The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1919, Page 18

THURSDAY, S EPTEMBER ii, 1919 | “Spooning No New Pastime of Twentieth Century Lovers | SAYS JUDGE WELCH OF KANSAS TH(RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1919 ‘Poor Endings” Bi “Old Ti re bs ime Couples Spooned ' aes a Found Wives for 100 Doughboys Just as Much—Maybe More Mrs. James Madison Bass, Entertaining Returned Soldiers for N. Y. W. C. C. S. * “Not a Crime,” He Insists, Flaying Kansas Police at Pershing House, Found Targets for Cupid—and Cupid Did the Rest. Who Have Been Arresting Young Folk for Love 7 : Re Making—Advises Older Folk Who Frown Upon ke aa AS the Practice to Remember Their Own Youth. MABISON ByNeal R. O'Hara By Fay Stevenson Sey Copyrisiit, 1919. by The Psy Publishing Co. (The New York Bvenine Worlay. | Coprrinht, 1919. by The Prom Publishing Co. (The New York Inventne World) hdnat dba ARNEGIE claimed it ias a sin| Nowadays they cancel the kith aos to die rich. Well, it ea in clause and leave the - j I a wen, Tien pay not,” says Judge Casimir J, Welch of Kansas lour rd a bap no cinta i baset i, ‘i ae pein . im. nly one Way, and eve dy's after it. ing 80 | tiod'ves teas ose mk ae ius UN Rises Cy ea jaan’ Gs Huh - Chess daye—a2lguai'e ee eine. ieee iS quenion. at 4 Jution was adopted by the Police Board demanding that | err Gail, Yeu die a2 stareationeg | Bi te ed Gavy iether WhasE:ks } every boy and girl caught spooning be arrested and taken ‘that route, nounce to the children she was @ . immediately to the police station. In fact, all through parks, In Swope Kansas, Missouri and Oklaboma there have been whole sale arrests of young folk spooning in automobiles and Park three couples were arrested and taken to the station house and there was no one to take; People that died twenty years go missed a lot. Inheritance tax, for ye thing. Costa Living and Costa Rh, were about the same size then. Thal | paid no attention to either. Cost: newly-widow and the kids would break down. This season mother an~ nounces that “father has left us’ and the kids say, “How much? If it's in five figures, the kids de a the part of the youngsters except “Cas” Welch, Living’s been going up since then,yreak-down. "I have found,” he said yesterday at the Holland and Costa Rica's been going round,| Rich bird that dies rich doesn’t | | | House, “that most girls themselves, Chen scr eentury lads and lassics. I was a eather.” Jodge Welch wears the «mito of Youth, the amile of the optimist who Bae never made a distinct line be. tween youth and middle life. “What's @ bey or giri to dot” he asked “Pretty soon we'll be denying them he right to fall in love and marry. I always take the part of chese Yeungstors and I always shall, While Iam here tn New York I have mado @ number of photographs which I @napped myself of youngsters spoon- ing in Central Park, on Coney Island Doats, in automobiles and just arourd the corner from home. They were 004 kids, too, with no place to Most of them live in the deart the city, they have four and five Drothers and sisters and the enly thing for them to do is to beat it for the open air. The old fashioned @ofa spooning days are over. But after all there isn't so very much dif- ference between @ sofa and a park The old-fashioned sofe spooning days are over, bench. I am going to take my little bunch of photos back with me and show them to the Police Board. if New York boys and girls can spoon, I don't see why Kansas youth can't . enjoy the same piivileges. “I have Written evidence by police authorities here that ‘where there's no porch or lawn, there's no place better for spooning than In an auto- mobile or a park.’ And I have found that New York's youngsters are about as fine and clean a lot as you'll find anywhere. You can_sec them arm in arm almost any night, on most any boulevard, at most any ' ume. “Spooning is @ most innocent pastime for young folks, but if se are going to make a crime of it we take away that very innocence by our own self-made laws, Of course, I do not mean that I believe couples going about together uninss they know each other pretty well. 1 firmly believe that every mother should meet and talk to the young map her daughter is going out witn, andé I might add that in this presont age of the modern cigarette smoking girl I think it quite as necessary for the boy's mother to meet and ap- Prove of the young lady.” “Just » few moments ago you spoke of twentieth century spooning around little Sadie or Sally or Susie.” just as much spooning if not more than the twentieth people forget they were ever boys or Believe me, the old time couples did boy once, and I haven't forgotten it, Te and Ma went spooning tn w little ene~ peated bucky. betng no different from old fashioned spooning,” I reminded the Juige. "Probably the chief difference es in the fact that ma and pa went spoon- ing in @ little two-seated ‘buggy’ and Madge and Dick take a spin in @ roadster,” “Yes, and 1 wonder if pa didu't slip his arm abdit ma's waist just as frequently as Dick docs about Madge's pretty shoulders,” laughed Judge Welch, “You don't suppose a couple are going to got married ond | do all the spooning afterward, In the old days they used to call it ‘sparking’ and the best lads in the town went out to ‘spark.’ Now thay | call it spooning and would like to have folks arrested for taking a #<- ond look at each other, Old fash- ioned girls knew how to flirt as well an ‘epark. | “Girly trom the best families used to dress up in laces and ribbons and cameo pins and go down to meet tho! city train at the depot. They would go in giddy Uttle groups and amile at every salesman or ‘drummer,’ as they! called him, who stepped off the tram. + It was perfectly all right and had a jolly good lark. Many a little town cin has wedded a city chap and, bad a mighty fine life, where she! might have remained a spinste in her own home town all the days of hor life if she hadn't dressed up with Sadie and Sally and Susie and gone down to see the ‘city train come in.’ “That part was all right, but new that Sadie and Sally and Susie ure mature women with young lady daughters, don't let them forget about those girlhood days, If we can Giddy groupe would mmile at every drum= mer who stepped off the train, only make the men and women of to- day look back to the days there will be | ‘whing’ every tine the couple on a park roadster spinning b: lone arm on the wh nd © & Sspoony ench or a little the driver with el and the other “Swimming Tea’’ Season’s Fad i t HILE the swimming season outdoors soon will be over for all ‘but the hardier bathers, in the still water of the pools the new fad of serving tea will be continued as shown in the above Photograph. At some of the pools at the various beaches tea is now gerved in mid-afternoon, the bathers trying the stunt of managing tray 124 enps to the pool's centre where the water ls deeper Tawar pete O° jmiddie-aged matron of dignified and the floor were dozens of dancers who were foxtrotting to a thunderous tune from the band that was stationed at one end of the big room, All the men present wore in uniform, being Gobs and Doughdoys, ‘The affair was a strictly “khaki and blue” entertainment, Looking on from @ point of vantage, smiling approval, and now and then nodding to this or that couple, was a pleasing appearance, which introduces Mrs, James Madison Bass, For nearly two years, as head of | the Social Work of the New York War Camp Community Service, she has} ‘been acting as chaperone to many | such parties, during which time she has played the gracious hostess to above half a million young people. Although some of her sex have be- come noted as matchmakers, probably no woman bas ever been instru- mental in making so many matches as Mrs, Bass, Cupid has found an jamazing number of easy targets under her genial patronage, She has never actually started out to promo romances, but they have developed nevertheless as a natural outcropping of her work, and on account of her marvellous ability in getting young people acquainted, ‘That is all Cupid asks, The introduction over, he is usually capable of stepping in and doing the rest—then wedding bells Although no accurate record has deen kept by Mrs. Bass of the many romances which have budded and bloomed successfully under her chap eronage, it is known that over one hundred marringes have resulted and many more are only @ question of time, ways and mean: ‘To see one hundred girls put the finishing touch to what in the begin- ning had been to them only a pa- triotic task, by marrying the men who had been their best dancing part- ners, is certainly something quite ex ceptional, but then the matchmaking of Mra, Buse has been of no ordinary character. Her undertaking, shortly after the United States entered the war, the task of furnishing wholesome enter: tainment for thousands of soldien and sailors who were passing through New York with only a few days be- tween their arrival and departure, wes the thing that started the dances at which these men and maidens met. Bass had, of course, to command a corps of pretty young girls whose charm and vivacity and intelligence would win the interest of the uni- formed guests. College girls were selected, because, as Mrs, Bass said, “nothing was too good for these men.” She compiled a list of 8,000 names to be the recipients of dance invitations once or twice a week. When the dances were started, no- body thought of benefiting anybody but the man, But women have a way of getting the homely habit of self- sacrifice onto the right side of life's ledger and gradually these merry gathe g8 came to be looked upon as double duty dances, of mutual advan- tage to girls and men, “The Girls Set the Standard” is the motto Mrs, Bass originated for these parties, and in American social Life it was something entirely new, for even M@ we are a democracy, class distinctions are drawn in the United States as elsewhere, But at the) dances, under the chaperonage of Mrs, Bass, the men are not picked. Their uniform is the only pass re- quired, and all kinds come, the son of | the and of the humbie| shoemaker, But the fact that*a ma- jority of the bridegrooms so far have men, who had enlisted millionaire been colle 18 privates, is @ commentary on the way like selects like after all, While all class distinctions have been cast aside at the dances, under the direction of Mrs, Bass, all the girls that have been permitted en- trance are very carefully chaperoned. They must be personally known to Mrs, Bass and her staff. This does not mean a casual knowledge, but a genuine one, so that there can be no opportunity for the wrong type of girl to meet the returning men, No girl is allowed to attend any of the dances held in Pershing House, where most of the functions take place, who uses rouge or lip stick, A Spontaneously observed the uniform wholesomeness of the girls. Hundreds of letters have been re- celved by Mrs, Bass and her assist- ants from the countless numbers of soldiers who bave attended the social functions at the house, telling how well they remembered the nice girls they had talked to and danced with there, In one Instance, a soldier going to France requested his family to invite a girl to whom Mrs, Bass had intro- duced him to visit them in Alabama, His parents wrote to Mrs. Bass asking about the young woman, As a result, the girl visited Alabama, made a fa- vorable impression with the parents, and married the young soldier imme- diately upon his return from over seas, Just recently Sergt. F, W. Ryan, wounded hero of the Argonne, not only met his prospective bride in Pershing House, but at the suggestion of Mrs, Bass, who had brought them together, marsied her there, He went to war with the old Sixty-ninth In- fantry, He was invalided back to the J, 8, A, after recovering from the first serious phases of painful wounds caused by high explosive shells, and was a patient in @ military hospital near New York. Several weeks after his arrival home he was well enough to visit Pershing House and later, sur- rounded by his old buddies who had fought beside him in France, he mar- ried there a New York beauty, Miss Ethel Ehrman, Another unique wedding at Persh- ing House which Mrs, Bass, the matchmaker to half a million, brought about, was that of Private Ernest Ferreira and Miss Pauline Donahue, While spending his days of conva- lessence at Pershing House, Private Ferreira met at one of the dances the one girl in the world for him, who happened at that time to be acting as short time ago a French Genera! vis- P Soeeeaiht meted @ volunteer Red Cross nurse, To make the partios successful Mrs. ited one of the dances, and quite So it goes diam hong list of their PS, nN AIR OF BWLY WEDS. romances under the chaperonage of! Mrs. Bass. ‘ ‘From some of the girls who have! been coming to these parties,” Mrs. Bass told the interviewer, “I have learned that there are in New York,! and I do not doubt for that matter in every one of our big cities, thousands of clever and charming girls who are willing to endure hardship or hunger it only they can achieve success in ‘their chosen line of work. It was a revelation to me to learn that loneli- ness is the price most of them must| pay for such success, “Many of these girls come from small towns where their own brothers and the neighbors’ boys have been their playmates from childhood, and | one of the hardships of city life has been that they have had to do with- out the companionship of their own kind of men, “I want to see some American insti- tutions erected where the well edu- cated girls who are alone in our great cities can meet young men and young women of their own kind. These young people constitute the brains and the backbone of our country, and there is no other country in the world where they are so isolated as here, They include on the feminine side the specialized secretary, the artist, the writer—ambitious girls who want to do something with their talents, This class is distinguished by a com- bination of breeding and education, Most of them are college graduates, To meet people they must be intro- duced by @ mutual friend, After they have been in New York or any other large city a little while it dawns upon them that the bigness of the town prevents them from knowing their own kind, even though they touch elbows with them, “Some eftraordinarily frank ones have admitted to me that they have concluded that the only success worth having must take love into account, and that many a girl who goes about wearing an air of a big career has plenty of time for solitary soliloquy about the price she is paying for that success, Some of the girls had to work their way to the top in big jobs to discover that no position and no sal- ary is tmportant enough to warrant the exclusion of the nearer and more human elements from life—romance and love.” ia See RANDOM FACTS, South Australia’s production of 6,822,166 gallons of wine the past sex- son established a new high record and was an increase of more than 80 per cent. from the preceding ye: A tree producing coffee said to be free from caffein has been Alscovered | in jagascar, wrornT” } ‘after the celebration. we should judge, from the number of revolutions they’ve had there, There are a coupla good ways of dying poor, First and easiest way is not to get rich. But if you pile up more jack than a greyhound can jump over, you've still got a chance for post mortem bankruptcy. You take $20,000, say, and go into a Broad- way restaurant. You can announce it's gonna be your last meal. And if $20,000 is all you've got in the world, that’s just what it's gonna be—your last meal. Unless you can raise $15,000 for breakfast. Dying poor may be popular with some folks, but it isn’t with your heirs, That's not to say a guy who dies poor won't be remembered. He WILL be. He'll be remembered by Those Who Failed to Collect, With reverse English. When we cash out, we expect to leave a library. Also a living room, bedroom and kitchenette, We also want to teave a large bunch of money —so big it looks like a war debt but still won't start a fight. Want folks to say our will was the best thing we ever wrote. That's a high ambition, but the only thing that'll stop us is money. Also hope our example will en- courage a couple of rich fincles that are now considered Poor Risks. That is, by the insurance companies, A rich uncle, to us, 16 never a poor risk. While there's life there's hope; and after uncle dies there's still hope —at least till the will is probated. Live and leave-that’s our motto for rich uncles. And the more they leave, the quicker they can leave it—if it’s all the same to them, Before this die-poor idea got clr- culated, it used to be presumed that the kale would go to kith and kin. hyve all to his heirs. Lawyers at« Wys wedge in somewhere—middle- m4 has to get a profit. If a guy lea\s only a tin watch, you've gotta havea lawyer to wind up the es- tate. Lawyer works on the same wage cale ™ a prizefighter. He'll do it or @ nillion bucks flat or 40 per ent. & the house. If the house aint on kfth Avenue, lawyer takes tho Sraighteuarantee, Smart LL B. ca break a will as easy as he bwaks aij], Main trouble ix, he charges too Moh for breakage. ‘When @ sour guy dit and leaves his mon in the wang direction, lawyer's the Solomon tit proves Bast is West. Attorney ca prove any- thing as long as the gatreceipts are on bis side. Once in @ Wile he loses his case, but that’s all & does lose, His pill at the end ofne month proves that. One of the lawyer's bestricks is helpmg a guy to die poor. Ihe can’t finish the job before the clit Kicks off, he dogs it right after. na, so far as the heirs go, the q guy DOES die poor, Fact that tl gooa die young doesn’t worry the wyer —in any way. Statistics show there’e one ore every minute, but'the lawyers wi on the other end. One's gotta die ory minute to make it @ good seasongy the probate sharps, And they tm took the law off suicide, New @ says a self-stopper can be jugged ¢ disturbing the peace, but that’s all. But anyway, it’s a gay world. A: it’s our idea that a guy that goes fro: gay to grave without leaving hie mil Hon to the Direct Heirs is a piker Near relatives oughta get more than 2.75 per cent. of the estate—we'll leave that to anyone, Yup—that and 91.25 per cent. more, Mother’s Picture, Boyhood Friends Await Pershing’s Visit to Laclede Birthplace Plans Rousing Welcome to “Johnny.” OT with the spectacular magni~ tude of the reception New York has given him, but with real wn folks” warmth, Laclede, Mis- souri, is preparing to welcome Gen. Pershing back to his birthplace. Knighted and titled by European crowned heads; honored end glori- fied by President Wilson and Con- gross, it will be just plain “Johnny” Pershing when he reaches the old home town, There'll be no Ceasar’s victorious return to Rome. “He's go- ing to be just plain ‘Johnny? and that ig just what he will want to be,” Mayor Allen said, giving the keynote of the celebration, “Lord knows he's been ‘generaled’ enough by this time, jand ‘Johnny’ is going to #ound pow- erfully good to him.” So Laclede ‘s planning: singing, shouting, handshaking and music and much oratory followed by a fried chicken dinner “on the ground” when Johnny's in town. The Pershing family will ‘reunite James Persh- ing, @ brother, of Chicago; their two Miss May Pershing and Mrs. Butler of Lincoln, Neb., will meet again in the old Pershing home, here. “Aunt” Susan Hewett, who baked apple pies for the General when he was a barefoot boy, will be a guest. “Aunt” Louisa Warren, who officiated at the birth of Pershing and first ‘bathed and clothed him, will be an- other guest of honor, George F. Davis, aged resident of Quincy, Ill. will be another honored guest. Davis gave Pershing’s father his first job in Laclede—that of section boss, Prof, Smith of Chillicothe, Mo,, the living member of the committee giving ex- aminations when Pershing won his appointment to West Point, also will be a guest, Nearly a score of boy- hood chums will attend, Secretary of War Baker and Gov- ernors of Kansas, lowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arkansas have been invited, ini’ elena ii acces hii tase Gold words from the world powers, crosses of war and other costly gifts of recognition will be mere gew-gaws and trinkets in the life of Pershing on home-coming day. He will receive @ photograph and a revolver, The photograph—taded and worn and fifty years ald—was a picture of Pershing’s mother. It was found re~ cently in an old album belonging to J, H. Hamilton of Laclede. Jordon Parks, a negro, will muke the second presentation, overshadow- ing ceremonies accorded by President Wileon, King George and other no- tables, Parks will return to Persh« ing an old-fashioned revolver given the negro when John Pershing ieft for West Point. "I've been offered as high as $100 for it,” said Parks. “I wouldn't have traded it for a farm." sli CONVINCED! OOD—How do you know he i= @ vegetarian? Ggyman—l've smoked his ’ (cadioeeeadliaemmemment DRY NAVIGATION. HNATOR PENROSE, discussing the Cape May thoroughfares, once told of a conversation he had with a Cape May skipper. Amazed at the way they were skimming through the creeks but an inch or two deep, he sald: “I suppose, Captain, that you think ~- nothing of sailing across the meadowa when there has been a heavy fall of dew?" “Right you are,” said the Captain, “though occasionally we have to send the men ahead with a watering can.” —Boston pt. W clgars!