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4 Survivors of Stage’s Past Ee Th lts Golden Days Laugh at Father Timein Actors’ Home It's For These Remarkable Old Men and| Women That New,York Will Open Its) Purse at a Great Benefit on Friday, Actors’ National M fan, vaudeville team and clown keep! to surrender to the advancirig hosts alg their pink cheeks, coqueti r The debonnair gentlemen still, with their pink cheeks, coquetti should keep the Actors’ National Mei Brighton. Tt is a home with « small %,' for it hag @ library, a living room, the Widest of piazzas, « real garden, a @aning room with nice little tables where two or four may gossip cozily together over the really excellent food the artist and 1 dropped in, “most @nexpected,” and found a delicious Mach), piltard tables, a plano and everything to make the guests enjoy heir visit. It is always of “our GUBPSTS” that “the office’ speaks with gentle emphasis, I doubt if thirty-three more interesting indi- Vidtals could be found in New York than are gathered together in the Actors’ Home. Publishers ought to_ be chasing after the memoirs of everybody in the place. At tal with us wae Fidtes M. Page, who is an exceedingly clever artist as well as @ former actor. in Zululand,” he remarked cas- “in 1878 when the son of Na- U1, was surprised and killed | the ives. He was with tho " ish, you know, and the company ‘was surrounded by the Zulus. In trying to mount his horse his foot became entangled in the stirrup and be was caught and I served there for six years.” FRAIL fittle lady with a shoul-/ te: _fler wrap of knitted wool, rock- tng feverishly tn one corner af the long, light parlor, was Miss Jennie ighty-three years old, some- told me, although I would mever think of asking her. ‘Every star in the profession except Forrest, \T Bave supported,” she declared ‘proudly. “Edwin and Wilkes Booth, Wallack, Davenport Adams, Mur- @ock—overy one. I was a girt of six- teen when I made my debut in Wash- ington with Booth. Walking across the stage I caught my foot and fell full lergth upon my face It was great Booth himself who picked me up and reassured mo. “He was so charming, and, before that poor, mad brother of his shot he was! the most light- of men, Once I was playing ia to his Hamlet, In the midst of our most affecting scenes I slipping som into my I didn't dare look at it for I sew it was a joke of some sort and 't get rid of it. So I had to e@hut tight. When the curtain down I opened my hand and the most ridiculous litue Booth and I laughed together hoped to make me smile the act. Oh, there never was an ” rrest was better than Booth,” Samuel Chester, a \y argued friend of the late Maggie el] amd eighty-five years old. eevee the King to Booth’s Hamlet, he was @ wonderful actor, but Forrest was greater, And what do i the First Grave Digger. Hamlet was underiaken by a very ambitious actor named Shem—and after one performance he never ap- in the role again because the eritics a!! gaid he was @ ‘ham’ actor —not a Shem.” The part of \PPHE preity pink cheeks of Ada Morton, wife of George Morton, exactly matched her dainty pink shawl. She is a charming old lady, +fust a bit deaf but with the same soft English voice she brought to this ‘country so many years ago, “Nell- son was a perfect, all-around act- ress,” she recalled, “and Miss Fannie | Cotter. emorial Day. Comrright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HE Old Guard dies but never surrenders. In the many-gabled, roomy Actors’ Home at Staten Island the Old Guard of the stage, the Sray-haired actors and actresses of our fathers’ day—Shakespear- ing together their last blyouac—reruse of old General Time. The stately or Vivacious ladies who once charmed from behind the footlights are charming ish scarves of rose or violet and faint who played with Booth and Forrest sh scarves of rose or violet and faint _Wieiting them, it is their gallantry of today, as well as their greatness, their service, of yesterday, which makes me feel that on Friday we all morial Day, with its special matinee for the Actors’ Fund and the Actors’ Home in West New | Played with her. Once, I remember, we were travelling about the country in her company, In those days they had no special trains for stars and we often had to travel in the caboose, We were doing so on this occasion, I recall, and the dirt and motion made me horribly uncomfortable, And my husband said to me, ‘Cheer up, Ada. Don't you see Miss Davenport is rid- ing in the caboose, too? And 80 she was!" “I formed the first sketch team fo- B. F, Keith,” chuckled vigorous, rosy- cheeked William Payne, “but my first appearance was with Lotta in New Orleans when I played the banjo. They don't make ‘em like her now- adays. I was one of the first ‘min- strels in first class vaudeville, and my wife, Alice Payne, and I were one of the first three sketch teams, including @ man and a woman, But I wiso you'd put in the thing I'm proudest of—that for a year and a half I'v» been going around the camps with Mother Davison and playing to the soldier boys. The most amazing confession ever surprised on the lips of any actress came from sprightly Mrs. Frank G. “I made my debut in a little bit of @ part in ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin when I was about twenty,” she said. “I thought I was great—but, oh, how rotten I must have been! ‘I hid to go on without rehearsing, and Ut ro member being so mad at the promp r. “But don't forget!" (Her tmpres- sive pause was belied by the twinkle in her eye.) “I—was—leading—lady— in— Kalamazoo whe exclaimed, tri- umphantly, “I had one of these anguished parts—very tragic and thrilling. At the most crucial mo- ment what did I do but lose @ pivot tooth I had in the front of my mouth. “What shall Ido? I moaned. Luck! i¢ went with the lines of my part. ‘Is there nobody who can help me? You see, was so afraid the audience would see I had lost my tooth. Luckily my husband, who was play- ing my lead, appeared on the stage. T fell on his shoulder, hiding my face and, of ccurse, the pluce where my tooth had been. So I was saved. “I told one of the other ladies I was going to tell you that story,” Mrs. Cotter said, triumphantly, “and she} bet I wouldn't. Now I have! HAT the stage has improved 4% some respects and gone back other respects is the conclusion of Miss Louise Shakespearean and Plunkett, another classic actress, whose last appearance was as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. "I have played ‘Pygmalion and Galatea’ in a mining camp and they hung on every word,” she said, “I do not think act- ors and actresses of to-day could hold the attention of the public in really serious dramas with only one or two bits of scenery to help them, as did the stage people of a generation ago. When I was on the stage it wasn't a... B. Hermine Neustadt! | “All For a Song.”” Copyright, 1919, by ‘The Presa Publishing Ca, (The New York Evening World), | © has sold his future for a} song” they said of a rich| man'& eon who, instead of | taking advantage of the unusual op- portunities open to him for a worth while career, was whiling away his! olden years on the Great White Way “All for a song” has come to mean to us “paying too much for a whisth “ee apy undue sacrifice or waste for| something that is worthless or only of transient mon t, part larly the superficial, It has come down to us from the day when its significance was literal, As a token of her appreciation of t poet, Edmund Spencer, Queen El beth ordered Lord Burleigh to present him with one hundred pounds, which in those days wus a small fortune. his Lord Burleigh is said j!ng to do with Remember’ That Some of: the World’s Greatest Women Were Not Even Known at That Age. Copyright, who had reached fifth birthday without becoming “Madame: Apparently, the idea of the colebration was that the poor creatures never would wear the tra- ditional flower of Hymen unloss it were bestowed upon them by their pitying younger companions. Bt. Catherine is patron saint of “old maids,” so tho presentation place on her birthday. And every wrinkled, withered female of twenty- five seemingly epted her orange blossoms and her lot of spinsterhood without a thought of rebellion against the impitcation of superannuated charms. Now, it Is unfortunately true that in Frange, and indeed throughout Europe, many young women, both those over and those under twenty- five, will never find husbands be- cause the World War so cut down the available supply of men, That situation, however, has noth- the theory that the woman unmarried on her twenty-fifth birthday is out of the race, matri monially speaking, According to a good old New England saying, she has only turned the first corner. Thirty is the second corner; thirty- five, the third, forty, the fourth and last before the goal of spinsterhood comes in sight. Personally, I have never known an American girl who on reaching the age of twenty-five said to herself: “I am Past Hope, I am cupid’s discard, nobody loves me, nobody ever will love me, I'm going out in the garden and eat worms!" But if that dis- tressed damsel exists this side of Paris, if what a twenty-five-year-old girl thinks about includes the sad conviction that she is a Faded Flower, a Blighted Bud—then I say unto her, “Cheer up! ‘ Some of the best known women of to-day and of other days were not married till after they were twénty> five. The list of late-comers in matri- mony includes the greatest woman poet who ever wrote English, the greatest English woman novelist, the mistress of a famous French salon, the widow of one of the richest men the world has ever known, a daugh- ter of the royal house of Great Britain, a daughter of the President of the United States, a famous Amer- ean siren, a widely-read American novelist, a popular American opera singer and moving picture star, one of the original American Suffragists and a great American educator, their twenty- rlaimed “All this for a song! And every one of these women enoveh to have beautiful arms and a beautiful figure in order to fill a lead~ ing role. We had to speak the Eng- Urh language—@omething that doesn't seem nearly 80 necessary to-day,” I wonder how many persons ‘who cast some of the million and a half votes that in 1915 gave William Ohrys- tle Miller a gold wateh for being the most popular old man in the movies e,| know. he i# in the Actors’ Home. “T was one of the first actors from the legitimate stage to act for thq! moving pictures,” he told me, “At first | was terribly ashamed and felt as if I were disgracing myself, but I liked it very much after I got used to it, It's such @ healthy life—it keeps you outdoors so much, “{ made my debut in ‘Ruy Blas’ with Booth, and I played in the one hundred and eighth ,performance of bis ‘Hamlet,’ which celebrated tite ; 300th anniversary of Bhakespeare. |Since I came to this home they have been celodrating the 350th anniversary of the Bard, The Booth anniversary performance took place in what was then New York's Winter Garden— located at Bond Street and Broad- Davenport was splendid, T often The Mystic HIS is the Mystic Book, It is aq. cut in half, contains a ques tion, bieroglyphics and funny Tt is customary when seeking in- formation to open a book, but the Mystic Book will answer the question only when joined together, HOW TO JOIN THE MYSTIC BOOK, Cut out the picture on the four heavy lines, fold across and back on dotted line No. 1; then fold this over wmtil dotted line No, 1 just meets Gotted line No. 2. This joins the book and reveals ‘Keep tho picture tor reterence, J Copyright, 1519. by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now Yor! way.” Book An Educational uzzle THE MYSTIC BOOK, Prening World) YBUSBESbPsy Pe ae ATLANTIG GABLE? | Byt ett, Coprni TO-DAY THE CHARACTE GERALDINE FARRAR—Executive ability; versatile; large; open nature, obstinacy; self-appreciation, but tot concelt; lavish, Head controls not only affections but entire life, Ex- tremely temperamental, not always amiable, then again wonderfully kind, Indications are maternal love still dormant, Broad views*of life in general. MAE MURRAY—Vond of physical exercise of all kinds, Also inclined to the novel and original, Appreciation of poetry, music, art and literature, Cleverly gets ber own way by seem- ing concession, Hasty, tempera- mental; somewhat secretive; quick to resent any reflection upon whatever to her is a matter of importance or pride. Versatile, positiv: Head | governs affections; enthusiastic, but easily bored, Sense of hutnor, Fond of good living. Given to vivid color schemes. Extravagant, at times ire ritable, Impulsive, Inclined to scat- ter energies, Demands freedom above all things. IRENE CASTLE—Taste for color and literature. Head controliing. Secretive. Somewhat suspicious, In- tuitive, Combined idealistic and ma- terlal tastes. Quicknoss; animation; high strung, Determination, Bril- lant, but lacks tenderness, Ma- ternal instinct still undeveloped; op- tmistic, Fond of physical exercise, | Cam be sarcastic; rather cold, Ener- getic in both work and play, MARGUERITE CLARK—Imaging- ‘ Your Handwriting Analyzed he Character Analysis Editor by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) R ANALYSIS EDITOR GIVES THE ANALYSIS OF THE HANDWRITING OF SIX WELL KNOWN MOVING PICTURE ARTISTS. eee tive; high ideals; agant. Intuitive headstrong; notional; enthusiaatic. Self respect. Natural, Restless, sen- sitive to surroundings, Difficult to satisfy, Versatile, Animated, Head governs, except in spending money. ‘Typo that is always giving, Bond of pets, MADGE KENNEDY Unemotional, but kindly. mind of a man Mitative, original; extrav- positive views; c ar head; Analytical Prudent, cautious, Modest as to capabilities, ined As LOS, Clearly literary, Tactfully uncommunicative; Unob- trusively dominant, Sense of bequty of form. Simple, quiet manners, with keen sense of humor, Original. Con- stant in friendships, Broad views. Intelligently generous, Business ability. Fluency of thought, Intul- tive, which coupled with head bal- ance, makes her a good judge of character, Calming influence, More appreciative of Uterature than crea- tive, Indications are at time of writ- ing slight fatigue, 4 HOUDINI—Power of concentra- tion, Observant, Sense of humor, At times discouraged, but persover- ance and optimism usually conquers. Atmlable, Mildly but agreeably ec- centric, Enthusiastic; diplomatic; difficult to know, though apparently frank, Views in constant state oi change. Sensitive to the beautiful Intuitive, Quietly determined in whatever he undertakes. Versatile creative, Subject to whims and Provooatively By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | 1019, by The Prese Publishing Co, [ 4 giran old maid at twenty-five? Is she on the matrimonial mourners’ | seat? When she has passed the first quarter century of her life must | she leave all hope behind of ever acquiring a husband? These questions are suggested by the recent celebration of Old Maids’ | Day in Paris—otherwise, Nov. 25, St. Catheri the little French millinery workers, bought out the orange blossom stock of the flower sellers and proceeded to decorate those of their companions took | (Tho New ¥. Evening World.) Day. The Midinettes, made a happy and successful match | —#o far, at least, as fate's returns | have been tabulated. There seems t be no historic basis for the assump- | tion that lifter twenty-five a woman | either must remain unwed or put up) with some sort of conjugal consbli- | tion prize. | Those little French Midinottes, wor- ried over their handicap of a quarter century, might have taken heart from the career of a great countrywoman of their own—Mme. Roland. Born | Manon Jeanne Phiipon, she did not marry M. Roland until she was twenty-seven—two yrars past the supposedly fata! birthday. For the twelve years of her married life this wise, witty and distinguished lady exercised a singularly powerful in-| fluence over the destinies of France| through her salon, where Robespierre | and other revolutionists met. When. finally, she herself became a victim of the terrific forces set in motion and was send to the guillotine, her hus-| bund way so affected that he killed | himself, | It is interesting to note that one of the most alluring and beautiful women in American history, Mme Jumel, later the wife of Aaron Burr did not wed till she was thirty-five Jumel, her first husband, was a rich| French banker, and she proved «| most devoted wife to him, despite her rather hectic past as a siren to whose Ya GERALDINE FARRAR- TELLEGEN- song some of the honored founders of | the American Republic undoubted.s listened One of the most beautiful romances of real life was the marriage of Rob- ert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, TWO MINUTE OF OPTIMISM the\ great English pocts, which took By Herman J. Stich - place when the bride was forty-three, = ’ Neicher the supposed handicap of | Copyngn:, 1911, oy The Lees Pablisuing Oo. yeat& nor the real handteaps of ill- Vn ee 3h pony ae ness and a tyrannical father pre- | The Architect. Vented this union, which began a8 aN | ¢gPPERE aro lots of men,” sald clopement and remained 4s an ex- ar the Chief, “business men too, ample of almost ideal happiness. An- who can borrow any amount, other English woman of letters,’ whose credit is unquestioned; but it George Eliot, was married at sixty- 4» not because It is believed that they one to J. W. Cross, who is known to have the money back of them; it is have admired her profoundly, al- though he was considerably younger, One of the original founders of the American Woman Suffrage Associa- tion, Alice Stone, married Henry B.| Blackwell when she was thirty-seven. | A graduate of Oberlin and for years | the editor of the Woman's Journal— edited for this generation by her they very often regardless of wheth have any fimancial backing at “A man gets credit ‘because people believe in the man. ~ “He might not be worth anything.” “He might not have anything. “Mr. Morgan once testified that he had known a good many men to into his ottice and he ome m nad given thi daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell—the|a checie for a million when marriage of -Lucy Stone Blackwell | he knew they had not a t in the was entirely successful, despite what | world, [1 suppose the French Midinettes! “Commercial credit is not based would call the advanced age of the! primarily upon money or property. bride. “The first consideration ie char- Another educator and worker for | acter, the interests of women, Alice Free-| “Before money or property or any- lihree—a year older than the brido- man, President of Wellesley College, became Alice Freeman Palmer at the age of thirty-two, Her husband was thing else is character. joney cannot buy it. “A man with character, with noth- ® professor at Harvard College, and|ing else behind it, can usually get a recently published posthumous vol- | a!l the credit he wants, and it very ume of her poems furnished convine- | often the case that the man with the ing testimony of the unusual serenity | prorcrty cannot get it and beauty of her married life. That is the rule of business, It was only a few months ago that} “When a man ~oes to the bank and the love match of Princess Patricia|*ks for a loan, the bank gues into of Connaught, cousin of King George | What a man has, but the first thing of England, was announced. Called|"Y Say 1% ‘We want to see your ‘the most courted Princess in Ku- | "ord: rope" Princess’ Patricia wag not| “He May own Government bonds Afraid to send away suitor after suit. |"!!toad bonds, and he may gb in to yr and to wait—birthdays or no bigth-| te pp ese ys—until at thirty-two’ she might |” Pegs. on © ae it on his character, wed the man of her choloe, “A man that is not trusted could Mrs. Frances Bowes Sayre, formerly | ss ne i Misy Jessie Wilson, second’ daughter | Mt Bet money from a b.nk or banker those gets of the President, was twenty-sia| on all the bonds in Christendom, and when she became a White House} that is the rule all over the world, bride, In the recent obituaries of An- that is the fundainental basis of busi ness. “Every business man makes it point to pick out for the big jobs men who can be relied upon, who will nc snap under stress or strain, “They're interested of course what a man knows, but their para mount concern is the sort of charac- ter he has, his quality; they can't af- ford to take a chance on a man in a big job unless the man's character is up to it. “A man may have fame, friends, connections, genius and riches; but if he has not character then his whole house wil! fall down upon his ears and his brilliant qualifications will become drew Carnegie it was brought out that the wife of America's steel king | was thirty-two’ when married her, One of our most deservedly popular | novelists, Mary BE, Wilkins, was forty when she became Mrs, Mary EB. Wil- kins Freeman, And Gefuldine Far- rar when she wed that matinee idol | of the feminine heart, Lou-Tellegen— he has been called “the most raptur- ron the American stage”— on the application for the marriage license that she was thirty. groom, Doesn't it almost seem as if she marries best who marries last? ————— ewest Notes of Science. A new manhole guard for street work can be folded very compactly for carrying when not in use, In addition to coal and iron 17 rare metals have been found in Spits. sergen by British interests, Steam from a small portable boiler is fed through hose to a new device for removing paper trom walla, character creates gold, “Character 1s an armor plate; simply deficcts attacks, “All tho men who have have succeeded by reason character more than ability “Character i8 the architect of every jorthwhile career,’ j 4 ‘ ‘ su of reeded their ‘Character 1s greater than gold fo: | The ‘Household Assistant” The Servant ‘of the Hour; | High School Girls Preferred | Westchester House Committee Establishes a Cafeteria at White Plains to Train Girls; Eight-Hour Day, 44-Hour Week and 35.to | | 40 Cents Per Hour to be Granted. By Fay Stevenson ' Copyright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York ming Word) 66 HE day of ‘the servant in the house’ is over! ‘% This is the day of household assistant Happy is the woman who can accept these facts. But there will be Weeping and gnashing of teeth for the woman who walts for an P old-fashioned servant. These are some of the sentiments expressed by the women of Westchester County. Because of the great shortage of house maids, cooks and housekeepers tn general through-) — SS ee out Westchester |four-hour week and extra pay for County, and con-|¢Xtra work. The price of this work vinced that the| Will be from 35 cents to 40 cents per old order of house | "our, as the conditions warrant. The servant problems |#Ssistant will have an hour for her ‘the Westchester Thrift |!mldday meal, which she must find for is passing, | House Committee will start a class |Lerself, and she must live at home.” In the meantime I had been doing limmediately at White Plain for the| a little figuring ’on a scrap of paper. | purpose of training household assist- r ‘ants at their cafeteria in Main Street. | “At 40 cents cade hour,” I objected, Mrs. Crosby J. Beakes is Chairman | “that will be $3.20 per day and six of the commitee to furnish trained | W°rk days would run it up to $19.20 | Der week. I doubt very much if tne average woman can afford to pay that for a household assistant.” Mrs, Beakes laughingly replied: |“Husbands pay their stenographers house workers. of a superior order. “I am sorry for the woman who is) iooking for @ servant,” said Mrs. |Beakes as we discussed the passing {of the servant in her home at White/ang ofice assistants from $16 to eH Plains, “sorry because she 18 1l00kiN&) a week, go why shouldn't wives be jfor a needle in @ haystack. We entitied to assistant housekeopers at ' women will have to accept facts, and | the same rate?” [there are no scrvants of the type our] ‘Then, becoming serious, |mothers and grandmothers had.| Beakes continued: “Of course, I well | Those were the days when Irish, | know there are many women right |German and Swedish immigrant|here in White Plains who could not | sirls, ‘greenhorns,’ as we laughingly | afford to pay an$thing like that per jtermed them, flooded our ports.| week, while on the other hand, I These girls were known as ‘hired| know plenty of women who would |girls, and they came right into ®/ gladly give any price to have one of ®imily ‘and took an interest in its| those girls. Such women could and welfare, When the next-door neigh-| would give them constant employ- hor needed a girl, kind-hearted Mary | ment, but there are other women who toe Gretchen or Bertha always had a| would be glad to get these girls for a \cousin or a little sister at home who | half day and that would cost them but was just crazy to come to America, , $1.60; others could have one of these and she was immediately sent for. competent assistants for a whole day ‘That recalls to my mind a certain | for $3.20. When you consider that L interrupted, “who had just| these girls will be of a different class, | tnree girls for thirty-five years, First,| trained, intelligent, quick, under- the green girl from Ireland, who was|St#nding and competent, the price ; does not seem so enormous. ‘broken in,’ and then became so at- “We women might as well accept tractive that she married the tce- our fate,” concluded Mrs. Beaker jiman; then her sister, who remained| “Y e are living in a very different : nd I fear it will be household tor at least ten years, until she, too, ants or nothing. Where can you }was married; and, lastly, a cousin,| find the girl who is willing to be |who died in their service, Little | worry did the housewife have in that called a servant, scrub, wash, iron, with her servant bake and brew from morn till night for $3 a week? Those days are just as far away as the days when we paid nts a pound fur butter and got thirteen eggs for a quarter. Jur one hope lies in the hougehold gone,” sighed the point those } “But | Mrs, Beakes; that is those good, old-fashioned Irish, Ger-| sccistant. If wecan switch the young man and Swedish maids are not! gir}'s social position around and ar. coming into our ports now, The| range it so that a household assistant fewish and the Italian, the Syrian| iS a8 well paid and as well thought of as an assistant in an office, women can expect help in the care of their homes, otherwise they will have to live at hotels or do everything them selves, It's simply a case of keeping up with the times.” Therefore, Modern Housewife, when you advertise for help don’t advertise for a servant, but a household as: sistant. OING DOWN! Hebt, 1919. hy ‘The Press Publishing (The New York Bvenint World.) MY DEAR FRIEND: There are two kinds of lazy people tn this world: (1) Those who are TOO busy. (2) Those who have nothing and the Roumanian women do ,fac- |tory shop work and stay in {their homes. ‘The only type of im- | migrant girl who works out as a do- mestic servant is the Polish girl, and| ven they are few and hard to find. Therefore, it is up to woman to solve |the servant question, and the only |way she can solve it is by eliminat-) jing the old-fashioned idea of a ser-| | vant. 11 have a different class | |of girls henceforth to do our work,| end they must not be called servants, | | but household assistants.” | “And where are you going to get} these girls?” I asked. | | “We are going to do a whole lot| Py sonvineing and arguing before we} A id | either one of the two classes |Beakes, “We are going to have to| | above waste from one to three jconvince the young ladies of Amer-||| hours every day. work, ica that housework is the h'ghest|]/ Let me prove it: The busiest | work a woman can do, that it is not|]| men on earth always have time |eoing to injure her social position, ||| for the d. They We are| || never seem to be rushed. Suc- | but raise it to a higher level | cessful men (and women) make up their minds quickly, saving themselves and others @ great deal of time. ‘The world is needing workers TO-DAY and if you have noth- ing to do, it is because you are not fulfilling that part in the universe that Nature intended you to fill, therefore, you have nothing to do and are, I vene ture to say, very unhappy. To be happy, KEEP BUSY and— if you have nothing to do, alt | down and write a letter to Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH, going to be a very different class of girls than ever before, | “We are about to start a class for | training these household assistants. We want high school girls—girls who had planned to be shop girls land telephone girls—and by turning labout and making housework a busi- ‘ness and a well paid, highly thought of, respectable household assistant, just as a man has a stenographer or) an office assistant, we believe that we can live up to the present-day) conditions, “Under this plan the Thrift Com-| mittee has publicly announced it de- sires four girls to train at the cafe-| “ nents —— terla which we have owned and op- ADVERTISEMENT, Relief From Windburn in assured when you wash your face with tepi@ water and apply VELOGEN, It ts better atlll to rub VELOGEN tate the skin of face and hands before going outdoors, VELOGEN resists the attagk They willlof wind and Koons the skin am Your druggist aclis VELOGIN, cone & Lube—AdvL p erated since the war, Here they will be pald while they are betng tn-| |structed. Their hours at the cate-| | terla and in any of the homes where they go will be the same as the hours of the office assistant. consist of an eight-hour day, a forty-