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THURSDAY, SEP 60 Proposals in One Week {| Harvest of a Hoax P| Pretty Girl Aided dai TEMBER 18, 1919 b, to w x VOLUNTEERED AS MYSTERIOUS “HEIRESS” Filend Put Ad in Paper to Wake Up Wakefield, ~ Mass., and Woke Up Shy His Proof When Wake- | ' field Bachelors and Widowers Demanded “Pro- yy” ot be by ftaus Po ates Pe swe duce the Lady,”” So—But Here’s the Story. ? “mm By Otis Peabody Swift y yHAT if the mail man should woek—proposals that came a » That is the record held by pretty has ther tm same, and “ Hopeful lov- re are waiting tho ‘Gayoot ber arrival ' @t their Montana 7 d, Mass, Jor, who be- | Mayes in excite- it thought the town was ‘i b, bi Fquiet and that Board of 5 of Wakefield. The APE len in a delicate feminine om expensive stationery, an- that “Miss Maybelle H. of Albany, rich, beautiful and thirty, wanted a husband. She cided that the fine stanch New qualities of the youths of 4, Mass., forméd her ideal, wondered whether the Selectmen help ber in her search for mate, bet they would. The gallant rose as one man and said mh they were at Maybelle's service, fy published the letter in the local j nev » and immediately the re- ee ee ee i ars began to come in. Boston beard of the story, and a IOWS-wervice sent broadcast through id United States the fact that May- ¥ of Albany wanted a hus- ® Blue envelopes, pink envel- brown envelopes and postcards wan to accumulate in the “C” box BETS Waxkenela post office, m : letter arrived from Al- ‘giving more details, Maybelle and petite. Her husband must be kind and gentle and ‘ene who would “kick in the least that was Miss fe own expression of her ideal, a) id was in a turmoil. Bvery- Mlked of Maybelle—every youth decided that he would be the ‘man. But Joe Low was wor- joke was getting out of He had told the Selectmen he knew Maybelle personally wld vouch for her wealth and But the Selectmen, who were more publicity than they for, fixed him with a fishy eye ae: 4 that Maybelle be pro- a | i “. [ right,” said Joe, “I'l bave her re Woal lodge of Elks was hold- @@ 4nd a former Barnard student who now lives in Boston. ‘the proposals, and says that she ian't Dibeerriatn. 1919. by The Prom Publishing Co. (The New York Kventne World) bring you sixty proposals all in one 11 the way from Dublin, Tex., to Rum- Se ford, Me., proposals from ranchers, miners, heroes of the war, t college boys and movie actors—and all persons you'd never met but who ‘WEre-all anxious to cash off right away for the nearest marrying parson? Miss Marjory L. Adams, twenty years Marjory didn't going to accept any of them. MISS MARJORY L, ADAMS. of the expose—for he had fost hie nerve at the last minute. And May- belle, vindicated, blushed and said that she couldn't make up her mind which husband to select—quite so Publicly—and motored away while the 10,000 cheered again, Maybelle H, Corey has never re- turned to Wakefield, although sixty fond hearts are waiting for her answer, But Miss Marjory L, Adams, who was the prettiest girl in her ° at Barnard last year, has sixty letters in her desk that she doesn't know just what to do with. She hadn't expected those sixty pro- posals when she told her friend Joe Low that she'd help him out of a bad fix. Miss Adams says that she's pleased to find that the men nowadays are just as ready to get married as the girls are, Five of the letters were from New York men—men who are stil looking for the right kind of a girl even if Maybelle did prove false. Some admitted that they were after ‘her money, and there were several widowers who thought that Miss Corey would make a fine second mother for their children, But most of the boys were lonely chaps who'd just got back from the war, and didn’t have big salaries, and didn’t know many girls, and wanted to marry Maybelle right away, Some wrote in poetry and some sent their Photographs, And al) wanted a chance to fall in love, But Marjory says that #he doesn’t want to burt any one's feeling by playing favorites, and won't marry any of them, So from Texas to Maine the sixty would-be-husbands are waiting—and any girl who really wants her choice of them can easily follow Marjory’s example, val that week. They were when a letter from May- 4m Albany announced that she ‘be in town Carnival Day, look mail and pick out a husband morning Maybelle arrived in @ dainty and charming dressed in chic Parisienne heavily veiled, A bit tim- looked over the sixty letters “C" box, while 10,000 specta- Her identity was posi- ‘estublished by the fact that she i engraved personal cards, a i Maybelle H. Corey.” That set- Rit beyond doubt. The crowd was Miss Corey could have had 6,000 husbands if she wanted | | one man in the crowd looked @ the dainty lady. He vas o newspaper man, who he'd seen her somewhere be- ht in fact that be had ‘achool with Maybelle, not in ‘Dut in Boston, Mass. The WHO WAS LOOKING FOR A HUSBAND Goazine Peale | By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by ‘The Press Publishing Co (The New York Evening Word) UXTRA! Another war is i raging—but, sh! this is a | question for the sewing table to settle, not the peace table. Shall we have skirts to the anklo or skirts to the knees this winter? Milady is patiently waiting to hear, while man- ufacturors and designers are having a battle royal. Although many are holding out for knee-length skirts everything points to longer ones in America. Miss Tobo Coller, style authority for a leading Fifth Avenue merchant, just arrived from Paris yesterday stating “Tho French tried to put over the knee. length skirt, but American women wouldn't wear them. During the wir American women took the lead in style and because we demand them unger they are going to set their styles by us. Think what a chango has come about! Paris has defed in that, but she still maintains her importance in the However, in beginning to say what she will and what she will NOT wear.” To-day Mr, Samuel Ball Zalud, New York's famous costume designer, sails for London and Paris for next spring’s styles, but before he was on the wing I managed to see him in rogard to our winter problems—iong cr short skirts. Milady has hér gown upon the table almost complete ond she is only waiting to hear decisively where to cut—high or low, Mr. Zalud held up his hands as if about to be robbed instead of asked to give bis version of skirts and their Proper length, “Well, since I am going to sail over the sunny seas and #hall be far out by the time any one reads my opin- fon I will tell you frankly that the American women will wear their | skirts eight and ten inches from the ground. You sce, that is reasonably ‘long. Personally I think the young women are adorable in short skirts, @n authentic cablegram—that skirts The cablegram states there is to be no definite length—it will be a matter of every woman's own individuality, “Indeed, women are still wearing short skirts in Paris,” continued Mr. Zalud, “and I can tell you what the women of Dauville have been doing this fall, All summer they went stockingless, and now they have very tan, sunburned ankles and the tan ex- tends far above the ankles and is #0 Pronounced a shade ti.at they have been going to their dressmakers and having silk gowns to match, Then they don a dainty pair of pumps and Ro one would ever suspect thr’ they are still economizing upon »\ock- ings.” “But why do the French prefor the short skirts?” I persisted, bound that we should settle this question of whether women look better with nothing but toes and heels peering out from under their ekirts or a goodly glint of ankles. “Because most of the French women are short and a short woman is lost in a long skirt, Our American girls, on the other hand, are inclined to be tall, and too short a skirt upon a tall woman is always more or less ungainly. Young ladies over five feet five and one-half look better in skirts from 8 to 10 inches from the ground, while any woman below that height looks much better in quite a short skirt, “Skirts are all to be narrow but full What Eve Said MORE ABOUT MEN By Sophie Irene Loeb HEN @ man does something that ho is sorry for he falls back on it over, mitten and they go to pieces. rude, As & man primpeth, so is he. route, the old Adam's apple excuse, ‘When a man tells you how much he is respected in a town, think Blessed is the man who has a job, for he shall inherit a pay enevlope. Strong men are not afraid of boxing gloves, but let a girl give them the Some men think they are rather independent when tn reality they are Some men think they are original, but im reality they are aboriginal. Thé men who reach the summits are few; the majority camp somewhere on the journey, while the balance get tired and take the toboggan When a ‘nan tries to kill time, time turns the tables. It’s funny what a difference a wife will make, Every man should make good before he makes love. ition of his paper carried an! Lives there a man with @ soul so dead that never to himself has said, @torg—end the pest a deniah —ife would maka @doukr surren- world style. | and I have an idea—in fact, I have | are still to be trés short in Paris. | “MY as gay as the binds of the air. OF SUNBURNED (NEES LAST SUMMER — aN | | ° WO LT WAVE To BE MATCHED WITH MATERIAL NOW I Neg ie PARIS SAYS “SHORT, SiRTS! WHEN THE NEW METAL DRESS COMES IN STYLE and loose about the waist to ex- centuate hips. Draperies and large sashes also add fullness over the | hips,”” I asked Mr, Zalud about a few other matters which have to be con- sidered after the skirt question is solved, “What about the blouse whicn we shall wear with the skirt?” “If ankles are warm, elbows will be cold this winter,” laughed Mr. Zalud, “for even in wool frocks the sleeve is short, ending just above the elbow and hugging close to the arm. Nor are long gloves necessary; milady simply slips off the coat (which, by the way, often has short sleeves) and displays her elbows. Many of the blouses are of georgette and meteor heavily beaded, or satin and tulle with jet em- broidery, “And now since T am golng away I will tell you a secret—a spring secret,” and Mr, Zalud opened @ book full of samples of a new fabric dostined to be popular next spring. We have had countless metal cloths, brocades and gold and silver fabrics, but this new material, which is called chanel tinsel, 8 even more delightful than the others. The weave is a net~ work combined of silk in blue, black and brown metal thread in gold or sil- ver, And speaking of shades! Mr. Zalud predicts that copper ts to be as fashionable as cerise was some years | back. Before leaving Mr. Zalud, to depart for more startling new spring fash- ions on the other side, he spoke of one more secret—the new spring cot- tons, “Rodier has created for the next season @ line of cotton voiles which every woman will simply rave over,” smiled the costume designer, woven embroideries are carried out in prilliant native morocco shades, practically every color known appear- ing in the one fabric. This winter we are to have dark, rich colors with “Hand | In fact, it ls I who conceived the idea of the first correspondence course in teaching janiting and I have operated it successfully in spite of the Police, ‘The janiting students, of course, start In as freshmen, but the beauty of this course is that the training Joc. can be taught by mail. even fresher than ever. Of course, I have had a large number of students, because next to running @ private bank where there is no State super- vision there is no more successful and remunerative position than janit- ing. Before beginning the lessons it is necessary for my janiting students to secure some equipment. The first consists of the following words and phrases: “Skoel,” “Ay tank Ay yump my yob” and “you ban go——" If the student cannot learn ali this, all that is really necessary is “Ay tank.” The second piece of equipment jan- iting students must get is a vacuum cleaner, As Euclid so well said, Na- ture abhors a vacuum cleaner, What is a vacuum cleaner? Something that cleans vacuums. They are modelled after the little insect called the ca- can, which has squeezed all its vital organs into the smallest possible space 8 a8 to Jeave more room for its nolse-making apparatus to func- tion. 1 insist upon_my students get- of this new material purple, gold, black, Copenhagen blue, green and crise.” “And you are sure the American woman can safely cut her gowns from 8 to 10 inches?” I asked once more, only @ touch of high color in beads or embroidery, but next spring ts to be The @badee may include in the one design ‘ 4 seas - “Absolutely.” eut away, @ressmakers and taflors and ladies who make your own gowns. What better authority do you Skirts to the Ankle—Or to the ¢ DESIGNERS does not spoil them and they finish | Knee? WINTER STYLES CANNOT AGREE Paris Wants Them Short Because They Suit French Figure, New York Women, Who Are Taller, Say ‘‘Not for Us!’’ Meanwhile Milady and Her Wardrobe Await the Verdict. gpa (NEw vortc SAYS "LONG So THere!! WARM "THIS WINTER, BuT ELBows wit FREEZE Ignorant Essays By J. P. McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, HOW TO JANIT (The New York Evening World). ting a vacuum cleaner that sings at its work; the more noise it makes the more succeseful it wili be, as it will make the tenants more miserable and thus tend to keep the janitor happy while dragging it up and down stairs at ungodly hours. Anothew necessary implement is a lawn mower, which should be even louder than the vacuum cleaner, If | Possible, It must not be the regular lawn mower, but a special janitor's model which leaves the grass un- touched and mows down all thé flow- ers along the borders, After the student is equipped he will take up a regular series of les- sons by mail as follows: : 1, How to put the water sprinkler where nobody can pass it without getting wet, 2. How to keep a flat hot in sum- mer and cold in winter. 3. How to give that curious opaque effect to windows after they are washed, 4. How to detefmine by calculation the busiest time of the year, so as to take a vacation then, 5. How to wait until all the fies have come in before putting up the sbreens, (This makes it sooner for the tenants to swat them and lessens the flies’ chances of getting away.) 6. How to determine when the ten- ants are sleeping the soundest, so ad to drop garbage pails and beer bot- tles down the back steps and wake them up. 1. How to fix the hall lights so they won't light and the doorbells so they won't ‘ring, 8. How to scrub the back stairs, always beginning at the bottom and scrubbing up. By this method one set of three-story stairs is often a life job, I have @ post-graduate course in janiting, but few students live to take it, since most of them begin practis- ing their professions soon after com- pleting the course, and in these days the majority of householders belong to the Home Guards and have guns THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 191 | Copyright, 1919. by . | Woman Doctor Explains | Why Extremes in Styles No Longer Attract Men ‘“‘Men Have Become So Inured to Revelations of Average Costume,’’ Says Dr. Edith Hale Swift, “That There Is Nothing Alluring About It to Them—And Women Who Work Desire Clothes Which Will Make Them Attractive From a Mar- riageable Point of View.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘The Press Publishing Co HAT the dress of most women is designed to meet the meretricious ideals of a small class of women; tbat health, economy, comfort, usefulness and true economy, therefore, are subordinated to fre (The New York Bvenine World). ! quent change and the crudest form of sex appeal; that women of leisure tribution to the woman's raiment the International cliffe and Johns now being held in the Y. 600 Lexington Avenue. Dr. Swift is a Boston woman, a graduate of Rad- and working women should pool their interests and, as a majority, demand tractive, ‘hygienic and decent get clothes that are at- this is the practical oon- eternal discussion of the modern made by Dr. Edith Hale Swift at Conference of Women Physicians W. C. A, headquarters, No. Hopkins, who has been associated professionally with the Syracuse Hospital, the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the Boston Juvenile Court, , the Boston Children’s Aid Society and Wellesley |She te tall and finely erect, with s keen, humorous face and, unlike most | |lecturers on:clothes, hers are incon- ‘spicuously tasteful and attractive.) She speaks to the women physicians | this morning on “Dress as an Index | of the Position of Women,” and J jasked her what she considers is the matter with the clothes of the woman of to-day, “The chief trouble, as I see it,” she explained, “is that most modern fash- ‘ons were designed primarily to ap- veal to the women of the underworld. | It is they who are most in need of | frequent and violent changes in style, to stimulate their trade of sex appeal, lt is they who require clothes which | expose the person, which are elabor- | trimmed and expensive. And \t is adaptations of the designs an dl favor which fill our shops, “There they are found by the woman of leisure. What does she wunt from clothes? Primarily, she desires to be made attractive. So she buys the latest frock or sult and | !wears it, without realizing that she is following standards set by women of the underworld. At social /func- tions she is hailed as the best-dressed woman, and she is accepted as the | belle of her social circle and her home, “It is this woman, whose costumes are widely photographed and de- scribed, who sets the standards for I the women in tho largest class of all—the working women. I think it fair to assume there are more of them than of any other group. When they would buy their clothes, from what have they to choose? On the| one hand there is the woman of leis- | ure, whose clothes are everywhere heralded as the best and the most attractive to men, “Almost the only alternative pro- paganda offered to the working woman is that of the most strong- minded and radical professional group. Here and there are women who advocate the sternly sensible and utilitarian in dress, who say @ woman should chooee her clothes for com- fort, economy, health and nothing else.” 1 must have frowned jnstinctively, tor Dr. Swift smiled in sympathy and added at once, “Women in general never will adopt that philosophy of clothes. They do not like the ‘re- formed’ dress; they say it is unlovely, unbecoming and ridiculous. The se- verely plain, mannish costume will make no headway among most women who work, particularly among ounger ones, ban the fact remains that it is dificult for them to find a suitable costume.” “would you suggest a uniform?” I ed, a certainly would not!” exclaimed Dr, Swift with gratifying promptness. “A uniform for women is stiff, un- becoming and positively deadening in its influence,’ “Then what constructive idea have you?” I inquired, “Women who work,” she declared, “Jegitimately desire clothes which wili do two things—one, make them at- tractive from a marriageable point of view, and, two, elevate thelr appear- ance. “Now the average costume of to- day accomplishes neither of these ends. Men have become so inured to its revelations that there is nothing coquettish or alluring about it to them,” “T am so sure you are right!" I was guilty of interrupting, "As one man frankly remarked to me the other day, “if the new knee-length skirts come from Paris to New York they won't have half the thrill ankles used to have.’ “That illustrates my point,” agreed Dr. Swift, “The daring of modern clothes makes no romantic appeal to and Radcliffe Colleges, the right sort of man, and the man who is still attracted by it is not the man who wants to marty a girl or whom she should take as a husband “Neither do the extravagant fash- ions of the moment make the girl who works look like a woman of leisure. They are merely a veneer. When a wage-carning woman buys a dress in the mode of the moment, she cannot afford to buy really good velvet, or silk, or lace. She must ac- cept shoddy imitations, afid the longer she wears the dress the less like ‘the real thing’ she appears. Its fanciful cut and its trimmings but accentuate its essential cheapness. “What all of us ought to do is to convince women of these truths. In- stead of trying to interest our girls in @ great moral or a great intellec- tual movement for reformed dress, we simply ought to prove to them the cold facts that their clothes do not make them look ‘nice’ and do not at- traot to them marriageable men. Then there will be a basis of good business sense for effecting changes. “These will be brought about when the women of leisure and the working women get together and demand them, What do I think they should demand? Clothes that have real beauty and becomingness, that bring out individual I'nes and accord with individual coloring, that are mot Prejudicial to health and afford free- dom of movement, that are made of good materials, that are not unneces- sarily expensive and that need not be renewed long before they are worn out because the women who live by sex must treat their admirers to @ fresh sensation.” “Like the French siren—wasa't it the Pompadour?—who appeared be- fore Louls in a new costume every day for twenty years,” I suggested. “Fashions changed for her even oftener than for the modern society woman,” “Women of leisure and working ‘women can end all that sort of thing if they will co-operate,” reiterated Dr. Swift. ‘They form the majority of womankind, and when they ask all together for anything the shops will have to give it to them. Then they will be happier, healthier and richer, the right sort of men will like them better, and as for the other sort nobody need care about pa) will rise again,” suid the hopeful person, “You,” replied the cynic, “but it's liable to have to ko with @ crutch for some time after,"—Washingten, a Sot -ont oem eterna