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

THE LATEST THI THE CALIFORNIA BEACH IS IT 18 IN DECEMBER OR JULY, AND THE SEASON FOR CREATING NOVEL APPAREL TO BE WORN HERE ARE A FEW OF THE LATEST WORN BY SOME OF THE PRETTIEST. ¥ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919 —_ ™ Lt NN ae NG IN SUITS ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST AS POPULAR IN OCTOBER AS IN BATHING KNOWS NO END. Typ es of Married Folk We All Know NO. 6—THE NEVER-AT-HOMES — For Them Home Is Not a Place to Meet, but, Rather a Place to Avoid—Pleasures and Nov-: elties ‘Are Sought Anywhere Else. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) “ce as we watch them sally week, month after month and year after year. tne word ‘home’ mean to them?” Of course, home can't mean very HY did the Never-at-Homes marry?” is what many of us think forth night after night, week after “What does much to any one who spends but a "few minutes there daily and a few hours after midnight, sleeping to gain strength for other jaunts from home. he finds she hes forgotten just how many atitches she should take. She Wrops her work and meets the gaze of her husband. How dull it all is, their eyes say. They glance about the room—the table is undusted, papers and magazines lie in fantastic shapes, ld withered flowers which should have been thrown away weeks ago are tm @ vase, and there is nothing of the home atmosphere or joy of order. Yea, the Never-at-Homes usually have @ maid, but there is no one there to direct her and she does exactly as abe pleases. Since there is not a Qomemaker at the head of the hous u cannot expect others to care how gs go. Again the Never-at-Homes exchange glauces “Let's go to a show!" says: Mr, ‘Never-at-Home ready to do anything rather than admit the truth, the fact that they have no~home, no link, thing in common. Pave late and we'll miss the first act,” says Mrs. Never-at-Home, “but hing is better than being bored to death,” and tossing her knitting tack on the dusty table she files into er boudoir for @ hat. The Never-at-Homes have no Home to phem is not a place to relax and to It ig rather a place to avoid, each othe: from which to run away, ‘and when husband and wife do me with a fow hours between them each feels caged, uncomfortable and bored. There are no cosy corners in the Never-at-Homes’ house, no com fortable easy chairs, no potted plan mor dainty ‘tains. The “atmo Ni phere of hom ge a eta The Never-at-Homes simply look npon home as a place in which to sleep and sometfmes eat, They make a Dusiness of spending what they call “full weeks," a week where every evening is engaged—a bridge party for Monday, a dance for Tuesday, the play for Wednesday, a dinner for ‘Thursday, a reception Friday, a show Saturday and a little bohemian affair at the Browns’ for Sunday night. If by chance an evening Is free and , they do apend it at home what a very ‘quill evening !t proves! How flat it} ail seems. The husband stares at bis| wife and the wife at her husband. | What shall they say to each other? | What have they in common? Other evenings they are chatting and laughing with acquaintances but now they are face to face and alone. Pooh! How dull it all seems! The {husband tries to read the papers, but | he is @o used to just skimming over the headlines that ten minutes Is quite enough to set him gazing idly ‘about the room. The wife takes up @ bit of discarded knitting, but it has been #0 long since she touched it that Memortes of a quiet evening by the fireside, a good novel read aloud, an exchange of heart to heart views are unknown to them. The Never-at- Homes do not really know each other, Mr. Never-at-Home frequently casts an admiring glance at his wife across the room at a reception or across the bridge table noting her beautiful auburn hair or the slope of her shoulders, but he does not appreciate nor understand her finer, womanly qualities that would be brought out in the home life. And likewise, Mrs, Never-at-Home admires her hus- band’s cordial, jolly manner, but she never learns to know the real man and his inner thoughts. The Never- at-Homes have no idea of the value of a home as a unit, an anchor, a tle in life. Many times the Nevér-at-Homes go to see people they care little or nothing about, attend plays which put them to sleep and are bored beyond description at the social affairs they attend, but going out is a habit with them.’ They have an idea that all| pleasures and novelties of life are here, there and everywhere but in the home. The thought of cultivating any of the pleasures that are found New Scientific Tests for Parents To Measure Intelligence of Children “Most Important Time to Train a Child Is Between Three and Nine Years ~The Precocious Child Seldom Amounts to Much—The Bashful Child st Is Usually Clever—It Has an Idea, but Refuses to Tell It for Four ““'*"Reasons; Therefore It Really Has Five Ideas in Its Head at Unce.’’ were is Your nose? in the home never occurs to them. They are like the person who has nothing within himself, the individ- ual who ver gives a thought to is own soul but ing of other poople. Homes really do not lead thejr own quiet, married home life, they are just on the outskirts of life, Inter- ested in all the little gayeties and frivolities of the eutside world, in- terested in everybody and everything | but themselves, Sometimes the Never-at-Homes do Not even Ko out toy r, ‘There is a certain type of er-at-Homes who lead entirely individual existences. One is just going out as the other comes in, The husband has his club and business life and the wife has her club or social affairs, Once in a great while when there is no “full night," they find that each is free, but the thought never occurs to them to remain at home and have quiet little talk by themselves. “Where shall we go?” “What shall we w “What shell we eat?” and “Where shall we dine?” are their favorite topics of conversation, When those questions are settled they have nothing in common, Money is another constant topic among the Never-at-Homes, It costs @ great deal to constantly be on the go and live up to a “full week” pro- gramme. When they are alone there is a constant bickering about ready money and being short of funds, Naturally enough they prefer to be in public where such private confabs are imp ble. Summing up their lives, the Never- at-Homes get very little out of their married existence. Certainly they miss the best pag of married felloity —the home lite. “There is omly one redeeming quality that we can lay at their feet, and that is they never be- come blue or morbid. Going out as they do, night after night, they see a great deal of othets’ lives and rea the many difficult: situations which o' ‘" In one sense this broadens them and they never have time to be sorry for themselves. But while they are watching othors they forget to lead their own lives—they forget they have a home of their own. Two-Minute Speeches For Busy Men No. 1—Employee Presenting a Testimonial By Matthew J. Epstein Copyright. 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, ‘The, Now York Evening World), Ladies and Gentlemen ‘ We are gathered here to-night for one purpose. Throughout the « year we may have many differ- ent interests, we may have many things not at all in common. But to-night we afe one There is one influence that unites us and makes us feel like a single fam- ily, And we are assembled here to-night to pay proper respects to that personality that has weld- ed us into one harmonious group. On an occasion like this one is very prone to give way to flattery. We are mot here to thank our em- ployer because he pays us our wages. The workman is worthy of bis hire, That is merely just to Employer @ larger sphere for an employer than the supervision of produc- tion and the paying of wages, We are men and women, and not mere machines. And the recogni- tton of the human, element, in us is the cause of our ghthering, We have come here, Mr. Blank, to show our appreciation of the fact that not only have you treat- ed us as employees should be treated but as men and women should be treated. If through our efforts we have aided in making the year a su sful one it i8 due to the kindly attitude you have manifested toward us. “You have acted In @ way that all employ- ers may not see the necessity for, You have been not only an em- ployer but a friend, The spirit and the feelings of your em- ployees are with you and your success in this business, But to give a visible token of our appre- ciation we present this (cup) to and proper, But if that were all ie unknown to them. | ‘we would not be here, There is you with the sincerest sentiments of and esteem D wenget wey Beau? WHo IS YouR SISTER'S WHAT 1S THIS, MISTER OWL | HE KtKES THE parn! MEANING PRECOCIOUS WRONG with THE, PICTURE? By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by The Piess Publishing Co, OES YOUR ohild measyre up mentally to the average child? know what that standard should be? he should know for his Age? child's mental training are from three to nine, Dr. Thorndike has long been known by his researches and writings in educa- tional psychology. His work during the war as Chairman of the Commit- tee on Classification of Personnel in the Army, and since then as author of tests of intelligence used as a part of the system of entrance to Colum- bia College, and as a member of the National Research Council's Commit- tre.on Tests adds @ special interest to | Chanson his discussion of intellect and its measurements. “People are too inclined to think their children over-bright, they are too well pleased with them because they can recite a few lines of Mother Goose," said Dr. Thorndike. “In other words, you think that parents overestimate the child's abil- ity in many cases?” I asked. “Not only overestimate but are too content to allow them to be babies, suck their thumbs and talk baby talk when they have really passed the baby stage. The child of three is no longer @ baby, in fact one might even begin at two or two and one-half to train the brain, to concentrate on cer- tain objects, and to be interested in really talking instead of saying ‘goo’ and ‘ga’ and baby language. “Now please don’t misunderstand continued Dr. Thorndyke, “and think I don’t believe in the baby hav- ing woolly dogs and dolls and being a regular full-fledged baby, All that is a part of his development, but my point is to not let him be a baby too jong. I have four children myself, and I know all about babies, but I firmly believe that we should play fair with them and by the time they are at least three years old we should begin to develop their brains and test them out. By the time a child is three old he should have reached a certain standard and be years able to pass a test to be up to tho average little mind of three.” "and bow can we test the child af (The New York Rvening World.) Do you Do you know just how much Have you any way of measuring him up from the ages of three to nine? The Jesuits used to say, “Give us the child until he is twelve and we can do anything with him.” Edward L. Thorndike of Columbia University comes for- ward with the idea that the most important ages of a Now Prof. three to mee if he bas reached that standard?” I asked, “One of the best ways is to use the Binet test which comes to us from France,’ It is divided into six differ- ent groups of questions, Tho first group has four questions such 4s, ow me your nose,’ ‘Point to your eyes.’ ‘Where {x your mouth? ‘Where is your hair?’ If the tot of three can answer three out of those four que tions we give him a credit. “In Group 2 we show him a key and ask him what it 1s. Then a knifo, watch, a lead pencil and a penny, If he knows three out of five, we give him a credit. "Group 8 gives him three pictures in black and white, They must be plc- tures of people, cats, dogs, houses, scenes he commonly sees from day to He should be able to say ‘I see a horse,’ day. a man, a boy playing ball, GOING DOWN! Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Co, (Tue New York Brening World.) MY DEAR PEOPLE: When you massage a dollar bill in your hand do you realize it is worth only 550? I'm talking to you about the purchasing of a good old-fashioned dollar bill. If some one works for you all day long for a one dollar pill or more, do you appreciate this work, this toll for YOU and the money? I wonder! I don't set myself up as an oracle knowing it all, but I want to ask you as a worker, or a8 @ spender of the wages of a worker, do YOU know the purchasing power of a dollar? Do you make your dollars get what you actually want or power what you fancy you need in the spirit of, “It's mine because I have the money to buy it?" Think it over, Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH Prof. Edward L. Thorndike of Columbia University, who dis cusses the educational pos bilities of small children in t' article, was Chairman of the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army during the war and is a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Tests. ° shifarmsnY | | or some one thing in each picture. If he is able to pick out ono thing he and point to it giving ic its right name in each of the three pictures, we sive him a credit. “Group 4 asks one questir A you u little boy or a little gui?’ J |he answers correctly we give him a Hit, ‘Group 6 asks, ‘What ts your name?’ If ho says only the first name ask him what his other name is. No credit is given unless he giyes bis full name: “Group 6, the last fn tho test, Iaito repeat a simple sentence, such &s, "L have a little dog.’ or ‘Thé summer is very hot’ If he can do this he obtains « credit “Now,” continued Dr. Thorndike, “Wf the child is able to obtain six| credits after this Binet test is given | to him he measures up to what he hould for his.age. And even if he # five credits, I should say he ts| doing fainly well, but anything less than this shows that he has been made too much a baby of and not | “Do you believe in the precocious child, the child wonder?” I asked. Dr. slow! 1 given the solid facts of lite.” | | Thorndike shook y but firmly, “Very, he amount to m 1d," was his réply glib: youngster d larly bright. The child w ing to tell you what his father earns, who his big sister's beau and a thousand and one little things that his family would rightly spank bim for, is not necessarily bright. There is a type of child whom we term ‘shy’ and ‘bashful,’ who jg twice as clever. ‘This child has an idea, but do tell It because there are four why he should not, therefore he rea holds five ideas in his head at onc | “And how are we to test the chil jof tour? Have you a test for him here is another Binet test for} hild of four which jg just a little] head | ry sel-| in this his or the more co.nplicated than this but very similar. Then after the child reaches the age of five we can test him in groups. From five to nine we may} use the F principle for testing | r measuring rild's Intell ir. | and Mrs. Prossey have gotten up a series of tests which can given in kindergarten and higher grades. | consist of dots and squares and | e tests. r instance, four dots| ing @ square will be made with| a ditional fifth’ dot at one of the orners, The ¢ 1 is told to cross out the unnecessary dot. ‘The child who has the right thinking mind will know at once what dot Is out of place. Pictures of a glove with two thumbs, horse with five legs and a cat with three eyes are given them and th ure to tell what is wrong the idea of the: the child's intellig: of life for ar of his or should in the yearly tests nean a vast child's life and |measure him up year by year.” What about your child, Mr, and Mrs, Parent? Can he measure up on 1 three or four-year-old test? And what about your children, Miss Teacher? Can they pass the Pressey Principle group testa? th | below ‘ THE LATEST THING IN AUTOMOBILE ETHICS 4 ae 4 UNDERWOOD Ane CHeERWoOm _ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 191 HERE I8 A PICTORIAL EXPLANATION OF THE NEW AUTO SIGNALS NOW THE LAW IN CALIFORNIA. TO THE RIGHT. LEFT. HAND UP—TURNING HAND STRAIGHT OUT—TURNING TO THE HAND DOWN—STOPPING OR SLOWING. IT 18 PRI SUMED THAT THE NEW LAW EVEN APPLIES TO MISS ALICE WASHBURN, A BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA DEBUTANTE. Stunning Furry Wraps Re-Christened With New Set of Colors ‘This Season Pompeian Red Is Only Last Season’s Henna Camou- flaged; Khaki Is Now Anzac; Dragon Fly Instead of Peacock; Victory Blue Replaces Horizon; Fat- can for Tobacco Brown; Chandren for Mahogany By Margaret Rohe INCE I have conte w the reason why They say your tongue ts coated When it's furry feeling, my! ‘or all the stunning coats this year Are furry ‘fur’ and nigh. When you are all wrapped up in one of this winter's stmnnimg new wraps you certainly are bound to be some prize package. The loveliest ones are fashioned out of that exquisitely supple velour fabric family which varies in name only tn the length and thickness of its pile or nap, and is called respectively duve- tyne, and duvedelyne wigh a silk finish peachbloom and cashmert'ne with a wool finish, In either case— slik or wool—it Is bound to be & quick finish for your bank roll to indulge too recklessly in these desirable materials, Evora and fortuna are two other soft velvety fabrics striped in corduroy fashion—the evora vertically and the seen this season's | fortuna diagonally. How typically true of anything appertaining to fortuna that it should go, off on the htas rather than keep to the straight and vertical path, In combination with these mate- rials lavish adornment of mole, beaver, squirrel, sable or gray, Kolin- #ky caracul and Australian opossum make of each mantle a thing of reauty and a joy for the cold months of the year, Many of the coats cling to the cape or dolman lines and wrap volumin ously and drapefully about the fig- ure. One striking exception to this rule is a taupe duvetyne trimmed in mole. It is made in rather a basque effect with a deep cape collar of mole and narrow strips of this neutral toned fur striping it at close intervals, The skirt with huge pockets of the mole is gathered to the basque just the natural waist line and shows cartridge arrangement, of the gathers over each hip. ‘Two startlingly fearless furless models in this season of fur trimmed mantles are an Anzac beachbloom and fn Pompeian duvetyne, The first has az sole trimming a deep cape collar reaching to’ the waistline, its entire surface diamond stitched in self- toned silk, ‘This collar, soft and sup- ple, may be 4 up close and bigh about the neck and the face to meet the fury of wintry blasts and tho approval of the passerby, The deep cus on the sleoves are etitched erushi the same. More of a mantle than @ coat Is the vivid Pompelan duvetyne decked out here and there with strile- ing oblong motifs of black chenille, Far be it from me to give away amy secrets of the trade, but owing to that strange psychology of the dekie female whereby she must needs have ever something different and “new,” little old last year’s colors have all been re-christened with a nice new sec ot names, It milady but guessed that this season's glowing Pompelan red te only last season's henna camouflaged by an appellation she would cast it from her like an impoverished suiter, but as long as ignorance is cater blind she dons Anzac instead of khaki, dragon fly instead of peacock, victory blue instead of horizon, faisan for tobacco brown, madure for dark brown and chandren for mahog- any and goes her way blissfully com- fident that she ts colored right up to the very latest tint in the fashien~ able spectrum and everything. pedienMbnacas Rab oe ds | How It Started | By Hermine Neustadtl licks her coat, but beby Moke R his fingers, and when be cam, his toes! Most children, though they be well bred and have no other die agreeable habits, have to be contina~ sly admonished against biting thetr finger nuils, and there are indeed few of us with whom it has not at gome time or other been found expedient to pepper and mustard coat the of- fending thumb. AS we grow up we cease to suck our thumbs; but watch an untrained, nervous person under pressure and see if he does not bite his finger aails, And those of us who don’t do It te frain only because we are trained it’s under the skin, ‘This inclination is an outcropping atavism, a tendency or instinct thas has come down to us from prebisterte man, Though these of our ancestors were not particular about maaioures, paw excrescences beyond @ certain Biting Finger Nails. OVER licks his chops, tabby length were deeldedly an incom venience, Piles and scissors are @ comparatively modern luxury. rresponding accessories of were sharp rocks 01 teeth, the mand still | | ee a ee eg