The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1919, Page 11

Mr. Husband ARE YOU TRYING TO ‘MAKE OVER ’”’ WIFIE ¢ Mrs. Wife— ARE YOU TRYING TO “MAKE OVER’’ DON’ T is the Warning Implied in “The Story of a Lover,’ Which Gives Examples of Connubial HUBBY « Unhappiness This Nagging Method Creates. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyrieht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Wrening World.) D’ you Burbank your husband—or your wife? Do you embitter existence for the being you love by trying to change his or her nature as radically as Luther Burbank changed Mr. Burbank with helpless fruits and vegetables? if you are en- gaged in such an| one reason why your marriage ie a! fadlure. ‘These questions were suggested to me when I read certain paragraphs} in “The Story of a Lover,” the anony- mous autobiography of a married man recently published by Boni and laveright Thero are several un- usual features of the marriage so minutely described in tho book, one of them being that the husband ap- parently bolieves in kissing and then telling his wife about it, in deflance of the convention that concbalment is the least homage conjugal cam pay to virtue. But there is one all too common cause of discord be- tween the husband and wife in “The | Story of a Love He sums it up, candidly enough, as follows: “Spare one another we never did; éach struggled to reallze his own in- vice dividuality, his egotistic need, Nel- ther of us wus considerate to the other. “I nagged and pd her, and tried to fit her of our metic- ulous Society, he, like a stubborn mare, kept th between her teeth and went her own intalorable way. “1 spared hor, indeed, as Little as she Spared me. I dinned nervously into her my demands. I insisted on economy and regularity, an affability toward neighbors and friend 1 kept. my many goments with sorupulous care, and I expected her, who ha: no sense of tims, of punctu- ality whatever, to keep hers. And when she did not, 1 fumed and fretted and stormed and acted Itke a petulant child. “For years and years I struggled to overcome her in these minor matters of moralities, rather than of morality; | and there was constant nervous fric- | ton between us.” In short, tlie two of them Bur- banked each other to the best of thelr respective ability. How many other husbands and wives are trying to do the same thing, struggling to turn red roses of personality into impossible blue ones, to make blackberries of character white! “{ don't see why you always put off paying your tailors’ bills till the last possible moment,” Burbanks a wile with a New Engiand conscience about debt who hay married a genial South- erner brought up to the belief that hig creditors are made to wait his comvenience, not be theirs “I sure the poor man needs the mon he probably has three or four smal! ebildren and a consumptive wife. If everybody holds him up the way you do, how can he get along? It isn’t honorable; I'm not sure it’s even hon- est, My father always paid his bills within twenty-four hours of the time he received them. I don't see why you can't, You're making money enough!” “Why isn't there any system in this house?” demands a male Burbanke | my “No matter how much of an allow- ance I give you, you're always a few dollars shy at the end of the month and there's a bill o> two you ask me! the nature of plums and blackberries? Like a fruit, each personality has its own color, form and shape. Are you attempting to “reform”—to reshape—the per- sonality you married, to eradicate its natural char- acteristics and give it others, after the manner of to settle. Why don't you have some plan about things? Why don’t you keep accounts, or get up a budget? it isn’t the money I care about, but 1 don't like to think everything ts at ® loose end. Now, when my sister kept house with me before we were married her balance was alwuys right to a penny.” (The Burbanker often hokis up to adimiration and emulation some plant of another growth, quite forgetting the old, ironical comment on the im- possibility of making grapes grow from thoras or digs from thistles.) you never notice anything I have on,” watis an indefatigable Mrs. Bur- bank, who believes she can turn a stolid, solid American business man, with the defects of his qualities of honesty and steadfastness, into :he Prince Charming of @ French novel. “You never tell me any nice things about: myself, Other men, before I married you, said I had nice eyes and liked the way my hair grew around my forehead. You never even tell me you love me. Weil, how am I to know it if you don't tell me. You ht just be Jetting things run along because it’s too much trouble to get a divorce. I don't see wny you can't pet me and pay me a com- piiment once in a while, even if wo have deen married two year: ‘Seems to ny you play around with a rather swift crowd,” is the Burbank complaint heard so often from a man who fell If love with his wife be- cause she was prefty, merry hear ad and the reverse of Puritanical and who now desires to revise her into the sort of person he wouldn't have looked at twice and would stop look- ing at if he really succeeded in his forts to changé his red rows to @ blue one. “A married woman,” he continues soplently, “should have somo dig- ind’ self-respect, It's all very for those flappers to dance ail lint we have an home once In a whilo? And that last dinner-cown you got {s pretty near the limit. I'm no prude, but I don’t ant MY WIFE looking like a ch costumer's model, And I w Mrs, Babington-Jones watching you Jast stairs and night when you sat on the talked for so long to young Thomson. Oh, of course I'm not jealous, but you ought to be more careful of appearances!” there are shorter and snappier of Rurbank dialogue—somewhat this fashion: “You smoke 30 much—aren't you ever going to listen to me and stop burning up all that money?” “You let the children walk all over you—aren't you ever going to take Advice ‘and show some disci- Why will you insist on eating meat three times a day? Any doctor wii! tell you how bad it is for you!” *T think it's so silly for you to en- tertain a lot of those fool women you know, about whom you don't really core a hang!" And the net result of all the matri- moniat Burbanking ts neither a blue rore nor a white blackberry but only tric’ It is easier to change the shape of @ man's nose than to change the number of cigars he smvukes or his manners. It 1s more simple to reform the color of a w:man’s eyes than to reform her de- ecliete gowns or her financial methods, ‘ The next time you feel Ike Bur- banking, don't obey that impulse. If you want to do something as use- less—and much more haripless—try emptying the ocean with a teacup or the Sahara with a teaspoon, ? ? nd go on joy-rides, but why! evening at’ How New York Teaches School Girls To Keep House When Married Washington Irving High School Has a Practice Apartment Where Girls Learn to Be Efficient Housewives—Teachers’ College Also Has One—New York Leads Country in This New Work, Started Here Three Years Ago. By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Oa (The New York Evening World), EW YORK has deen giving a unique course to engaged girls, newlyweds and young women desiring to learn how to keep house for the past three ton Irving High School and for two years at Teachers’ College. Each school has what 18 known as a “Prac- tice Apartment” and here the young girls may learn everything there is to know about the upkeep of a home. Miss Ada Roe, teacher in domestic shingion Irving High 001. ‘Of course our main idea is to teacl young girls how to manage a home, she told me ag we looked at the practice apartment, where a girl is taught everything there !s to know about running a home from how to made a bed to the proper way to clean a sink. “For a long time we have taught cooking and domestic science in the high schools, but still we felt that we must get a little nearer to the home life, and this Practice apartment bas solved our problem.” This practice apartment consists of five rooms and bath and over one thousand students are taught to be home makers each year. There ts & living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, nursery and bath. The liv- ing room is furnished in a color schome of tans and browns and in each room the pupils are taught the selection of proper home surround- ings and furnishings. ‘The nursery is perhaps the most interesting room in the suite, It is fitted up with a crib and all the essentinis for the care of the baby. Dolls serve as models and the student is taught how to dress, bath and care for the baby in every way. “Making beds, setting the table and planning the house- hold expenses according to the pocketbook are also a part of the curriculum, Besides Jearning all of the modern, sanitary ways to keep house there are many little finishing oataa whch the young girl learns i ‘The above photograph shows a typical Chinese) hygienic conditions being practical; family, such as our soldiers are seeing in Viadivostok,|In spite of the cold of Northern jcans in the fight against the Bi Jive ina gingle hut, sanitary and few base of the trae, aad unknown to them, iberia, the children often go barefooted, years at Washing-| is in charge of the classes | that used to be taught at boaniing school and fashionable finishing schools. So if a girl does decide to take the step “for better or for worse” she has a wealth of knowl-; dge at her command. “What we wieh to do,” said Miss Roe, “is to teach our students to man- age a home. Our equipment for this work in our school is unexcelled in any other school in the city; in fact, it is the only high school which has | such an apartment in Manhattan. We are prepared to* give a thorough course preparing for managerial po- !sitions in homes, hotels and tea rooms, canteens and hospitals, Of course t you lay the foun- dation for a great many well planned, comfortwble, artistic little homes ir New York,” 1 said to M Roe as she took me through the apartment, opening 9upbourds and closets and explaining the many important fea- tures of the course. “1 feo! that many girls are profits ing by the course,” was the quick! reply, “and in several casos I have been invited to the homes of students who have: married. This summer [ had tea at the home of a little stu- dent I trained in this course, I was delighted to see almost an exact model of our practice apartment. And when I saw Now spic-span everything was, how daintily the tea was served tea of a sin; “Aad “Ine School and felt the spirit of & refined, well- kept home, I cannot say how worth while the Whole course seemed to me.” Teachers’ cher live period to actu: into effect. living combined, two double bedrooms, e bedroom, a bat Miss Geraldine Hadloy is t realize what this is for the e' ed they do of our students are here for vocation- al purposes, but on the for engaged und New York there for four students who occupy it wl to arrange for shorter thay will when other like apartments are established. ing this course Of home management ; for tWo years, and now we find {t is ono practice apartment, so ph the We many of an excell ngaged 0 der the has ris and newlyweds East Night School in Woodward H. direction College not only has « practice apartment, but it is equipped so that four of the students and one a long enough ly put their knowledge | ‘This apartment consists | and dining room one and a kitchen er who is 4 apartment. “And I ex this my home until January told r “At present we only have have stays than have peen Ki vowing so popular that we are to many of the girls take the course a8} -stablish a number of apartments just @ vocational one, but it is surprising | like it. how many take it simply because they | |’ dig Fpl d re re 08 oe are interested in housekeeping and | Siged inte ate divisione-nth home management. Several times! hostess, waitress, housekeeper and girls have come back to me and said: | assistant housekeeper. At different | fay I just look over this practice | periods we exchange roles, so that we partment onceymore, Miss Roe? And | ail have a hand in running the apart will you tell mé what you eaid to do} ment This actually living in. the under sugh and such circumstances? | apartment and playing the role. of 1 have forgotten and | am about to be] five different possons gives a girl a married.’ " chance to. put her knowledre into “L have no dor practice. It is not just a theory ot something to jot down in a notebook, pass an examination and foi c" these students lent preparation 1 girl?” T asked. Yf course, many her hand, we have a number of engaged girls who felt that they needed this course be fore taking the responsibility of homemaking upon thelr shoulders.” A few days ago Cincinnat! boldly stated that she has started a class having there n for the last three and two years respectively at High Cost of Dressing Where Milady, Before the War, Could Buy an Ex- cellent Gown for $50, Now She Must Pay as High as $150—And That’s ‘Not the Half of It.’’ their price tags and with shoes soar- By Margaret Rohe OSITIVELY it would be tragic If it were not so ridiculous—the price tags dangling from this reason's coats and frocks and suits. Do you remember in the good old days how a fifty-dollar bill was con- ainered quite some outiay and the gown or sult it purchased was of ex- cellent material, lines and style? Waat fifty dollars will buy to-day l.cks Hike something le chat emportalt ehez-il, Sixty-nine, seventy-five and eighty dcuars are average prices “for con- ing de-rols t sor to fMifte What's worre ty kick about it for out our precious shoe ‘The strange ever have fabrics and furs and fol- more lavishly and ex- avagantly exquis! been how the Le: successfully put over its equality for all nations as long as the high cost nm and we ¢ part o ue twenty n't even do fear of wearing leather f it all is that than right this minute, The wonderful Lyons vi veto brocaded in metal, thé metallic tissues and brocades, the velvets, duvetyns and brocades, the velvets, the glories of the Renaissance the same time they take a wallop at your bank roll Somehow or other I can't quite of Nations can ? tata in co. Of clothing means a0 little to the scrvative little dresses of Borge trico- | tae tueas ut ne Hottentat cages tine, gabardine, satin, tafe! ® | raveh to the pocketbook of an Amer. Georgette or velveteen. Anything the| ican, least out of the ordinary, exolusive or seer Frenchy, immediately leaps into the THE WRONG FELLOW. hundred class and even trotteurs of N official of an Insane asylum cloth, be they the least bit original is @ firm believer tn the value and distinctive, range from $110 to of amusement on a deranged $125 and $150 with the easy speed of an| mind; and, be- capress elevator going up. ing @ good ama- 17 ITS A REMARKA Ae for suits, without exaggeratton,|teur comedian, TATE OF AFFAIRS: even in shoddy materials and cheapest| he occasionally grade furs, there are no fur-trimmed | assists at an en- sults under @ hundred dollars, When |tertainment, His they are of peachbloom, duvetyn |). yt “ and others of the exquisite new mato. |! 48% perform- rials with beaver, mole, nutria or | aCe Was espe- squirrel trimmings they range from $250 to $450 with the greatest ease and abandon, You can pick out a sort of rough and ready sport coat for around *% or $80, but let anything in evora, duv tyn or casimeretine sawathe round your figure, and even though clally rudicrous; but one man the audience sat through it with a grave and unmoved in countenance, a Jook of perplexity in you his eyes. “Lt certain. ly is Able state of affairs,” he confided to % len't of the fur~bearing species in| a visitor after the doctor had fnished yound figures it will bring around/an amazing wort of Highland fling, che bundred and fifty round dollars.| "4 very remarkablo state of affairs The beautiful befurred models of Bpewest rich weaves ng to the ex Sasive ‘dens’ teases, 8 fe ‘by nn they rebut nt averyts ‘ ag of that? | PRACTICE. araRntTmMentT ar WASHINGTON TRYING HIGH ScHooL Washington Irving and Te hers’ College. Of course, New York doesn't announce that her classes are exelu- | aively for engaged girls; she just sets UP wt practice apartinent in two] schools and leaves it to the girl her- self to decide whether or not she wishes to become engaged or join the matrimonial nks, Furthermore New York takes it for granted that “keep- ing house” i# @ woman's business whethe ded or single, and, since there are oodles of bach r girls who keep their own apartments, she asks ho such pe nal questions as “single or married Keep Your House Cool With Cold Air Pipes } of Miss | ice Hobson, for years a teacher of | household urts. But why been classes for young wom: \|DR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL EXPLAINS HIS LATEST I KR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM D BELL, whom the world has to thank for the telephone, re- ports in an article quoted in the October number of Electrical Expert menter, an experiment out of which m method of cooling a house in the hot days of summer just as we heat our homes now in the cold come « of winter—by pipes. The editor of Electrical Experimenter calls i ‘piped cold," “I have found one radical defect in the construction of our houses,” says Dr, Bell, “that absolutely precludes the possibility of cooling thera to any nt degre Yo will readily un- derstand the difficulty, when you re- member that cold air is heavier than warm air. You can ta! a bucket of cold air, for exaniple, and carry it about inthe summer tine and not apill 4 drop, but if you make a hole in the bottom of your bucket, thi course, the cold air would run out “L began to think that it might be possible to apply the bucket princip to at least one room in my Washingt home, and thus secure a pli treat In the suminer time, It age to be advisable to close up all open ings near the bottom of the room to prevent the oxcape of cold air and open the windows at the top to let out air of the room vappens that L have In the pasainent of my house @ swimming tank, and it ocenrred to me that siner this tank holds water, it should n which eben fabatmtuintnt (minima sefrhatater Copyright, 1019, by ‘The Press Publishing SW fad js the psychology en- trance exam to college. Freshman's gotta prove he ain't crazy, and the burden of proofs on the freshie, College claims half tho world's assorted nuta, and they use psychology to raparate the pecans, College boy | now gets an exam before he goes ore, and it’s got #0 the col- oll sounds sensible ‘side of the exam, i In the old days only admiasion tho college asked was, “How nyuch have you got?” Col- logo now asks the samo question, but puts it up to the philanthrom™ > pists, Lets the student off easier. Studes are asked somothing ‘Hk “What's the differe between | Novgymber and ‘Tuesday, and, if don't answer unless eight is than Norway.” Correct answer is one straitjacket plus nine armed gual Stude that gets the right answer is given the full term at Matteawan with the degree of D. T. Wise guy of to-day needs no Latin or Greek to get into col- I Neeils only fferve, Board of examiners holds a session in a padded cell and comes out with the full dope sheet, Freshmen | then line up and take the test. Soon as tho freshie passes it ex- aminers make @ bolt for the nut. | Sign him up for the coliege course | before he can get away. For tho stude that can answer the ques- tions can get away with anything, Colleges want quick thinkers this season, Slow guys are no use on the varsity team. As soon to J] duostion ot | Aided a way a tae wuelee lee, Gove Ks ” as a goof knows what should | after 10, he's ready \ vom sered with salt to intensify the melt- * and freezing action of the ice. This was placed in another room at | higher elevation than the tauk, ind a pipe, covered with asbestos paper, was employed to lead the cold air into the tank “The first effect was the dryin the walls, and then I felt the | jot the cold air gradually rising. |last it came over my head. |tank was full, and I found myself immersed jn cool air. I felt so cool ind comfortable that it seemed dif Joult to believe that Washington latood sizzling outs I climbed up | the ladder in t ewimming tank un- jul my head was above the surf jand then found hot dainp, murey speedily, retreated where T was per fortabl “Guided by this experience, I tried another experiment, [ put the re- frigerator im the attic and led the vid air downward through a pipe} avered with asbestos into one of the rooms of the house, The doors were kept ghut and tho windown | were opened at the top. The tem- ature in that room was perfectly ifortable. about 65 degrees! tume ago the papers were King of an ice plant that had myself breathing @ atmosphere, into the tank, tly cool and com- n installed in the White House, | and congratulated the President, then Mr, 1 upon @ temperature of en when the thermome W) degreos outside, Unde similar conditions (100 degrees F. outside), [ enjoyed in my home a temperature of 65 degrees (the ideal temperature), with delicious feel. on”. r showed ‘mind, whether you've got one oF Co. (The New York Brening World.) for foobball stenals, If he-welgh@ 210 or better, they even cut out > the hard test. Just ask bifn what 7 comes after his middle initial and send him down to report to the head coach. i Getting into college today Just like joining the Bika or mae > ing out your income tax, You | don't know what's gonna happen - to you, and when you're half way through it, you ‘don’t cane, Panning the tent's lke pasl flivver—you can do it if you don't break down. , Lotta college guys we know must have got in on knitting tests, other way. Those are the guys that think croquet ia a sport and whipped cream iffa food, The same brand of guys that find it hard to make a living simply because no | body wants to let ‘em live. But If the colleges want to get a real set of students, they — need exams like this: 1, Name one good way to get a dry’ drink in a dry town. (Forty ; points credit). 2. Name another good way, (Another 40 points credit), 3. Name the Vice-President of the United States, (Two points credit, right or wrong! 4, Who first discovered fee water? (Two points credit.) 5. Explain the league of Nae tions. (Fourteen points credit) 6. Whers was Moses when the electric ight employees went out on strike? (One point credit.) — 7. What's the matter with Ger= many? (No credit—that's the an- ewer.) Guy that gets 40 pointe passes the teat. 3 At that, though, it's easier te Mob psychology explains how SY prevent a lynching after the js all over. Criminal psychology explains why-a guy goes wrong— after hegogs to jail. And animal —_ psychology explains why equine rels like nuts, esting. Yup, psychology’s a study of thé It's all very inter not. Profs, ask trick questiona but don't allow trick answers, ‘Tricks are all on one aide, like @ bum game of bridge. No use now for the college boy to gram for the entrance exam. Guy that can write the history of England on his cuff has no chance with the new system. He can send the cuffs to the laundry without losing anything except maybe the cuffs, Only mark that's affected is the one the laundry gives him. College fetlers ain't the only ones that get the bean though. Immigrants get Binet test. They've got entrance exams to the country and en« trance exams to the colleges, And they're even giving ‘em é@n= trance exams to the corner now. ‘The qugstiohs are crazy. Only entFance exam sensible questions iq the one they you to get into jail, It's toe took a sail on psych waves, and that's ag near as they got water in any form. Army clals also used psych exams to discover first class soldiers, the draft boards beat dratt boards discovered the cinss guys first. — Payel aidn't exactly win the war, neither did Germany. And satisfies everybody, deca IE GOING DOWN! Copyright by the Press Publishing Company, (Tuo New York Kreaing World), Y DERAR FRIENDS: Let's spend our money! Come ont sell your Liberty bonds, sell anything, but for goodness sake get what you want, spoiled child that you are! Have you gotiged the terrifie |) rate at whitch people are spending: money? And fohywhat? There tg n0/séason to suppose people shevid spend money they waht 6, /) "Easy come, easy go!” But before we sell our Lae erty bonds or railroad shares, let us ask, “For what?" The war with Germany may e oyer, but there is a much gremter war going On every minute-—every q While this is going on, let us ADS JUST ourselves to moneye=te | study its value, even if some. a dollar is worth only 58, Analyze what you are te your money for~you may later on. In short, STOP AND THINKS to-morrow may be tog later Yours Couldn't have passed amy € j take psychology than to spell it qi And there are ail kinds of psych. a