The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1919, Page 20

MONDAY, OCT Types of Married Folk | OBER 20, 1919 We All Know. No. 7—The Suburbanites. The Husband Should Be Able to Mend the Roof; the Wife Must Be “a Perfect Woman, Nobly Planned, to Love, to Honor and Command.” By Fay Stevenson Coprright, 1919, by Tuo Prem Publishing On (The New York Brening World.) man running to catch a train, his arms full of bundles, a brand WW" we think of the suburbanites we have a mental picture of a new hoe in one-hand, an alarm clock in the other and his pockets of thread to @ jum further and depicts resting cozily on a Yes, that is the why we picture the suburbanites and on the whole we consider them a mighty fine couple, We appreciate the fact that they are Among our finest American types, the real home makers of the world. The cliff dwellers who live in the heart of the city seldom average over two or three years for any one locality, but the suburbanites, bless their deur hearts, stay on from year to year and are as permanent and as perennial as tho box hedge which grows around their 60 by 100. Although the cliff dwellers and some of us who live in the city proper have @ little way of smiling at tho subur- banites, I sometimes wonder if they don't get a better angio and a finer outlook on life than any other twen- Ueth century couple, To begin with, the suburbanites enjoy both city and country life. They are near enough to the city to hop out to a good show, snatch @ bite to eat and catch the mid- night train. And the next morning, in- stead of having to look into court- yards and alrways they may glance out upon trees and lawns and actually trace the horizon line. If Mr. Subur- banite is particularly energetic he may ge out and cut the grass or shovel off @ bit of snow, according to the scason of the year. And as far as Mrs. Subur- banite is concerned she may go shop- ping all morning in the city and return to do her preserving of berries and fruits right from “their own place.” ‘Then too there is the social life of the suburbanites to be considered. Mr. and Mrs, Cliff Dweller do not dare make friends with their next door neighbors, but the suburbanites | enjoy long conversations over the/ box hedges, exchange garden tools | and cooking recipes, spend . many Pleasant hours in each other's homes discussing “the crops,” the best lawn seed, heating problems and a emat- tering of village gossip. But probably one of the best char- acteristics of the suburbanites ts their plain, matter of fact, clear way bursting with packages which might vary from a spool ping jack for his small son, If our imaginations are keen our mind's eye goes even a little @ little woman in a gingham frock Screened porch or a sin parlor. suburbs and “have an easy time of it.” Woe to the couple who go to the suburbs to admire beautiful sunsets, play tennly or keep a machine, I have| tn mind a young couple who thought they were suburbanites. They moved into a pink stucco, bungalow, bought a yellow roadster and a Boston brindle bulldog. For three or four months they enjoyed delicious spins into the country and “such sunsets” and then the boy who cut the grash failed to appear, t!c maid gave notice, | the man who promised to take care of the furnace moved away and they got # real touch of suburban life, After wintering and summering in the place they sold the pink bungalow at a sacrifice, threw in the yellow car and the brindle as “extras” and be- came cliff dwellers for the rest of their blessed lives. Such would-be suburbanites frequently appear on the landscape, but because they lack the energy and power “to do things for themselves,” they quickly make their way back to the city where life is more of a theory and less, realistic, ‘The full fledged suburbanites, the couple who remain year after year in the same little bungalow or Queen Anno cottage, are thoroughly domes- tie souls. The husband is always a man with surplus energy and a nat- ural bent for carpentry work, tinker- ing with tools and a natural born fondness for “secing things grow.” And the wife is always a little woman who takes pride in having a spic-span house, cupboards full of “home made" Jams dn@ follies and canned goods and, greatest of all, a place to “air her clothes in the sun.” The suburbanites always tell you that they live out of town “on ac- count of the children,” but if you ever catch Mr. Suburbanite whistling as he cuts the grass or hoes around the corn, or got a peek at Mrs, Sub- urbanite ehe hurries about her home with a song on her lips, you sometimes wonder WHO the children are, Surely the husband in his gar- den suit and the wife in her bunga- low apron do remind one of grown-up children, ew aa | | While a Student at Yale, Gibson Placed a Ladder to the Window of Seventeen-Year-Old Minna Field and Whisked Her Away to New York and a Minister—His Next Adventure, “‘An Outdoor Romance” in 1908 in Washington With Twenty-Year-Old Miss Grace McMillan Jarvis— His Latest Experiment in Love, Mrs. Rogers Benjamin Pratt of New York and Newport; This Match Strongly Opposed by Her Parents Millionaire Society Leader, Soldier and Playwright | PRESTON GIBSON Finds Greatest Diversion in Game of Love es TTT EN ar Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Ten Years Ago a Silk Stocking Meant an Aristo- crat—Now It Can Mean an Aristocrat’s Maid ILK etockings are now $5 a pair, proving that the silkworm has turned, Girls think {t’s turned for the worse. Stockings are higher everywhere except above the knee, but they still cover # multitude of shins. Dame that would rather go barefooted than do without silk stockings soon will have to, Everybody wears silk stockings now except those that don’t wear ‘em at all. Grandpa wears ‘em and Baby wears ‘em. Old-time wife used to carry all her money in her stocking. Wife of to-day puts all her money into silk stockings and the stockings are all she has to show for it. Silk stockings fifty years ago were considered awful. Price of ‘em is the only part that’s awful today. Girl that wore silk ones when Bryan was a boy orator was looked on with suspicion. Girl that wears ‘em now Is looked on, but not with suspicion. Fifty years have made a lotta difference with stockings, same as it has with the girls. Fifty years ago was when the girls wore one-piece niguties and two piece bathing sults. To-day they cut a bathing sult out of one piece and have enough left over for the nightie. Flannel has been promoted from underwear to an outside position. Now make skirts and trousers out of flannel and underwear out of silk. Silk underwear is now the thing, and so are the other underthings. Didn't take the girls long to get next to silk! Silk comes from worms. Worms can be used as bait, same as silk stockings can, Worms work hard and fast, and vie the same way. Only thing about silk stockings that ain't fast is the dye. Silkworm has no future, but it has a proud career. Gets made into a silk stocking and is the only insect that’s knee-high to a grasshopper. Forty years ago, chorus girls who wore silk stockings were con- sidered vulgar. Whether she wore ‘em on or off-stage. Those were the Gilbett and Sullivan days when the music was light and airy Instead of the costuming. Chorus girls never wore silk stockings then. To day they never wear ’em either. Today they don’t wear any kind at all. Successful munic shows now depend on lines. The kind of lines that are seen and not heard. ‘Twenty years ago girls wore long skirts and silk stockings—the latter for their own satisfaction. Them was the days when a mouse had a better chance of seeing silk hose than a man. Last twenty years has brought about a lotta changes—including high car-steps, windy corners and muddy crossings. Mouse can still get an eyeful, but there's no longer an advantage In being a mouse, Ten years ago a silk stocking meant an aristocrat. Now it can mean an aristocrat’s maid. Silk stocking boys used to be highbrows. But what you have on your feet has nothing to do with a highbrow now —it's what you have on your mind. Everybody wears silk sox now, from the I. W. W.s to the rich guys. Labor and capital are on an equal footing when it comes to sox. When the I. W. W.s walk out, they do it in s'lk sox. I. W. W.s even put clocking in their bombs. Latest fad in half hose—that 1s, for the girls. Half hose has deen going strong with the male sex for years, although a lotta mar ried men are known to wear hole hose. Half hose for women started in Paris and !t looks like they ended just above the ankle. Fifty per cent. off stockings made a hit with the girls right away, even if the 60 per cent. was off the top. Straw vote indicates it made a hit with the men, too. ‘As we said, though, silk stockings are worn everywhere—even in bathing. And every one's fond of ‘em, including mosquitoes. We havo a hunch the skeeters go after the silk ones because they look like mos- quito netting. The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are the same to the skeeter under the skin. And since Judy's gone in for silk stock- Only one thing you can say against the silk stocking—it’s too mpch like 1919 booze. Never full strength and everybody darns it. wr By Hermine of looking at life. There is absolutely Neustadtl mothing artificial in the life of the @uburbanites. They must be real. who can face “I simply love to visit The Subur- | banites,” sald a friend the other day. “IT always have such a good time at their home, but I have just one objec- tion to them, and that is that they are always trying to get my husband and myself to join their happy throng. We never visit them but they want us | ings lately, they're the same in a couple of other places—right and left. | | (HOW IT STARTED | not in the pomp and show of cere- mony, not in the gown of virgin white, nor yet the shimmeritig train. Nor {a it in the veil, one moment kind to maken blushes, the next lifted to The Bride’s Wreath. Ts glory in our wedding cos- first marriage, Mrs. Gibson divorced her husband on the ground of incom- patibility, having the custody of thei! son, Henry Field Gibson, The next inventor and expositor of new dances who was one of the first to volunteer for the Plattsburg training camp. He alsv was one of the first Americans ip and to really “keep house’—not “play house.” The man must be able to tume for the prospective bride, sentiment that to be a “real the universal mend his roof, “tend” the steam rm Sa Pat Ee BAIN Se plant and be general emergency man; while the wife must be “a perfect ‘Woman, nobly planned, to love, to honor and command.” And the com manding must be largely of her own|* are an ideal couple who get a whole | lot out of life." will power, for certainly no one ap- preciates the present servant problem to come out near them and bull “But that is true of all suburban- ites,” was my quick reply, “and if it weren't for that one little fault of the desire to proselyte, they year she became the wife of Algernon Edwyn Burnaby of Leicestershire. England. Less than a year later Mr. Gibson jagain shone in the role of Romeo, On Feb. 29, 1908, he married one of Washington's most beautiful and the war, for on the declaration of nos- tlities he sailed for France and foiued 4D ambulance unit in the French army going later to the front, during the great Chemin des Dames offensive, with the United States Ambulance Corps, He won the French War Cross | makes every girl want bride’ once, though almost all men would rather spend a day in Hades than attend their own wedding, lies Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Evarts Benja- min. As Mrs. Alexander Dallas Bache reveal the glowing features of the new-made wife, It is in the wreath, her blossom crown, that the bride finds glory, though of but an hour or a day, that lights with hope the dream days that precede it and the after years with reminiscent joy. For was she not a Oo popular debutantes, the twenty-year- | and was twice cited for bravery under Pratt she was a most popular hostess] 1007, there crowned beside hér kind, @9 much as tho little woman just on} old Miss Grace McMillan Jarvis,| gas and enemy fire. He has told of in New York and Newport and #1.) gsccng the altar of his heart? , ‘the outskirts of the city. \Get in Debi to Y 1 granddaughter of the late Senator | bis experiences at the front in an ia-| prominent figure in society tableaux. | 's ittle does the bride realize the lit- In other words, the suburbanites Get in Debi to Yourself| James McMillan of Michigan and | teresting and modest little book, “Lat-| she obtained a divorce last June In) 4.4) truth of this sentiment; sAc- must have energy. Woe to the couple ET in debt to yourscl and thes niece of Lady Harrington, She and| ering the Boohe.” |Nowport, while hor husband was 10 oo aing to ite significance from its Who think they can drift into the How Alert Are You? Using the top row as a guide, write the correct numbers in the circle, square, cross and triangle, Forty-five seconds is average speed. When you have paid yourself the need pity for a stale and weary existence. He is Preston| gix years later, the second Mrs. | tenant for extraordinarily efficient re- and are honeymooning in the Adiron- pmege of tele devel ters came $100 and have it safely deposited in Gibson, New York society leader, dramatist and play-|Gibson, after numerous differences |cruiting service, making a record of dacks, after DAYIRE Pye bard marriage they crowned the bride f @ 4 (3) aa Ay the savings bank where it is carning producer, decorated war veteran, twice married and|and reconciliations, filed a suit for | 3,200 recruits in thirteen days, anction for their wedding by Mrs. Among the Russians and certalh “ interest for you, go in debt to your- ivoreed, who has ) —— |divorce in t\e District of Columbia.} Once more the headlines are built Pratt's parents. Pantone BaUntHas She Aid beaanibe . self again. Try to make it $126, $150) just “started|and he has been equally at home tn|In 1917 she received her decree and | about him, this time as the new hus-| gociety already has begun e won-|o¢ crowaing their daughters durin aa or $200 this time. something” once|the social worlds of New York and|the custody of her two children, | band of the beautiful granddaughter dor what, the irrepressible Preston |the wedding is still literally adhered qn kd A Keep up the process, more by the an-| Washington for many years. James McMillan and Mary Preston/of H. H. Rogers and the daughter of Gibson will do next! to, imagine you are the other fel- low. Decide, for example, that you owe yourself $100. | Then get after that hundred as| though you were trying to beat your- | self out of it, Give yourself no rest ull you clean up your debt. Get #0 you follow yourself around — Science Notes Copyright, 1919, by The Presse Publishing ‘ | paying Lis wif After a survey of Mr. Gibson's ad- venturous career one may be par- Fifty envelopes a mounted on the end of a fountain pen has been invented, telephone cords twisting, Motorcycle side cars are coming in- New York real estate, His uncle, by preventing \doned for suspecting that the opposi- of a joy ride every day of his life,” a friendly critic observed of him sev- his mother was a New York Mont- |gomery and much of his wealth Is In By Marguerite Mooers Marshall AM acquainted with many men who have inherited money—they don't enjoy it,” Charles M, Schwab once told me. is an object for pity—the poor, bored millionaire, whose life often is a monotonous round of motor cars, dances, polo and Co, (The New York Bvening World.) Perhaps he really bills, But ONE millionaire nobody seventeen-year-old Miss Minna Field, niece of the late Marshall Mield of Chicago, She was still attending listen to young Gibson's suit, So what does he do but play In real old. Mr, Gibson were both devoted to ten- nis, riding, swimming and other sports, and their love affair was de- scribed as an “outdoor romance.” Unlike his first, his second wedding was a brilliant and formal function, Reginald Vanderbilt and Paul Rainey serving a8 two of the ushers. matic forms—musical comedy, melo- drama, society drama. It was the “fun” of toying with the theatre that he liked was chartering special trains to take his friends to the first night darce leader, when he fathered the "Gilson glide” in 1914, the winter the to general use in England for carry- the way, is Chief Justice White of ing mails in rural districtad; the United States Supreme Court, In printed romances elopers always live happy ever after, Unfortunately, it often doesn't work out that way ip reat Uf, Seven years after his peut & year later tt was this same) dance craze reached its height in Aunerica, When he returned to America he applied for a commission and was given a captaincy in the Signal Corps, Because ae thought he wouldn't have enough excitement he promptly gave it up and enlisted as a private in the marines, Within three months he had won his commission as a Lieu- ‘the army, a Licutenant assigned to in- struction duty in California, She charged non-support and desertion, and was given the custody of her two children, Cynthia Ann Pratt and Dal- lag Bache Pratt 2d, Gibson and Mrs. Pratt were quietly married Friday at Greenwich, Gonn., ancient origin, she is really being rowned, for the wreath ts the Chris- tan survival of the gilt coroneta with which the ancient Hebrews crowned their brides. It is known that among the people of this faith marriage has always been looked upon as a laudable act, and to .aany as the acme of a girl's accomplishment and the alpha and thelr practical education in lace mak- ing in a yard while the old school house is repaired, Bow nouncement of| As for his fun, that began at Yale, |Gibson, m 5 . from place to place demanding pay- ( °7 «peut 0.1 marriage to| Where he shone both in baseball and| Meanwhile, Mr. Gibson had been BELGIAN CHILDREN ATTENDING OUTDOOR CLASS IN LACE MAKING. ment on your debt, 5 C1 in football, being one of the best ther thin besides r 9 a { c society's most beautiful divorcee, | in 5 « doing many other things, ae P — a " we Ww Stick to this plan for a few years! aire nagors trenjamin Pratt, despite] ends the college ever had. It waslpiaying polo and leading cotillons. ESPITE the limited housing fa a: | ss * and you'll have @ snug little sum back expressions of sternest disapproval|!n his junior year at college that his|ii9 was hardly out of college before cilities in devastated Belgium, ~- of you for the days of cld age or en-|¢rom hor mother and the other mem-|frst adventure tn romance took |ne began to write and produce plays. these children are continuing TAS forced idleness.~“The Thrift Magazing | bers of her family. place, He fell in love with pretty. |re experimented with all the dra- HAM minute can be! tion of his lovely flance's family adds|the Misses Masters’ School at Dobbs | appealed to Mr. Gibson, and the briet | sealed with a new hand operated let- just the fillip to his latest romange| Ferry, N. Y. and her mother, who|runs of "Mrs, Erski Devotion,” | @ ter sealer, Which he most appreciates, “What|>@d married Thomas Nelson Page, | “ato,” © Vacuum" and other fans | oe | aor eee after her husband's death, would not | dramas worried him not at all, What A cylindrical blotter that can po! ¥YOUns Mr. Gibson wants 1s some sort dramas worric aioe \oral years ago, “What's the use of|life the role of an Anthony Hope|performances, and making curtain A mubstitute for imported edible |belns a millionaire if you can't have} hero put @ ladder to the window of spocohes. ial be pt a i 10d gelatine is being made f a bit of fun?” added the same social|the maid of his heart, carry her off|theatre” in Washington, The Play- weed in the Philippines,” |philosopher. And what, Indeed! in his automobile and marry her in| house, his interest in the drama had : csi | Mr, Gibson inherited his miliion| New York City, Jan. 27, 1900, Their | especially free scope, i De sali from } ther, the lute Randall L.| honeymoon was spent at Palm Beach.| 11 was at The Playhouse, too, that e gb Seer conily attached, ' Cheon, Senator from Louisiana, but| He was at this time twenty-one years |he was acclaimed as the smart set's