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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919 What Shall the Girl Do To Earn Her Living? BEING A TEACHER. Bizth of a serics of articles im which Beatrice Barmby, an ez- perienced busincss woman and writer, discusses briefly the different fods open to ambitious young women, and sums up the case for each fod im qualifications and training required, averaging salary, advan fages and disadvantages and possidility of advancement. ’ By Beatrice Barmby Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) OU know that our lttle town| privileges do you set?” stands third in the country in| “The satisfaction of feeling that the matter of its schools!” | one is doing such permanent work— “Then I have certainly come to the/ in which I would put teaching next fight place for practical information.”| to the ministry—the foundation we ‘The little town was one of about| can lay along the lines of Americani- {40,000 souls and the girl to whom I! sation, the enormous aa oe ‘@ was talking was an enthusiastic! may exert on the years to come. choo! teacher in one of ite elemen-| «7 would not rec end any girl “tary schools, “Won't you tell mé! t jook to teaching as her vocation all about the necessary training?” 1) uniess she felt she had @ real call rant. toward it, unless she had endless “It a girl has decided to become &| rationce and was fond of children. It * gchoo! teacher she may, after she bas | 1 A414 be no use her going into it with .J% obtained her high school diploma, be] ing idea of iy weeay, aoe f su) @émitted to a normal school, where! bvieve the fi elal standard will be he will take a two to three years’ | 1), a Det the work has great 9 gourse. If she passes the test, practi- |, iskas 6 one Uiwaye mois “SS eal and theoretical, she is given &! ine new ieian; Gand farther, é0 State certificate and ts then qualified | pave Aopen Dbgcrairbareobdlyes to teach in an elementary school IN| traction of leaving @ permanent im- that particular State. If she wished | esgion on the generation to coma” /, to wander further afleld it might be * that she would have to undergo a fresh examination, while in other °° states her certificate would be valid. «i, 1 went to the Teachers’ College at y Columbia University, which has the reputation of being one of the most radical training schools in the coun- try with a high standard. “Right here I would give a word of warning to the would-be teacher. If ¢ She is thinking of training for kinder- garten work let her be sure that the diploma granted by the training ~ou TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Heman J. Stich Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Ca, (The New York Brening World), A Gray-Haired Boy. N optimist is a man who looks at life's joys through a telescope and microscope, and at life’s troubles through a reversed opera glass. He never complains about bad weather, for wherever he is it is sunny because he makes his own sun- whine, and diffuses its light and warmth and kills the joy-killer. When where through ignorance of this im- tee ‘irl's training ‘yy portant point all a oo time has been wasted.” 4 “and supposing all her qualifica~ ©’; tions complete, what salary would she then be able to earn?” “Pight bundred dollars has “ bod higennry hoaherr yrs) cast he remembers all the times the “ay mo teas! iain Seen We do tet care to) forecast was wrong; and i¢ tt should take from normal bappen to rain he's giad because book, sas te roaty yin there's plenty of grub ahead. If his fret experience in @ country place, place should burn down he thinks how so that here her beginning salary pare fe ner ree deen out to a ‘would be something more than the ris yar ei eat He be- minimum. In the higher grade work Devos ra ov, jes and in Santa she "might rise to about $1,600. Of psy dl Te ng the pot of course I can't quote definite figures, Spy e e rainbow and they vary according to local con- © knows it is there; so he keeps } Me a grammar sttiding and striving through all life's ditions. The Principal of a if Gta snmbacat thas the pes oe school would be likely to get $3,000. aittigataly evetp beszactt she * eaten about teaching in high ahed ite golden across o An optimist 1s a man who is #0 busy that tion ts Wr gpacticall Ae crate and therefore |*24 80 constituted he can only view nt ia salaries somewhat higher. | ‘* clean side of things; he always Sieh s gem believe thoy are over ade- |oree ermething to be, thankful for: and if he should be slapped on one Fate wut a ey he reads “rain” in the weather fore-| quate. As the tendency is to raise the standard of teaching, so ‘must the @alaries be improved—or there will 5. be & big gap in the force! For we don't got « living wage in these #9. ” ea ot “But you have easy hours!” “That's what every one gays. It wis 9) may be true of the actual teaching © the, which is usually from a quarter of 9 to 3.15 with a noon recess, but you must remember that the tension heek he would say that the slap had put @ good color in his cheek and he would therefore turn the other. He \seeks rights and remedies, not wrongs; uses, not abuses; he lifts bumanity to a higher plane. His conscience is clear and his heart js glad; and with @ clear conscience ang a glad heart he can convert a prison into a palace and @ backyard into a flower garden. His arapeyay and his understanding overwhelm his prejudices; his won- derful, God-given, man-developed gift, paints nature's children brighter, the Oe - WHITE SATIN EVENING GOWN ELEGANCE AND_ REFINE- MENT ARE EXPRESSED IN EVERY ‘m, <f: never slackens, there is a keen nerv-/earth greener, the sky bluer, the gf” ous strain all the time; and out of | flowers zayer and all things fairer and bs ler of jappiness an: ing. }f school hours our work 1s never done, | "Wi oiimint ia Goda own man. Age } q for there js the preparation, t! ing up of our personal knowledge, the + ° eorrection of papers, &. And though keop- makes him a gray-haired boy. * > With Flowing cement TY SE A Charming Loosely Jewelled Back, Satin Evening Gown, Edged With Sequin ee Tulle Sleeves « EVENING GOWN “TRES EXQUISITE”’ BLACK SATIN OVERDRESS OF BLACK SEQUINS AND BEAD FRINGE. THE GIRDLE 18 METAL BROCADED AND THERE IS A LARGE JET ORNA- MENT IN THE FRONT, o > Whiteman Society’s Approval in American criminaj history. It is the story of a university millions, occupied the presidency of without funda, he seeks charity to support him in his last days. Not the most lurid moving picture or tenpenny novel excels in melo- drama the life of Whiteman. He was born sixty years ago at Dansville, the son of one of the wealthy men of the region. He was educated at Ham- flton College and afterward attended Columbia Law School, where he was graduated with honors in the class of 1880, After his graduation his father eent him to Duluth, Minn. to manage some of his lumber properties. He mafe such a success of business that his father soon rewared him with a gift of $50,000. On his twenty-fifth birthday his father made him a sec- ond gift, this time of $100,000. In 1888, the elder Whiteman died in New York, leaving his estate to his son and a daughter. It was said each of — Queen Elizabeth Asks - - - HAT do American women eat and dress, and what do they do to amuse thelr husbands? ‘That is one of the things Queen Elizabeth of Belgium wants to find out on her tour of the United States. Their cheerfulness, versatility, their taste in dress and the way in which they make their sweethearts and hus- bands idolize them is a source of won- der to the queen, who wants to obtain the secret to pass on te her own te. peraet how the queen is going to ob- tain this Information is not worked out as yet. But visits to factories, department stores, other places where girls are employed will be one of the chief items on the royal programme, and from this sige of it the Queen expects to obtain much of the se- cret. Then there will be opportuni- ties to visit the real American home, ana the Queen will utilize the chances of studying the home life wherever 6. Girls} schools— ‘both convents and Reece colleges—will also be visited by the Queen. ‘The Queen's interest in the Ameri- can woman's life must not be taken to mean she thinks the Belgian wo- men are dissatisfied. On the contrary, the Queen is proud of the home life of the Belgians. But where there's room for improvement she wants to give them a chance to develop it, ~ .. we bave a ten weeks’ vacation in the « @ummer, there are thousands of teach- Yas em who have to work because they 12 tagainst such a disadvantage what one-fourth of the food the 5 y 400,000 inhabitants of New 9p orn t 12 rougint to them by ‘ motorboat, and it requires 2,000 of “GOING DOWN! 4 * I\ and some nights, to fill the demands Ct] Cmte 02, wy ree World.) [Put upon them, says Popular Mechan- | acy DEAR FRIENDS: Emer- || !08 Magusing This is the largest Pea son voiced the thought that he fleet of working motorboats gathered | = #1 vas concerned about what he at any one point in the world. They | a | \° ferries de- e aia ht. range from cross-river yy os whee prone Sine | voted to carrying fish, vegetables, | ~ gan’t afford to board all that time on “| what they earn during the rest of the year, That is bad, for we all need =, the rest.” And so we find those who think as he did subject to a great deal of abuse in private and on the floor of our Senate. Why not take what a man gays and analyze it imperson- ally? Why should we infer a man Who says something good something HE knows to be true, why, I say, should we assume this individual sets himself up as the GREAT MOGUL? Are we 80 used to our own conceit and our own satisfac- tion that we can't seo the good in what a man says without looking at the person or con- sidering the personality of the person who said it? We seom to hate a man who sets himself up as an inde- pendent thinker, Let us be reasonable, Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH. Two Thousand Motorboats Feed a City A T the lowest possible estimate, sugar, and rice from the heads of the sissippi to the markets on the east to larger and smaller boats making 160-mile runs south and west through the great 6,000-mile gridiron of that make 12,000 square miles of Louisiana a marsh whose only con- nection with the outside world Is by water, ‘This fleet, which represents an in- vestment of more than $1,000,000, and costs close to $100,000 a year in: up- keep, may be roughly divided into three classes: First, the fishing boats, lengaged in catching the fish, \them to New Orleans; motor freighters, canals on the west bank of the Mis-| canals, bayous, rivers, lakes, and bays | eining the shrimp, and tonging the oysters of | Southwest Louisiana, and in bringing second, the which, ordinarily, ply routes as regular on schedules ax fixed as those of ocean liners, and form virtually the only connection of thousands of families with the outside world; and third, the large fleet of | miscellancous craft used as Srppetan boats by the canal compantes, as mes- senger boats for the sea food pack- eries; this class including the fleet of twelve patrol boats maintained by ‘the State Department of Conserva- these, working every day in the year, | tion, which, having control of all the natural resources of Louisiana, ts a sort of guardian angel for the whole work fleet, wh. Probably # eighths of the total fleet of motor work boats at and around New Orleans are in the first two classes, while the third consists of, say, 250 boats which represent the of the fleet. ‘That is to say, they are high-speed despatch boats, doing thelr 25 to 30 miles an hour, carrying the owners, managers and superintendents of the canals along the waterways, where dredges and “Iily-boats” are constantly at work keeping the channels deep enough and destroying the rafts of floating water hyacinths which work such havoc with propellers and shafts of small craft. Among them are also a number of comparatively fast boats used by travelling salesmen, who find them swifter, more economical and with more facile schedules than the a boats, or even the railroad rains. HOW INTELLIGENT ARE YOU? Cross our the g in igen Write 2 between the two dots: | $ How many feet make a yard? Wnritet over the longest word ft Put a dot below this line: Write the sum of these numbers: Make a cross in the circle Make a boy's name by adding one letter to Joh What-comes next after D in the alphabet? Write 7 in the largest square: o fe o , ‘ Complete the Test in 45 Seconds and You May Join the Average Intelligence Class’ > © till Cxoss out the biagkes: totter in TEXAS Weue g omthe egg-shaped bgure: C) ©) GD Make wo den berween thee lines: * >) tained yesterday Put a dot in the circle, below the center: Draw a line around the three dots: Put the sign = where it belongs: s+ 2 5. the middle letter of ger, Put @ nose on this face. . ) Add a cross and make these rows equal: Cross out the last word in this sentence, — Two-Minute Speeches TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919 Once a Millionaire, Now a Pauper He Received High Honors at Law School; After Gaining Success in Business He Was Showered With Social Preferment, and Political Homage; Gambling Broke His Spirit; Pinkertons Chased Him on This Continent and Europe; He Has Been Arrested Fifty Times and Indicted Thirty Times; Asks Charity of Town of His Birth. Covrright, 1919, by The Press Pubiishing Co, (The New York Rvening World.) RIEF newspaper despatches announced yesterday that Alonzo J. Whiteman had applied for admission to the poorhouse at Dansville, N. Y, Behind the announcement lies one of the most amazing stories man who once rated his wealth in two banks, held high political office, helped nominate a President of the United States—and then developed from New the two heirs netted about $1,300,000 from the division. Meanwhile Whiteman had attained Prominence in politics. He was elected to the Minnesota Assembly and later to the State Senate; he served one term as Mayor of Duluth, and he was Chairman of the Minnesota delegation to the Democratic Convention that nominated Cleveland in 1891. With all this had come sociafpreferment and in the early 90's Whiteman, scholarly, cultured and wealthy, found himself universally respected in his commun- ity as a society leader as well as a leader in business and politics, Then came the turn in Whiteman's career, Ho ran for Congress \nd was defeated. This embittered him and he took to gambling. He wagered lav- ishly at the race tracks—and lost. He Went into gigantic wheat deals on tho Chicago Board of Trade—and lost again, Wall Street also got some of his money, and 18% found him a bankrupt, ~ His moral fibre thoroughly broken by that time, Whit swindling bunks. His. operations Caused the Pinkertons, who chased him’ for years all over this continent and even to Englund and France, to dub him “The King of the Forgers.” Arrested fifty times and indicted thirty times, he almost always man- erg of trouble and. IAs Serve, Drsaes only twice. oe man's first arrest came in San Francisco, where, in 1895, he was convicted of passing a forged check on a bank, He made an impassioned appeal for leniency, which so moved the Judge that he deferred passing sentence for several weeks. There Was no doubt of Whiteman's guilt, however; and he was sentenced to nine years in prison. He obtained his freedom through a legal technicality, however, and came East. Whiteman soon became a well known figure in New York's Tender- join, His scholarly bearing and pleasant personality gained notice for him among the groups at the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, and when the Waldorf opened he was one of the first guests to register, In 1897, Whiteman was arrested in New York for defrauding the Colum- bia Bank of $680, it being charged he used a bogus name to cash a check. He asserted a double of his was the guilty man and brought numerous witnesses, includife clergymen and Prominent citizens, down from Dans- ville to help him prove an alibi. They convinced the jury, and Whiteman bank to pay him $1,500 to settle a charge of false arregt. The next year he was arrested in St. Louis, transferred to Chicago and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and fined $2,000. The decision confirmed, but Whiteman meanwatle was acquitted. Later he forced the * had obtained his liberty on bail, dis- appeared and never showed up again in Chicago. He was arrested For Busy Men No. 2—Employer Accepting a Testimonial. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World.) By Matthew J. Epstein Ladies and Gentlemen: Really, I don't know what to say on an occasion like this. Anything that I say will seem superfluous. I am overwhelmed, not so much at the gift but at the kindly feeling that prompted you to present it. It reminds me of the little poem I learned at school called Abou Ben Adhem, and when the angel told Abou that his name was not on the list of those “who love the Lord,” an- swered: “I pray thee then Write me as one who loves his fellow men.” Iam your employer, and when one is an employer the stand- point is so different from that of a workman that one is apt to for- get that there is any other point of view, Naturally I have my in- terests and I associate with other employers. I watch their meth- ods of production-and of manage- ment, ‘There is a common inter- est that gradually tends to draw me closer and closer to the em- ployers and from the workman, And the longer one remains in business the greater does thia be- come. ‘To an employer the men and women under him are but a means to an end. That Is quite natural. ‘They are necessary to turn the wheels of industry so that there may be production, They are needed to oil the wheels, and to set them into motion and operate them. Thinking in this matter, they employer is very apt to confuse the men and women who 1 ' the wheels with the wheels them~ selves. He may come to regard his employees as so many cogs in @ well ordered bit of machinery, and to treat them as things without a soul. That is a grave danger. That is what I have tried to avoid. I have tried to see the human side of the employee, Sometimes we forget, sometimes we overlook the fact that the em- ployee is a human being just as we are ourselves, ‘And so this little testimonial that you have so kindly presented will tend to remind me of the hu- man side of the employee and will make me act toward you not only as an employer but as a friend. Ory FIRST NEW YORK- DUBLIN SHIP. > N event of American commercial importance was the arrival in the port of Dublin recently of American freight steamer Lake na, The Lake Gretna is the first e] of a proposed regular direct service between New York and the © exporters are co-operating with the industrial and trade organizations to provide return cargoes. The vessel is proceeding to Belfast after discharging her Dublin cargo, The Lake Gretna’s first direct New York-Dublin voyage was a prosperous one, the discharge of her cargo, whick, includéd shoes, fruits, wines and auto mobiless was expeditious and every- thing promises well for the success of lene direct irish capital, and Irish producers and repeatedly in New York, but always ay escaped through legal technicalities or by forfeiting his bail, In 1901 he was convicted of swindling a Boston bank, but was dis- charged on the plea of his mother, having made restitution. Ar- rests for forgery followed in parts of the country, but they wete nover able to close prison doors on Whiteman. In September, 1904, he was arrested in St, Louis for a forg- ery committed against the Fidelity Trust Company of Buffalo, but es- caped by jumping from a train going fifty miles an hour near Dunkirk, Not until January, 1905, did the de- tectiyes again pick up trace of White- man,’ Ever since his uscape they had been convinced that the forger was in hiding at the old home of his mother in Dansville, and they kept a close watch there, Finally, detectives made a spectac- ular raid on the -house, Whiteman jumped off a roof, but ran intoa cor- don of police outside and was cap- tured. The detectives had trouble getting out of the county with their prisoner owing to the hostility of neighboring farmers, who to a man believed Whiteman to he a persecuted martyr. But they finally brought him to Buffalo. | In October, 1905, Whiteman was convicted in Buffalo and sentenced to eight years in Auburn Prison, All legal measures failed him and he went to prison, The Court of Ap- peals upheld his conviction, but later {t was asserted he was insane and he was transferred to Dannemora, where, after a few years, ho was re- leased. Since then Whiteman hady been heard of in Cincinnati and Hot Springs, Ark., where he was arrested for comparatively petty swindling games that would not have attravtea his attention in his palmy days as “King of the Forgers.” Recently he has been living tn seclusion neap Ile , old Rome in Dansville, .