pw ty-two or twenty-four, far below reach of existing : sidering that th was there magnitude the: