The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1919, Page 14

FA) Ci ys 2 ‘ ~ . | TUESDAY, JULY 29, ‘to Read Character ALY AYO KG WA DRY euaa) Has Passing of the Parlor. a ~ At Si gh t’ Gt 5 ~ Improved American Homes - ae . . | ; ; . : . By Making Them Happier? : ANALYZING WOMEN White House; Capitol and Washington Monument y Making eeu | By oc. ay , f the OO AAA AAPA LAA AAPL PLLA RRA RRR OP ARRAN AAR ARR APO OD DRAPE 4 | iy sree php aydl Jeger. out, Thewiht, A 8s an y A viato r Sees Them Or Have Our Manners Suffered and Our Friendshipe § ‘i=, ~—s Rather Impractical, Not So Keen in Observation Lost Their Intimacy Through Its Deletion in “ih pe « Man dl gy at ei ee a These Unusual Photographs Also Shéw the Martin Bomber a= Modern Pr: ctical Architecture? Bpmeer in Speech, Mere Impulstce ’ Which Has Started ona Trip Around the United States S geeaia ane eh Fay Stevensoe os aaa ‘HERE is a good deal of talk goin, just now about the if f Ps 4 4 Saad lige j diese M, viyge-tarndicya tog Fons “Ohio iy T ake ian The Georgia Tebune-Herald boats oTke ys? gn g 4 : Get " tered the parlor of a man’s hame, he clothed . *°*~ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall bolt upcight, postion, with Bi. hendllerosasd, Sid det . ‘Coprriam, 1919, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). obscured, and talked in stage-whispers, using only oor- ye : HAT no man can ever understand a woman—how her mind works, rect phraseology. Around the walls of the parlor hung . what ber emoticnal reactions will be, with what. inner strength or the portraits of the household's anccsturs; in the centre weakness she will meet'a crisie—is almost a platitude. Yet, on was a large, round table, on which were placed the 1 4 analysis) like nape gn ne annem a tor ions longo be family album and family Bible. A big horse-hair sofa’ om 4 lessons, founded by The” Independent Corporation “ets tale pater the children ot the busy cover ath & “Reading Character at Sight.” “I have always won- to assemble, but on certain state occasions the eldest i 7 Gered,”, she says,,“whether men started the story in daughter of the house, or a younger one, if she could beat her sister to it, , : order to flatter women, or whether women started it in sat bolt upright in solemn grandeur and received the final sworn assur- } i A “order to lure and captivate men—or whether both are ances of her accepted lover. But the parlor is a thing of the past; it has a responsible, passed in its checks, as it were. Now the guests assemble informally 12 4 4 7 “Because women are really just as easy to under jthe library or drawing-room and soon attain a considerablesdmount of ‘ stand as men, The same principles apply to both. | ease.” . ' , ‘ i ie ‘They are more alike than they are different. And Yes, in about fifty years hence chil- {| —— their differences are easily understood by the un- Tomantic I of intelligent observation and common sense.” employer and wish to deal intelligently with your are @ husband whose most frequent reflection woman ‘engaged | therefore good students and good understand as|teabthers, but very few women bave damsel done pioneer work in the exploration gies of new fields of knowledge and fh the dren will be asking their parents to| horse-hair cloth, old mahogany snd | English carpets, it was a place of gloom, a closed and light-barred room, save when ‘Sompany’ came. Later on, In the era of black walnut, it be- came* more ornate with Italian tres coes on the ceiling, velvet carpets, ” red satin curtains, pier glasses set in carved or gilded frames, the inevit- iz ; |ddfine the word “parlor.” The parctor F |is getting as passe as the old fash- |ioned what-nots and tidies, To-day when milady has callers she thinks | |it old fashionel and stilted to, say | |“walk into the parlor,” so she says| |“come into the reception-room, the | We f i 5g ; fi ( |drawing-room, the living-room,’ able black piano, and, to bala: © tales for-comprebending, the female) Tey of creative \deas, | Pa There’ wis @ tine when the archi- | ciese of winte tombappne porn Of the species, - Snaer ath are cat tect always made provision for a|q room one wanted to dodge." ee: Gince her deductions are WA | ak moi responsive chas 7, room known as the parlor, It was] “It is*true no one ever got the full | from: physical characteristics, h°! i. ono de the most signifionnt and tho largest, best located room in the| enjoyment out of the old fashioned firat ‘those “belonging to what! tain) of the cheracteriation “ét hous’, No matter how small the/parior that the present day living a tee “emit fein? Here MPociasaeed to teat Wed Bk. other rooms might be, the parlor|room offers. Here no man is afraid they, are: Fine let; 1008; | Sains much about women that min jas @ good sized room. Even in @/to smoke, no child afraid to tread narrow head, smoothly founded and has fours it diMoult to underatand, It |Rarrow house this room presented alana even the mistress of the housé built: flat amd smooth’ ee | ocoiaing her various moods, her tan. |fair sized appearance, often funning|has been known to darn and knit terrow and soning brompant. trums, her ‘sweet unreasonablenesa,’ |back to almost the full length of right among the best pieces of furni- ture and Oriental rugs. But with the passing of the partor we must remember that our manners her nervousness, irritability, her in- clination at times to be hysterical. It explains why she is timid, why she is more religious than man and more ;the foundation, To-day architects’ flat; plans may call for sleeping-porches | or pergolas or large living-rooms, bat , |the parlor no longer exists, Bunga-| are pound to under went chahee: ° j ee and a 9 pel phe easily affected to laughter and tears, |lows and modern homes have no|The Alabama Allvertiver cbearnes 4 hipe | d to the knees; thighy| “THUS while man's contact with the |Foom for’ “dinky old fashioned gew-| sadly that the decadence of the parlor asi 4 the bips than| ¥or!d is largely through ti ®ntel:ect gawdy parlors, indicates “the slow passing of the 3 Seve aN ald Patictok aad reasang woman'srtsthrough Mer And a little apartment has nothing| home as a gathering place tor x Be: cae po nae ag ned ‘small, | motions, While man’s chief interests Dut a 4x6 reception room. Cliff dwell-| eriends,” \ an Duilt hands and feet; brunctte| tellebtually are in the realm of opin- ore, are sengible enough to St up the! 1 ig an very well to be sentimental, || a oo aypleg fons apd convictions and principles, largest room they have for a sleeving| put thd nineteenth century is learn- & an ‘body bulld,” “Dr... Blackford | Woman's chief ifterests Me in persgn- room and take @ smaller affair to re-| ing to be practical. Substitution and “4 | “wams up in “Reading Character at|*!tles and details, Go anywhere celve the few callers they have. Din-|timitation seems to be our motto. Por- r "Sight," “the typical feminine is a| Where women are talking togetiier ner parties are frequently given at| haps the old-fashioned parlor did in- | i °. ogee of the thinker, ang tho| **4 ye will find that they are dts: hotels and receptions at downtown! vite one to quote Keate and Shake. a A . enjoyer, or the fat man with 4 brain’*|°%ing thelr husbands, their sweet- clubs. Dances are usually given | speare, but if one could, use his col- By ““An@>hore are her salient traits o¢| "°4"ts their children and thelr ger- downtown, The casual caller needs| jege literature while sitting in a little #\ , Awe we to the doctor: | Y8nts, or thelr friends and neighbors. but a chair and a tray to lay his call-| gilt chair tied with a pink bow er | 7% i Hs ¢ setae ee oo up- ‘While ‘the man’s most frequent ex- ing card on. The up-to-date beau! upon those hard old haircloth sofas, a i Pres. abe | Pression: ts “t rh,’ OF ‘T -beleve,’ no longer comes early, sits close &nd| who knows how much he could quote is Slow’ in thought, ratger imprac.|%O™*N'® |s, “ho salt,’ and ‘she,said.’ stays late~it ls up to him to take|i¢ in one of our big living rooms with ye x / teal, ‘not #0 keen in observation as “In these daya of women in indys- the young lady of the family out or| {ts smooth polished floors and com- is man; not ro energetic, shé is more |tf¥: Managers are learning that mpst else not to call, Presto! Then off with|furtable big chairs? The old-fash- hal i ig * |mpulsive and eharper in specoir und women are loyal and enthusiastic * the parlor*and on with the sub-/joned so-called parlor is about as ~ * ‘ more impulsive in action, workers—but their loyalty is more stitute, the drawing-room, the recep-| useless as the old-fashioned dreas, " | “Because in body build she’ in a|#Pt to be to thelr boss than to their tion room and the big, roomy.Jiving-| with its yards of over-skirts and \™ a (> cambination of ‘the thinker and the | Company room of the modern where people really live, John-C. Van Dyke, author of*The bungalow, | flounces and frills, Pinks and blues and gilt and gold are really passe. We want substantial clothes and sub- New New York,” says: “The front par. | stantial living rooms, things we can lor in America never yet proveda joy! use every day, not once a week or to the family. In the early days of! once a month. New York's 27,1 52 ‘Dilber House . Fires in One Year Lost $6,153,600 Dr, Blackford also makes the inter- ewting point that if man yields to the temptation of his coarser appetite, 80 does woman yield to the tempta- tion of her love for beauty—qnd wastes almost as much money on Jewelry, hairdressing, — co Specialities a8 2 man spends in to. bacco, drink and gambling. “I do not mean,” the doctor sums up, “that woman is inferior to man. enjoyer she is more concerned witli thoughts, theories and ideals than ‘man, is ‘not 0 active: physically, is , Bet so much interested in mectianics, engineering, transportation and fight- ing: she enjoys ease, comforts and Vuxury, she likes to handle food and she takes more naturally to mer- ising, conserving, administoring ‘aid to financing than she does to con- « *truction, origination, creation and ition,” jin @ recent year, together with the % transportat She is not inferior, but different. N the general statistics of fire , ; ‘Phen, there is man's thtuiti What man gains by force and aggres- I cayses that have been compiled|!9sses incurred, the data having . w oe As yee ae letvences, woman guile by beit-eur- iy VR past, all varieties of oc-| been gathered from the reports of the / + : Er thing o seemae pg cg peeedige render, tact; diplomacy and passivity. 4uypancies have been included in the| Actuarial Bureau of the Nuattonal 4 t Gh the other hand, as a clever woman | Woman has opposed her keen intal- acquaintance read totals, md these figures have made say sel ge i tet coming force learn: play reasons for most fires, It stay . whic! le farm “win . cin” down [0 stats wi hae is ne ts possible now, however, for the Properties, show that during 1917 there “What ip the use of down- d p town on a subway local when you can|‘ use with great effectiveness the i take an express—why take the time|!aW of non-resistance.” Ss Just oLil’ Afterthought @laborately when you can get it more @ickly by intuition?” By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Press MPublishing Co, (The New York Evening World), irst time, to present an analysis of the nluniber of firés in dwelling houses Two Minutes of Optimism By Herman J: Stich | Copretght, 1019, by Tho Pres» Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Were 232,021 dwelling house fires with & consequent loss of $46,166,420, tha number representing 65 per cent. of the total and the loss 28.5 per cent of } the whole. These figures make it jclear that although the heaviest fire | |losses are the result of the burning of |large manufacturing plants and other business properties, the greatest nume 1 OOD Dr. Blackford credits woman with the intuitive type of mind, and adds, “It is a common saying, probably ased upon common experience, that In the ribg, it's a knockout at the end of ten seconds, In the movies, it's a fade-out, hearth into a fountain of faith and a manufactory of mercy and the total aggregating 6,583, and the i ing the tre- of universal, mutual sacrifice; |damage amounting to $718,479. “Open { z Any kind of a face costs a Yor actor. 8.30 A. M., kisses wife goodby; earth have been blessed to begin ing farms and produc! io C0 } mess for music, a sted apaned tune these days. i Critics always charged that two-thirds of a second, for their lives as God intended mendous stores of raw materials apouiting, “campos ae 4 ete Pi eter yr ab 7 yer i pe ei z ind ¢ i e cause, 269, | Pion evening of music had) Cover charges at @ cabaret || movies didn't reflect real life, | 1900 A. M:, kisses stenographer | they should live them, in pease | and food materials e rahe ip BAER MEAD, SHOR ae losses of $167,914, “Defective chim- fim bean gone and be was let-| “are never spent on the. girls’ ‘Three-second kisses prove it, good morning; 60 seconds. and lberty an@ the serene pur the revitalisation of an impover- or uplifted man's |8¢Y8 and flues” caused the second bis out at the street| costumes, Still, you can accomplish a 10.01 A, M., kisses stenog again. suit of happiness. ished world. that ever p ® woman's intuitions are likely to be More reliable than a man We @mong men, ‘If I had only taken my ‘Wife's advice!’ , “Women,” she continues, “are very Ieeer and quick in acquiring knowl- Ags fro.. books. They are also far ‘more imitative than reason. ‘have often heard the expression northern city has a great fond- he 7 “Aa-m thinkin’o! AMOUS doc says bolting food makes a beefy fom- inine figure, Just ag other way of saying haste makes waist. ‘ Average Broadway Jane ain't ? beefy—too much like a sausage, Forty per cent, bone, thirty per cent. meat, fifteen per cent. skin her, fortune says sothethingi» Always called our choicest but we don’t know WHERE, Prohibition has ruined the tax! busine: Ought to. Some of the passengers can now read’ the meter, Taxi driver soude’s best friend. Waiter’d bold him up till he got in the taxi, and then the taxi man destroys our ambition to be an Jot in three seconds of kissing. ysed to be a. After a few reels in the ring a Prizefighter staggers and falls. After a few reels in the movies, vamp’s just getting warmed up. Referee counts in a boxjtig match, Box office is all that cotints in the Almies, And a lot of clinches make a hing like this: 430 P. M., kisses stenog good- The Rainbow. 5 IGHT million men wound- ed unto death sleep, for everlasting and hallow the soil of war-torn Europe, Twenty million more are dis- figured by the scars of the most titanic slaughter fest that has and resolutidn the peoples of the And now man’s brains are un- tion and industrial remobiliza- tion are slowly though imper- ceptibly giving impetus to the Great work™of readjustment and stabilization, The indomitable triumphant energy which obliterated the bridges and aqueducts, cultivat- The unconquerable, seeming- death is turning its forces to the betterment of our common weal. The embattled Hosts of the Lord jhave labored and out of their sanguinary travails has been born a Mightier America with a more idealistic perspec- tive, ae 2 A Ioftier ‘sentiment has been ! : zation is merged into our personal and n- |caiises with the following. retulte: food tt bum fight but a good film. ever blackened the pages of his- arch scourge of civilizat! s he following. r THERE'S A Limit. vines teembngackenyy "3 yeodlgetciases pera rata for tory. . | mow building highways and | ternational relations; @ finer |The greatest number of home fives i : ing. rf ‘Three seconds is the limit for Kissing schedule the y. . i di j a MINER lodging at a certain) “Giri that states her nes” @ kiss in the movies, Which Tired Business Man runs some- Through the might of right | homes, constructing gigantic sympathy and understanding | were caused by ‘“matches-smoking, 1 house on the outskirts of a has been molded in our crucible thoughts and gladdened man's |ber of fires occur in the home. j | In the tabulation which ts givem New York is shown to have had the largest total of dwelling house fires, ’ these representing 49.7 per” | cent, of all the fires in the State with | ja loss of $6,153,600, Since New York had the largest mumber of dwelling house fires, lis . record has been analyzed as to known \largest loss, $635,650, although the \ total number of 1,33 stood seventh & pair o' dumb-belis, Geordie: | enemy 9 piece of cheese till we Many a guy has missed the Jast by; one minute, twenty sec- lashed from the chariot of Mars ly superbmman power that hum- heart, a rainbow more golden of in the jist. ‘There were 8,490 fires from | cum an’ practise wi’ me?"| bought « piece in a restaurant, | car home in those final’ three onds, and harnessed to the wheels of | bled the exalted conceit of im- | hue and wider of arch than ever | electricity," not including those from if fan too much for the lons-| Now we Know it's like calling seconds. 5,30 P. M,, kisses maid in front industry,, perialistic madmen is conse- before swept the heavens, now | small heating and other devices, the | won "Fe hev @ plan-| nim a ‘ateing of pearls, It takes, ten seconds to knock vestibule; 60 seconds, ‘The vast, vital problems of re- crated to lightening the load of compels man's gaze and impels | consequent property loss aggregating oe aera, She | Paper asks, “Where does a it a boxer, a le of 5.51 P. M,, kisses wife; one-third construction and new construc- the overburdened, + man's aspirations, irresistibly | $400,227, “Lightning” losses totalled="y Wl “Mo mair: ce Ltd ni Ae & apie r - lowly solved. insatiable initiative that leading him onward and upward | $8,808, and those from “stoves, 7 foto, this § Yorker go alter, midnight?" seconds and a bucket of water of a second, tion are being slowly solv The insatiable pn boilers, fur and thelr pipes’ cyl) know WHAT he goes after, to bring him to, : No wonder he’s a T, B, M, | Military and naval demebiliza- transformed every peaceful by ite smile of promise, came to $439, ; itr FW Ail ey