The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1919, Page 12

AY, JULY 14, 1919 _ Gen. Pershing Can Dance Like One of His Doughboys; Has Speed, Control, Grace “At a Party He’s Just a Duck,” Declares Carroll McComas, Who Had Not Even Once. i ¥® it if giving doughboys,” ehe ex- ue i i i ef Hi B z gf E FE iif His cf time I was Mit & H as Her Partner—No, He Didn’t Step on Her Toes, By Marguerite ‘Mooers Marshall the Commander-in-Chief and he one-stepped. No, indeed, he didn’t step on my toes—and yet he and almpst boyishly friendly. But really, I can’t praise his dancing any more highly than by saying that he danced as well as one of his own doughboys, THEY are the best dancers in the world. “At a New Year's party we gave the boys at Cheppy, near the Ar- gonne, they literally danced a hole through the floor of the ‘Y’ shelter where we had the party—and then kept right on dancing over it. When we swung near it we gave a sort cf hop to safety on the other side, Only one doughboy who was my partner half-stumbled when we were on the verge, and somebody sang out to him, ‘Don't break that girl's ankle! I hav danced with her yet.’” Except for her appearance at the Pershing dinner dance, Miss Me- Comas gave most of her-attention to the doughboys rather than to the of- ficers. “I sort of reached out over the shoulders of the latter,” she con- feased, “and plucked out the men in uniform. I never worked so hard in my life as I did for them—three shows & day, with whistling, singing, danc- ing and appearance in a dramatic sketch at each show, and then such enormous ‘jumps.’ Also I ate their canned willy and gold fish and slept on straw beds, “But knowing them made it all worth while. No, I didn’t flirt with them—dt wouldn't have been fair, I much preferred to be a pal and have them show me pictures of the girl at home—sometimes of the wife and babies at home. I don’t think Amer- joan girls need dé any worrying about the superior attractions of French girls, Most of the boys simply had no use for them. They had a little song about an American who asked a French mam'selle to marry him, ‘and she replied: ‘Oul—combien?’— ‘Yes, how much (money)? “Of the Americans who have mar- ried French girls, I should like to know how many were first jilted by te i | att I went to the Pershing I just made up my mind that be un-uniformed, even if I court martialied as a result. I @ pink silk evening frock which very pretty. And—well, I to Gen, Pershing, and he to me all through dinner and the first girl he asked to dance, ticed too, that the other girls ‘with whom he danced all wore ‘fluffy’ frocks instead of service clothes. “His dancing is superb. He waltzed ii : ibe Union Square is a mighty busy place, Several subway entrances Rightly receive workers that the neighboring lofts and office buildings pour forth. People burrying home till find time to buy their evening papers, however. So before the Rewsstands in the Square form lines and women, good-natured, but and eagerly anxious to get pennies the news of the to it without @ sec- Y @ news dealer get ; Man: two hands insufficient for one is news dealer in the however, who handles the without any hands at all, and time making change, ‘olding Saapemmeret. soreing Runs Newsstand Without Hands their girls at home, I heard that story so often, and particularly at Christmas time. Boy after boy has told me, ‘I got a fine Christmas pres- ent from my girl—I got the mitten!’ “I never realized,” Miss MoComas concluded, with a warm glow in her golden-brown eyes, “how fine the American man could be until 1 knew the American doughboy, He makes the men at home suffer tremendously by contrast, I don't believe there is & pudgily fat person in the whole American Army. The boys are going to bring some splendid things back to America—their physical fitness, their chivalry toward women—yes, and their love of dancing, which is a sign of their increased tolerance, They will teach the waltz and the one step to all the little towns all over America tha¢ have been too narrow-minded to learn,” So @ certain popular song might have been written—and applied to the A. E. F., from Pershing down— “If he can fight as he can WAL/TZ— Goodby, German-ee-ee!" When be was thirteen years old he lost his hands in an explosion, But in spite of that handicap he runs his flourishing stand in Union Square, “The cripple who has spunk is as 00d as anybody elsé,” said Lou wo a gathering of cripples at the Red Cross Institute recently, Lou asks no one to buy papers from him through sympathy. He is as good as any- body else—a business man in busl- ness. And his capital consists of a newsstand and papers and an end- less supply of personality and pluck, GRASS CURED BEEF, “What is your opinion ef this new eure? Do you think walking through the grass will make @ person healthy?” asked @ boarding house lady at the Cannibals See Themselves in Movies OR the first time in their strange F lives, cannibals of the South Sea Islands are seeing them- selves as others see them in motion pictures. Mr, ang Mrs, Martin Johnson are back among the savage tribes exhib- {ting pictures taken in the islands by them two years ago, They are ac- companied by heavily armed guards. They will visit Chief Nagapate, who captured Mr, and Mrs, Johnson on their last trip and was taking Mrs, Johnson into the jungle with him when the arrivad of a British cruiser stopped him, The first of Mr. John- son's letters has just been received and in it he tells of his first showing of pictures to the natives of Samoa, “When the Ventura arrived at Pago Pago, “amon,” he writes, “every one was very much disgusted to learn that because of the quarantine regu- lations no passengers would be al- lowed to land. I had anticipated this, however, and sent a wireless to Gov, Poyer telling him that I was coming and bringing the moving pictures that I had made on my last trip there, and that I would give the Governor the films if he would have the ma- chine set up in @ perfectly dark place So that I could show the natives pic- tures of themselves in action, When the ship docked I was the only one allowed to land. They fumigated me table. “Weil, tt sogma to have mad: deot 'y tough,” replied the try to cut his steak.—-Phila Bul- and made me wear a mask. Within wives, were assembled in the theatre that had been built by Américan sailors and run by them as a picture show. ‘ It is almost imposible to describe what took place when the natives saw themselves on the screen, They almost went mad with excitement, and I laughed until I was weak. They nat- urally recognized one another and yelled out names, The pictures were very clear, After the performance 1 could easily have been elected the | biggest chief in American Samoa. Gov, Poyer was so pleased with the pictures that he sent for the head chief of all American Samoa, a great big massive native, and, aside from Nagapate, the chief of Big Numbers, he had'the most powerful face I have ever seen, This chief had instracted all the best Seva Seva dancers from all over the islands to come in, and for several hours I photographed them, The dancers wore their old- time native tappa clothes and carried dancing sticks and clubs, We have taken along the entire equipment for projecting moving pic- tures among the savages, I can see even now the wonderful enjoyment we will have with hundreds and Sometimes thousands of savages squatted in an open clearing, a large sheet stretched betwgen two cocoanut trees, and the surprise and awe that wi be expressed by them }@p hour after landing I had my films ashore and over 500 natives, as well #8 Gov, Poyer and bis stat and their | showing fast trains rushing seeming-| anians bave worked like slaves just|other things to play with, when they see themselves moving about in the films, I have also films Smart Midsummer Fashions Charm and Comfort Mark These New American Models ly, right down into the place where they will be squatting. Imagine, too, their amazement at seeing elephants and giraffes and other animals, sky- scrapers in New York, and wonderful trick films to mystify them! I am looking forward to real ex- citement when I show Chief Nagapate and his savage followers their own pictures in motion. I am expecting them to run at first, thinking it some work of the devil, but I will Should the Busin Expect the Courtesy Shown > In Sir Walter Raleigh's Day? ess Woman She May Gain It by Keeping Alive the Old Spirit of Knighthood and Chivalry, Says Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and Not Allowing Herself to pear Too Independent and Brusque Toward By Fay Stevenson Coperight, 1019, by ‘The Preas Publishing Tite’ Rew Yor Wreng World). DISCUSSION has. been going on ip a London newspaper on the question of the average Englishman's manners—are they good Or bad? George Bernard Shaw is in- clined to defend the modern man. “All nations have “Here I plan to get a big dramatic effect when I photograph, by means of radium flares, their first sight of moving pictures, During the time I spend among them I will make every effort to get in their good graces. Danger, yes. But I am placing great dependence on my police boys and I am also relying on my knowledge of the savage nature, What woujd ad- venture be without danger, anyway? It is the adventure—the yncertainty and the curiosity—that makes it all worth while.” gradually coax them back. OST every child in America— M even the poorest one—has at least one toy. You know how you gather up some of vour treas- ured toys, about twice @ year and send them to the little poor children, whose fathers and mothers have hardly enough money to buy even food, and never could afford to spend money on dolls and trains and rock- ing horses and drums, And even the little children in France and Belgium still have toys— a few of them—for didn't you Ameri- can children send over Christmas ships? But there are some children !n one country in this big, big world thet just don’t have toys. This country is Lithuanta, on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania is not a big, Little Lithuanians Haven't Any Toys free country like America, It is mall and it has been ruled by tyrant tions for years, Go the Lithu- to keep alive, and the children have had to go without toys because everfbody was so busy and so poor, But don’t think that the little Lith- uanians don't have a great deal of fun, for indeed they do, They have @ perfectly joyous time. For they have lots and lots of games which they play out of doors, games of “pretend” which you know your- selves are quite the most fun on earth, ‘And the Lithuantan Goys swim and in the winter go sleighing, The little girls are very active, too, but they all learn to sew very young and to weave beautiful cloths, and they epend a good deal of time at their looms, Sometimes, when there isn't too much to do, they make Yunny little rag dolls and dress them up in handsome clothes which they make themselves, their particular code of good man- ners and bad man- ners,” writes Mr. Shaw. “They de- pend a good deal on the ‘speed and pressure of life. Politeness in Ben Doarding a bus depends on the number of buses available, the value of your time and the urgency of your desire to reach the bus’s destination. It is dangerous to offer a woman your seat; she is just as likely to call the police or ap- peal for protection to the nearest pu- gilist as to take the attention in good part. It js, however, quite safe to offer it to an elderly gentleman like me, who will always be touched and appreciative. “Manners do not differ from nation to nation, but from city to city, and even village to village. Paris is easily the worst-mannered city in the world as far as my experiences go,and Man- chester is not much better, However, there are plenty of well-mannered people and ill-mannered people every- where.” ; And how about our manners inéNew York? Because women have things pretty much their own way in this State (ex- cept perhaps the right to serve on & jury and a few other incidentals) are men going to treat them on 4 par with the masculine sex? Because women can vote, because they have equal pay with men in most cases, be- cause they are entering the mascu- line fields of occupation, are men go~- ing to forgetstbe go and respec! for womankind whic! thy «were taught to reverence in the good old days of the past? Is that why a girl can drop a bundle among a crowd of men and not one will restore it to her? Is that why so few men hold a heavy door open for a woman any more? Is that why we see so Many tired Mttle business girls hanging to straps on home-t®und trains at night? In discussing the manners of New Yorkers, probably the best fitted woman is Mrs. John King Van Rens- selaer, author of “The Goode Vrouw of Mana-na-ta,” “New Yorkers of the Nineteenth Century” and “History o* Newport.” Mrs. Van Rensselaer ta true daughter of Father Knicker- bocker, as her name indicates. She belongs to an aristocratic’ old Dutch family and has given much of her time and thought to New York and its ways. “IT greatly approve of the new woman and her ways,” she told me, “put I have just one fear for her, and - that is in her role of business woman, she will become too masculine toe independent. Every business woman should retain a certain amount, of feminism. She must not allow ham self to. beeome too brusque, too mat- ter-of-fact, too quick to do things for herself which were formerly - the courtesies of men, For the sake of womankind she should demand & certain amount of courtesy from the opposite sex. The opening of doors, the picking up of dropped handker- chiefs and papers, all those little + courtesies must not be pushed aside on the plea of business or lack of time. Womén must cling to the same fj | courtesies as in the days of Sir Wal- ter Raleign, She must demand it from men. Women have kept the spirit of knighthood and chivalry in the world for ages, and now just. be- cause woman is entering the busi- ness world and holds her own men. tally with men she must not become | too masculine, She must still preserve her feminine nature. ness woman who gives the impreq? sion that she chn take care of her- self very well, that it would be an intrusion and an insult for a°man to hold a heavy door for her or to assist her in recovering a dropped article, She has a haughty alr of ‘I can make my own living, I can opén my own doors and pick up my dropped handkerchiefs anc ‘papers, , please let me alone! I am utterly independent!’ Guch women are thé nes who are killing the spirit of old fashioned courtesy. They are break- ing down the real feminine nature. “Woman ip naturally the weaker sex and she always will be. No mat- ter how strong she may be mentally, she is physically weaker. Her shoul- ders will never be as broad as & man’s, her hands are smaller and her whole physical makeup ‘s more delicate and finely constructed, She ought, therefore, to cling to the ways of her mother and grandmother im making man feel the responsibilities of the stronger eex.+ And man natur- ally will do, this if woman will allow. him to. “Of course a woman in business must not be prudish or overfastidious. If she enters the man's world she must expect to accept @ great many ‘She cannot expect all the of a drawing room or a recept She may even have to accustom bey self to shirtsleeves, smoke and swear- ing. She may have to close her eyes and ears to many things, but she must keep up the little masculine courtesies and obligations which men owe to women and which they will gladiv give to them if woman herself does not pysh them aside,” _———$__ STANDARDIZED FEATURES, Hunter—I saw Umson to-day for the } first time in®twenty yeats, and he! doesn't seem to have changed @ particle. Tisher—Well, he hasn't. “But think of twenty ye “I know, but he wears the same toupe | and the same set false teeth.” Youngstown Telegram. By- J. P. ONSCIENCE is a subtle C inner force which makes it difficult for you to give yourself a five on a hole where you make eight. It is thig same force which makes it practically impossible for one to lie to his wife. However, where the wife is particularly gifted it isn’t a case of conscience so much as plain horse sense. An active, vigilant conscience practically ruins you for a num~- ber of professions, such as that of diplomat, groceryman, butch- er, guide and husband, On the other hand, a quiet, drowsy con- science is an asset in any of the above jobs, especially that of husband. A husband who totes one of those mean, wideawake consciences always on the look- out for something to give him trouble is in tough luck indeed, One can easily determine whether or not he has @ con- science, Suppose the boss asks you if you think you deserve a raise, and you tell him “yes.” And when you get the raise, in« stead of feeling happy about it, as you should, something inside of you keeps saying, “You big ‘The boys know how to whittls ex tremely well, and between chores they make whistles and wagons and sechenreage. | ptiff, if you got what you de- @erved you'd be getting « cap Ignorant Essays McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World) Conscience instead of a raise.” conscience! One of the pleasant things about dealing with consciences is this, however—you give them # good wallop now and then and stun them, and if you can keep crossing them on the jaw once in a while, you can wear them down until they’re so weak they can't bother you much. After that, you will be sum | prised how much better your / game of golf has grown. Courses which you could never get round in less than 124 are now easy 98's for you, Touching your friends for @ five or a ten will no longer be @ painful operation except for { them. You can pull that old one about a business engagement downtown or sf{tting up with @ sick cabaret (I mean friend), and not experience that marked- down - to - 3 - cents-on-the-dollar feeling, You can even tell your mother-in-law to go to asbestos without feeling a single qualm in your qualmery. Such ere the joys of having a gassed conscience, It is said that animals, such as dogs, have no consciences, yf Hence the expression, “You” Tucky dog!” That's a { “There is @ certain type of busi« yf) conditions just the way they are. | i-7 vy a 7 My