The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1919, Page 20

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919 - American Women’s Styles Unhygienic, Inconsistent { SAYS DR. TOMO INOUYE japanese Women Dress | ‘For Comfort and Health _ American Hats, Corsets, High Heels, Short, Tight f . Skirts and Unprotective Evening Dress Seem Ab-| ‘ surd in Eyes of Woman Accustomed to Flowing Kimonos and Other Japanese Comfort Clothe By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Guvericht, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), W's the door opened into Japan there was one feature of life in THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919 How New York City Took Its First ‘‘ Prohibition” Sixty-four Years Ago New York to London in Three Hours; | Around the World, by Airplane, in 24 SWIFT AIR CURRENTS, 8 MILES ABOVE EARTH, SAY SCIENTISTS, WOULD SPEED PLANES EQUIPPED TO NAVIGATE THAT HEIGHT (Tiustration Redrawn by Permission From Diagram Publiahed in the Electrical Expertmenter.) It Went into Effect in 1855, Much as It Did July 1 This Year, but Was Not Successfully Enforced —After Nine Months the Court of Appeals Threw the Prohibition Law Out as Uncon- stitutional. Coprright, 1918, ty The Press Publishing On, (The New York Brening World), | HE people of New York City took their first instalment of prohi- 'T bition away back in 1855, The New York State Legislature passed & prohibition law after a heated election campaign, and it became | etrective on July 4, 1855. But, to get near the real story of how the peo I ple accepted it, whether it was generally sustained or disregarded, ae it is | to-day in many quarters, it was necessary to ‘urn to the newspapers of that day and time. The files of The New York Daily Times, thea published by Raymond, Harper & Company, give the full story of prohibition and what New York- ‘ers did with it sixty-four years ago. There was thuch more excitement , over the igsue then there has been over the much greater matter of pro. 4 hibition by National Amendment in these times. New York State alone ‘was concerned in the matter then, A whole Nation and the Constitution of the Republic are affected to-day. On the front page of the Issue of June 26, 1855, there ts a full report of | prohibition meeting under the head- ing: “Temperance Jubilee—Demon- Istration at the Tabernacle.” By read- WitKNEUE OnAToOS ru AMIS, | mevesora: - an blah Les the Occident which stayed on our side of the threshold. The Flowery Kingdom remained the land of the flowery and flowing Bimono, Almost no Japanese women, even those who went to schools y established by Americhns, adopted American dress. Neither the decollete evening frock, the one-piece gown of silk or wool, the omnipresent, business-like, nf an i i! tailored coat and skirt found favor among the dainty, | 300 Me BAL, ¢ i aU ae ae doll-like, slant-eyebrowed femininity of Nippon, Im- ROBABLE LIMITOP AIR-PLANG PLiéHT, ~~ Sek, perturbably they went their way—hatless outdoors, Stave ruineue ro Gunse Gale Pee Sevines ehoeless in the house and kimono'd morning, noon 0 TO AIR. " Booy end night. ¢ Go it is not surprising to find the one Japanese delegate to the International Conference of Women Physicians, now in session at the Y. W. C. A. head, Coscia ha ey Ain STRATUM claret punch must mo more be thought of, nor champagne frappe be ordered for dinner, nor milk punch be dreamed of, nor sherry cobblers imbibed through oaten straws. Now, —=— ing the introductory paragraphs, one - , sherbet and orgeat and eau eucre } quarters, No. 600 Lexington Avenue, Dr. Tomo Inouye, tripping sedately learns that it was a meeting of the| vist take the isk of more etimu- through the convention balls in « sombre yet picturesque wariant of the | Ly 4 Wow) to Tniemperanas, estate! lating drinks, and we must all wake epee en ee and Crime,” held for the purpose o \ national costume. a 710 EUROPE (N ONE WALE Day ——— making sure of the enforcement of the| UP Our minds to obey the laws and 3 Be: Teouye te barety forty-clent! | ican women, 1 do mot believe! one. hye Ar onn00 rose ae +Probibition Law then scheduled to ise tits ke ti pe Taauite agent ight inches in height, and among! iyae ihe girls of my country ever | a\ ors, 3.000 MILES, AT SPEED OF 450m 8m cone wt take effect a fow days Inter. Tsano| sy eo an the temperate and te Caucasian delegates, who run | will adapt your costumes, CREASEO AIR FRICTION ANO HOH wing ne J. Oliver, as President of the meeting, riends of good onter to show thelr ft the tall and impressive, she! “Clothes should give ease of move- eRnoun eald: hands and prove themselves well Jocks ike a serious little child with| (ment and should not tire the body} “The object of this meeting 1s eim-| J 1s0.. oF society. Now, let us all ~~ vraa|20F make it out of its natural shape. | ply to make preparation for the intro-| 1" "ot oy at we have plenty of 4 $m hair tucked on top of its head | Ve se a oua be w proper covering | duction of the Probibitory Law in the |” Ertl tit we eed oh: 4 esd © green leather notebook in It*!and a protection trom the bold. ‘The! City of New York on the coming 4th| 70" Con be tempered with cagnaa bap She wears a gray kimono,|gurments we wear in Japan fulfil all of July. We have met here to-night | on a ieitg 5 tack, | these requirements. ‘They are not sat- LPL ofl ccidbaednchadlcbertaniaacreneteh) as | [PA : i> dark thet it ts almost black,| . TUDE Gaining MOAT Me, Joice in the prospect of introducing| Well) the cext morning was the sfled—ure they?—by the clothes some NO. Ne FA De | lorious Fourth. Did ibs! Sepetntied bere ahd there with 4) 1) Wo. Western women wear.” : bar that law here, and we meet for the| * ourts, Probibition Gay silver-gray design like a basket {ot Gowers and edged with the sare | gilver-gray wbout the exceedingly modest V-neck. Over her kimono te an ankle length skirt of the same 3 with very full box pleats ‘a deep girdle, a modification of ob!, or sash. “Dr. Inouye knows American! | bhothes by pernonal experience as well: ‘by observation. She was educated ‘the University of Michigun and there dressed like any collexe didn't begin to look as cute ge she does now,” an admiring frien! | @24 fellow physician told me. take effect according to schedule? No. Just as we of this generation saw in this city on July 1 of this year, our forefathers saw on July 4 1855—every saloon remained open. But the liquor dealers were better organized than they now are. They had made all arrangements for any and all members of their association to give bail if arrested for selling al- coholic beverages and bad provided for legal attention to the cases antici. pated, An order was published by the Liquor Dealers’ Aesooiation giv- ing full directions to its members as to what to do, If an officer came to arrest them they were to offer no re- “For tostance?” I asked. Little Dr. {nouye had her examples, “There are the corsets women like, here and in Europe,” she said. “Some corsets, if they are made properly and are%not too tigbtly laced, do no hanm. But the women doctors agreed the: other day that It would be better if no healthy young girl under twenty wore corsets, and they may injure a woman greatly, “In my country no women wear corsets, although there is a ailly thing some of them do, The young girl sometimes takes her obi, her wide silk | sash, and winds it too tightly about | her waist, to make that look small, I | purpose of showing the rum eellers of the City of New York that we are not scared, nor frightened, nor alarmed, ‘but we believe in the good old Amer- fean doctrine of reverential obedience to laws. (Applause.) And this ts one of the laws of the land, ‘The rum sell- lers may meet together and they may \ organize military companies, and they may pass resolutions condemning this | Prohibitory Law as well as the estab- jlished Jaws, but, my fellow citizens, let me too say that the law will be| sustained.” (Loud applause.) | On July 2, just two days before the law was scheduled to take effect in New York, there was a big anti-Pro- | RL PLE oY 19 NURSE RY NOOO ELEVEN Wo is (ine PLANES FLYING AT SO MNES = A HEW.YORE YO LonNOORR ORI DAY 9.8 meal omy « “Which clothes aré better for! tak to the young girls in the echools hibjtion rally. ‘The platform was} ae fill UA aby over ee keys P) Moment” I usked the little Japanese | anout thia trick, and tell them pied decorated with such banners as] ‘0 {heir and go to court ; | pligsician, who ts inspector of public | these: “I do not fear executive en- | "4 sive ball for appearance at some Bebools in Tokio and has interested | ferself specially in the health of her gex. “Do you consider that the mational dress or American are more desirable fram the of view of health?” think the Japanese dress is more ‘eysienic,” replied Dr. Inouye, in her @areful English and with an apologetic ‘Kalle for the implied criticism. “The ‘elethes our women wear are more Womfortable, more free and more ; If not, why not? y of Peace” with your ve you signed the to make things bet- neighbor, what are the cost of labor, the trouble Is with the iy He F dm bis stomach. I wish him comation of hostilities eo longs = for f an on our beat has ‘with hostility of our own! Even “yet each one of us is racked *@ cessation of hostilities, and “apeace—by this we understand @ The whole world wan _@ We are wondering. What's the use? has gone up, Also—but He tells me the price of has caused It. | trousers—then I wonder what unnecessary crease in my as formerly, for putting flor 2% cents thstead of 1 Nations and then pay my | after reading about the League » When I put down my paper ourselves? HP © Or does it come from within “Bendon or Hong Kong? I » Paris, Washington, & it have to come from Ob, God) Whet is peace? ” 1 form waiting for — what? Pi with heavy boots and uni- ® Peace basis yet, and so he tells me we are not oa | war was over, and an army peace? I thought the fn the Sam Hill is BAR EVERYBODY: What (The New York Evening World.) 919, by The Pree Powiidiing Co "GOING UP — bad It ta. | “Theo we wear no high-heeled or tight shoes in Japan. Outdoors we’ wear thick-soled shoes that keep our ' feet out of the wet, but that are just as bigh at the too as at the heel and that do not bind the feet at all. When | we come in the house we take off these shoes at the door, and inside we’ wear little white stookines with the ‘dig too separated from the others, no that our feet have perfect freedom and the dirt from the streets is left outside. The stockings come only just above the ankle, and there are none of the tight garters—what Dr, Rucker the other day called the ‘block and pulley’ garter. Our legs are bare, or, white gadters. In the street fastidious women always wear these gaiters, so thag their legs may not be seen through the ¢olds of the ktmono, “In the house the Japanese woman wears the simple kimono, hanging trom the shoulders, with long sleeves and long skirt—so long that when she goes out she often tucks it up under an ankle-length skirt like mine, The dress lets her walk and move about so easily, I do like your short, tight- fitting sleeves a little better than ours; they let you move your anas more freely. But your short skirt— on some, it is funny!” Dr. Inouye smiled like # little elf. There is, however, just one feature of Occidental costuming which really shocks her, It is our low-necked eve- ning gowns, which she says no Japa- nese lady would think proper, “On algnost every occasion,” she pro- tested, “fou are so careful about show. ing yourselves, about not letting any part of you be naked. Then, for your greatest occasions, your banquets, your receptions—you wear dresses that show all the upper part of your bodies. I do not understand the dit- ference, the inconsistency, 1 think It is healthier for women not to wear hats. In Japan we al- ways go with our heads uncovered. It is better for the hair, and keeps the head from being overheated and overweighted, Vella, too, that they tell me are not good for the eyes, are never worn by Japanese ladies, And when it is cold we do not put on our thinnest clothes, when it is hot we do not wear fur In winter we wear wadded kimonos, “And in winter WE wear openwork silk stockings, patent leather pumps mes, In cold weather wo wear over tham | mot 4s thrilling enough, but con- (ES EW YORK to London tn three hours! Aeroplane travel at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour! Guésts trom London N for vreaktast and dinner who will be back in the British capital in Ume for tea and marmalade at their own vider this one: “If we can devise an Aircraft with large enough wings to support itself, sufficiently large multi- bladed propellers, compensated en- gines and proper crew housing ar- rangements to survive the extremely rarefied atmosphere at an altitude of forty to fitty miles (which is in the region of the Limit of the earth's at- mosphere, a8 our scientists tell us), then it is possible that the aviator would meet with air currents of such high velocity that he would be able to practically shut off his power and travel 25,000 miles (generally speak ing) in twenty-four hours,” ‘This look into the speedy future ts made through the eyes of H. Winfield Secor, asvoclate member of the Ameri- can Institute of Electrical Kagineers, And the prediction that some of these days people will go scooting arouad the earth in twenty-four hours, making Phineas Fogg, with his eighty-day trip, look like @ “piker,” is not a pleasant dream but the result of so- ber reasoning on the part of Mr, Secor, who has carefully studied the latest exploits in aviation and com- pared the results of such achieve- ments with available data concerning the upper reaches of the atmosphere, the velocity of the air currents taere aid the reduction of friction which comes with extreme altitude, Mr, Secor, writing in “Electrical Experimenter” for October, says about the highest speed possible and ocean-going steamships have reached health,” Dr. gently, And I suppose we shall go on se- renely dreasing for neither—although Inouye summed up that the region of mcreased speed for travellers therefore is the air. He cvntinues: “The airstip has the advantage that as it ascends to higher altitudes it meets with leas resistance, and not only this, but another wonderful phe- nomenon of nature occurs—the higher air strata are known, as tests have shown, to be moving at a very high velocity, and s0 it is readily seen that if an airplane ascends to an altitude of 20,000 to 80,000 feet, or even less, it may strike @ strata_of ali travelling eastward, or perhaps west- ward, having a velocity of 200 miles an hour or more. Hence, if the air- Plane can travel at 100 miles an hour, then its net velocity In a given direc- tion will be 800 miles an hour! “It is believed that the successful | pioneer transatlantic flight of Messrs, Alcock and Brown, totaling 0 miles which was made in sixteen hours, at an average speed of 116 miles an hour, was due to the fact that they ascended to a height of 10,000 feet, where they found an alr current travelling Europeward with a igh velocity. Such is the belief of Mr, Roland Rohifs, the Curtiss pilot who has fust made a new altitude recom! of 34,500 feet, “The rarefaction of the atmosphere increases rapidly once an altitude of 30,000 feet is reached, and several writers on the subject have in recent years menttoned that for this reason Particularly they do not believe that aviators will ever ascend higher than 40,000 feet in an open type machine where they have to breathe the ordi- nary atmosphere, even with the aid of oxygen supplied from a tank. “If we have an airplane which can 0 over 200 miles an hour, such as the Christmas Bullet plane, and ascending to an elevation, let us say of between 30,000 and 40,000 feet, where we had an alr current travelling Europeward at 200 miles an hour, then our net speed upon reaching this stratum would total 400 miles an hour, With in her heart nearly every American a ‘vacuum bottle’ cab fitted to the air- ‘and lace blouses,” I confessed, with| woman will admit that a kimono is|plane, together with oxygen tanks and @ shrug. “We dres for comfort on, for the most comfortable garment in her wardrobe, ‘atmospheric compressors for the car- buretor system of the engine as well ae us for the cabin, it would then be- come possible to fly the 3,000 miles separating New York and London in approximately one-half day or seven and one-half hours, “Possibly in flights of the future, when aircraft will abound in large numbers, there will be a strict classi- fication of the air strata, the lower strata being assigned to the slow going and shorter trip alrships—the middle strata to the speedier open cabin planes or dirigibles; and finally the upper, highly rarefied, rapidly moving air strata to the specially protected aircraft engaged in negoti- ating long distances, such as trans- oceanic and transcontinental trips, where speeds of 400 to 600 miles will be not only frequent but common.” Mr. Secor then discusses the posst- bility of circumnavigating the globe in twenty-four hours and continues: “Why is this so? Due to the fact that it is known from kite and bal- loon sounding tests in the upper at- mospherle alr strata that many miles above the surface of the earth there and probably some of them west- ward with the rotation of the globe, or 1,000 miles per hour. Prof. Mc- Adie, a noted American meteorolo- gist, Harvard University, has estimat- ed that such high velocity air cur- rents may be encountered at even 50,000 feet. high velocity air current is found at 50,000 feet, then he considers that above this there may be a westward- moving alr stratum, and stil! higher another eastward-moving air stratum “Reasoning on this basis of reduced weight and less air resistance at the Mhigher altitudes, it becomes possible to attain some real hair-raising speeds In an airplane. For example, if we consider the weight of the air at eight miles altitude to be but (approximately, to simplify matters) one-fifth of that at sca level, then the speed which an airplane attaining 200 miles per hour at sea level would attain at this altitude (about 42,000 feet) figures to the astounding ve ity of 1,000 miles per hour. According to this method of reasoning Europe is are sir currents moving eastward, only a stone's throw away from us.” What E ve Said ABOUT FRIENDS By Sophie Irene Loeb FRIEND is one who stands up for you in public and sits down on you in private, He it is who helps you take your bitter pill by sugar coating it for you. A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter, He refuses to sign your note because he wants to remain your friend, A friend is one who gives you the bouquoct before you die. He is your enemy when you need one. A friend is one who handles you with boxing gloves when you are strong, and with silk mittens when you are weak. He ft is who waits until the morning after to disagree with you. A friend is one who, when he sees you “in the soup,” shows you how to swim out. And when you are in the down-and-out club a friend is one who will give wee oes aviation push! by Considering that such a encroachment, but the tyranny of legislative majorities — Jefferson;” and “The experience of nations in all periods demonstrates that temper- ance, like other virtues, is not pro- duced by the lawmakers, but by the influence of education, morality and religion—Seymour.” It was Gov. Seymour who had ve- toed the prohibition law when first passed by the Legislature at Albany. before the people following his act, jbut Goy, Clarke won out and the Legiglature elected with the latter lost no time in passing another pro- hibitory law, which was at this time about to take effect, It is refreshing to note that all this excitement and all these mass mect- ings did not for a moment disturh the mental poise of the chief editorial writer, In an editorial headed “The Great Topic,” and published as the leader for July 3, the last day before the drought of '65, this good natured gentleman draws an exquisite pen picture of life as it was then passing in Father Knickerbocker’s town, He sing it in cne of those “canto-I- sing" veins and keeps on singing thus: “Now, the thermometer is above 90 (and he describes the discomforts of the townsmen at length), jtlemen who wear wigs pitied, and people who to be brilliant while the: away Now, gen- are to be pect editors e wiltering ‘ous in their are most prepost Now, coats and trousers, and crowd into Delagroix's to drink hock and soda and consult the thermometer. Now, sunstrokes gre common, and un- drink in- in consequence, and ution is better than a . Now, fruit is abundant, nd money expectations, brokers white wear fortunate foreigners who cautiously suffe an ounce pound of cu and ice plent easy,’ and provisions coming down, and r ries coming in, and country ho! crowded, and city & deserted, and jobbers ing, and auctioneers are having thelr holiday, and artists are off the mountain sketching, and schools are breaking up, and everybody thinks more of drinking than eating, Now, the opera season is at an end, and js are ding houses re doing noth- to Castle Garden is given up to immi grants, and Itallay prima donnas and prima tenors are off among the breezy hills, and the choruses are sweltering in back streets, and actors are starring in Canada, and young ladies are cre- ating sensations at Saratoga. “Now is the last day of liquor, and He had wagei a vigorous campaign | later time, Two test cases resulted, fust es there have been many test cases now taken to courts on account of the Federal Prohibition law. One of these was Wynehamer, plaintiff in errer against the people, defendants in er- ror, Wynehamer was @ Buffalo hotel jand barkeeper, He had been arrested without @ warrant for selling whis- key. The Court of Appeals went thoroughly ito every argument for and against the Prohibition law, and, after nine months of absurdities and failures of enforcement, the highest tribunal of the State threw the Pro- hibition law out as unconstitutional, the main point being that the Legis- lature went beyond its powers under the Constitution in passing a law that would take away a man's prop. erty without “just compensation,” ——————___ is : Shooting Stars” 66 QVHOOTING STARS” is an un- fortunate name for email masses weighing usually only a few ounces that enter the earth's atmosphere from outer space, are ignited by friction with the air, glow brightly for a few seconds and then fall to the surface in the form of dust. ‘These meteors enter, the earth's at- mosphere by the millions every day, but only a small pe reentage is viai« ble to the naked eye at any one place. y fall by day and by night, over land and sea, In Polar regions and in the tropics, The snowy wastes of the far north a dusted with the ashes of shooting s ‘S that have been von- friction with the earth's which they enter at a speed varying from ten to foréy miles a second sum da by atmosphere, Astronomers quite frequently ob- serve met particles, invisible to the naked eye, flitting across tho field of the telescope Some of the weigh larger of these massea pounds, in rarer in- stances even several hundred pounds, They are thus referred to as mete- orites fire. These are not consumed by friction with atmosphere, but after ng with loud reports and ex- 18 a distance of many miles, fall garth's surface rally believed, dis- into swarms of | and the th and other | planets are constantly encountering these fragmentary particles in. thelr Journeys around the sun, — Periodic swarms neountered certat definite times of the year . several | or balls, ent the ie DI to the Comets, it is gen | intes | meteor ely th's ate gradually are at hene: the earth's path crosses the path a these disintegrated comets, co