The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1919, Page 14

MON DAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919 15,000 Marriaze Knots Tied -. Every Year in N. Y.’s Own Little Chapel | “*Harleys’ for Housewives and Business Girls’’ WOULD MEAN MORE EFFICIENCY, SAYS THEIR INVENTOR | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919 The Wives’ Union | NEARLY ONE-THIRD OF 42,000 LICENSES FOLLOWED BY WEDDINGS AT THE BUREAU Mr. CRUISE Starts Most of These Voyages on the Sea of Matrimony—Mr. HART Is Appealed to! for the Marriage Licenses—And at the Head of All City Clerk Scully Watches Romance With a) Fatherly Eye. By Edith Biggs Copyright, 1910, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) f F wedding bells graced the Municipal Building, chimes would ring out from morning till night for the thousands of people who are married | there, who come unceasingly In pairs, day after day, to obtain the Denefit of the short, simple ceremony and low fees. New York, as a : wedding centre, takes the wedding cake. Having achieved a record of | fesuing 42,000 licenses per year, it leads in romance as well as in industry. One-third of the weddings each year take place in the little chapel up- stairs; 16,000 times the ceremony is performed cach year for 16,000 couples. Bixty-one couples obtained their marriage licenses at the Municipai Building last Friday, according to the records for the day, but the total Wear ’Em to Work, Walk Instead of Hobble, Get Around Better, Have Comfort and} Ease and Health—And Put Skirts on Bow-Legged, Knock-Kneed and Pigeon-Toed Men| By Fay Stevenson | Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York frening World), OUNG Ladies of the Business Brigade, stop wearing decollete blouses ig and tight skirts. Be modest and wear trouser Now, don’t all blush and gasp until you finish reading what SORT of trousers they are. Dr. Mary Walker wore men's clothes several years ago, but they were so very, very masculine that no typically feminine woman wanted to don them, Now we have Miss Fannie Harley, who has come on from the West and dazzles us all by walking down Fifth Avenue in | ~ a costume of white serge trousers, or harleys, as she pre- fers to call them, spelled with a small “h.” But call them what you please, there is absolutely nothing mascu. line about them, for they are made of silks, cretonnes and challis, and trimmed with marabout, chiffons, but- tons and roses. “I don't advocate trousers for all other women,” Miss Harley told me, as we sat in her room at the McAlpin, surrounded by the most feminine materials you can imagine, even if they were cut in two pieces instead of one at the base, “I can see how the woman who has worn skirts all her A GUSINESS GL COULD GET ON AND OFF CARS f | BASIER. “ ’ By Neal R. O'Hara by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World). ATEST news in this peaceful] When they go on strike, wives IL country !s that they’re gonna | should use head-work and stall off have a Wives’ Union, Hus-|the strikebreakers. Wisest move bands all upset, and strike- | would be to have the Chorus Girls’ breakers are being recruited, When|T'nton strike in sympathy with tae |the wives walk out, husbands will | wives. Even if they haven't any alk out too, Husbands plan to walk | sympathy for them. along Broadway till they find a suit-| Demands of tne Wives’ Union are able scab, y | moderate. Wives ask 50 per cent. Wives have struck before, but usu- | of husbands’ earnings after the house ally with a rolling pin, Wives’ Union | pig are paid. Always thought is a new wrinkle, and the wrinkic| wives got 100 per cent. Wives |"ppears on husband's brow. It's @| giyo demand right of free speech and good bet when the wives walk Out|ay eight-hour day. Husbands will- they'll leave a sink full of dishes! ing to give ‘em both demands if New union's going to be tough on |tneyl] do their free-speeching and newlyweds, Bride's just joined one| oignt hours at one and the same union at the altar—now has to jolt | time—which is while hubby's away. the Wives’ Union, When they call| syeecn of all the wives we know has 1 strike, bride will have @ bawl. | not only been free but frequent. Bride that joins the strike on her!" another demand is a two weeks’ honeymoon will not only walk out— by ant married a pretty little journalist, and besides these there were two other Lieutenants, an Ensign, two soldiers We'll walk del, vacation for wife each summer, she'll wa oS y ; : Tusbands demur at two weeks— life would find it very embarrassing Reports at unton headquarters state | ype mS ve four, May ine to jump into pair of harleys and [June prides are ieading strike move-|\'\r on that minimum, Husbands walk right out before the public, But A Boon ment, J. B's are just discovering | ii, aiso stipulate that wives may at the same time I think my harleys To THE there's been @ failure of the bonbon ) .. anywhere they please on their va- twice as modest with their round WAITRESS [crop end that Secure Ferre | huoes 60 one as thay GO! eecked smocice ad cations on the [furnishing the Rouse with excuses |“"ryo haty a year is another point dccollete blouses and ridiculously instead of furniture. June Brides ve also discovered that Monday is | wash day and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are hash days, June Brides are like the souses—they've| had to get along without a lot of) things since the first of July. Wives’ strike will be complicating. Must be a catch in this one. Women that's satisfied with two hats a year t in this part of the country. She's where they wear the same style halo the year round and have their wings furnished free Husbands are willing to conceda everything but the last clause, Clause tight skirts I see, For instance, if I were a business girl, say a stenogra- pher in an office where there were a number of men, I would much rather appear in a pair of harleys and one of my smocks than in the sleeveless, backless, ankle-binding dresses so many young women wenr, Is there IMENT 1S VARIED AND INTERESTING woitld have been much higher except|and a sailor who obtained their When a wife strikes, she'll go home for, the old superstition about Fri- | licenses to be married in other places | anything immodest about me?” to mother. And when she gets home Tee ee Licar cet Gtk May, Most of these were married in| in New York. A newspaper man and) Miss Harley stood up and let me she'll find that mother has atrucl | ee ene ase outd all pick Feb- the chapel of the Municipal Building | his blushing bride obtained @ license | survey her from head to foot. She It she stays and helps out father,| i oo ite twenty-eight days too ‘Mr. Michael J. Cruise, doputy |without the knowledge of their friends | is tall and slender, with the firm mother'll call her a scab, If she|TUAry, only it's twenty-cig! Pape » hy who finds that performing|by arriving late in the afternoon, and supple form of one who has doesn't stay there, where's she gonna! !08: November’ Ui secon ey wedding ceremonies in a jrofession| Bridal raiment was most interest |jived much in the open. She wore go? Striking wives will find the| Gives hubbies & chance to of! ea Gat continues unceasingly, regard-| ing, varying from pale blue satin In| what she terms her “wility” harley hotels filled up—that’s where the hus- | Thankssiving efter mother-in-law has Jess of war, or the high cost of living | latest mode to the very cheapest Of} which are made of khaki soutache bands are going to go as soon ag the | 605% and loving. ccatumes, Most of the bridegrooms | and reach clear to her ankles. wives walk out. Hubs aren't really afraid of a strike { Mig Seut'y, who Yas been City | Vee Wel! areseed, but there wote! A little white linen smock very ‘And it's going to be tough on a|--not if the union uses pickets, Go- & Clerk since 1 $8, is in general char, several applicants for licenses who] similar to our middies came just | mother-in-law if she’s visiting| ing to be pretty soft for a guy to find bet Mr. Crui whe; Fung | nad fot considered the occasion of|over her hips and over this she |@uughter when daughter goes on|@ neighbor's wife on his front steps ; OF gape ed a gal tel sufficient importance to wear a col-| slipped a khaki jacket with ‘ Deere cocks uaie fon WERE TOE ' qaemonies, or rather, he performs ped a jacket with a belted vr ‘ | strike, When daughter walks out, ’ SUT to resssny abdly Cites fob |trr Nevers! Younes sirle And thelr effect, Hor feet were clad ia tan, Tay HAR LevS"FoR mother-in-law had better walk out | maybe on the back steps. Husband's q ‘ lowes c1 gown whi Gade se for [beaux were profoundly chewing their | round toed shoes ‘with a military INE REESE too—safety first! going to sit right down and talk the aa gum, heel. Municipal Building each day eager to take up the yoke and enter the realm ot matrimony. How romantic it is that those Whose hearts have been pierced by Cupid’s darts, and who, therefore, . desire @ marriage license, may make * tion to @ man named Hart— W. Hart—who fully comprehends their affliction, having held, bis posi- | yp rege lone “aseac| st ; wall N the days immediately preceding |Hach can carry his banner only as far| office; can also have an elht-houre ton poate io) coares. Hiage Sts 5 Q, and ocousionally reaches as high do nok aianiny her figure as much a8] the Civil War it was common for jas native talent and ambition and per-| day. Hubs figure they'll gain three {ke by ; ‘ OY SPD. REESE WONG: lav cape from their plan- | tin ’! ° . iF y Where are many other clerks, all of| Couples of foreign birth in most|They are loose over the hips and MASCULING Pareiree ee tre the RY Nay Ona - Naa bay ea ae yi Sad whom are always busy writing out,|/cases are usually married in the| shirred along the outer seam, At the ATTITUDES . ‘ fe Ro era, We have no y point of disp filling out the application blanks for the many people who begin to arrive TIMES THE ENTIRE soft cuffs, fancy four-in-hand tie, fold collar, black lisle hosiery, morning, and continue to come until| their own synagogues or churches, |the room, “bat I know right well | t¥l¢ of hat or sult she should always|retain an enormous portion of fein-|our personality, our freedom. black or brown boots, military, belted or slip-on overcoat it closes at 4 P. M. On the desk of the clerk in charge|it is not dressy enough for her. | *eeP that standardized style for her- aie ; : ; ny Instinctively we take os oa Fashionable Private School: re Pas * | we r che “But what about coats for col ; 3 to “please do this,” who There is always plenty of work for|is a list of “stops,” names of persons | However, she necd not choose khaki | lf; She may change in material) "lt Mhal abuill, coll lr tt | WhO Ke ae te nee good cnouyh”|~ 8 t0 18 Yeare—Eton jacket, waistcoat to match, grey striped trousers, the two interpreters whose duty it is| for whom licenses are not to be issued. | for her material; she may have serge {#74 colar scheme as much as her} Weather? aske i wonders if we would be “good enony ae te TRuaeul ant ef eben colochs thntec tat pias oh ceed {0 determine whether Mrs. Sczmycek|If Romeo and Juliet are not of age|or broadcloth, satin or silk, or any [ature demands, but she should ap-jcoatees to your khaki and peacock |i, do that, We naturally co-operate approves of her daughter's marriage, r 5 shirt with soft cufls, four-in-hand tie of black or school colors, Et s of the new fabric, And an to presate what lines ond sugies be ” BOF be WAT with the Gan WhO mIKes Ouray: collar, black silk hosiery, patent leather or dull calf ey ee Foreign parents frequently become s0| filing an objection, An irate mother|plouses she may have cerise or any |!/9& to her. enous, Rene gentility and sympathy with author- telted or.slip-on overcoat, , qnoited that they begin to say elther| arrived breathless at the desk of the} color she loves, I belleve in every | “One time I met a Indy whom 1| "A large cape or @ big overcoat|ity Algo we can't help that inimical yes” or “no” and continue to make the|clerk in charge Friday, “Has a li- 7 with an artistic cape collar is what game reply to all the questions on the application blank, even saying “no” when asked if they approve of the marriage. terpreters to unravel all misunder- wtandings and to spell correctly all Bawes that must appear on the appll- gation blanks, this being a feat that Italians consider Thursday their lucky day, the great majority of the appli- @ants on that dgy being Italians. It is the duty of the in-| People from out of the city have a preference for weding at the Little Church Around the Corner. Only about one-third are married at the Municipal Building. Records show that the popularity of the place is increasing, 29,000 li- censes having been issued in 1809 and 42,000 last year, The number of ap- piicanta per day varies from 160 to chapel, but after the ceremony they obtain guplicate marriage licenses for FAMILY Looks ov @8 goon as the office is opened in th¢| religious services to be conducted at the parents may stop the marriage by cense been issued to and my daughte she demanded, “Have they been in here within the fast hour?” After looking through the pile of licenses for the day, she Was assured that they had not called Jat the clerk’s office. “Then I'l wait for them,” she decided, her eyes snap- Sometimes the entire to the Municip the wedding young man family comes Building to attend emony of a girl or But Miss Harley's love of the feminine, despite her preference for trousers, displayed itself in a touch of blue, The harleys were bound with blue braid and trimmed with big blue bone buttons. All of Miss Harley's match in color scheme, Her smock also bore traces of the same shade of blue in em- broidered initials, I was forced to admit her harleys) clothes base they measure 16 inches. “Your modern skirts are one-legged trousers, mine are two," she laughed as she strutted about the room in a free and lively manner unhampered by swaddling clothes. “Now see how much better a business girl could get on and off cars, and elevators and go Nurses and waitresses, all women who work, could get about their work so much better in harleys. Oh, how T hate skirts! “Of course this would be a perfect- ly appropriate rig for the business girl," she continued, walking about woman keeping her feminine love of color and frills and furbelows, but J hate to see her encase her limbs in skirts as the Chinese used to bind thobr “Now when a woman wants to go to the matinee or to an afternoon re- copticn or just to take a stroll down Fifth Avenue, what prettier gows can leys aro shirred in even more artistio designs than the others, And they are trimmed in fancy silver toned BowLeacen, PIGEON -TOED MEN SHOULD WEAR, Starts each pair of harleys. She is her own and dressmaker. always wears her hats and gowns made from the same model is ‘be- cause she insists that when a woman finds that she looks well in a certain thought was perfectly beautiful,” said Miss Harley, “but the next time I met her I wondered why my first impressions were that she was #0 beautiful, for this time she was posi- tively ugly, and then it dawned upon me, ‘she is wearing a different hat and gown,’ The first time it was in the spring and she wore a chic little to a large flat hat whicn openly Wis- piayed all her worst points, espe- cially that large nose, Now, if that Must BE AVOIDED milliner as well as her own designer | And the reason she| bnly shirred but slit just the tiniest bit and lace inserted, The smock was trimmed with cabachon and strands of pearls in motifs, in fact there were 50 feet of pearls and 17 of cabachon, So you see harleys, or trousers, nd one still can be worn blue silk suits would I always wear,” wag Miss Harley's immediate reply. “I think the dol- man and cape about the only grace- ful garment that women of to-day wear. “If I had my way from an artistic point of view I would put all slender, willowy women in harleys and many file by and of all the knock knees, bow legs and pigeon toes that were matter over. again! ‘TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Heman J. Stich | bills are paid. Copyright, 1919 bar sof courts in States where they hi sought refuge. Why don’t you go back to your plantation?” asked a Judge of a miser- able runaway slave. “You will be treated so much better there than you will be as a free negro in the North. answered the runway. “that may be so. But if you were in Chains are abominable. We are for- jever fighting fate and fetters of tr ldition, custom, sometimes law, We'll battle with our dying breath against tyrants parental or governmental— against every and any enemy thot would crush or stifle our individuality, feeling and aversion toward him who even though rightfully, shortly or sharply commands, We'll gladly agree to do twice as much as we grudgingly do when ordered. We hate masters—which is why we love Uncle Sam's country, For here, all the lanes, all the byways and all the nay the better man win.” THE MEAN OLD THING, by The Press Publishing The Man With a Sound Stomach, trammels, and like the 10 to 15 Y: (The New York Evening World). Neither class nor caste, |nelther creed nor breed impedes merit. We're free in every better sense of the word; and if sometimes we do not ap- preciate and say thanks for our bless- ing it is only because we have so long enjoyed it, it has become part of us, in-law clause, tax bill. trating the point. wife's mother or man with a sound back and forth from desk to desk |Stick complete this frock, giving it a|dandy and go to a dance or a social | u . stomach we do not know we have it. —_year. and corridor to corridor, And the |4ecidedly Parisian touch, affair I*have this.” Another light-|™y Place, would you go venk? cea at acm a em erat te housewife could be so much more| If you are wondering about Miss|ning change and Miss Harley stood| We love freedom, wo love palelduale Correct Dress Chart for Boys efficient about her work if she could |#4rley’s hats. they are all the same|before me in a pink chiffon over ism, we love expression, we abhor walk instead of havigg to bobble. shape, and she has a different one for|pink satin, The harleys were not | suppression. INFORMAL BAY DRESS. Public School and General Day Wear: Age 3 to 8 Years—Sailor suit, regulation shirt or jumper, long or short trousers to match coat, tam or sajlor hat, black handkerchief tie, white hosiery, white buckskin shoes, reefer or trench overcoat, 8 to 15 Years—Sack or Norfolk suit, waistcoat to match coat, knickers or long trousers to match coat, cloth hat or cap, fancy soft shirt with FORMAL DAY DRESS. Weddings. Receptions, Parties, Church, Opera, Dancing School: FORMAL EVENING DRESS. dere sen of oi 1 ni i” highways are open to all. He) vA nev fh @nly the most skilled can accomplish.| Ping, Sho seated herself near the|sno desire than this?” asked Miss mushroom shape which hid an enor- |". 0 ae areata’ and son of potentae pilot with | Weddings, Dinners, Dances: Magroes, Mr. Scully has discovers |/door and kept a constant vigil|jrariey, making a lightning change |mously large nose and brought out) wos continued Miss Harley bi a opportunity their ship of state 10 to 15 Yeare—Tuxedo coat, knickers or long trousers to match, olacle have less superstition about Friday|'aroughout the afternoon, but ——|¢rom her khaki harleys to a pair of |her best lines, the next time it was Bil) SORAUGL Mist SATAY DOs OANA) SORE te carneaily ond De or white waistcoat, black derby, white pleated pique shirt with | aap many other nationalities and|@nd -— did not appear upon the! peacock bie silk ones, These har- |in mid-summer and she had changed tween her giggles, “once 1 stood on ajand to hott double stiff cuffs, black silk bow tie, fold collar, black silk hosiery, / @ome on that day as on any other.| scene. sii public corner and watched the men|cerely Say patent Jeather pumps, Russian overcoat. SPORTS AND COUNTRY DRESS. And over Picket idea looks like the best part of the strike threat. Husbands now plan their own union, Husbands will demand 50 per cent. | of their own earnings after the house Hubs will also insist that their wives have a vacution two’ weeks every MONTH! have free speech while hubs are at the Wives claim mother- | in-law clause comes only once a year, same as Santa Claus. once a year is too often, same as the‘ Wives’ Union is now arbi-; law shall visit ‘em one month in the Blue jacket, blue waistcoat and knickers or long trousers to match coat, black derby or cloth hat, white, plain or pleated stiff * shirt with single or double stiff cuffs, solid color four-in-hand tle, ” fold or Eton collar, black silk hosiery, patent leather boots or pumps, Russian overcoat, and over Wives will But hubs claim Will decide whether’ hubby's mother-tn- , : vide y ous! . Sports and Country: Little children, waiting |buttons which are heirlooms of Miss |wcman had only clung to that little displayed t decided: that they onene UB—well, it| *? LEH Ree Rea Vy PED PEST eee ae muse they have a half day off from|tafking and noise te not permitiad |teor with a band of Venise reaching [sho changed it to felt or straw or|* SAU incre iy one thing I don't like OAK A & hat or cap, soft shirt and cuffs, fancy four-in-hand tie, stockin their work and need not lose time, | An air of dignity is maintained in the|to the hips and @ dainty ruche of |what shades she selected, she would] 44+ the woman Who slips into a quarrel, 60 I will Aes tnces’ Usawa hacia belied overcoat » stoc Btgeme eliminating a reduction in thelr Roane een Gnd in the chapel in}muline at a rather high V-shaped |have always passed for a beautiful | ii. oe trousers,” added Miss Harley, anub UP Riding ypay check. occasion to the many. people whe {neck Over this Miss Harley slipped |woman, Personally I prefer the tam Pend that a she must avold all mas- Wife—That 1s ALAS ae ested el rare ae ecole eat et 1 Many people of prominence obtain | aro married th he. service. in {a charming little coatee all shirrs and |style, only I look well with my tam |culine attitudes, keep her hand just like a con to 15 Years at, Tattersi stcoat, breeches to match coat, Qheir ticenses here and trequenliy are | short and but is seam of her pockets and not smoke cigar- roft hat or : ai rea a1 ble man p to match suit, soft shirt and cuffs, striped four-ine “ rutfies with a deligt y long cape jsiighUy trimmed. 1 know that ts my tempt erformed, after which the bride and & delightfully long cape jslighiy i ey ile ettes. My idea of harleys is for com- y it there jmud tie, 6piral or leather puttces, brown bocts. qarried in the little chapel upstairs, | performed, after which the bride and leoar, It, too, is trimmed with the jetyle of hat, and J shall always cling | fot und ease and health, but 1 think ay wileit ere Friday, while 1 was visiting the bureau! other, which in most instances 1s done |Helrloom buttons. A dainty pair of to it ae feminine every woman ought to ‘binck velvet pumpe aud o walking "And mow if J want to be seal’ ae oa alway A, ’ (Hoye from 16 (o 18 years of ame follow the sume dress usage ae mond _ apreiat, Wi, by “Dae Boy's Ountities,” Sew Tork) Sebaerver,” @ banisome Lieuten-| with enthusiasm.