The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 18

_ VOLUME 60.. ON THE WAY TO DISCOVERY. 'T HAS somehow been forced upon the attention of the United States Senate that the cost of living in the District of Columbia is 80 excessive as to lead Government employees to quit their jobs. We are not informed how the unique phenomenon of profiteering fn Washington first impressed itself upon the Senatorial mind. Maybe Senatérs began to find themselves personally inconvenienced through defections in department service caused by the withdrawal of workers who found it impossible to meet present prices with Gov- ernment pay. At all events, the Senate begins to entertain a icion that th Nation's capital harbors petsons who habitually charge other ‘persons too much for the bare necessities of life, and a Senatorial is going to look into the matter. A situation of extraordinary interest thus arises. At any mo- ment its investigation of prices as they affect the cost of living in may reveal to an amazed Senate the considerable diffi- ‘eaity with which 1003000,000 people or thereabouts outside the Dis- trict of Columbia are finding the wherewithal to pay for their food and clothing at the prices now demanded. edocedocvvccvccescvedecceses NO. mer _* - What will happen when this truth bursts upon the Senate no man can say. But at least the knowledge will be there. 4 Phe country would gladly learn what endden dearth of clerks, or department workets specially serving Senatorial ‘eonvenience has caused the Senatorial eye to roll at last in the direc- _ tion of the profiteer. eS . Reconstructicn’s bustest headiino: PRESIDENT APPEALS—REPUBLICANS OPPOSING PLAN, aL a NO AMERICAN FUTURE IN THE AIR?), VIATION experts in the national service are returning from A abroad with significant reports of the lead other nations are gaining over the United States in aviation progress. One officer is quoted as saying: ‘ “Though the NC-4 made the first transatlantic flight,” the fact remains that it is Great Britain that has achieved the * great suocess‘of the air in recent months. And Great Britain's the apathy ‘of Congress toward the needs branch the expanding of which was one of the great demonstrations of the war? Fifty million dollars for Ameri¢an air service ap against $350;- for British air service and $270,000,000 for that of France! The appropriation Congregssthought enough for the United would not even pay for the six big rigid dirigibles Great Britain building at a cost of $11,000,000 each—the type that will voyage to - South Africa, Egypt and India, : ~ What about the American flag in-the air?” “Are we to rest on the record of the NC-4? a es It would be wrongended infervention that failed to put. the rioting and shooting in Washington, D. ©. U. 8. A, first, —————— ‘TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION. warns Great Britain against the prohibition movement, “For thirty years,” she writes in the Weekly Dispatch, “1 have been working in the temperance cause with the sole {dea of getting a sober England. 1 am convinced that tg force pro- hibition now means that all the work’ of these years will be undone and that we should achieve a barren nothing. The of evading the law, and for the people to acquire that habit ‘would be & bad thing for the country. “This campaign for proh{bition is not dealing honestly Sound sense from one of thg greatest living campaigners against ‘the evilside of the liquor traffic. my How refreshing, also, to be reminded of the difference between temptrance and prohibition—a distinction the United States has _ chumsily obliterated. ‘We used to have temperance advocates. Now we have only __ prohibitionists. Yet temperance is no more prohibition than bodily health and strength are the glass-case life. —-+ Only one arrest at Coney Island for tntoxication since War- time Prohibition went into effect. And nobody knows how many neardrownings,in 2,75 beer, . Letters From the People Bae enrneey Satins aeervtesy? A Man Wants « i. es ‘To the Editor of The Brening World Any institution in New York where ® man of small means, $500, can get a home? ERC July 18, Fy Communicate with the Department of Public Charities, Municipal Build- ing, Manbattan, New York City, You Are Right. ‘To the Hitter of The Krening World: Will you kindly inform me tn The Evening World if there is a tax of 5 per cent on spectacles? It seems an outrage to have to pay a tax on an iy | atticle of dire necessity and not of luxury, 4 READER. July 18. ‘The Government has placed a § per cent, tax on glasses when the rims, Rosepieces, &c., contain a precious metal, such as gold. No tax is levied t the public's attention the more Than dad service which the public is . Go See r CAN FIND = 4 MOPE You LL FIND Art | 17'S THE ONLY ONE |) HAVE Keeping Down the Spirit of Youth Strict Rules and a Mean Temper Crush. ap Finest Spirit in the, World. By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) HERE Is a little old grand- * mother who needs a few les- sons in her old age, I love grand- , Mothers, but this is. @ horrid one, She is the sole relative and guardian of a young girl, her 4 sranddau gh whose life made miserable by keeping down the spirit of youth, Just because this old woman has & few paltry dollars to leave to this girl she has forced her to live subject to her whims and desires as almost to reach the point of tragedy, The young woman is twenty-one years of age and up tg now has had little or no companionship of young people, She has a very attractive Personality, good looking and alto- gether sweet tempered, It is because of this latter quality that the old lady has been able, in the vernacular, to “get away With it.” ‘The girl's mother had reared her to love and respect her grandmother and to be tolerant, She has borne the abuse of the aged one so long that she somehow feels duty bound to bear it. Bhe is just now beginning to see @ little more clearly the yoke under which she has been held. She was allowed to go away for a Dit of @ visit to some relatives in the West and has had a little respite from the tyranny-ef the crabbed grafd- mother, She is beginning to question her own rights, and it is only that great sense of responsibility to her mother’s mother that Is holding her within bounds. Ob, you foollsh old woman, and there are many guardiars Hke you. Don't you see that youth cannot possibly look through old eyes. Can't you understand that by your strict rules and mean temper you are crushing the finest spirit in the world —that which is in the young. It ts by such hard treatment that you keep barred the natural instincts and you become the direct cause of misdirected energy and enthusiasm that will not down but may go the wrong way, Of course, it is very important that 4 gentle and even firm guidance should be put upon the young that thef do not stray from the sound paths of life, But just as soon as you make tron- clad regulations and put up too many bonds for the spirit of youth it finds ways td break the bars and to exercise the energy, with which nature en- dowed it, This grandmother, if ane docs not change her course, will dio unlovely and unloved, The young woman will naturally wait for the dead woman's shoes, and in her heart.of hearts will be glad that she has been liberated from her jailer. If that ol@ woman only knew it, she coyld keep young herself by being in close touch with the spirit of youth and giving it the opportunity it craves. There are many people like that. Experience has shown that when pco- ple of mature years are surrounded with young people and enter into their lives that they actually stay younger themselves and get more happiness out of it all, In the final analysis every parent or guardian must realize t: Brazil's production off sugar has reached about 300,000 tons a year, i. er ‘Triangular writing desks that fit‘a corner of a room have been designed for residences, ’ ee Edinburgh University will establish professorships of soology, forestry and mental diseases, (ieee) A hot water heating plant has been Newest Notes of Science. A recently patented sling for carry- ing bowling balls consists of but three straps, yet holds balls securely, sa SS A factory has been established in South Africa to extract rubber from the roots and vines of rubber plants, par ae Operated by an electric battery and magnets, a clbck has been invented that ryns for two years without at- tentioa, invented for houses without cellars or other ono story structures, . . . Yeast diluted with lukewaim watey, according to a Paris physician, is an _ SR Fepaired glasses, -_mtnhtinanmeee effective remedy for burns, ee Three former army officers driving @ farm tractor with uncleated road wheels from New York to Los Angeles to demonstrate the avall- ability of such a machine for gen- era] transportation purposes, STAY RIGHT HERE) "OL Go FIND Dapoy( UPPOSE she sees him—it would’ be just Mke him to at- tract her attention by waving at her, and him in his shirt sleeves; Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Caprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World,) Unto the Simpleton All Things Are Simple—Even a Woman!—But the Wise Man Keepeth His Counsel Concerning the Subtler Sex, Know- ing How Little He Knoweth Thereof. ERILY, verily,” saith the fool in his heart, “what a simple thing is woman! Yea, she is SO primitive in all her impulses!” 3 But the Wise Man keepeth his counsel concerning the Subtler Sex, not caring to reveal how little he knoweth thereof. vee Lo, when she greeteth him with laughter and re- Joicing, crying: How DELIGHTED am I to see thee!” the Simpleton congratulateth himself, saying: “Behold, I have made a hit!” Yet, observe his folly. For were this go, then would she have mot him coyly, and with assumed sur- Drise, saying: “Oh! Is it YOU?” When she beguileth him with songs and entertaineth him with chatter and gossip and divers “stunts,” he exclaimeth in his heart: “How yhe exerteth herself to please me. Lo, I young himself and that too fteeting, | °* Indeed, was the time when the heart sang with the very joy of living. 66 have her going!” Yet a Wise Man knoweth that when a damsel is SMITTEN, laughter and chatter are hateful unto her, and she can think of naught to say. Gho waxeth dreamy and distrait, and all her stunts fall from her. she is flatter than a marcel wave on a wet morning. ‘When she agreeth readily with-all his opinions and approveth all his ‘ways, the Simpleton rejoiceth secretly, saying: “HOW she admireth me!” But, alas! he hath been deceived by false signs. For only when a damsel seeketh to MOTHER him; when she admon- isheth him concerning his habits; when she criticiseth ls ways and his cravats; ‘when she urgeth him to give up smoking; when she commandeth him to wear rubbers and to change the parting of his hair; yea, when she assumeth the “possessive” and becometh exceeding fussy, can a man say: “Aha! She is INTERESTED!” When he observeth his photograph displayed upon her piano frankly and with open design the Simpleton is muchly flattered. “Lo!” he exclaimeth, “I am IT!" Yet, I say unto thee, it is only a DECOY. For the portrait of Him that ruleth her heart {8 not flaunted in the sight of the vulgar, but reposeth in a dark corner of her most secret cabinet. "Goto! A man that understandeth women vauntetb not his knowledge, neither boasteth of his conquests, For he never knoweth when his next defeat shall come. ‘Thus all the days of his life doth Woman keep him guessing, and every damsel is a brand new problem to him. But unto the Simpleton all things are simple, and he never knaweth how LITTLE he knowwth about any woman! ‘Which is exceeding fortunate! Yea, The Jarr Family Mr. Jarr and Mr. Dinkston Learn That Good Sense Is Fatal to Feminine Charm, Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing (4, (The New York Evening World) \GOAZIWY (How They Made Good : By Albert Payson Terhune. ; A Copyrigh|, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Yorn Evening World.) ‘63—ALE XANDRE - *DUMAS, Miracle-Worker of . Literature. fe tn 1870 @ swarthy, white-haired man lay dying, ne Dieppe, France. Tire thu: of the Prussian shaken the house whére he Jay. For the sian war was at its grimmest hours But now the cannonading had ceased. For the enemy had that one of Burope’s greatest and most beloved: ‘was at death's door, and, as far as possible, they to ease his last hours, ‘This tribute, coming as it did from brutal etal. soldiery, was perhaps the highest complimant to the dying man's greatness. All Franer?too wus fo for the moment its own anguish and was grieving bffferly for the of its adored son. 4 x Nite swarthy olf man had made good, Ho hed sent his renown tite. every quarter of the earth. Yet, at his last hour, he wanted to be assured of his success, He looked up at the priggish and severely comm: sort, in whose home he was dying, and whispered the query: ‘ ‘will hy work live?” ‘ His son for once forgot to be elther priggish or commonplace, for:ha! answered gently: “Phe foundation ts solid; the structure Will endure.” Alexandre Dumas was a quadroon, the grandson of a pure-bioodea negro, the son of a French General, As a lad he was apprenticed to ® ‘ Igwyer. But he hated the grinding routine of stady! ® And he yearned to be @ writer, i e toa { Lawyer. Or An No. A a Apprenticed It was explained to him that many lawyers grow, rich and that many writers starve, That made no dif« ference to Dumas. He had decided on the method, whereby he intended to make good, And for « time he starved. Through hunger and failure he kept to his resolution, He wai going to make good as’ * writer or he was going to die of starvation in the attempt. Slowly success dawned. For years Dumas shuffled along as @ neste” writer on a bare living wage, Thon, because he had the fires of gentus in his brain, he begun to forge ahead, His stories‘and plays had-@ compelling’ power and interest which the public ‘could not fail to recognize, At last’ he found himself the most popular writer of the age, Wealth poured in onl hirg: ~He was courted and honored. His books, “The Three Musketeers™ and “Monte Cristo,” were selling by the hundred thousand, and were transis - lated into every tongue, His plays were filling the theatres, At the height of his success he did not slacken his work hours, From: the first he had set himself the task of writing a certain nuniser of pages each day, and never did he stop work until every one of tho. pages was filledg with bis cramped litle handwriting. He had sense enough to know* that genius is worthless without hard work, And he worked, : For example, one afternoon he finished “The Three Musketeers.” He, had still half a page to write in order to complete the regular daily number‘ of pages, The story had ended in the middle of such a sheet. Drawing a line under it, he began “Monte. Cristo” on the lower halt’ of the same page. Thus his two most famous works were, respectively, ended and begun on the same sheet of paper: There was another reason for his hard work. ie. had advance orders, at enormous prices, for everything’ ? he could write, And though he spent his money always | with the lavishness of a drunken sailor, yet he never could resist the chanee* to earn more. Presently he had orders for more stories and plays than any one man’ could possibly find time to write, He could not bear to miss these opportu- nities for making money, so he hired a staff of unsuccessful writers to turn out books and sign his name to them. This queer bit of finance could nob long remain hidden, It was his son, Alexandre Dumas jr., who first let his father know that everybody had found out the secret of the staff of writers who were working for the great man, Dumas asked hfs son: “Have you read my latest Lang “No,” was the sneering “haye yout By Roy L.. McCardell @ Hired Others to Write. © replied Mrs. Jarr. “Here you always} used to declare that your husband’ bored you, that he annoyed you, that. he got on your nerves, and now you are crying your eyes out because you find he’! tting tired of the way you; hesides carrying THAT!” "These moaned plaints came from Mrs. Jarr’s lips as ste hung from the front window and beheld Mr. Jarr coming out of Gus's near-beer repository, He was in his shirt|treat him.” sleeves and “THAT” was hot day| “He isn't getting tired of the way 1; solace in the mocking shape of 4| treated him, he’s getting tired of me!” * paper covered tin pail of 276 beer! |sniffled the emotional visitor. “On, | For-just then Mrs. Mudridge-Smith’s elegant motor car was passing. All the husbands of the neighbor- hood ‘still went frequently or infre- quently, as the case might be; to Gus's madly changed place, but it was @ fiction of each and all their wives to pretend their separate husband knew little’ or nothing of the place, For you may break, you may shatter the place if you will, but the scent of ales, wines, Hquors and cigars will cling to it still However, Mrs. Clara, Mudridge- Smith * was too much concerned with her*own troubles as she wag for advice and sympathy,to note who came out of Gus's now denatured sa- loon, or to care@had she noted. “And that awful Mr, Dinkston is with him!” Mrs, Jarr peevishly re- marked. “Oh,/I hope Clara did not noticé it!", And Clara didn’t, Clara burst into Mrs, Jarr’s aparthhents and tears simultaneously. And Mr. Jarr, who Mr, Dinkston, bard and Bolshevist, "Oh, torthink it would come to this!” sobbed Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, There 1s something more or less comforting to us in the tribulations of the well-to-do, We say, “Well, money isn't everything, It doesn’t bring happiness, does it?" But.at the same time We think to ourselves that our financial hiatus, of itself, is not much of a solace or a comfort, “What do you think? Ob, what do you think? My husband doesh't love me any more!" sobbed Mrs, Mudridgo- Smith, “Oh, is that all?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “Well, what are you making such a fuss about? You never cared for him, You only married tho old man for his money, didn’t you!” “What has my not caring for him got to do with it?” retorted the sob- bing young matron, “He was wild about me, wasn't he? The meaner I treated him the kinder he was to me! And now he doesn't love me! He told me so!. Boohoooo!" And Mrs, Mud- ridge-Smith did ery in good earnest. “Well of all the people I ever sawl” wa having hemself driven to Mrs. Jarr| had come in behind the visitor, with, paused embarrassed at the threshold, | what shall I do to win back his love, ! what shall I do?” “Well, stop being mean to him ! suggested Mrs, Jarr.. “f wouldn't give him that much satisfaction!” cried Mrs, Mudridge- ‘ Smith, sitting upright, “But to think j he doesn’t love me any more, food ob, ‘ig “Well, you didn’t love him any time, * ¢ you said,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “And I don’t want to love him, bat ‘ I want him to love me,” the visitor went on. “You are always eo practi- ! cal; you've always given me such} good advice—oh, if I'd only followed } it, It was always such excellent a@~ ‘ vice, and I tried to remember what it { was when the crash came this morn { jing and wrecked my happiness, but ; 'T had clean forgotten it!” | “How was that? What did he de: to wreck your happiness?” asked Mra, | Jarr. \, “He talked brutally to me, and he said he couldn't afford to go to Bu- |rope, new that peace if ratified and people can go, and I said I'd go alone, land he said he didn’t care and he'd only allow me @ limited sum for dresses in Paris. Those dreadful words fell upon my ears like @ knell of doom"— “Knell of fiddlesticks!” snapped Mrs. Jarr. “How much did he say’ he'd allow you to spend on costumes in Paris?” “Only $2,000," bride. “Only $2,000 at times like these, when everything to wear costs twice As much as it used to?” exclaimed Mrs, Jarr. ‘We must face this mate ter cool and collected, You 1aust act sensibly, my poor girl. Be temperate, judicious, and, above all, don't do anything foolish.” “But that’s all T can do!” sobbed the younger matron, “Jf I am ever so silly as to act sensibly, my hus- band would treat me sensibly and I'd get nothing.” “Yes, that's 80,” remarked Mra, Jarr, “Sit down and let me think,” Mr, Jarr and the Rhymer of the new revolution Dinkston, the thirsty, ‘went into the kitchen and carved thé y near beer in silence. ‘They too were trying to think, cried the easdeltal .