The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1919, Page 14

ee ee _—e V+ tenet es "| Of the “Second Chance” <n Great American Gospel Summer Girls of 1919 DIAGNOSED BY A DICKY-BOY’S DIARY Coprrigtt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Mvening World). Made Two War Heroes ; Queer Ancient Customs Survive in Modern China Occidental Eyes Find Many Odd Sights in This Big Corner of the Orient Where They Fish With Birds, Ride Passengers on Wheelbarrows and Stick a Malefactor’s Head Through a Hole in a Board Just as Their Ancestors Did Generations Ago Pardoned by President Wilson After Being Sentenced to Death for Sleeping on Post, Privates Sebas- tian and Cook Made Good Records in Battle. Lincoln Gave “Second Chances,” So Did Napoleon—| Judges Often Do—Most of Us Need Them From! Time to Time—We Should Always Be Ready to + Give Them. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘Cuprrtaht, 1919, by The Prem Pubtishing On (The New York Brening Wort). WO interesting records of regeneration have just Treo » aa ¢ Rene = cee EN BF ook " » vieted of sleeping on outpost duty, you “Tt will interest you to know that upon restoration to duty in battle in the Aisne offensive in ‘wag wounded in the same battle and restored to health in time Meuse-Argonne battle, when he again fought gallantly an wounded. He has been now restored .to health through a No. 10—The Musical Girl HARLOTTE, the musical girl. For I learned hey name after bribing the head-waiter at The Inn. I connived to meet her on the lake, where she was wont to row among the lilies. The next evening I rescued her drifting skiff from the dangers of the falls. But, lo, she Was much wrathy at finding holes bored in the oars. For | had I not practised some subtle strategy? And, besides, the boat the adherents of none may alike sub- scribe, It is the Gospel of the Second Chance, Whoever you are, tf you cannot ownes was well paid for his boring propensities. A beautiful creature was Charlotte, Lilting melodies escaped from the strings of her ukelele as we lolled upon the Bhadowed crags above the boathouse. Charlotte was taller than most of the maidens at The Inn. Her dark hair; black, Mashing eyes, and mischievous dimples besp>ke capacity for great love; yea, verily, unto suffocation. A versa- tile lags, methinks, too; for doth she not Iéan heavily on Spanish serenades; switching subtle Mike to obligatos and jazz? Charlotte's viduality, imagination and daring to make a blunder, There are many sorts of folly, Yours may not have been an infrac- tion of the laws of the state or na- tion. Yet you may have played hub and HINESE MALEFACTORS DOING with your chances of happiness GALE JARS OR STRIPES.po duty. ‘me one of the most charming told of the Little Corporal it narrative of how, finding a boy tm fniform asleep at his ‘the ruthless conqueror of the ‘world gently took the lowered musket ‘imself watched until the sol- “awoke—-to be forgiven and Qrusted not to fail his trust again. HAND-PAINTED SKIRT STARTLES SOUTHAMPTON. 1 of the most odd ocos- tumes worn at the summer eolony at Southampton is ® hand-painted sport skirt, i which Indian and Egyptian tres are hand-painted on emall No two squares are achievement almost as effectually as the messenger boy who yields to the sudden temptation to make off with &@ thousand-dollar Liberty bond, or the girl lover of beauty who whips from the counter the embroidered Dlouse she cannot afford to buy. Perhaps you fell in love with the wrong man—wrong because he wasn't in love with you—and perhaps you wore your heart on your sleeve and wrote him “tush” notes and even tagged him about in public for sume silly weeks or months in your “teens, late Perhaps—4f you are a man—you lost a really good job because, half- intoxicated with your first good-sized salary, you joined a poker club or went into debt to buy a car, slighted your work and skidded out of employer's favor more promptly you climbed into it. As you were once @ superlative foul, | &s you found tolerant, humane your than and women who said, “Forget it! Try again!"—#o it devolves on you to pass along the benefits of the sec- ond chance to the impulsive, blunder- ing young folk about you. You tho best of reasons for knowing “they do come back.” ond chance, try it has not seamed fair (nat a or woman married to a disloya] societies, should be compelled to There are men and women, moniaj chance, but a fourth and not many of them, despite the will not turn it {nto license, belief in the value of the first offenders in our courts, jjudges everywhere are doing soldier-boys, being snatched from squa tions, and told to go and sin no The great Teacher who first those | have that Good American doctrine is the sec- What else, but a belict in It, ts responsible for our divorce laws? To the citizens of this coun- man par- son, to a drunkard, to a criminal, to ® brute, to an evader of obligations voluntarily assumed—should thereby be cut off for life from the happiness of real love, of, as in most European lake that love secretly and hypocritically. it ts true, who use our divorce laws to obtain not merely a second matri- ftth and sixth, They carry optimiam to an impossible point, But there are out cries of offended moralists, and po |iberty can be so hedged and guarded |that certain unscrupulous individuals | Another American institution which shows the cheerful, kindly national second |chance is the system of suspended sentence and probation applied to Our Just what President Wilson did for the! Sebastian and Cook; Young men and women who have! broken the law for the first time ar. firing of peace, the penal institu- more, used that beautiful phrase believed in for- giving not oly once but times seven. In some nineteen dred years the rest of us have been unable to conform to anything like {that standard of tolerance and sym- But surely the granting of a pathy. : ; sa Rist | MLN eR seventy bun- | ae ROKE OEE BIS” CES of CHINA. HUGE FIGURE IN FANCY REGALIA HEAD * THE CORTEGE ... ALFALFA SMITH. Yours truly, But the end is in sight! cease—it is all not over yet. them—but let their love not The women did—more power to won the war. argument about who Btop the ceaseless, useless counsel, cheer and love, after letter of encouragement, found time to send letter needle and the stitches they Between the olick of the ‘They won the war! noble women, love and self-sacrifice of our after it in the shape of the The good that war does lives sisters and sweethearts, with our wives, mothers, on, for our salvation remains Surely the good work must go at least? the war is over—for a time has it lost its impetus because deen wasted—I mean, Has such a loving industry wer work. to take the place of what women are doing What interests me now ts and war work? time for the Red Cross Just the same and still have of the folks at home Did they not take care and patch? Bless ‘em again, Did they not knit and darn question! How foolish to ask such a God bless them! No, it was the women, Hoboken? {reland—one of the Allies or Was it America—England Who won the war? EAR BVPRYBODY: (The New York Brening Worlt,) Covreighi, 1019, by Pree Publigling Co, GOING UP reach of our kindness one to an- other. Take @ chance—at least ONE chance—on the man or woman who has failed or fallen, Even as the military criminals the President par- doned turned into heroes, so the ehance you take on a young first of- fender is more than likely to win you ® prise in the lottery that is life, Le TRAINED KINGFISHERS IN CHINA READY FOR A MORNING'S WORK. ee “Central” THEY CALL HER “CENTRAL” BECAUSE SHE’S THE ONLY THING BETWEEN YOU AND THE NUMBER YOU’ RE CALLING By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). NLY thing that’s slower O than the Central Rail- . road of New Jersey and more haughty than Central Park West is “Central” of the phone exchange. Central is so low in eMciency that 2.75 stands for her average instead of a bever- age. Her heart may be in the right place—left oblique from the spinal column—but her hear- ing is disconnected, Only num- bers that central remembers are those the song writers write. Central always gets your goat —long before she gets your number, They call her “central” because she’s the only thing be- tween you and the number you're calling. And she always puts up a valiant defense. And she's no respecter of per- sons, Call Columbus and she'll give you Franklin, Considers that a fair exchange. And careless! Call Morningside and she'll give you the other side— Riverside. Call for both sides and she'll get ‘em scrambled, Central's a great help to a guy in trouble, When you try to get a number you forget all your other troubles. Remember a Young Wife that called for her hubby on the phone. Hub was playing poker that night, Wife takes off receiver. “Are you calling John?” says centeal. “Why, yes,” lighted to death. “What number John?” says central. “There's only one John,” says the Wife. “The same old dear No. L” says Wife, de- ” says central. ays the Wife, “How “Drop a nickel in, says central, “Say,” says the Wife, “are you talking to me or John?" But the star chamber of horrors is the telephone booth. Customer wedges into booth and drops a plugged nickel in slot. Plugged nickel is 0, K,--cen- tral’s gonna put a plug in your call, so that makes it even, Any- way, the call is phoney—nickel can be the same. After central gets your nickel, next move Is to get central. Find she's more temperamental than a chorus girl. You can get a chorus girl with the hook, but you can't get central with the hook no matter how you jiggle it) Central takes her time in answering. Also takes yours, Finally asks what number you want. Foxy guy gives the wrong number, That boosts the chances of getting the right one. Give the right number and you won't get it anyway; give the wrong one and you stand # chance vr getting your party by mistake. please,” But as a rule you get neither. Only one thing harder than getting a number. That's getting your nickel back. There's a re- fund slot at the bottom of every pay station, but the only thing we ever took out of it was our finger. | Old time song hit was, “Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven.” Showed central had good con- nections In the old days. But no more. Tired Business Man says “Hello, central!” eight or ten times, and no answer, Proceeds to give central something else besides heaven. Recent war song about a kiddie that asked central to get her No-Man’'s Land. Not such @ foolish idea, Kid had as much chance of getting No- Man's Land as it did of getting Bryant 41144 or Plaza 60650, Operators’ favorite song is, “They go wild, simply wild, over me.” Rarest sport is getting a toll call through. Customer notifies toll operator he wants Newark 275. Operator puts him on wait- ing list, plays a hand of pinochle and goes out to Junch. Some time within the fiscal week toll oper- ator notifies customer she's still trying. Customer knows it al- ready—thinks she's the most trying person he ever listened to. But operator finally gets New- ark—persistence wins! Newark number happens to be wrong one, but it proves Newark is shimmery gown flowed lightly from two slerider shoulder straps. “I love to strum in the moonlight,” she sighed. And every night I pray for clouds. - T WO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM : By Herman J. Stich | Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). Our Spirit Shall Survive recovered from its terri- ble shock and like An- taeus in his struggle with Her- cules, has risen stronger after its fall. Throughout the land is heard the tramp of marching feet, not marching toward the field of conflict, but a victoxlous, tri- umphant army, its appointed tagk done, human liberty and universal freedom won. And now in place of slouchy, shifty, slovenly manhood stand clean-cut, sparkling-eyed Amer- ieans, than whom there are none ®touter-hearted, none of greater soul and purpose, none who faced unthinkable hazard and peril with more indomitable faith and valor. And out of the crucible of seeming years of anxiety and ceaseless sacrifice and inspired hope has been born a more sacred spirit, a nobler national strength, a worthier jook and vision which will withstand the onslaughts of insidious poison administered by those who would pollute and despojl the principles which alone safeguard their life and limb. We have become the Beareré of the Torch, the Pilot through the Ages, the Watchers at the Flame of Liberty. We shall see that this light c IVILIZATION has rapidly still connected with the outside world. Customer has charge for this information put on his bill, but beats the phone company by going crazy before the first of the month. Company furnishes recreation rooms and books to operators and it does ‘em a lotta good. Literary guy the other day wanted to call up another liter- y guy. Summary of the battle follows: “Gimme Chicago,” says the first it. guy. “I wanna talk with Lardner, Ring W.” “Never mind his number,” says central, “what's his first name?” No use! will never wane. We shall heed it and feed it that it may burn brighter and broader and per- vade the living universe) Our spirit, the essence of our national life, our lofty, altruistic idealism have voyaged afar with bayonet and sword, to the Bast and to the West.and to the North and to the South and they have returned to the land of their birth, purer, undefiled, more powerful, more tplifting, more vibrant with humanity and man’s brotherhood than ever be- fore. We are the beacon fire to which the nations will look in times of world-wide storm. We shall stand as the lighthouse mid the paths of liberty and justice and ambition and toler ance; but we will not tolerate those who would invoke our holy light to destroy it. Our spirit shall survive and conquer and make all mankind kin, The chronicler of history shall record in his book that America has kept the faith. > DOUBLE-CROSSING HIM, Mie FLATBUSH—And doesn't she like her husband? Mrs, Bensonhurst—Like him I should say not! running for an office she'd put tw crosses opposite his name on t ballot instead of Statesman, _——_— EUROPEAN AIR MAILS. Regular twice daily aerial for mail and newspapers has bee: oa and Naples, and cervice between Rome + established between Rome Why, if he was one!—Yonker» and Palermo and Rome and Come wtantinople is planced. Se ee