The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1919, Page 20

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1919 Billions in Lottery to ‘ live on their debts, Gambling! The wildest carnival of gambling that the world has ever seen, wilder than the orgtes of chance at the court of Nero, where free men staked their liberty, the losér become the property of the winner, gambling with national governments playing the role of croupier—that is the pro- gramme. Germany has adopted it. Her peo- Ple are to place five billions of marks on the green cloth under the super- vision of the republic. Then—a turn ot the wheel~and some of the play- ers will be rich, while others will beg for bread. France, more magnificent, more daring, proposes that the stake, in- stead of being five billions, shall be eixty, which at normal rates of ex- change would be about twelve billion American dollars. The German plan is to create ten Dew millionaires every year for elgh- ty years. The French idea, to make a more dazzling spectacle, is that there shall be a new millionaire in Paris every day for two years and every ‘week thereafter for twenty years. Pay War Debts of France and Germany Millionaires Being Made in Drawings in Germany; Amazing Capital Prizes to Interest the French. 0, by The Prem Wublishing Y and France, the former crushed under the cost of defeat, the latter staggering under the cost of victory, are preparing to (The New York Evening Worl.) Out of the depths of national poverty, the financial magicians of the two nations propose to create a host of millionaires overnight. Paris is to be more brilliant, more dramatic—and, incidentally, more tragio—than ever before. Berlin, where almost everybody is desperate, plans to build a new moneyed aristocracy out of thin air. in the eat-de-vie of the vola- tle Frengh. He does not want to look in his newspaper every morning for two years for the photograph of @ new millionaire—even though ™ any morning of the year the pic- ture might be his own. Ten times a year is enough for him—offering about, ali the excitement he thinks he can stand. If he does not find himself rich this morning he will go about his daily work until next month and then look again, Twice a year thore will be lot- tery drawings in Bertin. In each drawing there will be 2,500 prizes, the total prize money each time being 25,000,000 marks. Five of the prizes will be for a million marks each. The lowest prize will be 1,000 markd Tt means that 2,600 of the players in the national game will be rewarded every six months, When your coupon is drawn the Government pays ite face value and gives a prise which may be the lowest or the highest or something between. not Minnie Sang in Christ Church Choir as a Girl; Made Debut Here in 1869; Sang ‘‘Carmen’’ 600 Times All Over the World; Now Living in Poverty in Switzerland. o Pa nia NeWsyYomKs CPW NIGHTINGALE ea ‘The total prize money to be dis- tributed in the eighty years will be 4,000,000,000 of marks. Is tt national foolishness? The ‘They say in France, cynically, that men use their virtues and their vices alike for their own interest. Govern- ments may do that too, The virtues "© of thrift were worn to the thread in re oetog pes started @ national *>) the war. Nations endured hunger and pita in 1776. ‘The State of Virginia ®" eold and nakedness as well as stool! | Ut roads and schools on lottery revenue, The mails of the United States were not closed to the adver- Uisements for lotteries until 1890. and flame and poison gas—to win. Now, having fought by means of their virtues, they propose to pay by means of one of their vices. -] Andre Le Fevre of the French” Chamber of Deputies is the author of " _ the French lottery plan to raise $12,- = * 000,000,000 which will be loaned to the ve Government without interest. | Se) It ts eid that the people are tired x of the conservative financial plan by, which the war was supported, by| Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, which they turned over to the Gov-| | (The Now York Evening World), ernment their savings and received a A Shroud. few sous each year on each 6 francs ONTHS ago, a barrel of whiskey She don't herrge te tos," M collapsed on the floor of a liq- je icc pga’ penny uor emporium and leaked down they say. “We want to be rich—0F | into the cellar. A little mouse ven- else poorer than we are, We want 4) tured out of its hole, sniffed, took a hance in a thousand to live in 1UX-| sip, ran back to its hole, thought it ©) wry, and to get that chance we are) over and came back for more. After oy. willing to take the otber 999 chances 4 while the little mouse ran up the ot golng deeper into poverty. We! stairs to the first floor, ran all the way te BR oS eevee ar tec te oe | ue to the second floor, to the third a eeobites.” and to the fourth floor till it got to the roof of the building. There, it walked up to the edge, and, standing up straight on its hind legs, with its whiskers and hair bristling fiercely, cried to all the world above the house- tops, “NOW BRING ON YOUR CAT!” Along came the cat and something hit the pavement. Conceit frequently does to a man what whiskey did to a mouse, Conceit’s bolt is soon shot. And the governments acquiesce. Money must be raised, and if the people are no longer willing to invest it for slow but sure interest—well, ‘» Wet them gamble. It will be a fascinating show, even for the losers, and those who lose to- Way will hope to win to-morrow or next month or next year, if they can survive. ae we ni by tickets in France are to cost) arity does not have to everlast- mb 910? each, and there are to be one) i101, seciare iteelf; it simply can and hundred and twenty million of them. veg ®. Nominally they are loans to the gbv- Ne t “ ernment, but since they fun for Brery once in 6 while the word - makes a lion of a man, his head twenty years without interest it is 2% swells and he makes a monkey of fos readily seen that the holder must|} icone if #6) either win in the lottery or lose all A noted French scientist killed tte sale of his really good book called “Lives of Distinguished Scientific Men,” because the title of the first chapter was “The History of My Lite.” A man discounts his superiority when he becomes too aware of it. As soon as a great man shows he knows it we doubt it. Since modesty sits serenely on the Dest of us, it is incumbent upon the rest of us, It is one thing to be proud of fhonors, an entirely different thing to be vain of them, Modesty is more than a Biblical injunction; it is an important part of the personality of every successful man. Conceit is the fly in the ointment, the grit im the oll, the lion is the path of any man’s power, If @ man is an underling and he becomes conceited, he remains’ what he ts; if he ts an able man and he becomes conceited, he ties a millstone about his neck, cuts the ground from under him and puts am extinguisher on his light Broad men do not weaken them- selves by small beer conceit; the bow that bears most bonds lowest, Conceit takes the wind out of a man’s sails and throws a wet blanket over Opportunity. ‘When @ man glances into the mir- "°) is money, For the interest on $100) 5, for twenty years at five per cent. is $100-—-even without any compounding. But’ the French, in spite of their fumous love of thrift, their “bas de jaine” economy, are eager for the mew adventure, so eager that the Professional gamblers at Monte Carlo foresee the ruin of their comparative- » fy “piker” games by the competition * > of the Government. The little “midinette” who shares tier lunch with the pigeons in the Gardea of the ‘Tuilerigs to-day, to- morrow miay have her own car and opera. The French love a possibility like ébat. They love fairy stories that @ome true, But they also hope that vast quan- tities of the coupons will be bought by foreigners, by rich Americans in Paris, go that the inevitable private all be borne in ‘The German lottery plan differs from the French very much as the Peoples of the two nations differ in \ character, The Get when he be- oomes reckless, as is now prepar- + ing to do, is “carefully reckless.” If the bets his last dollar he bets it in two parts. He takes shorter odds © end is content with a smaller gain, fhe German nation does not go in ror and sees 4 conceited man, he's . looking at @ “dead one.” Conceit is Conrright, 1910, by The Prem Publishing ROM the golden heights attai By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Company (The Now York Evening Workd.) ned through her golden voice; from wealth, the friendship of royalty, world-wide fame; from an appar- ently sheltered haven where, treaty across the heroine, assisting young artists, entertaining graciously her American compatriots and wearing the halo of her glorious past, she still enjoyed comfort, respect and admiration—Minnie Hauk, once grand opera queen of America and especially of New York, now poor and blind and alone, stretches hands of en- seas to the land and the city of her birth, She never appeared behind the footlights in a tragedy more poignant than the off-stage drama of Teal life of whose sorrowful fifth act she is now the Minnie Hauk, according to news re- cently conveyed to the many friends and admirers she still has in this cuuntry, i6 so poor that she has sold her jewels to buy bread. She is widowed, her titled husband, Baron crnest von Hesse-Wartegg, having died a year ago. She is practically blind, and can hardly grope her way from room to room of the villa on the shores of Lake Lucerne, once oc- cupied by Richard Wagner but her home for years. It is heavily mort- gaged; she is burdened with debts contracted by her late husband; her securities—doubtleas owing to the war are of no value, she writes Ameri- can officials in Switzerland. She adds piteously: “My only de- Sire is to be laid side by side in my poor husband's grave. It is hand to think of my past brilliant career and all I did for the needy, singing every- where for benevolent concerts and entertaining hundreds of people here at Tribschen—and to find myself now, im my great need, without a friend at Lucerne! Oh, to find help to get me over this awful crieis in my sad helplessness, a great deal owing also to my awful affliction in not being able to see and help myself, I have only a short time to live, Don't you think that Americans ought not to let one of their noted singers, who did 60 much for art all over the world, waste and nearly kill herself by worry and weeping?” Minnie Hauk has begn called “New York’s own nightingale,” for she was born here on Nov. 16, 1852. As a gir! she sang in Christ Church oboir while céhtinuing her studies, And her first operatic aypearance was made in this city when she sang Norma in Brooklyn in 1869, She appoared at the Academy of Music for a number of years, and it was here that she first sang the name part of “Carmen,” the first time the opera ever was ‘given in this country. This event took place Oct. 23, 1878. A fow years later she ap- peared in the same role at the Met- ropolitan, She also created it at Covent Garden, in London, “Few, if any,” declared a contemporary critic, “have given the characteriza- tion greater charm or truthfulness. Her comedy is piquant and finished and her great success is gained tn the witchertes of her acting. It is an impersonation which demands the fullest praise.” times, and all over the world, though Minnie Hauk was American ber native land, her fame was tnter- ‘ iste Sbe sang “Carmen” eix hundred For born and made her first success in national, Probably few musicians peared In #0 many different parts of the globe. The beautiful American singer was a tremendous favorite with royalties of the last century. She sang at all the European courts, and when the Empress of Russia was il Minnie Hauk was invited to the palace and sang in a room adjoining the great lady’s bedroom, The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, the Grand Duke of Baden and many German potentates entertained her. 6he went on a tour of the world and sang before the Imperial Court of Japan, the Royal Court of Siam and the Court of the Sultan of La- hore, in India, She has been called the most decorated woman in the world, having received medals from the King of the Belgians, the King of Spain, the Emperor of Russia, and many other crowned heads, as well as a gold laurel wreath from the stockholders of the Metropolitan Opera House, ’ She married the Baron Ernest von | Hesse-Wartegs in 1881, an Austrian |author and explorer who had written and the Orient. the cannibals of the Solomon Isles, Unlike many prima donnas, Minnie Hauk married but once, and until his Once “New York’s Own Nightingale,’’ Hauk Now Blind and a Beggar Was American Born and Sang Before All Crowned Heads of Europe; Prima Donna Called the Most Decorated Woman in the World; So Popular ac i ance Known as ‘‘Mr. Minnie Hauk. MINNIE HAD IK: death her husband ved with her in | the Villa ‘Tribschen at Lucerne when \they were not travelling. He often |accompanted her to this country, | where she made her farewell appear- | | ances in 1891. Despite his personal celebrity, he frequently was called “Mr. Minnie Hauk” while travelling about the United States, to the amusement of himself and his wife, Her musical career extended well! over @ score of years, and she has sung in concert abroad in compara- | tively recent times. In her day she was especially distinguished for her versatility, singing Italian, German, |French and English and portraying successfully euch widely different roles as Elsa, Mignon and, of course, Carmen, For many years she was} the tradition accepted by all as the| finest embodiment of that last hero- ine, Rubinstein was one of her tutors, and Wagner personally conveyed to her his commendations for the way she sang Elsa in “Lohengrin” and Santa in “The Flying Dutchman.” Now are drooping, her voice muted. for a score of years, she waits alo can express.” for an American queen of opera? = a haat d?, MORE GOLF TROUBLE. hand. in front of you, sir.” “What if he is?” novice, “You must cry ‘Fore!’ ing to hit the ball.” golfer angrily.—Boston Transcript. Copyright, By Matthew J. Epstein Ladies and Gentlemen: You know the purpose for which Wo are assembled here to-day. Your very presence here shows it. You might have stayed away, but you have come, You have come here with various promptings, Some may be present because others have told you it was your duty to come; some are here be- cause their wives or sisters have compelled them to come. What- ever the reason is immaterial, Let us look the facts in the face @nd see what we propose to do and why. I need not tell you that we need @ hospital, or the benefits to be derived. Any of you who in the past have had occasion to be in need of the attention that only a hospital can give realizes beyond any of my poor words to depict the wonderful health giving pow- ers that « hospital affords, You, in this audience, in all the power emt strength of your doalth, ind " ana “ : ~ Two-Minute Speeches . For Busy Men | 1019, by The Press Publishing Co, No. 4—To Raise Money for a Hospital. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) DEAR EVERYBODY: Here | is what she said, on the eub- way, too: “Yes, mother didn't want me to marry Jack. You seo, he's stupid and only makes a bun- dred a week—have you your furs yet? “When have you been home? “I haven't been well at all. Can't seem to find out What the trouble is, Throat, I guess, “How do you like your new home? Guess we'll have to buy eventually, or goodness knows what. “There, I forgot to order din- ner, Jack's a perfect dear, though, never seems to care about the meals, although he does stay downtown much more than he used to. “Men are queer—don’t you think? “Yes.” From which one wonders— what kind of a mind is behind these thoughts expressed in words? Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH. (The New York Evening World) it rather difficult to imagine what suffering is, Only when you your- self, or geome one near and dear to you, know what suffering means can you appreciate the beneficence of @ hospital. If there are angels on earth, then a hospital is the place where they work, / Now let us come to the pur- pose of this meeting. A hospital cannot be built by words or ex- pressions of sympathy, It must be built of brick and stone and mortar, These things cost money. We must have funds before we can build; we must have funds to purchase land; we must have funds to let contracts, You are now asked to contribute. Open up your purses, good people. Do not wait for your neighbor—you show him the way. Be a leader, not a mere follower. Give and tell your friends to give and before long the splendid ‘hospital will rear its head that will mean a blessing to you and to all those in iliness and diploma, this poor songbird’s wings A raven ia tne wee || Jame Fashion Chooses blind, poor and, in her own words, “I pray daily to be taken away from this sad, sad world, at least for me, for I am more uphappy than words Could there be a more tragic and shocking transformation EVEN’ vicious swipes the green S golfer made at the ball, but it still remained perched upon the | tee. He was about to make another attempt when the caddie held up his “There's a man going across snapped the if there's any body in the way when you're go- “How in thunder do I know when I'm going to hit the ball?” cried the GOING DOWN! MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, The Sugar Shortag |The Wife Is Short of Sugar Because the Bonbon Breweries Have Gobbled It Up—Guys That Used to Blow the Foam Off the Musty Now Blow the Talcum Powder Off Marshmallows. By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World.) MT { OOKS like a hard winter for the housewives. Skirts and sugar getting shorter. You can stir a community with short skirts, but) you can't stir coffee with a sugar shortage. Government now hints its gonna do something—which sounds like the birth of a ration to us. Gov- ernment told us sugar won the war, and the Germans said lead won the war. Real answer's probably sugar of lead. { Real cause of the sugar shortage is prohibition. We got that straight from Washington—D. C., not George. Guys that used to blow the foam off the musty now blow the talcum powder off marshmallows. Birds that used to stand up against the mahogany counters now hang around the almond bars, And the goofs that used to get buns now get bonbons. Prohibs have’ made the world safe for confectionery. Kitchen barrooms are now candy kitchens. Wouldn't be at all bad if they served brandy drops, but the only hard stuff they carry is taffy. Now give you caramels for cocktails and gum drops for gin. . Assorted chocolates pass for a mixed drink, .Can’t get ginger wafers without a prescription. When the U. S, went dry, confectioners went daffy. Candy production's gone up 20 per cent, or 17.25 per cent. better tha» Seer. And candy takes sugar. Confectioners used up all the beet sugar and then started raising cane, Still haven't got enough. So they busted into the housewives’ a ply. The reason your wife is now short of sugar is that the bonbon brew~ eries have gobbled it up. What happened to the candy biz is what took hold of the soft drink market. Only temperance drinks that prohibition has failed to boost are the headache cures. Guys that used to play ten nights in a barroom now spend their days at a soda fountain. Ask for a fizz and they serve you a fizzle, Ask for a rickey and you get the raspberry—with a dash of lime in it. All these soft drinks take sugar. If the guys that can’t get a drink ad would only take a cigar instead, nobody’d mind it. But they pass up nicotine and go in for muscadine or something like that. Every drop these ex-souses take—whether it’s a drop of orangeade or a chocolate drop—is robbing some baby of its lollypop or some baby doll of sugar on her grapefruit, Oughta be an ex-souse tax! Sounds like a big problem—what? Well, it is—but we've got it thought out. Now all these guys that were strong for prohibition—what's the mi ter with cutting out THEIR sugar? They cut out the drinking man's booze —how about the temperance guy's bowl? Anti-Saloon League has made the souse’s life bitter enough without making his coffee the same. Propo- ‘sition is for the white ribbon boys to pass up sugar and let the red nose | guys get a chance at the saccharine. If the Prohibs want to play the game fair, let ‘em sweeten the pot. U. S. is what they call “sweet land of Ifberty” in the patriotic songs, Prohibs have cut out the liberty and now they're after the sweet part of ity Looks like the common guys are lucky to have the just land under ‘em When the U. S, went blooey and eliminated booze, wise guys sald the soaks would go in for dope, Predicted a grand rush for cocaine and morphine, It’s a fact that the old boys went down to the drug store, but they didn’t go down there for dope. They went down to see what they could get for a wink at the druggist. ! No danger of the barflies falling for hooch. Prohibition may not last forever, and a guy that’s been scooping up schooners all his life ain't going to risk his elbow movement by filling his forearm with hypo holes, But while the poor birds are laying off spirits they oughta have sweet, ening in their tea, Unfair to make 'em give up their glue and also tak away their glucose. It's up to the Prohibs to take the pledge on sugar, Thirsty guys have been getting their bumps, but why should the Prohibs getting their lumps? If that ain't fair, thirsty guys are willing to make further concessions, They'll let the Prohibs have sugar if the Prohibs will only give ‘em back their spirits. Eighteenth amendment has cut off booze, but a nineteenth amendment can supply it—same as the nineteenth hole used to do, A straw vote will be taken on the proposition ,to-day. All those in favor of more sugar, more spirits and less suffering will be asked to stand up. The vote will be taken on all subway trains during the rush hour, From All Climes, Ranks and Periods ’Tis a Fight to a Finish Between the Slim, Straight Lines of Past Few Years and the Bouffant Hip, Creations Now Struggling for Recognition. By Margaret Rohe. The dear, dead ladies of the past and for day wear the plain ottse Seem resurrected now at last, frocks are quite as ubiquitous as the Parading down the avenue; | Panniered bodiced ones. For evening, Or at the restaurants on view, j although the airy insouctance of the You see Marie de Medicl, | hoop skirt is the newest note, still the Or Queen of Sheba and maybe swathing straight hung lines remin- Pair Beatrice, by Dante sung, iscient of the Italian renaissance ‘And Paul's Virginia pure among, | 6lorified in gold and silver brocade rhat dashing dame La Pompadour, {Cling to fashion and the form divine. ‘And divers worldly beauties more; | | About the only point of unanimity they're | between these warring factions of Of course it’s just the way eyo! Wilts to be what in the modiah out. dressed; line is embroidery. You find it al- From every age we've picked the} ways and all ways on every smart ms gown, sult, wrap or blouse. | Russian ' i # an umanian peasant From peasant plaything, ® and [in brilliant hued’ woul, gold saan aae queen, ver from the Orient—it matters not To make the mode nineteen | whit what kind of color just so th pi a is some of it somewhere about yor Entire gowns of glistening black or gold pailettes sheath the wearer so frugally that you shudder to think of the consequences should a spangle or two drop. off, Lovely pompadour silk and changeable taffetas in pale shades turn you into a veritable Dolly Var- T'S a bit of a shock just at first to | glimpse @ mediaeval maid and @ mid-Victorian charmer having tea together at the Ritz or a Roumanian peasant girl strolling down Fifth Avenue arm in arm With a pagan > den with puffed panniers and princess, But you're bound soon to/¢iower garlanded undershirt or a de- get used to these little discrepancies} mure Victorian damsel with lace- trimmed fichu, pointed boned bodice end ravelled ruchings, The hoop skirt models are developed mostly in lace, garlanded with ribbons, fur or flowers Over underslips of metal cloth in gleaming gold or silver, There are so many ravishingly feminine accessories ‘to make up your costume these days, too, Color- ful and barbaric neck laces of beads and scarves of lace and gauze and fur add to the shoulders’ burden and odd and original rings and bracelets, lace mitts, bags of beads, embrotd- ery or metallic brocade furnish an arm and handful and startling new belts and girdles of metal embroidery or any old odds and ends, lets every- thing go to waist, With such a head- ful and so much on hand you wonder how the fair frail feminine can to have any headroom left for poli- tics or a free finger left to stick in asbannlds Ai tainly ceatoriiivns H ‘ ) ‘ ~~ aide in rank and periods. As @ bridger of years and a leveller of rank fashion has no equal. Such @ conglomeration of fashions from all climes, ranks and ages make up the latest modes for 1919-1920 that “you pays your money and you takes your choice,” according to your fancy and your figure, or perhaps their figure when it comes to a decision, It would seem that there is to be a fight to a finish whether the slim, straight lines of the past few yearns are to win out or the round bodiced bouffant hip creations that are strug- sling so hard to make over our sil- houettes, The straight narrow lines just etubberaly refuse to be ousted,