The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 14

puLirzer. sodA ELM Foes! PRET. MMs Aihcos ages s 66 ds. esha eed) 45a onNO, 92/188 | NOTICE TO QUIT. [E President’s refusal to proclaim peace at the behest of the b> Senate, before the Peace Treaty is made valid, is plgin notice _ + to that body to quit fooling and act. ‘The Senate has lacked’ time nor knowledge in its consideration of the matter. ‘The| ‘id well thrashed. There is no further excuse for delay, [f the Senate does not. wish the United States to join the! of nations, and so share the responsibility for the. welfare of c let it say so. It can elect to stand with China if it so ing ‘Meanwhile, what becomes pf all the flubdub Republican oratory ‘y ‘we were treated before entering the war, of our duty to noms Belgium, to the victims of the Lusitania and of our gen-' unbecoming place in international politics? of the noise was made by men who are now evading their i trying to confuse the issue and imperilling their ee ~ ‘The Cuban revenue collector at Antilla who expressed sur- that there should be any ebortage in sugar here has tu ‘a few lessons in profiteering. He seems to think because supply is large in Cuba, sugar ought to be plentiful here. never was & greater quantity of food products in store now—which only affects prices one way—up! oe SELLING ARMY STORES. HILE the sale of army stores through city stations may f' not-make much of @ dent in the vost of living, the move “¥ is a good one for several reasons, Much of fhe Govern- t material bought at fancy prices is of such a character'that about ly customer to be found for it is the original contractor. He buys it”back at a price which will produce a secbnd profit. takes certain risks and of course is not in business for his p disposal of the food, however, by process of direct sale gives ¢ Government all its money back, to the relief of the taxpayer, and same time helps the purchaser. It is a pity that other supplies not be handled in the same fashion. , ini Tecall our troops from Merico, J: gael bis rurales crossed our cattle rustlers? = ORATIONS OF FOUR NATIONS. KCORATIONS from four nations were bestowed upon many members of the American Expeditionary Forces at the City Hall yesterday. Valor is international, That our young ‘won #0 large and signal a share of honors in so short a campaign ‘po small tribute to their merit: With but few professionals, and man of the latter ready made, the record of individual distinction ; in its numbers and achievements. ‘he rewards of the are few enough outside of the satisfaction in his own soul, ‘international tributes are, therefore, doubly valuable. <2 -—-- Now it is Westchester that is walking, to be the order of the day. » ABT, Exercise for all S Letters, From the People Canse of Sumer by the State Government, and in cases of interstate trafic or business, by the National Government. He hould also be compelled to swear to support the Constitution and Laws of the National Government and the State Government, and to perform his duties to the best of his ability just As every oMcer of the United States and of each and every State does. There should be a sentence in the Weense to the effect that if the. l!- censee should break ‘his contract with the public corporation which employs him, he should be regarded as a de- verter and be imprisoned for so do- ing, The contracts should be «so drawn that not more than one-twelftth of the same in any particular line of work should expire in the same month. | Since the National and State Gov- ernments are regulating, by Public} Service Commissions, the prices which Public Utility Corporations are allowed to charge the public, the same or similar commissions should be authofized to determine the maxt- mum charges which the employees of such corporations can make for their} services, or if you wish to put It the| other way, the minimum wages which | the Public Service Commission must | pay their employees, in each line of occupation, These Public Service| Commissions should be elected by the people, the same as Judges are. There should be one Public Service| Commission in each State in charge! of the rmijiroads, and another in| eharge of the gus, electric and water companies. ‘This is, of course, only | an outline of what should be done, It would, I believe, put an end to any one class of men paralyzing a whole | community, city, State or the Nation, | and make the labor Unions realize that ours is a Government not of one class, by that class, for that elasy, but of one people, by the peo- ple, for the people, rea year Now is the time coed > ap in need of sugar reparing food, dc. to'tide their yusen ‘ever the coming winter. » we'sh sugar and other life pemsities overseas, and reducing own just wants to our Bith, beside paying extreme high : what we must have to ‘exist? “ts the explanation? ‘THBODORK WILSON, ‘Aug, 18,1919.” coy peered Settle Strtkest Of The Brening World ime to make this suggestion \ t of strikers, iby strikers. If a man et with the United ae @ woldier for three that contract, he is deserter in time of ghot for his deser- Evory man em- oe t pew on Hog thane Ny Xy Aug, 41, atta ant: nas. ; et aNgdy ove |b Copyrinht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World). Mr. Jarr Believes That the Movies Hold the Mir- ror Up to ity night to see asked the little Jarr boy. “Well, we'll see about it later gn,” | id Mr, Jarr good-naturedly. ‘I wanna go! the little girl, i “L do wish your mother would como home!” sighed Mr. Jarr. “I can't have 4 minute's peace to read my news- paper.” * “Mamnta said if we were good you'd take us to see thé moving pictures,” whined the little boy. “Boo. hoo!, 1 wanna go!" buwied the ittle girl, crying with dry eyes. All this trouble in the Jarr house- hold, was due to the fact thet a new and extremely ornate moving picture theatre had invaded the Jarr neigh- borhood, For months pagt a building, the lower fluor of which had been occu- pled by géfuneral director and em- baimer until the proprietor had died apd buried himself, had been boarded up in front, and “after extensive alter- ations,” which consisted of tearing out partitions and putting up much gim- crack siueco Work and applying white paint copiously, the hoardings re- moved, had there burst on tho view of the delighted juvenile population of the neighborhood a fairyland-fronted “Bijou Dream Theatre—The Home vf Million - Dollar Masterpiece Snper- Superb Screen Specials Just now from the street below the exultant voice of little Ikey Blavinsky had floated up; "De new pickshershow is open!" and the Jarr children, hang- ing out of the window to catch the Joyous words, had immediately de- 1 wanna go!” cried scended upon their father for the price of admission “1 don't belleve in those moving picture shows,” said Mr, Jarr severes ly, “In the first place most of the theatres are fire-traps; in the second place they ure jhjurious to the eyes} in the third place the pictures they show are simply dime novels, You two can't go until your mother comes home and gives her permission, and that settles it!" But that didn't settle it, Master Wile Jarr and Litte Emma Jarr sniffied and sobbed in acute disap- pointment until Mr. Jarr had admin- istered a sounding slap to each, whereat they sobbing and bawled lustily, stopped AY, paw, can't we go oft to-) new moving picture theatre, mamma the movies?” McCardell Real Life. Can't we go? You said we ‘could! gol” “Oh, dear!” said Mrs, Jarre when she had silenced the children by shak- ing them breathless, “it seems a pity | that I can’t go out of the house for 4 breath of fresh air and some fresh vegetables but what your father must | punish you! How would he like to| |bave to put up with you all day, I | wonder?” . “I'm sure [ hardly touched them,” | sald Mr. Jarr, "They heard some | child go through the street shouting that the new moving picture theatre around the corner was open and thoy immediately demanded to be taken to see it." “You said we could go, maw; know you did,” piped up the boy. A “You said if L was a good girl I should go!" whimpered the little girl. “It's no place for them. 1 saw the| advertisement of the picture that opens | the place—it's a divorce sensational | picture,” said Mr. Jarr. “It's not a} picture for children to see!” “Yes it is, and Izay Slavinsky and | his sisters and Johnny Rangle and h sister is going! Can't we go, maw” Whined the boy: “You slid we could!" bawled the 1 wanna go, I wanna go!” 1 believe 1 did promise them!” said Mrs. Jarr, looking around ‘And anything to keep Won't you take them, you ‘apa stirred uneasily Well, if 1 must, I must,’ said he. ppose you come along! Me?" asked Mrs, Jarr, “I hate, moving pictures.” “So do 1,” said Mr. Jarr, “but come super special, “Drusilla’s Double Di- “was & two-reel slapstick com ‘om real life, called “Mr. He: Every time Mr, Henpeck was thrown out of a window by his moth- er-in-law after marriage,” or was kicked out of the houne by his pros- n-law before care a mechanlo playing Pp d his foot upon a tut that clashed a drum, and all ent laughed, ‘What a silly picture,” whispered Mrs, Jare as the comedy ended in a custard ple bombardment, “did you notice that the man wore the same overcoat jn the picture labelled ‘Five EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 r Family | with, te ic ‘By J. H. Cass en a Ellabelle Mae D olittl By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) ‘’ was a lovely day in Delhi last! poem. As the car sped along she Wednesday and, as P. Silas Petti- | wrote on }«r pad—of paper, we mean. done, the tonsorial artist, sped|1t took her but a moment, for Miss along in his aftomobile, he let his| Doolittle always has been a fast thoughts wander from razors’ to| worker. ‘This is the poem she read to women. Mr. Pettibone: Mr. Pettibone was lonely. There he I love to ride in an auto, was driving a nice car with plenty of!” 71 iy indeed, a treat, money in his pocket, but no gentle #8 one by his side to admonish him to|/!ke some fairy grotto, look out where he was going when he| Making enjoyment complete. | almost hit a dog im the road. No} Over the hills we speed along, wonder it-was then, when he saw| The birds are singing gaily, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the noted | Often we skid a little bit, ‘ poetess, walking along Goldenrod) But my courage does not fail me. Avenue that he brought his car to a stop and invited her to take a spin. We'll say it wasn't, Mics Doolittle stood for a moment thinking, She wanted the ride but she feared anvther proposal of mar- riage trom *tv, Pettibone. Already according to Dame Rumor, she had turned him cown three times and (pardon, please!) she did not care to celebrate the fourth, “Better take @ ride, My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Popped a hot biscuit into her mouth, Oh, Teeney, you were so funny, It cured me of my grouch. But, getting back to auto-riding, Lam thankful for each mite, I love the way you drive, P. Silas, But your finger nails you must jile, Ellie. ft will And then it happened. “What?” you ask: Why, the car broke down little was inspired with an idea for a Some- | Famous Women| a strike. Tinker ag he would, not a wheel would turn. Miss Doolittle wrote another poem. It follows: * when she conceived the idea of help- ing her parents by some definite oc- cupation, She learned to sew, and made flannel shirts at 6 1-4 cents apiece, . Regarded by the pastor of her church as @ prodigy, at the age of fourteen she was sent by him to the Charlestown Female Seminary where she soon pyee with the best the justitution ever bad. y she was placed Duxbury High 6, @ position of unusual rank for a woman at that time With the outbreak of the Civil Wa in 1861 ghe became an onganizer in rll never take another auto ride, They break down and make me hot, The beauty of the automobile To me is all rot, My father, Peter P. Doolittle, Bit his tongue last night, He was biting the baby's lolly-pop, | 1 guess it serves him right, But let us return to the auto, ot the gies, Years After Marriage,’ that he wore when courting the girl?” When her hand was upon the door JObbAH Bs, woop, the children commenced to baw!: | “Papa says we can't go to see the “Yes, I did notice it,” replied Mr, Fates “Add To weeuih be omy if bleed eine holding the mirror up real life pothing ial" | ‘ ‘ woman's war work. In 1863 she made her first public address at Du- I'll bet, by gosh, T let them alone, “I Am Disgusted With Benzine Buggies,” She Sings, thing went wrong in the engine and the auto gave a wheeze and went on Half an hour later Tam disgusted with denzine dug- Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland i ‘Coprriamt, 1919, ty The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Evenitie Wong). © the average well-trained husband life at a summer resort is just one hook-and-eye after another. A man’s idea of a “fascinating conversation: is the kind of woman he loves to have listen to 4 It isn’t a man’s voluntary gallantry to « pretty woman that annoys his wife—it’s that little involuntafy stint with which his eye lights up at sight of one and work that makes life worth loving, and true piness consists in having just enough of both in their~ right proportion to each other. Every time your temper flares up the thermometer of love goes down— id down—and down! If your car is the latest model, your dog has a pedigree, your cat | registered, your husband is in Bradstreets, and your divorce has had jenough publicity, apparently you don’t need a family tree to give you an entree to society in these days. In novels all a woman's heart-troubles end with the ringing of the wedding bells, but in real life most of them begin right there. Beauty: always attracts a man, cleverness interests him, money im presses him, style pleases him, character commands his respect—but sweetness GETS him. ‘ A man’s heart is like a seaside hotel, in which there is always room | for “just.one more. What to Do Until The Doctor Comes By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Series of Articles Written Especially for The Evening World ‘ Cut Out and Save in Your Home. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), Plant Poisoning. R. V. K. OHESTNUT, of the United States Department of Agrieul- | ture, in alluding to poison-ivy, says: “No plant in the United States is more popularly recognized as harmfu! to man than this; |as its victims far outnumber those of all other plants combined, it has come to Be recognized as the poisonous plant of America.” j The susceptibility to poison ivy varies greatly, some individuals appear to be entirely immune, while 1.64000 of a grain is sufficient to produce die tinct lesions upon the skin of others, Since the oil containing the poison- ous property resides in every part Of the plant, it is not necessary to come {in direct contact with it; the pollen contains the oil, as do the thousands of microscopic hairs that grow all over the plant; these are air borne to pei- sons at @ distance, so accounting for otherwise unexplainable sources #f poisoning. In those susceptible, several days, mistaken with fatal results for horse {perhaps a week, elapse before the jradish, parsnips, artichokes, swee |skin shows evidences of the poison,|cicely, angelica, and other edibe | there then appears an intense inflam- | roots. mation with swelling, itching and| The symptoms may not appetr blisters, | | One case is recorded in which deep | been eaten. They are: dizsiness, vio ‘ulcers formed which led to death in |lent, sometimes bloody vomiting, coll | three weeks. If the face is polsoned | skin, profuse perspiration, slow, weak | the swelling may obliterate the fea-| pulse, unconsciousness, and finally, tures and interfere very seriously | epileptiform convulsions. with breathing. The eyes may be| Tbe fatal dose is not knowne 4 closed for several days. | Plece of root as large as a marble B Some years ago poison-ivy figured | dangerous to man, Death may occ in a law suit in New York. A judg-|in an hour, The treatment, as in al | ment of $3,500 was rendered against |cases of poisoning, must be directel | the directors of a cemetery in a case|to evacuating the alimentary cana, of poisoning, due to the plant which | Induce vomiting and give rectal ire- had been allowed to grow within tho | gations, then cautiously use whiffs ef grounds, ‘The plaintiff was ill for|chloroform, later on apply stimulants eighteen months. to the outer skin; it is advised to rib Children are sometimes poisoned by | the body with flannel soaked in hat ! eating the berries of poisonous plants, | brandy, to give warm mustard baths. Poison-ivy contains three leaves, and| Jimsen weed with its funnel shapel its berry is white, The five leaved | Mower, usually of the purple variety, | ved berry variety is harmle: grows in great profusion in this lo ‘There is no specific for ivy-poison-|cality. ‘The effect of its potsonow | ing, yet prompt measures must be ex-| Properties ig similar to that of th» erted to counteract its progress and|deadly nightshade or belladonna prevent the spread of the inflamma- | Bitter-sweet or woody nightshade % |tion; therefore, remember that ivy|another climbing plant bearing & poison is soluble in fats, and that | beautiful red poisonous berry, whic) oll, creams and other fatty sub-|ripens from July to October. Th . |stances must NOT be used, as they |Fed buck-eye or horse-chestnut with will aid and not hinder the spread of | its smooth, polished mahagony frut the poison. | that ripens in the early fall is verr Use lime water, lead water, lau- | poisonous, as are its sisters, the Ohiy danum diluted with tincture of witch- | buck-eye, the California buck-eys hazel, a solution of bi-carbonate of |@nd the English horse-chestnut. soda, combined with borax, ice, iced| Sneeze-weed, which in the autuma until some time after the plant his 78 Mr. Pettibone said the rhyme was| water and so on, | bears a profusion of yellow flowera put roses ih your cheeks. truly exotic, Miss Doolittle politely] One of the best remedies consists in|and snow-on-the- mountain, thé It sounded 0 poetical and the slen- | refrained from Inventigating to seo if one drachm of the fluld extract of outer edges of the leaves having 4 a . e| h > by e + hy rd wi rder, OE, STN) SNAG See Meaped into tho she suspected he got it off a hajr tonic| grindelia robusta to four or s1x/Dotn ‘poisonous. peautléyl ang preciated It, So. she leaped into the! siirs, ounces of water, Polson oak has the| “phe first aid treatment in all pois car. “You must read that to the ladies | same action upon the skin as poison | oning from plants is—always send fot The ride was delightful, Chickens | of the Women's Betterment League,” | jy, ja physician in every case of sus. x said Mr. Pettibon jv? | pected poisoning. While waitin, squawked and the cooling breeses} #84 you su}, my brave chauffeur!”| Another poisonous plant native to|him ween out the stomach net or fanned their brows—those of the ian “ and in i responded the girl with a little byt our country is the American water-|testines as quickly as possible bt and the girl, of course. It is not] that spoke happiness as it passed over | POE Oeyniy "Ane “oer oak EMT | the methods already given and pup strange, therefore, that Miss Doo-| each tooth. port the patient’s strength and polsonous, but the underground parts| Warmth. with warm external applit ure especially so. These have been | cations. ODD FACTS FROM LONDON PAPERS A Middlesex Counctl by-election on playing football in the streets, when the subject of Sunday cinemas re- | he was sixteen, sulted in the victery of their advo- Disnissed, hor ae us wee what the new | ARY A. LIVERMORE was) 4iy¢ it aicful whe» your auto, / Jeate, ‘The winner was aided by films,| 3ritish press men are to erect 4 The new placewaa' planter mer-j born in Boston, Mas, Dec!" x6 one you thought so dear, and the “enti” had” strong, pulpit | monument over the grave of James Tho picture that preceded the supers | men seven OF Mi It’s worse than 2.75 per cent. beer,) “In the Lord Mayor's Court and|cident, remembered his assignment, | the Old Bailey I have to understand| 49d sent his copy to his paper be every language under the sun, The | fore dying, | only language that does not seem to wae |be used is English,” complained Judge} The “Lusitania Cup" presented tu H. F, Dickens, 4 Barnet golf club for annual com- petition by F, Battersby, a Lusitania survivor, was won this year by Pronk Partridge, another Lusitania sur- vivor, Demobilized after 41-2 years’ service, Hugh Garvican returned to his Nottingham home to be served with @ five-year-old summons for Resenting her husband's late houra a Shoreditch womun smashed. the windows at his club, and threw u ll. iment bottle at people dressing hur cut hands. club sued for ani obtained $37.50 damages, and Miss Doolittle appeared at the meeting of the Women's Betterment League. Though mad clear through, she spoke kindly to Promptress Mrs. Pertie and was invited to favor t ladies with an original poem, M. Doolittle read two—the rhymes she Declaring that the work was in- buque, Ia, Her wonderful talents This one has got me fecling ugly. | had written on automobiling, When | sufficient to justify his $500 mynd wn oaton Were lunmedlalely seu © had finished the second one the| swlary, Lx W. oMcer of the ni and her fame as a speaker team of fladies applauded with great gusto, Two hodrs later a pateing wovn {| nationwide, mules hauled the auto to tow All were pleased, After all, it is love that makes life worth — ,