The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1919, Page 15

| enatyst, whose observations are the result of studying 18,000 men * !FRIDAY, JU LY 25, 1919 How to Read Character + At Sight : ak CHARACTER IN CLO IN CLOTHING. ‘What Does YOUR Clothing Tell About YOU? To a Trained Observer It Tells the Story of an Individual’s Self-Respect, Refinement, Prudence, Modesty, Rationality, Accuracy, Carefulness, Neatness, Dependability and Even Morality. [' | Fourth of a series of articles, prepared by Dr. Katherine M. H. end women, {TY shoes, pink neckties with ment, prudence, by his clothes an may be done she may be, to reform himeelf. any one who is making a wrong im: polished shoes or flamboyant neckw sartorial changes to correct that est to bis error. Read what Dr. Blackford has to **If you are selecting employcos for work which requires neatness, care- fulness, accuracy and dependability,” Dr. Blackford begins in “Reading Char- acter at Sight,” “you can save your- self a great deal of time and troublo by eliminating without further ex- amination all those whose clothing is soiled, rumpled, torn, ripped and other- wise shows habitual neglect. “Clothing: may be ever so worn, ever 80 inexpensive, and ever s0 out-of- style, but if it shows evidence of pains- taking care, you are warranted in go- Sng further in your examination of the wearer, *-*On the other hand, if clothing is expensive and showy, or cheap and * showy, and at the same time is soiled and neglected, the individual may have ‘some very remarkable and valuable capabilities, but they are not those of ~ neatness, accuracy, methodical ways of doing things and dependability. “A man who hires a very large num- ber of applicants every year tells me that for a position where self-respect, personal pride and @ sense of duty are required, he absolutely refuses even to consider any applicant whose shoes show negiect. “*‘A man may have been in hard + Iaek,’ he says, ‘and his shoes may be very much worn, they may even be tern and broken, but there is abso- Yutely no excuse for their being dirty and unpolished. If a man gives other evidences of having enough money to keep his feet decently shod and till has worn, rundown, wrinkled or otherwise neglected looking shoes I know that he is not qualified for any position that requires self respect and dependability. This down-at-the- nael Dusiness is one of the dest possible indications of a shiftless nature.’ “If an individual wears gaudy, glar- tng colors and extreme styles he pro- claims even more loudly than if he were to wear a sign.on his back, printed in big letters, that he wants to be conspicuous, that he likes to have people look at bim and that hia taste Is coarse, crude and vulgar, “The man who wears neutral and gombre colors, strong, durable ma- terial and very conservative styles, does not need to tell you or any one else that he is serious, sober, prudent, cautious, severe and perhaps stern. “If you want to know how an ego- tistical, bombastic, flamboyant, inc dinately vain and pompous fellow ge's himself up, just study tho pictures of Wilhelm Hobenzollern in his various uniforms. i “Anything extreme or conspicuous in the dress, the hair, the carriage of & man or woman instantly indicates @ lack of balance, It 1s well to bear in mind in this connection that these eccentricities are sometimes the exuberant affectations of adoles- gence, The youth who wears long hair, flowing ties, tortolse-shell rimmed glasses with a big fat rib- bon on them, and wide, soft collars, may grow up to be a solid, sensible, respectable citizen, On the other hand, when a grown-up man shows | off in this way, expect ‘anything else you like from him, but do not expect him to be well balanced, moderate ,and sensible, “The man who is filthy in his per- gonal habits, who neglects his teeth, his fingernails, his hands, his neck, his linen, his clothing and his shoes, or any of these, has something of moral filthiness in his soul, 1 know it is said that many ex. @ellegt men are so deeply’ engrossed pee nigter humanitarian, artistic, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), merely | extracts from @ course of lessons . Blackford, the famous character purple spots, hair cut too long, wide soft collars—these apparently unimportant details are in reality valuable clues, by means of which the character detectives “get a line on” the persons they meet. It is possible, Dr. Katherine M H. Blackford as sures us, to judge an individual's self-respect, refine- modesty, rationality and even morality id the way he wears them. How this explains in an especially interesting chapter of her course of lessons, “Reading Character at Sight,” founded by the Independent Corporation. Her suggestions along this line seem to me valu- able because they not only aid the reader to judge ac- curately his associates—he is enabled to judge and, it Changing the expression of one’s smouth, while not impossible, may be a long and difficult protess, But eyes or Pression on his world because of un- ear may effect easily the necessary imate, if his attention is once called say on “character in clothing”—then consider what sort of character YOUR clothing shows. (Philosophical or spiritual things that they cannot pay attention to the cleanliness of their bodies, This may be true, But I have often known men who gave so much time and thought to these higher philosophical, spirit- ual things that they could not give attention to their own spiritual thoughts and acts. “It is a very safe general: princi- ple that @ man or woman with a clean sou] and a clean mind cannot habitually tolerate uncleanliness in person, in clothing or in personal or business surroundings, It is true that it takes money, time and effort really to keep clean, but any one who | has visited much among the poor | knows that he finds those who are neat and clean even among those who are the very poorest. “Clothing is often a very excellent indication of the individual's sense of financial values, his judgment in handling money, and his capacity for economy or extravagance, “In the first place the person who dresses beyond his means {is always open to suspicion, He is not only ex- travagant and,vain, but he lacks self control, ‘The man who dresses beyond his station in life shows poor financial judgment as well as poor taste, The shipping clerk may, per- haps, on account of independent means, be able to afford to dress as well as the general manager, But there is no, good reason why he should so dress, He could certainly invest the money in a way which would pay him much better returns, and if properly handled permit of his seeking @ station in life equal to that of his general manager, “In the same way an individual who dresses far below his means and station in life shows, to say the least, an exceedingly severe economical streak or an undue expenditure in some other direction, “Tho individual of small salary who buys filmsy, delicately colored cloth- ing, which can be worn only a few times, advertises himself or herself as a silly creature with very childish judgment. “On the other hand, the individual best, so far as texture, color and durability are concerned, and for that reason is able to wear a sult or a dress for years and keep it looking’ spick and span all the time, shows | both financial judgment and ° the| ability to save up enough money to! make guch @ purchase,” POSSIBLE GROUNDS, EAR the entrance of the Dollar Bank bullding the other day a colored man hesitated in front of the office di- rectory and carefully scanned the list of names, FS CLASS ATTORNEY! “Can I do anything for you uncle? asked a thoughtful yeung man who stood near the spot. “Ahm lookin’ foah a good attor- ney,” the maa explained, “Well, you'll be safe in, taking al- most any on the list.” “But Ah wants a fus' class man,” Well, why not go to Umson?" “Is he fus’ cla “Best there |; “Well, Ab'll go to seo him, ‘cause my case am impohtant.” What's the trouble?” “Ah thinks Ah kin git a divo'ce fum my wife, ‘cause Ah jes heard she went and Schima married ames — Loungstown Tel on a small salary who buys only the| *BILLY” WEST “2 W minstrelsy, cork. minstrels may go, but none will ever bo rated as highly as a dancer as was Mr, Primrose, He invented the soft-shoe style of dancing—the kind that he made lend the velvety touch |to the entertainment—and it brought him fame. “Do you know,” he sajd to writer of this a few months ago, “I'm going to danco until I die, and, if they'll let me, I) dance in the next world.” “But,” .we asked, “isn't dancing rather strenuous for a man of sixty- five?” “A man who dances all his life isn’t sixty-five at sixty-five,” said the minstrel, “I could dance all day and never draw a quick breath. Dancing has kept me in perfect health all my days and it will keep anybody well One of my mottoes is: ‘A few steps a day keeps the doctor away.’ When I pass on it won't be as a result of over physical exertion,” Mr. Primrose wasn't the dean of the minstrels when he died, but he came very near deserving that designation, One man, just one, is there who ts still in the game and can lay claim to six years more of it than the deceased black-faced artist totalled, He 1s George Wilson, of “Waltz Me Again” fame. Mr, Wilson spent last season as the featured member of Gus Hill's Minstrel Troupe, and has been en- the gaged to entertain in the same ca- strel, ness that had its start in stomach trouble. Minstrels may come and) By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World), “When the moon comes up behind the hill,” HERE is the American, over fifteen years of age, who doesn’t re- member the song which ended with this line? And where is he who cannot call to mind the singer and who cannot, by shutting his eyes and looking back a way, see George H. Primrose dancing grace- fully, yet noiselessly, to its strains? If he exists he is a rare specimen, The Primrose presentation of this number was one of the classics of The strains of the song will remind hundreds of thousands of an exhibition of Terpsichorean grace without equal in the realm of burnt The moon has come up behind the hill the last time for the famous min- George H. Primrose died Wednesday in San Diego, Cal., after an ill- 1s seventy-two years old, healthy and able yet to explain exactly why a chicken crosses the road, Mr. Wilson is resting at his home in Rochester at Present, but will come to New York soon to rehearse with the Hill com- pany, There are othe contemporaries of George H. Primrose still using the black, but the ranks of the old-timers are thinning rapidly. Al G. Field, whose minstrel show hasn't known a week's losg in ‘fifteen years, Is busy to-day getting his troupe ready out in Columbus, Ohio, for its annual trip South and West. ‘Lew Dockstader, former partner of Mr. Primrose, is going along in vaudeville with his monologue, and McIntyre and Heath are still appearing on the stage. Nell O'Brien is of @ later generation, as was “Iloney Boy” George Evans, now dead, Jim Gorman is stil! alive, but he has quit minstrelsy to be a stage director. Mr, Primrose, as well as nearly all the great minstrels of the pust forty years, was a graduate of the famous Jack Haverly show, It was this or- ganization that started Charles Froh- man In the show business, Mr, Froh- man was once advance agent for Cap- tain Jack and went to Euvope with Haverly’s Famous Forty, the frst min- stre] show to cross the Atlantic. Hav- erly was a teacher of minstrels and, to the training he got in the Haverly troupe, Mr, Primrose used to ascribe much of his success, i George H. Primrose Is Dead———— And the Old-Time Minstrels Are Passing One by One the Great Interlocutor Has Called Them—Jack Haverly, Billy West, George| Thatcher and Their Famous Contemporaries, Leaving but a Scattered Few to Revive, | Old Memories—George Wilson, Dean of the Survivors, at 72 Is Still at the Old Job say CC (MMH e H. Primrose was born in Lond Ontario, on Nov. 12, 1852. At an early age he was taken to Detroit, | and there he developed the longing for the black-face life that eventually drew him into minstrelsy, Billed as “Master orgiaethe Infant Clog-Darcer,” he 4 McFarland’s Minstrels in De- troit in 1867 and later appeared with the New Orleans Minstrels, After that it was easy for him and he advanced rapidly to the top of his profession “I was a natural dancer from boy- hood,” said Mr, Primrose to the writer one time, “As a barefooted urchin I could match the expert clog-dancerd, Finally I got @ job as call boy at the Casino In Detroit and 1 used to dance all over the stage behind the scenes, One night I was told to go out and do a Juba dance; also ‘The ence of Old Virginia,’ I made a hit, but got no pay. However, from that time on I was in demand as 4 clog and jig dancer at entertainments given by fire- men, policemen, &o. “Next I went to Buffalo and started on @ hunt for work, 1 found a music hall and was hired at $5 a week to do five turns @ day, That was my real| start, After that I got @ place on a/ regular variety bill Since those days I have danced my way all over this r, jam H. West. Hoe used to love to tell of their carly experiences, “We had a strange way of learning new steps,” he said one time, “Billy and T used to get a room with an old- fashioned bed in it whenever we hit town, The bed had to have a foot~ board—for a reason. After we'd get in it we'd practice now steps up against the foot-board, While one of us ‘would whistle, four big, bare feet would twist about on the foot-board, Tt was @ dandy way to get the steps down fine as we could see every move our feet made. I gave it up one win- ter when I froze a toe practising in a heatleas hotel in Philadelphia.” Mr. Primrose knew all the famous minstrels from Dan Emmett down. In his early days he danced in a Chicago beer hall and the man who played the fiddle for him was Emmett, writer of “Dixie.” It was after an exhibition In this place that be met Billy Emerson, big idol. Emerson said to him: “My boy, if T had your feet and my pipes I wouldn't want anything bettor in this world.” It was shortly after his meeting with Emerson that Primrose ran across West. They joined forces and travelled all over the country, In 1817 Barlow and Wilson formed a minstrel partnership with Primrose and West and the result was the Bar- low, Wilson, Primrose and West troupe. When this firm dissolved Primrose went back with Haverly as & partner, He was with Haverly when he first met Billy Rice, who joined the Haverly show and re- mained with it five years, Never, since 1877 until he went into vaudeville a few seasons ago, did Goorgo H. Primrose receive a salary, He was always the boss. He used to say he'd rather sell peanuts on a corner and have a chance of making money for himself, than to work for anybody else at a princely salary, ‘The organization known as Prim- rose & West's Minstrels was formed in 1889 and lasted until 1898. Weat always played the role of interlocftor and invariably in white face, The partners dissolved the firm by mutual consent, West launched William H, Weat's Minstrel Jubilee and Primrose formed a partnership with Lew Dock. stader, The Primrose & Dockstader world and I will likely dance my way into the next.” For twenty-five years Primrose wag the dancing partner of the late Will- | Minstrels were very successful for a number of years, George Thatcher was at one time associated with Primrose in the min- FRIDAY, (ig oe Mi |, HAA ici Hil SULY 25 |___FRIDAY, JULY 38, 1949 Summer Girls of £915 DIAGNOSED BY A DICKEY-BOY’? “e ey Copyright, 1919, By The Prese Publishing Co, (The Now York Rresing Wert), The Hammock Girl R several days past I've seen a vision moored in the hammock on the Inn piazza. I persuaded one of the old porch dowagers to introduce me last night. She did it rather ungraciously because the dowagers are not quick enough to get the hammock any more since the vision arrived. Vision's name is Helens. I called her Helena Vision, but she said “Call me ‘Lainah.’ That's how I liké to be called by people I like.” T asked her, “Are all the seats in the hammock in the hands of the speculators now you are playing this end of the porch?” “No,” she laughed, “matinees are not crowded, but for moonlight evenings ooata are eight weeks in advance,” I immediately applied for “Lait deust hav tic, She rethra the up sho imagines she’s in old cowager overheard hei was a canal: At any ral wear a red sash and learn to sing At present writing “Lainah” Titian hair, comers, It was made for her, being green, a good combination for me % of “chief hammock swinger.” blood, because she is so roman- -gondola, and when the moon is niée. . How do they get that way? A catty remark and suggested that the hammock and that-I was mule pulling it, , if E hope to keep my job as gondollor I'll have to “Funicull-Fun!eula.” holds the tammock against all Copyriant, 10 by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “The Customer Is Always Right.” ' ISPUTATIOUSNESS throttles patronage, while verbal conten- tion viciously prunes profits, Wrangles and polemics check gains and chalk up irreme-: diable losses. Unconsciously, prospects balk at controversial talk, } } Harmony and diplomacy are the most successful salesmen. Argument and debate daily diminish sales. Points won are sorry consolation for business lost. “The customer is always right” was the motto and slogan that developed the largest department store in : the world, Sympathy and amity steadily turn the trick. strel business and so was George Wil- son, {f memory sorves us aright. Later, George Wilson had his own show, as did Thatcher, When Lew Dockstader, Jim Gor- man, Al G, Field, Willis P, S@eatnam, McIntyre & Heath and George Wilson pas@on it may be said that the last of the old time minstrels is gone, Eugene Field once wrote # tribute to Jack Haverly and the old timers assgciated with him, The poet didn't mention them all, but he included quite a collection, One of those he overlooked was George H. Primrose, but the poem sepms appropriate at the moment, nevertheless, It follow Jack Maverty, Jack Haverty, 1 wonder where ya are, Are your fortunes caet with Sirius or ‘neath ome Kindly star? How bavoens ik we never see your woadrous mingtrel serw, with (ts apt alliteration, as we.msel to yeu Are equally unworiy of our prose end of our rhymes; And 1 vainly pine and beaker for the jore time used to come With the (rumpet's ump-te-reee and the big tae drum, My father used to tell me (on the quiet) that your show Wasn't none 4s good em Christy's wae geome forty your ago, I'm certain he was prejudiced, and when MY Little boxe Bewcoch me 19 recount tbe best of all my youthful fore, T'U tell them of Jack Havorly and the silver cornet band That wore the twin delights af every youngster in the bad, Aud we file aroun! the sitting roam end down the hall we came ‘To the fancted call of trumpets and « big beer mon, Billy West, Lew Benedict, Mohodrow, Fest Ontong wee, ne their anticn and thelr fimovecte Rooted, ‘the bless to Kingdom Come, With deflant ump-tereme and the big bea drum, Jack Haverty. here's hoping (hmt some bright Drowitioun star Beam kindly down upon you, whemsow'e your litereste are, Yer my heart to warm toward you far the Sap YOU gare me when Twas e little wansling tyke; and I wore gad ulm To ee you manhing up the mest with youp dusky knights of song. By Georg ‘d bead the gang of bore tae whooped your way alone. And 1M take my aM our plate and adetaion would overome ‘The trampet's ump-tere-re and the big bam drum, George H. Primrose should habe been in that poem. When it was writ- ten he was the best soft-shoe dancer in the minstrel business, and even then, from one end of the land to the other, @ familiar sight to theatregoers was Primrose gliding about the to the strains of “When, che, Moss MADE A HIT, : Comes Up Behind the Hi! KE wave Me awful knogke “the other day, | Mike—How it happen? by Tke — She me a letter —