The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1919, Page 16

'HURSDAY, AUGUST 14, ynicipal Clubs to Help You “Meet Your Mate in Machatten|. _ SAYS MRS, ELIZABETH GRANNIS, This City of Srangers | Kamous International Beauties Could Supply Successfull FIRST OF A SERIES OF THREE GROUPS ‘ sos bates tec y Lady John Lavery, Formerly Miss Hazel Martyn, of Chi- ran Advocate of Municipal Ideas Would Like cago) —Lady Diana Duff Cooper, English Beauty—Lady » to Start Such Supervised Meeting Places Where Loughborough, of Australia, and Mme. Bernard, of Belgium. . New York’s Hall Room Boys and Boarding| * House Girls Could Meet and Choose Life Part- ners Under Civic Auspices. ' By Zoe Beckley ‘Coprright. 1919, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). baie [0 says municipal Get-Acquainted Clubs for Girls and Boys are tmipracticible? They are not. They are perfectly feasible. They promisé the merfiest sort of success. ‘They would be an economy ‘city in the long run. They are, moreover, as necessary in this vast city of strangers as are shops and theatres and hurry- up lunchrooms, according to our expert witness, Eliza- beth B. Grannis. More so. For we can live without luxurious em- poriums, And many a town is prosperous and happy though it does not boast a playhouse. And quick lunches often give us the pip. But where is the hall- room boy or the boarding "house girl who can live and be happy and good without ever a chance to meet other a boys and gitls and have a look-in at lite and love and bes, MEY the attendant dream of “our own little home"? From Setters we have’received from our readers on “some sort of municipal wuainted club,” we know charter members would not be lacking. ne Spiel Dp ERG EOE CL ek a momben Tdeekane, anthropists, Why have they always ‘and President of the Na- | failed?” Christian League for Promo-| “You have told the reason,” she ‘of Purity, says she would like to| crackled, “because ‘they were run ’ by philanthropists, Wives and daugh- S “Hor fifty years,” says Mrs, Gran-| ters of millionaires know nothing of at her home, No. 6 East 12th|the problems of young women and “1 have preached the need of | Men of the type these municipal get- ing municipal, from industries | cauainted clubs would benef, fo marriage bureaus, ‘There is no:n-| They cannot cross the abyss that lies needed im this great city | between them. “Nor do.the churches meet the need. ; properly perv! tiny idee s thie re one ‘The church to-day is too full of nomi- | ft ‘women: workers. who have|"#! Christianity to practise practical tm means of getting acquainted, Christianity. A deacon, an elder, partn pillar of the church, is willing perhaps, Ste nara d to walk up, Fifth Avenue with some young stranger from his church, But does he ever invite this young man to his home? Does he ever care whether the man from out of town has any young women acquaintances? No, he doesn't go that far. He ‘doesn’t! clubs are just as feasible as schools; They should be as aa public schools. They fd be housed in the school bu'ld~ “They should be managed by Sede, » women and ™6| know enough about him to bring him ‘ity; and music, dancing | into his household.’ Why doesn't he lgetures, motion pictures and] ana out? sorts of clean, interesting enter-| «same with the social leader, Does nt provided, she do anything to bring the nice freshments should be served at young Wwomédn and nice young men of low Prices—Just what they cost) hor church together? Yet nothing in ity, There should be few rules) ine world is quite so important as restrictions, Those that are} mating ang parenthood.” ty should be kept well In the] /7 suggested that st might be difficult Girls and boys must) i, avoid the abuso of the get-ac- freedom of individuality, guided | quainted club—that undesirables had but not hampered and made | been found diMoult to bar, p by the restraints of) Mrs. Grannis pished and’ tushed. per Who have forgotten thoir| * “Nonsense! That is where the Fa youth, or who never understood | proper supervision conies in. ‘The young mind and heart.” right sort of ‘housemother’ would Grannis frankly describes | kHow from appearance and behavior ° the ones to keep out. I.could tell in | as & warhorse of . reform.| two minutes the worthwhile from the Str- r-ike- = } e r ut! 4 ge she was in her teens she has|other kind, I'd like to manage ond ith all Ker strength urged forward |of these places myself. If some one aren social polities i ay And That Goes for Broadway and maeiball| B almost single-handed, carried to|! “Then we would have fewer lonely, B y. N eal R. QO’ H ara THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919 Schaghticoke Snake Hunters Plan to Save Dry Kansas From Rattlesnake Invasion Barefoot Kansas Farmers Find Ploughing Corn- fields an Increasing Peril Since July 1,and Con- necticut Serpent Destroyers See Chance for Adding to Their Laurels. By Lindsay Denison Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Erening World). WINSTED, Conn., inaugurated by Dick Howell, secretary and executive mana- ger of the Schaghticoke Rattleshi Club of Bridgeport, is well under way, L. T. Stone, the Winsted Seer, on whom The Evening World corrtspon- dent called to-day, said he could not digcuss the subject for publigation ard could say nothing about it at this time. City editors of newspapers from Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore., and to El Paso on the south, will. certify that honorable and upright and pro- gressive as Lew Stone is known to bo as @ cttizen of Winsted, Connecticut, and the United States, he never know- ingly told the truth in his life, There- fore, as the political correspondents like to say, “but from an unusually well informed source,” The Evening World has gathered a few facts about the “Schaghticoke ~ Save - Kansas - Movement.” Tt had its inspiration in the follow- ing press despatch: ke Pingue and No Cure Now tn Kansas, WHITE CLOUD, Kan,, Aug, 8.—Farmers living near White Cloud do not ‘plow their corn barefooted any more—all'on account of Bice July 1 the county bas been infested with @ plaguo of rattlesnakes and war bas Deen declared on them, Several persons have been bitten by snakes this summer, {t is re- ported, White Duey, 2 well known farmer here, Killed rattlennake with ten rattles. | Secretary Howellhas sent a stirring | appeal to President Byron R. Newton, who is Collector of the Port of New York; Vice President W. O. Inglis of the Rockefeller Foundation, Shang Wheeler of the Canned Oyster Trust, and other officials of the Schaghticoke Rattlesnake Club, which held what was supposed to be its final hunt at South Kent, Conn., just over the hill) from White Turkey, two days before | war-time Prohibition became théo-| retically effective. He quotes the de-| spatch above and adds: “We must rescue these Kansas farmers. I propose to enlist members of the Schaghticoke Rattlesnake Club and discharged mombers of the United States Air Service to fly to Kansas with ample supplies of Schaghticoke Sagwa to relieve the drought and inci- dentally te make farming possible in Kansas. A regiment of New Yorkers will be recruited, it is hoped, ugder the leadership of Col. Lioyd Collis, the only member of the A. E. i*. to be decorated with the Cross of Bordeaux | because of his heroic conduct in the campaign on the left bank of the Ga+ ronner Rtver, fighting in support of the forces of Gen. Vin Rouge. “On to, Kansas: Sagwa in proper} half @ dozen bills that now| morbid girls in ball bedrooms, fewer Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Youk Evening World) young men who have no place to place upon the statute books of | iond their evapings except In pool OME exit +cue when the Theatres closed, both ball and other States. rooms and on street corners, Our ac’ have Ben things attempt-| reformatories and other Institutions auen ae OER ithe cet of. first- place—Wew I submitted to the tiny “war- | Would be amasingly thinned out and First timg some of the York's a swell “leading city.’ \” “along these Iines—canteuns $e ie Fy Ree aly me mou ine theatres had a turn-away busi- Can't convince the Yanks and socla! chibs run by women phil-I finitely better off in pocket.” nese this season. Glants that Kast Is West. Actors’ union wants ‘em all to “Going West” in war slang . 2 ’ ° stand up for their rights, Stand- meant . getting slaughtered. 0 rehlight 3 110 Mile Beam ing room only, Means the same thing in base- ; : ° Strikers claingonly shows that ball slang, too. Guides Pathfinding Airplanes) 20 rey er eat ge ie certainly ¢laturbing us that didn’t havo real actors. ONE league of the Nation. With an actors’ strike on Balloonists gain altitude by Broadway, these are gog days for dropping ballast. But ball teams Atlantic Cily, New Haven and don’t gain it by dropping ball Rochester, . games Actors picked a tough time to Yank pitchers wouldn't lose so go walking on Broadway with Toany . games {f they “were shoes $20 a pair. yanked soon enough. Looks as if the Colonels out | ranked the Major league. Bibbs Se B..R. T. conductors stopped ringing up fares and Broadway musical conductors stopped ring- ing up curtains about the same With the Inventors time. | N arm at each side that project With some of, the Broadway upward and can be hidden daloons and theatres closed up, the hair features a comb whic looks like Billy Sunday's dream | t* inventor, a New York jeweller, Mina‘ tiue. claims will not become ‘loose and b Musical comedy astrike-break- |!" Bein ers are called scab-bards. Two British inventors have de- . Side that loses the strike will | signed an automobile that is run by be the one that makes a too | gas manufactured by a producer car weak stand on Broadway. ried on the re f the vehicle, Strike gave the chorus girls a agit deiave to bay “We'll atten.” A double loop key ring has been First. time they ever hud a. [Dutented for holding two bunches ot keys, which are separated by a plat speaking part, that locks it together, With a stage war on, @ lot of era *actor-managers have become 1) The light is of a new type of the “dishpan” model, of approximately hyphens. pandle-power, and is ‘capable of throwing its shafts 110 miles, It nigel hd, Hatha ttt Shy Rep ad o , ‘owing its shafts 110 miles, ates sn lohamber surrounding the ; Oy of Wales to visit the United ‘by two enormous motors and it can “pick up" an aviator three Mats ithe. athies (s. broken mee Surrcundlag. She: sbeulder HB intimin ot : os oir Mar feature ot tho light, da its lighting wnecharian,| lotta shows will gét along with |to permit circulation of alr and lessen States was the late King Edward, the heir to being placed latitudinally, the carbons—which are 2 fect long—| plaster Parts casts. breakage by overheating, throne of Great Britain. He came here in 1860, wot ri adisaly in @ cylinder-like box, which is called the “candle- All the ticket scalpers can do sd ee, Which article it closely resemble: is speculate on when tho strik For use on public stairways, car Jew y e t is eet ona chasis and can be easily moved about. It will be su yd BRAD SMAGR Th9, MEMO | tape cn: & RoB-BLIDRINE treed, haw [CaM TREAD MIE LB New) ZOrm City Bf 18. preeleny ‘ahead to the planes each day to the apot where the landing is, Wt be over. been Invented, consisting of @ steal (demonstration given for him here. Guerdamen -that might and its rays will guido the aviators to the ground, Actors now featured on the | iste with strips of lead act Into chun-|™arched in-salute for the distinguished vit itor; there RE 97 ¥ on ulletin boards anyway, pela was @ torchlight’parade, and bis entire stay in this HB feet of twenty-two airplanes that are recordins the history-making eight-months' flight to the Pacific Coast and return are using for the first time in the history of aviation a giant searchlight to guide their An inventor has designed an auto- ‘The photograph shows the Prince of Wales of that Prince of Wales — nited States. country was a round of brilliant entertainment. The Prince was then 18, He 1s indicated sitting In the coach by arrow. | ‘The present Prince of Wales has landed in Canada | and came on the British battleship Renown. After aj sojourn of over @ month in the Dominion he will come | to the United States as an honored guest of this coun: | try. While herg he will visit Washington and New York, rations will do the work. Make Kan-% as safe for bare feet.” Major Oscar BE. Lademan of Mil- waukee will be asked to head the medical detachment of the expedition, The selectign of Col. Collis is as~ surance that the exBedition will be celebrated with dué solemnity and that no matter how flerce the battle no hero will dare to smile out loud; it is recalled that he risked his life at the Thanksgiving banquet in the Opera House at Bordeaux gping from table to table warning his fellow of- ficers that no matter how happy they might be they must reaist any impulse to show it by thelr demeanor or cons duct, Col. Collis has not yet been cons sulted by Mr. Howell; Lew Stong ruminatively pufling a bottle of 2.76 per cent. by a string from the coél depths of the rock spring.on the aill back of his summer. palace, went s> far as to say he had not even hefrd of such negotiations. ‘The formula of the late Chiet Jim Pan of the Schaghticoke tribe for the making of Sagwa, the sacred and im« spiring beverage with which the Schaghticoke Snake Hunters ¢é6rtified themselves against the treacherous poison attacks of their intended prey, was burned at the conclusion of the last hunt. But it is reported tlint, bew cause of the defection of Mr. Inglis tol the forces of drought and the absence of Mr. Newtpn because of unavoidable political dignity, there was enough left aver to meet Ahe distressing situa« tion existing beyond the banks of the Kaw. In view of the relief mobilization the Winter Hunt of the club, which was to have taken place on Broadway between Thanksgiving and Christmas, has been postponed until kfter Christe mas, but with the distinet understand ing that it will be held before Nationag Prohibition goes into effe€t, Jan. 16 “Make farming possible in Kansas is blazoned on the banner of the Schaghticoke Club, which Dad Barbee |is designing on the after deck of hia houseboat as it rocks to the tide of the Housatonic River. a en An Ohio inventor's résilient motog truck wheel. is featured by? twelva springs arranged circularly insicad of radially and which work together ina stead of separately as in the case off spring spokes. ALFALFA SMITH, Yours truly, and cabbage! dinner—say corn beet fashioned ‘Tuff stuff Oh! For a good old- eat, easy to buy—so tasty to delicatessen where it is so With it all domes the Lastry galore! pie—pie—ple, get it quickly, We have The idea to-duy i and-—pastry. restored to our former bread To-day we are went first. storm, ‘The stayeh eaters chaft before a wind went down like so much men, women and children So when the “flu” cumo* gorms just love fut! makes fat, and little tiny are starch and starch Now, bread and potatoes of potatoes, jammed ourselves full bread, for instance, and We switched to war- It was for a good cause. and we wee glad to do It ating,.changes in our food— made trying, often exasper- calmly, During the war we Let us consider it stead of delicate eats, getting delicate stomachs in men of our country are fast But I do-know that the eats I do not know. who invented this form of the German word “essen,” tu doubtless understand, and “delicate,” wh'ch you up of the English word M word delicatessen is mn ' DBAR FRIENDS: Ti (Toe New York Evening Wo Congriaht, 1019, by The Pra Putts! 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