The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1919, Page 16

—— — TUESDAY, SEP TEMBER 2, 1919 Newlyweds Who Guard Keep Matr Money Matters Now imony Safe For Old Age Begin in Your Youth the Self-Denial, the Wise Economy, the Saving, the Joint Programme of Family Expenditure—Their Fruit Will Ripen for You in Later Years—Don’t Wait to Learn by Experience in Impoverished Old Age the Lesson of “I Wish We Had Realized Then.” By Fay Stevenson Weve ‘Comrright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), HAT claims has a wife on @ husband's income? Is it his privilege to fix the amount she shall receive for household expenses and keep a xenerous allowance because he “earns” it, or is it her right to insist that It has always been said that money is the root of all evil, and whether this be true or not certain it is that money causes a great many misunderstandings and unpleasant feelings between married couples. have always felt that if the on the right course and have a deffhite money arrange- ment their lives Would run along much smoother and it is a common fund? many hard ruts in life be avoided, It hardly seems fair for Mr, NeWywed to pocket his salary and strut about with a lordly, condescending air, handing Mrs. Newlywed hold expenses and perhaps squeeze in a frappe and a matinee ticket. And yet I have heard the young husband assert that his wife had no “fea of the value of money, and if he were to turn over @ large sum of money to her each week the house would be full of ferns and potted plants, of dainty blouses and evening bills would be unpaid. Of course all this is true in some the value of a dollar bill, When o girl has received “papa's allowance” and has never been trained to mar- ket for her mother or share any of the responsibilities connected with the running of the house naturally s' will be careless with her husband’ hard earned money. But even in such this it is the husband's duty @ certain amount and in @ lesson the average young girl has had at the age of six- & general thing woman ls a very creature. We have had a of pleasure from the version of the woman husband of every pos- picks him up bodily, #o that coins from id trousers pockets who arises in the night to pick his y this t« not the She fs not the il nt i i l cE 2 g 5 H i i rH g 4 4493 4 | i: | i 5 and planned with as .as the old fashioned the much talked of i i i : dusband and wife who about money matters, definite programme and apecified amount each: and reach mi4- if hot wealthy i il il 5 E 5 | No business house is gowns, but the rent and the butcher's run without a definite plan as to how much money is spent during the week and how much taken jn, and the iarger the concern the more particular they are even to accounting for the last penny: And so it should be in every well run household. There is no sight 80 pitiful as the middle aged couple who have never put aside a cent. But in order for couples to come to @ definite understanding and keep within a certain limit both muut be willing to keep to their arrangement. It is hardly worth while for one, either the husband or the wife, to save while the other plunges into every dollar they can get. I once heard 4 young wife say, “I really spend more on frappes, theatre tickets, taxis and lunches to my friends than I know is right, considering our income, but what am I to do? Jack spends so much on expensive cigars and treats for his friends that I feel it is all going any- way and I might as well bave a little of the fun of spending.” It is needless to say that this couple have everything going, from a pink stucco bungalow to a yellow touring car, but nothing they have is paid for and they are constantly dodging and planning and scheming and quar- réelling with each other, If the hus- band should die he would leave his widow with a score of debts and nothing before her but a search for some sort of employment, Keeping up with each other's bills is not holt as much fun os planning and saving and making life rosy and independent for all old age. ‘A few yoats ago a young bank clerk and his-wife started out on @ very| I wlyweds could start out it enough to cover house- \ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), [10s are eration of Kng. oy sald, more beauties to of population than ever before. At that, I fancy they are not crowding each other, if I may judge by the long- faced, cold-eyed young women whose photographs fill, without adorning, the British weeklies, However, “nature is looking up"— to quote Whistler—among English flappérs and their older sisters. The explanation? Here is one: “Constant contemplation of the most beautiful types of womanhood on the films, The propounders of this ingenious theory go on to explain that the semi- meagre salary and ja @ very meagre! darkness of the theatre, the music, Uttle home, The young wife did with-' out a maid, she never ordered by ttele-! phone because she thougnt she could do better by selecting her own cuts and watching the scales, she never ran up bills but paid cash for every pur- chase, and she saved and helped her husband inMevery possible manner, She and her husband made a@ practice of accounting for everything they spent, even to the smallest detail, and they were as particular in accounting for every penny as the business manager of @ big concern. ‘What is the result? How did this mercenary little couple come out, you ask? Did they ever have fun, any of the joy of having @ real blowour or REALLY live? Perhaps not for the first five or six years of thelr married life, They did not entertain much and they lived a very quiet, secluded life, but the fun came after they really got a start in life, The young banker kept advancing every year because he was steady and earnest and never “all Ured out” after @ big blowout the night before. With each advance he kept right on saving instead of cele- brating by @ big dinner or a fiivver or a cltange of residence. Tc-Gay he is the bank president and he has ceasva to be quite so economical. Both he and his wife have deckied that they can afford to spend their interest now fr eed E crisp fall days are com- ing, and both the college miss and the girl who walks in the parks or suburbs will find suit of brown knitted yarn like shown above quite suitable. as long as they do not touch their principal, But there never would have been any interest to spend if they hadn't come to @ definite understand- ing regarding money matters and just how much each should spend! A great many young couples have he feeling that the only time to live snd spend money and get all the good vut of life is when they are young. Chey frequently argue tha: you never vant anything as much as when you re young. gBut on second thought, verhaps you never want worldly hings @nd creature comforts and uxuries as much as when you are the upward gaze “all are conditions favorable to such psychic influence, and the mental impreasions received by young persons when gazing on Be- lected types of lovely face and form must result in the general beautifica- tion of the race.” Although the Greeks knew nothing about the cinematograph, they evi- dently took stock in the above theory -~with the emphasis on “lovely form." Their well-formed youths appeared without even running trunks In the Olympian games, and the people be- lieved that women contemplating constantly the lines of the beautiful human body would themselves give ‘birth to even more beautiful chitdren. It is conceded that the Greeks as a race attained a higher standard of physical loveliness than ary other nation before or since, Whether girls who look mot at pretty girls but at their screen shad- ows are thereby made prettier or merely more envious is a question. Nevertheless, are not the movies making and moulding the lives of many of us, even if our noses and eyebrows are unaffected? How many wives and busbands the charming light comedies—alas! never more to be filmed—of the late Sidney Drew and his wife! Mrs, Drew briefly summed up her matrimonial philosophy in an inter- view I had with her at the end of three years of married life in and out of the movi “What we have tried to do,” Robinson's home, we were @udience not mefely ad! Age is the time for diamonds fine feathers. But youth is the time to work for them, the breath: acted like that last week? Henry the image of my husband?’ HAT are the movies doing, sister dear, to yout In England, according to the latest reports, th mov- beautifying their girl patrons. The present gen- girls, it is numbers the square mile learned to manage each other from | y, she said, “is to let people see the nice, funny, happy average Americcn home ~not our home alone but your home, Mrs, John Jones's home, Mi, Henry We have felt that most successful when our laughed but nudged each other and said, under "There—isn't that just ind limousines and country home» und |!ke us?” ‘Do you remember how you ‘Isn't How the Movies Are Moulding Us Over “Of course, one undoubted fact in the American home is that the wife jalwaye knows what her husband is doing. It is just as true, on the other hand, that he will not do anything really bad. He makes mistakes and blunders, often immensely funny ones, but he does not commit crimes. He is a pretty good husband, take him all around, and his wife cannot be with him very often or very jong. ery lttle situation in my plays ends happily. Marriage in this country is not often a tragedy or even @ melodrama. It is a happy sentimental comedy.” It is—but sometimes it seems some- thing else. Those are the timos whet ® film drama of American married life can correct a point of view tem- porarily warped, Suppose a woman's husband does not come home at the usual time, If she goes to the muving picture house and sees the story of why the average well-meaning Amer- ican is late to dimner—the subway block, the time-killer in his offive, the detour through crowded streets to buy candy for the children—she will return home and give him a kiss in- stead of tears and scoldings of joalous age. Or perha| he thinks he gives too little money and fusses too much over the bills, Her point of view may be revolutionized if she sees’a film drama of @ man who almost works himself into an insane asylum to sat- isfy the demands of a thoughtlessly extravagant wife. As “Henry s" wife, ‘Mrs, Sidmey Drew must have taught many a married woman lessons in humorous, tolerant understanding and manipulation of Henry or John or Tom. Lessons in courteous, chivalrous Jove-making are taught to the younger generation by Eugene O'srien, J. Warren Kerrigan, Douglas Fairbanks BEAUTIFUL, They’re. Teaching Husbands and Wives How to Manage Each Other; Coaching Young Romeos in Manners and the Art of Making Love; Showing Girls How to Dress and Deport Themselves Becomingly; Giving Housewives Object Lessons in Tasteful Home Decoration; lt Even Increasing the Beauty Crop, According to English Claim, ing up handkerchiefs, their earnest yet tender and decent love-making, is not going to tolerate any “treat-‘em- rough” methods from her own Love- lace. She acquires a standard of good manners and the polite expression of sentiment which perhaps nothing in her home life or school surroundings would teach her. Therefore she insists that her Ro- meo of the tenements shall not kiss her with his hat on, shall not quarrel loudly in public places, shall not be her escort unless he is as presentably roomed as his pocketbook will allow. Contemplation of the heroines of the screen may not make our girls more beautiful~do they even ,need that?—but it should and doubtless does make them more appreciative of the charms of girlish simplicity and modest clothes. The young girl who is devoted to Mary Pickford and the other inge- nues of the screen is likely to eschew the make-up box and the too revela- tory clothes which make her appear- ance so much harder and older than it need be, With the youthful ten- dency to imijate what one «dmires, she will do her hair simply and choose quiet, girlish frocks and plain little suits, The furnishing of movie apartfnents and houses teaches women valuable lessons in home desoration, They learn how much more effective is plain wallpaper as a background for framed pictures, and how a couch covered with comfortable cushions is worth half a dozen gimerack chairs trimmed with tidies, Personally, I wish there were not so many moving pictures teaching that slapstick crudity is synonymous with true humor, and that the cus- tard ple and torn trousers school of comedy might be banished from the and other gallant young genuemon of the screen drama. The girl who watches their hat-doffings, their in opening doors und pick- screen, But its undesirable lessons are in the balance against much other excellent instruction in manners aud good laste, t ® PAY ANS TAMP FEET EFORE GOING ON “THE FLoor, ANCING MASTERS want Government control of dancing. Good idea. Gdvernment controls the mails, might as well take in the flappers too, Make it a complete job. If the Government speeds up dancing the way it did the rail- roads, it looks like a’ big season for waltzing. Won't have a Director General of Dancing, though. He'll be a floor direc- tor. Every dance will be licensed by the Government. Before you go on the floor you'll have to buy a I-cent stamp. Salome dancers will get strip tickets. Revenue collectors will break up house parties and pinch ‘em for ducking the dance tax. No moonshine waltzes allowed, either, Guys that sit out dances with peaches will be jugged for hoarding. Government control looks like a good plan. Also oughta have an Inter- state Dancing Commission to help free trade. When they dig up a new dance on the Barbary Coast, commission will see that it’s introduced in New York. Interstate Commission will also control jazz music. Can see that songs about Tennessee and Ala- bam’ get an even break in the cabaret market. Chorus girl shows will be staged under Government super- vision.” Another good thing. Government will apply its cold storage laws, and no chicken over twenty-six years of age can get into the front row. United States will make musical com- edy consumer pay the bills, Government will tax the ‘chorus girls’ dances and the dances will tax the audience's eyesight. Same old game, except the ulti- TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich We Are the Master HE earth has long been ours rc and all its heritage; and the seas and their deeps and all that dwells therein; and now the roar of whirring, whirling metal drowns the shriek and scream of the eagle and heralds the glorious tri- umph that man, not fowl, is master | of the air.” Distance no longer separates. The ocean is a hop, its watery expanses are but highways and byways be- tween tho threshold of the old world and the new, We touch a key in New London, New England, and we need not tarry to hear the answering click from London, England. ‘We cut into the cancer of isolation and bigotry and hatred and bind up the wound with bandages of justice and understanding and brotherhood, We fetter Nature and tether her works 80 not a flake that forms upon the whitening, glistening mountain peak but lights our nights with gleam of jewel and fire of brilliant, With tube of glass and ‘orb of lens and weapon of brain we conquer the Universe and make Nature slave of mankind. In our scales we weigh worlds and also infinitesimal, invisible hairs of microscopic insects and in our phials we dissolve constellations and wrest from them their secrets. We resurrect @ broken man with a new arm or a new leg as we would 4 broken puppet. We pit microbe against microbe; sickness against sickness; Nature against herself; and ever we grope and probe; and find arid foun keep on and sweep on. Nature in an angry mood intended that some men should not hear; but we reject her sentence of handicap and teach men to capture fleeting ideas even as they form upon the speaker's lips. She decreed that Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Magicians of Time. others should not see or speak; but we go her much better and sensitize the finger tips and make them into eyes or flitting wands of eloquence. And still we are not satisfied. Still burns the desire to possess that which Hes beyond. Still we stride on and strive on to the ever-retreat- ing horizon for its fabled, fairy gold, and though we reach it not we win more than compensating glory and reward in the struggle. ‘We regard with unfeigned amuse- ment and growing scorn the puny, futile antics of Alladin’s genii. We have long since eclipsed the sorcer- ors of old. WE AND Wi ALONE ARE THE MASTER MAGICIANS OF TIME. a aa New Inventions ° Waterproof garments made of chemically treated cork are a new French invention, having the advan- tage over rubber of being porous and permitting ventilation, 6 6 After fourteen years of expertment- ing an Ilino!s mechanic has produced ® bit that bores stars, crosses, hex- agons, triangles and holes of several other shapes in metal as well as wood, ‘ eee An Australian has invented » water- proof motor to drive brushes against the hulls of vessels to cleanse them without dry docking. x ee A Buffalo inventor has patented a machine to wind narrow rolls of paper for the backs of barbers’ chairs from wider and cheaper rolls, ee A low truck upon which,a ton of hay can be cured in the field and easily moved is the idea of a Missis- stppi farmer, ea Rae Goggles for motorists and sports- men have been invented that are suspended from the visor of a cap without any attachment for their wearers’ cars or noses. By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bening World), UESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1919 % Dancing # (Under Government Control)’ mate consumer gets it in the iris instegt of in the neck, Government will algo issue timetables for dances. Fox trot int 7-8 time and time for shimmy- ing will be 18 minutes, with no stops. All dancers will shake on the platform at their own risk. = One steps will be 3 cents a mile —the usual rates. Can't reckon’ shimmying by distance—Gov- ernment will have to get longi- _ tude tables to figure the tariff, Anyway, shimmy dancers will” shoulder the cost. Stags will pay @ luxury tax and wall flow?“ ers will go deadhead. - Shimmy looks like the big” problem of Government control. Hard work to control the ehim- my, Government or no Govern- ment, United States has been suspicious of the shim move ment for some time. Govern- ment agents,even pinched a few shim dancers and locked ‘em up. No use, though—shimmers cut loose with their shoulder blades. Government's been trying to get rid of the shim, but nothing doing—it can't shake the shim- my. Commission will now try to cure it. Don’t know what the cure is, but know the shimmiers are gonna shake well before taking. ¥ Have a bunch the shimmy is an incurable disease, like loco- motor ataxia. Same symptoms, anyway. You start shaking and can't move—as a rule. Will a mit we have seen shimmy dancers move their feet a couplé of times, though. Cops raided” the place on both oceasions. Their knees didn’t stop shaking even then. Government will also regulate distance between _ partners, Figures distance should be 2.75 per cent. of the dancer's height This'll eliminate hugging, bi Government claims 2.75 arrange- ment is a near bear hug. Also claims that’s near enough. When a guy staps on a peach- erino’s toes, Government won't have to regulate the distance between ‘em. Peacherino will attend to that at the end of the dance. Or sooner. United States will also bring rules of international warfare into play. Strangle hold and Cleopatra clutch are barred, Dumdum jazz music is out, and when a couple of stags* are caught by camouflaged wall flowers, exchange of prisoners will be permitted. Last pro- vision is that no bombs will be dropped on innocent high step- pers. Government bureau of shimmi- nal investigation will be opened at once on Broadway. Cops will patrol the cabaret zone in fast beats, All loose joints will be watched, especially at the shoulders and elbows. Govern- ment will try to put dancing on its feet—only it wants the feet to move, “It’s the biggest idea_y- of the season. And everybody's, watching the Government's first step. THE TRAIN! TRANG—I suppose in these you live in apprehensive trepid@- tion, don't you? Beal—No; I live in the suburtyyaid Baltimore American, veri ~tae —- 4s ve ” we / 4 &