The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1919, Page 9

He gc “ wr) omits + diye { SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919 : }. When “Two's Company” Means Newlyweds * Does “Three’s a Crowd” _. Mean Mother-in-Law? wh I ¥" “Young Couple Are Entitled to a Honeymoon by Themselves,” Says Judge Sweetser to Mother- in-Law of Yo Frank Kent—How A the Home After the Honeymoon?-—What Is Mother- in-Law’s Status There? j Ggdaz Ne ny Reactions of First Peace Fall Have Brought Women’s Clothes Again Into Their Own in a Riot of Colors and @ Maze of Daring Novelties for Milady’s Winter Wear By Neal R. O° | ara tia y Conyaight, 1918, by The Pre Publlshioc Qo. (Fas Now Yor Wvening World, By Fay Stevenson 1G fuss over Love, Honor end/me liherty oF gimme dimples.” And Coprsight, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York fivenine World). Obey, Women want to obdiit-|she goes after "em both. When she EIN may come and men may go, but the mother-in-law’ is ifke the erate Obey. Claim no bride |St® married, Mgures this is « land famous brook—he goes on forever! Just now she has stepped should vote the straight ticket. alt}of freedom. But forgets she’s on into ¢he limelight with more force and power than perhaps ever right to vote “Yea” on Love anq|tB® sea of matrimony—throe miles PL meee ater mania ttocr eter tomer ee Honor, s but Obey should be left |°™t ; ep elemeasing bavi gerd wesding blank. Men claim women owe| 4 6¥y leads Bis bride to the altar, an recat grads reg the pleasure of holding big nine- ebodienee, Wee want to know /}#4 that’s the last leading he ever — Pleaid Ke Gan be ae eh we Ge eee Whe pat ton owe i. ner, . Artiaiog | run oul erent ies Greoe Wiley a8 his wit, Kent asserted, Mothern- ba thee _ hr adh poche bevreesentts for guiie-il w Wiley elr constant companion and even Smart guy drew up Lave, coal, When censors his telophone messages to the bride Foner and Obey clause, Smart for |" ots be. done, pit & “ In the mean time, Kent's good disposition has begun his age, we mean, Don't know what a honor. , to wane. In fact, he hee been baled into court on a it wamybut suspect it must have heen a charge of disorderly conduct, his*mother-in-lew testify- son-in-law, And that is just the point How many honeymoons and how masy ves do SOME mothers-in-law want? ; Far be it from us to say that all mothers-in-law .are detestable erea- tures and regular old trouble-makera, >, Personally, we do not believe it, We {| Bave seen all kinds of mothers-in-law » Tanging from good, bad and indif- ferent to regular old “butt-ing.” We have heen fortunate enough to mest # @lendid, helpful, kind-hearted old 4 souls who have actually saved the }, happiness of many a young married 4p e@ouple We have seen mothers-in- ‘law who have taught their daughters to cook, reared their babies for them and sent them home to their bus- bands as obedient and penitent little / wives after a hasty, uncalled for fit of temper and a “running home to moth- @." We have seen mothers-in-law who have had @ heart-to-heart talk with Bille after @ night out with the “boys” and forever and ever settled late hours and bad companions. And then, much as we hate to say it, we have seen mothers-in-law who enrage our disposition ao that we oan- not find words enough to express our opinion of them, They are the moth- ors-in-law who @re not content with Uving thelr own Lives, the mothers-in- law who do not believe tha. two young people who are in love with each other have brains enough to set- Ue thelr own problems and arrange thelr own lives. They are the orig- inal trouble-makere and joy-killera of the love world. Many a mother-in-law has thought she could reach the solution of the M. I, L. problem by quietly keeping Se ALFALFA SMITH. Sincerely, “Po you understand?” may I ask— under discussion to-day—and form the second term of peace These two words “I understand!" of himself—the individusl. of man and the smallness vastness of the brotherhood with one central idea—the But he came back living creature, mind that he was the greatest over firmly fixed in his own self, Many a man went The war anninilated for you?" It \s “what can I do of others, of peace the same as those ‘We must make our terms the case, the other fellow's side of war forever is to understand again and the way to stop We don't want it to happen stand one another better, we are growing to under- standing!” It seems to me another term is “under- term—"Buddile” and And so we have one me “brother.” one thinks enough to call Me kinder to think some other fellow better. Makes makes me understand the T's so soft and cuddiie like, It but I love to be called Buddie! T was not @ soldier, "Buddie.” endearment? It is the word of the terms—a, term of Have you noticed one D the terms of peace? New York Brent ) Ooogrights Wi, tou "Pryas Dh GOING UP 0, ? 4 4 4 a ’ “ 4 4 : ' rT : ing that she has been throatencd, with baiily harm by However, it looks ag if the court rather favored young Kem. “How many honeymoons do you want?" asked Judge Sweetser, turning to Mrs. Wiley. “I think the young couple gre entitled to a honeymoon by them- to ber own room, by leaving thé hus- band and wife alone @ reasonabie amount of time, by short, by “attending strictly to her own business.” Perhaps she has suc- ceeded in dotng all this for a short time, but ean she do it year after yeas? We h: stinct," and the mother who lives under the game roof with ber mar- | ried daughter is constantly aware of | this “mother instinct” feeling every jtme there te the slightest provuca- | |tlon, Uf hubby gives his wife » cross | j wore or an ugly frown & goes | j through and through ber! Im other words, hubby's crossneas affects two ingtend of one and it hits twice as hard, The young wife might not | notice his touchiness or bis unkind words if alone, but her pride before her mother makes her “openly re- went it,” A mere hint of “your father never #poke to me like that,” or “You are not beginning right,” Is enough to make & young wife fecl that she really has picked @ “lemon” in the @erden of Jove Certainly it makes her oritical and rather inapires her wo" for flawa” , Bh if it is hard for a man to live in the game house with his mother- in-law it is trebly hard for a woman to live in the same house with hig |mother, ‘The husband hag a chance to go out each day, but the wife/ must rémain under the same ¢ent and in many cases even tote mother- | in-law out to teas, social calls and jtheatres, Hut even that would not |be as hard as having te learn how \to keep house all over again. Bel-| |dom do you find two women who “gree on the same recipe for even making bread, let alone managing 4 |housepold and taking eare of tho |children, Therefore if a daughter is compelled to live in the same home with her mother-in-law she must make up her mind to unlearn all the things her own mother has taugtt her, And even if she is willing to do this she will find jt pretty hard to make hubby think she is half as clever as his mother, She may suc- ceed in being sort of a pocket edly |tion to “Ma," but she will never have that happy feeling of doing things her own way and winning \her husband's love by following out her own inclinations and original ways. ‘The dest mothers-in-law in the world are the ones who live at least ten blocks away and who fully ap- |preciate that “two is company and jthree a crowd," ARE IN STYLE THIS By, Marguerite Mooers Marshall Commits Sow Yok pening Waskure W HAT are we coming to next, in the matter of clothes? American women have been » Putting the que . tion to themselves with some anxiety, after reading the flashes trom Paris about knee length skirts and backleas evening gowns cut below the waist in the Climatic considerations—to, say nothing of the police—would make such costumes a bit diMcult for @ New York winter. But the question of what we are going to wear next winter is now sat- tled to every one's satisfaction, The Fashion Show of the Shelton Looms and Associated Garment Manufac- turers has just ended its. seasions ay the Rits-Cariton, American designer, have shown what they can do for American women in this first peace season. There could be mo more gor- geous and startling reaction from the uniforms and gray uniformity of the war years, Aa to color—we shall appear in the most blazing bonfire red, the Queen of Sheba purple, and peaceck blues and greens, As to the etthouette—for the first time in years hips will be worn, The straight silhouette has vanished. The hour-glass waist of our grandmothers is with us again. As to daring—more will come off Bt the top and the bottom. ‘The back- less evening gown is held up by only the tiniest wisp of chiffon or by a bead strap halt an inch wide. ‘he skirts are eight inches from the sround—or shorter. At least one ever ning frock at the show was slit to the knee. As to novelties—here are a few? the hand-painted sport coat, the short- sleeved keram! coat, feather trim, mings, the Hawaiian skirt of jet fringe, the London guards plume, the dinner’ plate hat, the huge feather fan, the wired collar, The drastic change in the straight- OU often hear the tired house- ¥ wife sigh for table drawers that H will close themselves, The Il- lustrated World suggests the means for accomplishing that desire, as jShown in the accompanying pic- |ture, Simply attach coil springs, such a8 are used on ecreen doors, to the back of the drawer and to the inner side of the table side boards. Soap all wood that the drawer slides against so that it will work easily and the drawer will close when re- leased. ‘To lock it open when desired attach one half of an ordinary smatt’ hinge to the inner aide of the drawer, | SELF-CLOSING DRAWER FOR KITCHEN TABLE. leaving the other end folded down tie Me aera eed open, o the Stone Age. Never been able to discover the first bird to exact the promise any more than they've been able to discover a gual that ever kept It. Only thing we've discovered is that the modern girl wont promise anything and the old-time girl promised everything. Both did as they pleased. Lawyers. say marriage is @ con- tract—verbal contract, Bride doesn't sign ber name to anything, eo mar- riage tan't even a scrap of paper. It's just a ecrap. Only place & puts her name when she ried is in cold storage, takes her husband's name and dreas and everything else that got. Easy to see such @ verbal con~ should now read: “Love, Honor ~ and Shut Up on Demand.” Minister » has more to say, but the bride will have less. And that reminds us of something else, Girls kick at Obey, but when did they ever give husbands Honor? CHIN= COLLAR, ~ errecT coming $460 a carat—but all the rough stuffs out out. Cave woman didn't have to wash her husband's clothes, but she would have if -he wanted ‘om washed, And cave wom- an didn't have to sit up waiting for of royalty. The most daring gown at him when he went out to the club. the Fashion Show was of purplé vel-| wo indeed. Cave man just took seen tre mentee tne, wanty {tis wite to the club. And as soon as outlinin, ie re oO ie Wi isnt He Giph Save Deen put on with|he got within range he knocked her &@ shoe-horn, down with 1+ “hat's why she didn’t Ostrigh feathers and artificial flow- |have to sit Otherwise, the cave ers will be used extensively for trim-|woman had a nice, soft time of it. ming; eometimes the foathers will be] But the flapper of to-day demands Seen Ue ot ceandetate Tate pig fFeedom. Like Patrick Henry, some- ju have one o! ram a's love feather fana—it should bé qt leant |OdY—We never could remember that guy's last name—well, anyway, like | Patrick, to-day's flapper says, “Gim- two feet long—bring it out, "for all the smart women will carry one at parties, . And if grandma his any old- fashioned jet trimming you had bet- ter annex that. It is being umed on new frocks for young women, for the first time in years, One dresa at the Fashion Show had long, tinkling Streamers of jet arranged about the walst like a Hawallan grass skirt, Some evening gowns—and nogiigecs —had attained’ a lovely decorative effect by being ‘illuminated’; that Cash Down. : ant Copyright, 1910, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York reine World). ANY successful men ha like starting for a hike with a debtor accounts, but no heavy load on your back, You up-and-down silhouette, however, 18 | top. Skirts, while full and Rouffant the most startling feature of the new | over the hips, will be only moderately costumes, Coat after coat accentu- M ates the full-skirted effect over the hips. In one smart black and white check sult of skatrap widths of white satin are inset between the bex pleats of the coat, to increase its circumference below the waist.’ It will take ever so much more cloth than your tatlor has used in years to make the coat of your new sult. Kerami, plugh, velvet, velours and similar materials, trimmed most lavishly with fur, will be used for winter coats, The collars are any- where from one to three feet in width —some of the French designers are wiring theirs, to make the broad, heavy things standup. Pur cuffs frequently reach to the elbow. Some fur coats are allowed to blouse In the back, thus adding to the general effect of shapelessness, A novel and absurdly inconsistent feature of the new coats is the short sleeve. ‘The outdoor garments which end at the elbow are called “coatees,” to be aure, but they are made of heavy fur with big collars and sug- gest warmth in every line—except for the abbreviated sleeve, One wonders what will be worn with them—slx- teen-button Fie of tur, or muffs big enough to reach to the elbow! ‘The average length for the skirt of this winter will be eight inches from the groynd, But some of the amart evening frocks will be slit to the knee, and at least one sport skirt at the fashion show ended just below the knee-cap. It was of black and white striped silk, very narrow, and with » slit about six inches long at the back, extending upward from the top of the acai i aecapacbcneacu agg atammanaaae i }cireular band which finished off the skirt—ae if the placquet’ had begs placed at the bottom inatead of the wide at the bottom, : Women with pretty necks will be glad to know that the French return to the high collar for everything ex- cept evening wear has not yet been jtaken up by New York designers, [ | Temamiber only one high-collared frock at the fashion show-—very smart, {0 be sure, but one of the few | mportationg, As for this winter's dinner and dance frocke-—I doubt if anything ox- cept @ cable fram @ war correspond- ent wae ever so thoroughly deleted, Studying them, one sees instantly why evening cloaks are so’ extra thick and heavy. They will be needed when the pneumonia bugs caper around. No one is leas of a Puritan than I, but it occurred to me at the Fashion Show that @ revival of Lady Godiva's style of bair-dress- ing might be advisable this winter for Lady Godiva's reasons. Not only are evening gowns this winter to be backless—they will come close to being frontiess, And they are fraught with possibilitfes of even worse catastrophe, Let us hope our oma will no involuntary >) during the eomiag season, bul when @ danoe-frock consisting of skirt is moored on one side by a strap of silver beads. half an inch wide and on the other by a wisp of rose- colored ebiffon, anything MAY hap- pen. ‘The “will-it-won't-it” flirtation which the fashionable evening gown is conducting with the law of grav- ity would make said gown a fascinat- ing spectacle, but it has other attrac- tions, It ts developed in the most | startling colora~-the rod that shows under 4 flamingo's wing, the orange- ned of etewed tomatoes, the purple i A A EES floral designs in soft tones painted on the velvet foundation. Hven if you have not been overseas you can wear “service ribbons,” At the Fashion Show was an exceedingly smart sport coat, out like @ military tunic, even to the collar and buttons, end hand painted with dull bars of color suggestive of campaign insignia, When you buy a new riding habit this fall you will be very smart it you choose a tight-fitting black eoat, black and white checked knieker- bockers and ia turkey-red vest. There will be an idea! hat-shape for both the tall woman and the short one. For the former nothing could be more becoming than the dinner-plate—round and almost Gat, shallowing about as much as a dinner late instead of sending up a crown, and epilling out a plume of ostrich feathers, The little woman will add to her inches if she dons the Grena- dier Guards hat—which has a pom- pon of tall feathers in front, similar to that of the dress uniform of Lon- don guardsmen, Not since the gloomy shape of War cast Its shadow over frivolous Dame Fashion, has she disported herself in| such noyel, gorgeous and costly way Aa far ag she is concerned, the Pea Treaty is signed, Clothes have come into thelr own again, WITH THE INVENTORS, A North Carolina musical instru: ment dealer is the Inventor of ape paratus with which one man can load @ plano upon the back of an automo- bile. ‘A screen has been patented to be installed at a joint of the Intake of @ farize iedvae Deunsti ace! Promote complete i Sos miami anmertes siti man can owe money successfully, PAY AS YOU GO UNLESS YOU'RE GOING TO THE BAD. Sooner or later the man will not live within his means will have to live without them. There are more than seventeen kinds of a certain variety of fool, all included in the man who goes into debt. " Debt ts the key to the door of degradation, and the man who enters its portalg is usually shut out of all the others, Self-respect ig the sheet anchor of character, but the man who goes into debt cuts the cable, clings to 9 straw or drifts away without @ life preserver, He isn't out of danger till he's out of debt. Of all thieves Debt {s the worst. It steals good-will, good- nature, credit, friendship and health; for the man who goes a- borrowing goes a-sorrowing. Debt is @ cancer that epreads and spreads and spreads until it has eaten into a man’s heart and soul and fiber, leaving a living wreck who must hearken to the beck and call of a merciless master, To borrow ts to increase your vulnerability and to decrease your resistance, One of the hard- est things in the world is to pay for bread that has been eaten, The lightest debt is a heavy set Starting out in the morm 1g @ debt op your hands is don't get there, you don’t make your mark, you can't reach your destination, If you borrow you pay double. Rarely can you secure suff. client to cover pressing needs. Generally you incur weightier abilities, each loan sinks you deeper a: deeper, more inex- tricably into the mire, Debt {s a frost—it kills char- acter, It is a rust—it dulls re- sponsibility, It ia a strangling chain—it dwarfa growth, it shackles progress. Purgatory is paved with un- paid debts. Borrowing, lying and stealing are eventual concomi- tants. The Alpba and Omega of misery and faithfulness is I, 0, U, Every time you sign one you sign up for a trip to the devil and a hell worse (than Pluto ever reigned over, Only that which is honestly got is gain and that which is bor rowed {s not honestly got, for borrowing is living om the earn- ings of others. Debt is the mesh in the net of unhappiness. It is the worst kind of poverty and prodigality, It's the keystone tn the Arch of Failure, the Foundation Stone of the ‘House of Ruin, the Hearthstone of Ignominy. Debit is the Sword of Damocles aus