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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919 UNew York Business Girls : Dress Like Millionairesses, ‘Observes Miss May Christie ew York Shopgirts Look So Pretty,’So Immacu- late—The New ‘ork Lass Who Attends the Fashionable Meeting Places Can “Dance Like a Streak.” This orticte is the third of a serics by Miss May Christie, an English uthoress, who arrived here Nov. 12. ‘Snnning simultancousty in the British papers. By May Christie. Caperight, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) WAS watking in the business section of New York to-day round half- past five, and—meeting hundreds upon hundreds of pretty, immacu: J lately dressed young women-—I inquired of my companion: “Are these (he beautiful American millionairesses that we read about ir London, and whom our impecunious peers and baronets desire tc “marry?” in department stores: . sand worke: ‘but they look so pretty--and' for answers. She will “get on," that girl! She's wide-awake—and clever! ‘The politeness of the telephone op- as ed! Their clothes are ao expen-| sive! They're immaculately ‘tailored.’ ‘Whey have such an ‘air’—as thougb | erator is another thing that strikes aitheyyt never done a stroke of hant/ me in New York Work in their Hives! Business girls,| At half-past eight she rouses me aindecd! You're quite mistaken os ‘Mut be wasn't! These “lilies of the | wfivid”’ were New York's toilers, after tel I entered « business office, perched sky-high, wherein sat six ‘stenogra~ f apPhers. They were working at tre- ‘| iaendous speed. Immensely capable shey looked. But what struck me was | ale immaculate freshness of their| crepo-de-chine or georgette “waists” — Une becomingness of their colffure “afd the smartness of their long, slim, “Spotted shoe T take my hat off to the New York ‘pusiness girl for je" in clothes! “and for efficiency in business! cooing note across OD morning! It's haif- with a positively the wire: past eight!” ‘ ‘ “Thank you!" I murmur sleepily. “YOU'RE wel—come!” she cooes with a softly rising inflection. I hang | the rec up with a little glow of satisfaction, The telephone operator makes me feel “at home,” and happy! She's infinitely quicker than the London girl,-too, in “making a con- nection.” And I've never heard her be. impertinent, ag our own British | operators are if one dares “find fault.” I have attended dances at the a, Ritz, and other fashionable New York meeting places, and there What strikes me, too, about the/observed the girl who “tolls not i*°xew. York business girl Is that she | neither does she spin.” She somehow actually enjoys her work, She's en-! reminds me of an orchid. Her beauty +4 ermetic! le delicate, ethereal, willowy. she I.was shopping in a big department’ lacks the robustness of our British <jletore- to-day. The gitl who served|damsels. But she is beautiful and Wome was chic, pretty, and intelligent graceful, and she dances “like @ cke."You're British?” she inquired. | streak.” 24. *Won't you please tell me about the Her clothes are more extreme in Did you exneri-| type than ours in Britain, But she ence any of them knows how to wear them to the best “all of them!" | answered, remem- | advantage. She is vivacious—full of bering with a shudder many an all- sparkle—is the New York seeker- 3*pight bombing, when [ never hoped to | after-pleasure, “t9gce the dawn! Whether in department store, of- London air raids? ~ Her eyes shone with interest. She| fice, or social gathering, I frankly "yal forward a Whole string of highly-| confess that I admire the New York uestions, listening eay2rly girl, in Lelligent Advice by —— Betty Vincent Courtship :Land Marriage Marriage Can Never Put Aside Mother Love. WRE is a ridiculous little lady | mcther love which has been with him Hi who fears to wed her fiance |long before he ever met you. And, because he is what she tartas | abov wl, be assured that the young |man who is devoted to his mother Will be just as devoted to his wife, pce sian nother’s boy.” She signs herself Derple ad” und writes ‘Lam engaged to a young man whoin I love dearly and who actually | worships me in return, but be is @ man who thinks a great deal of his |} mother and a friend of mine has told | \ me that such men do not make good] ]} husbands. Will you please tell me| through your column what your jyopitfon ts af men who are so-called Motber's Boys?!” | The man who dovs not love i nicther is not very apt to love his; GOING DOWN ‘The New York Evening World.) DEAR EVERYBODY: One of the best professions to-day is the advertising business. Men in it are paid enormous salar- les, Why? Because they can | “finish the job.” are “wife. Don't you remember that old, “Ohi yong, “A boy’s best friend is his The difference between ‘the mother? ne boy who ‘is worth| || advertisement writer “who EARNS (note this word) $25,000 per year and the one | | who gets (note+ this word) $2,500 is simply the ability of the former to FINISH THE JOB while the latter has to run to the boss every now and then to find out how to do it. Did you ever hear of an em- ployer complaining because someone finished the job? It is sald the bead of the | Government railroads gets an enormous salary for doing just one thing: FINISHING THE JOB. Let not the sun go down upon an unfinished job, for to | do this is but to throw a mon key wrench into the wheels of | | your success machinery. Yours sincerely, ALFALFA SMITH. while appreciates this and ie devoted “to his mother. Men who have had to| support their mothers always make | the best husbands, and the man who| hag spent a good part of his time in| hig mother’s company is always kind | to women, considerate of their feel- | . tage and has a better understanding | ofthe workings of the feminine mind, | * De not allow your friend to chide you| @4py calling him a “mother boy,” but] rather rejoice that you are to marry man who appreciates one who has @ne\po much, for him all hus life. : Whe only reason some wives have Seen wnbappy with this type of man| is because they are jealous of the| bos"s mother When your fiance rar: os you, you must not expect him to give up this"love for his mother. Just remember that his heart is big enough to hold the two types of love, mother love and wifely love, If he ngakes daily or weekly visite to his Wetiie's home you must,be broad) ‘realign that becaise he Ce re canngt put aside the " f t “ ” it be . She is considered the Laura Jean : ‘TAbby of the British isles and often has had half a dozen of her stories | ae Her theories on “Love” and }: 1p Marriage” are entertaining and pique the curiosity of the feminine reader, + Why, these are business girls,” he saidg “bookkeepers, stenographer, |! 1,500 New York Churches to Produce a Play | Dramatic-Religious Production With 3,000 in Cast Will Try to Counteract Spirit of World Unrest HE American Passion Play, formance ever staged, and thi | with the Inter-church World Movem York churches: There will be | hold enough to the scenic pie-| tures of “The| Wayfarer,” which | include @ war- | torn village in! in Flanders near &) battlefield; the | hills of Judea just outside Bethle | hem at the time of the birth of! ; Christ; the city of Jerusalem with | |Calvary in the distance; and an al- |legorical vision of afl the nations at lthe Gates of the Future. The Gar-| den itself had to by rebuilt to house the American Passion Play, and the full width of its stage is nearly that of an entire city block. Nearly 7,000, persons can be accommodated at each | | performance of’ the five weeks’ sea- son. \" ewhat is the message of ‘The Way- tarer'?” I asked Miss Blanche Yurka, who, as Understanding, plays the leading feminine role. Walter Hamp- den is the “Wayfarer” and other im | | portant parts, and the performers as- | signed to them are: Despair, J. Harry Irvine; Pontius Pilate, Arthur EB. Hohl; Bartimaeus, Paul Leyssac; |Mary, Jane W. Wheatley, and Mary | | Magdalene, ‘Ruth Vivian, A young | college man, Lawrer H. Rich, a ssciple of Max Rheinhart, is direct . she replied, * the counsellings of despair, the spirit of revolutionary unrest, the threat of chaos which the whole world feeling to-day. It ds truly the An ican Passion Play, drama Jesus, the most beautiful drama the worki has ever known, retold in @ | new setting to answer new questions, apprehensions, rebellions, ‘The Way- \¢arer’ shows, without preaching, that | if we are to go forward from the war and its aftermath of suffering and discontent we must go with \ance, Hope, Faith, Love of Our Fel- | lowmen, true Understanding, as our companions | “am so full of aan ng the production | “It is the answer,” the of er- ‘The Wayfarer’ that I can't think or talk of anything | Jelse," confessed Miss Yurka, In her \raroly beautiful voice, her blue eyes | softly radian She js #0 tall and] graceful and fair that sh reminds me of Villon's line about ‘White Queen Blanche, like a queen of liltes Tesides studying and rehearsing her own importan of Understanding, Misy Yurka is alao the casting di- rector who thas selected all the prin- cipals for the religious pageant-play | “phe Wayfarer,” she continued, “is you, jae, any modern man or woman “WHE RESURRECTION By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) the biggest dramatic-religious per- including the chorus, I eis Se ie as }) e church's anewer to the dangerous spirit of world unrest, will be embodied in “The Wayfarer,” the Christmas pageant-drama opening in Madison Square Garden, Dec, 15, ent as including more than 1,500 New “producer.” a cast of more than 3,000 members, No stage in New York ts big horrors of the war and what has come after it. The Wayfarer appears on the stage with his close companion, Despair, who shows him the first great scenft marvel of the play, a ‘landers village over which the in- yaders have passed, leaving ruin in thelr wake. In the distance the bat- tlefield itself is seen, ‘The Wayfarer, heart¥broken and over-wrought, calls for Understand- ing. Instantly #he appears. Her part is to reasure him by proving to him that in every age there is much that is terrible and appalling, but that true Spirituality, Love of Mankind and Faith forever reassert themselves and ultimately must triumph.” In her effort to give the Wayfarer his faith and hope once more, Under- standing takes him back through the ages. First, she shows him the Jews in captivity, by the waters of Baby- lon, compelled to practice their wor- ship in secret, receiving the tidings that their altars have been over- thrown in Jerusalem, yet, im their moment of supreme anguish, also re- ceiving @ heavenly messenger with the promise that their children’s chil- dren shall be restored to greater glories than those lost. After that, the close similarity be- tween the original Passion Play and he Wayfarer” is emphasized, for he latter depicts the Biblical story the life of Christ. Before Despair, | Understanding and the Wayfarer him- self is unrolled the dramatic presens on of the #hepherds in the fields n tho night of the Saviour's birth, His triumphal entry into Sorusalem, the judgment of Pilate, the crowds weeping toward and, finally the great moment when the Heavenly Messenger rolls away the stone from the empty tomb before the eyes of the two Marys and announces, “He Is not here—for He is risen!” “The last act of the drama seems plece of imagery ever put | stage,” said Mins Yurka. “All this time I, as Understanding, have been coming closer and closer to the Way- farer, and Despair has been going further and fiirther off. Now stand at the Gates of the Future, supported by four immense columns and approached by 4 multitude of steps. Understanding calls to all the nations and peoples of the world, and they come sweeping up to the stage trom the back of the auditorium in a Rhbeinhart effect, wearing the na- tional costumes and carrying the flags, but all together expressing the symbolic form the ideal League of Nations, Marching and singing to- gether they advance toward the Gates of the Future, on them all falls the blessing of the Cross, and the Way- we newed, joins in the Hallelujah “horus. | «phe Waytarer makes its appeal to every one, It preaches no creed; in | fact, it does not preach at all, It simply tells the mor beautiful and | dramatic story in the world, with) every possible accessory of music, color, ight and acting, Resides the chorus of 3,000 voices there will be the New Symphony Orchestra of 100 musicians, ith the American com t me the greatest and most beautiful | on the} farer, his hope and faith at last re-| are to go Two Minutes of Optimism e poser, Henry K. Hadley, as director, ‘The great\classic religious harmonies have been woven into the programme. “It seems to me the production is the best poasible proof of the alliance that should exist between what is beat in the church and what is beat in the stage, “The Wayfarer’ ix the answer to the ons or two clerical gentlemen whd lately have been de- nouncing #0 ‘indiscriminately the American stage. For are not we of the stage doing our best, through this pageant-drama, to convey the church's great spiritual message of love und faith and hope for the future?” “And do you think that, message will ‘get over’ in our so called ma- terlalistic, money grubbing New York?" I asked “You and I know New York is not what it is so often called,” Miss Yurka answered carnestly, “It is the most generous city in the world, the quickest and kindest to offer relief in time of disaster, the most eagerly appreciative of beauty, the most naive city. The man in the street will go to see ‘The Wayfarer,’ and when he comes away, although he may not say qnything more highfalutin’ than, ‘Gee, that was a good show!’ yet ip his heart he will have heard the mes- sage and will take up his own per- sonal problem of life a little more hopefully. ‘For ‘The Wayfarer’s' answer to the war and its aftermath of sufter- ing and discontent is the only an- swer except chaos. We must banish despair, wo must go on with love and understanding of each other—if we a6 all.” By onaai J. Stich | aa wen a king who said the head that wears le Uneasy | aise raged and disheartened by the|and when the worker lower down bor | and Perspective takes the sting out of| made a world fa by ‘The Press Publishing Co. (Tae \ “Count Yer Blessin’s.” comes the worker higher up, he smiles whimsically as he reflects (iat levery man’s worries match his prog- | rows. ~ clowe to the grind funy @ mechanic honestly believes we krow blind from the dust andj that if he had applied himself along yi 5 ot judge sugely be. | bis “natural bent’ he wou have apathy. We senses jude megs? he (pe. a brillant cross-exa | Samet Jo not sae clearly Many a lawyer feels he r n hin the er ow's labor inventor is convinced that with , , _ oth. | burn the fires of literary & The worker lower down sees Noth: Wiitee knows that the toil ing but the corners and eh edges) centration he has expended of his situation and longs passion-| literary work, in the business world R . ' 7 would have made him a commercia otaly the seeming smooth sad} ant and so it goes all along th easy ing of the worker higher up; | jine ‘ch regreta and retrospects; Jew and becom@ reconciled; | World. und all the time each does not have the faintest shadow of appreciation or realization of dificulties and dis- lusionments of coveted walk; for each is enchanted and betrayed by distance, and like the fancy of the ireamy artist never sees the land for the landscape; but the older we grow, the wider our experience and the more intimately we view other peo- ple's lives, the more we are apt to thank our lucky stars that we are t ha ur troubles--we're all ted pretty muca alike streaks { lean and streak ‘at —with the lean predominating or the fat pres dominating, depending on the point of view So “when life looks darkest to as old Cy says, “count in's, boy, count yer blessin' SATURDAY, DECEMB ER 6, 1919 Christmas Is Coming - wae orp Hoon Christmas Is the Glad Season—Holiday Cheer Will C Depend on How Much You've Got in Quart Bot- tles—A Green Christmas No Longer Means a Green River Christmas—The Christmas Trees Are the Only Things That'll Be Lit Up. By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919. The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World) HRISTMAS is coming soon, Some folks call it Xmas, letting X equal the unknown quantity of gifts they'll get. And some tolks call it Yuletide. The tide comes in, but you'll be out. by Only ones that are really “in” on Christmas are the guys that live up at Sing Sing. Christmas is the glad season. Every girl's a Pollyanna and every guy's a Pollyandrew. Holiday is supposed to be merry for all of us. But Christmas this year is only going to be merry for the guys that did their Christmas shopping carly in June. Holiday cheer for 1919 will depend on iow much of it you've got in quart bottles, Night before Christmas THIS year not a creature! be stirring the holiday punch—that’s @ safe bet. A green Christuas no longer means a Green River Christmas. Only things Santa can bring into the country this year are reindeer and rain water, And the Christmas tree's the only thing that'll be lit up. Christmas comes the last month of the year and the bills come the first of the new year. That gives the old man about a week to get ready for the sad things, The real six-day race is for the old boy to jack up his bank account between Christmas and the first of the year. Head of a modern family does more swearing than earing off on New Year's nowadays, Trouble with 1919 Christmas is that it brings the same old gifts, but some brand new prices. “Peace on earth, good will to men” is all 0. K, But you've gotta give good GIFTS to women! Good will to women won't get you anywhere but In wrong. A 1919 jane would rather have a guy kiss ber over a platinum laval- Nere than under a twig of mistletoe. The bird that expects to col- lect kisses just because there's an ounce of shrubbery on the family chandelier has got another guess coming. The boy that only brings some mistletoe for Christmas this year is going to get a toe and the missile in the order named. Another fish that rates as a piker is the guy that tosses an engagement ring for a Christmas gift. That's gypping the jane out of her usual Xmas dividend-—an engagement ring for a Christ- mas present. Killing two birds with one stone may be all right In the old maxims, but it ain't in the modern rules for flances. Two tricks with one diamond ain't according to Hoyle or to ‘Tiffany. Yes, indeed; Qhristmas comes but once a year, but the bills are a little more frequent than that. December 25th is what makes January the busy season for the instalment hounds. This year a dollar may not go 6o far, but it'll go twice as fast! And {t ain't only gifts that ~ have Kone up, but grub! Twenty years ago you could get a dozen eggs for 20 cents. The 70 cents is for storage. Twenty years ago you could wet @ swell waist for $4. To-day you can still get one for $3, but that's all {t fa— @ waste. A real swell casaque to-day costs $20, You can see through it, but it’s hard to understand the price. Honestly, the only thing that’s gone down since 1900 is the German fleet, And speaking of Christmas cheer, there's coal. No longer any difference between black and white—a lump of coal’s as valuable as a lump of sugar, and as scarce. Coa) dealers now sell Coal on the Sugar Administration's schedule, And the grocer sells sugar on the apothecary’s scales Many a guy would rather have smoke going up his chimney this year than Santa Claus com- ing down. Only one ray of cheer es Christmas approaches. Wise guys now claim oi] makes good fuel in place of coal. Can't say whether they're right or wrong, but we do know a lotta oil STOCK that'll make good fuel. We've got some! One thing we wanta warn shoppers against, and that’s useless giving. This is no season to give a guy a silver corkscrew any more than if is to present a gir! with a red flannel nightie. A girl to-day can keep warm without that red stuff, just like a guy to- day has got to keep warm without HIS red stuff. The nothing “Just as good” for the male folks these days. One-balf of 1 per cent. is no happy medium between nothing and 110 proof! No—no, indeed; if a wise bird wants to give a girl something smart, a Georgette waist is just the thing. Remember, the gift without the giver is bare. And the girl is—almost—when she puts it on, But a swell waist lets a girl wear it over her heart, any- way—provided it ain't so swell that it's too low for that. Yup, Christmas comes but once a year. And we can thanksgiving that that’s all it does come. Bive FAMOUS WOMEN IVE forever, Maid Marian seen through startled branches; your | the knelt beside her on the sward, kissing her us if kissing were the only cure He lifted her in his arms and bore her to an adjacent chape! the star of Venus| bold, brave Robin Hood commanded id priest to marry them. In a daze of joy Maid Martan followed the Maid Marian. Your your eyes, laugh, the brooks of all our sylvan foytunes of Robin Hood for aye, hours! Maid Marian wae the daugh-| © . or axe ter of a proud 1 of Northumber- = land, pled She: of bt bad the slip’ den ridii on alluring young outlaw who dweit in| came to the castle to sue for the hand Marian would none of It gown and her pearis and to come to fears were allayed by the wit of her aged nurse, who bade her fein dumb-~ ness. at the banquet Pressed his suit—and the was that n Marian was disgui armor and the nurse was her page. They gained the forest, where sud- visor. In the steel zirls had te them. But ged her troth ern twelfth pe | narry as father! Maid Marian had 0 Robin Hood, the! ‘SUPPOSE WE GO HOH, THAT'LL 50 THE MOVIES TONIGHT! rwood Forest. A powerful Baron | pewutiful Maid Marian, but Maid | Her father le her array herself in her costliest | banquet one night. Her trembling | Maid Marian spoke not a word but still the Baron the morrow. 1, with the old nurse, the castle, Maid ed as a knight in due on ht the out IT WILL NOT YOu'LL "PAY YOUR ped ly they were set upon by 4 knight) ng through the woods. Maid) Marian drew her sword, poor child! | and tried to Gourish it- but swooned | the grass, ‘@he knight put up his| art! Me nd saw big sweetheart! Ce ee mn en

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