The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1919, Page 33

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19,1919 | | Society Woman Finds Outlet | For Emotions by Writing Of Love in the Subway Copy.igut, 1919, by Tho Press Publlabing Co, (The New York Evening World.) AT Tony Free fetterless, chainle The bloodiess Bolshevik of literature, Patronized by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandberg and mere writers like that, Feceived proper social recognition y the Richt People Miss Mercedes de Ac: " Beautiful sister of beautiful Mrs. Philip Lydig, And dauchter of Mrs. Ricardo de Acosta of No. 830 Park Avenue ofding to the Social Directory Just written a book of prose p Called “Moods” And called many charming things in the proface by Charles Hanson Towne. This publication not only sets New York, along with Spoon River and Cambridge, In the van of the poctical “new movement”—without feet, But proves that prosaic Iifth Avenue possesses Three Graces of Poetry— b fg also are three of its most beautiful women— rs. Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff, Mrs. Leonard Thomas (“Michael Strange"), and now Miss Mercedes de Acosta, i For years the devotion to the arts of Miss de Acosta’s popular sister Mrs. Lydig, has been recognized. She is said to have had “the most ‘beautiful little house in New York,” and she had much to do with in- froducing the local public to the work of the reat Spanish artist, Zuloaga It has remained, however, for the youngest de Acosta daughter to appea not merely as the patron of all the arts but as the practitioner of one, ed little blue-bound volume of “Moods,” published by Moffat, , Yard verse, ms, utterly guiltless of rhyme, Wises YS D THE THREE GRACES OF POETRY. What are the “moods” wociety’s younger sct? mine. Among them of a beautiful and charming They seem to be almost re listed “love,” “disgust,” “joy ness,” “hurt feelings,” “weariness” and “brainstorm.” Untike the verses of Mrs, Wagstaff and: Mrs, Thomas, those of Miss de Acosta are devoid of the emphatically erotic note. She cannot be described, in the common meaning of the phrase, as "a pootess of passion,” although beh.nd each separate prose poum there is a deep, sometimes a subtle, emotion. One of the most interesting poems in “Moods” deals with her dis- covery of love. She is riding in the subway—apparently even Fifth Ave- mue cannot escape it!—and there, of all places on earth, she experiences the tender feeling. But then, somebody offered her a seat—per: aps that's the explanation, Here is her story of the event, written in her peculiar verse form. The convention of first line capitals evidently is one she has determined to sinash, ++I looked across the train and saw a woman dozing in a corner, Her face was worn,. white and pinched; her clothes dirty and her hat sliding off. nee eee . I looked at her e and longed with all my heart member of as varied as yours or " “despair,” “tender- pathetic fa: to put her tired bead upon my shoulder, taking my coat and wrapping it around her emaciated form. ‘Then I looked down the train and saw an old man; gece uses He gazed slyly about, and when he thought no one was looking he spat upon the floor between his legs. Ordinarily 1 should have wanted to kill him for it, but then, oddly enough, I felt no disgust but only a great pity and sympathy for him. I forgot myself completely and a spirit of exaltation came to me such 4s I had never experienced befure. The subway ccased to smell _Can You Beat It! JouN, TAM GOING To DIE! A BURGLAR GAVE MELA TERRIBLE Blow on THe HEAD | ONE. Two, THREE, FOUR, Five, Six, SEVEN, BIGHT ITS ALLRIGHT DEARIE | —————__, Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Coprrtebt, 1910, by The Press Pub'isbing Co. (The Now York Bvening World) The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1019, by Ta Prose Hubiening Co. Che New York Bveumg World.) She seeeeees+AS TL wondered, back from my brain a ale My and all the way down to my heart I heard the q y i e P| ‘ay ae. words beating and hammering my answer— The Cheery Little Leay i \ tute dceets a Very More Christiids Conspurraciws ‘his is love! they cried. nguivitive Lau, | we sarr inenaye y' Miss de Acosta does not give the time of her subway excursion, but|~ rrr: e at certainly did not take place during the rush hours. At that time it is 3 0 ” . RY wleriousiy Mrs, Jase He ube Uk Bebe Cue, OMETIME cile on My hair's all my own and it's true my 7 t doubtful if even a free verse poct would {cel herself overflowing with love,| ®¢ Hid Als Sania tab Side hapa yi ieAeba a heq pak ees cked tha door tw her ved= Ment” eked’ My. Jace, AJ mi iendi 1 a t auourn hair locked th “the: ‘The most vigorous poem in "Moods" ig the one entitled “Brainstorm.” Waitress, as the Friendly} auburn, « Lowy; ‘1 go i Well, said Mrs, dare, | “thoy'l Seas in ectme-of 11) ets MIRROR: Patron gently took the elbow My counim yes im Auburn,’ he room and hung Mr. Jars Bat jouk wil ryil for a couple of weeks “I am tired of of his neighbor at the lunch couater|says A tat iuan next to him gets It}on the door knob to cover U hove Le arr touth Cera ae being polite, of talking low when I wish to shout, of out of his pumpkin pie, “I say a lut of | and lets our w ‘har, har,’ that gets 14, | hole, “Now,” she whispered, “yep [06ir lg ave aler | caristils laughing when I want to cry. I am tired of convention things in the heat of talkativeness | interior angura frightful. very quiet I it that's (he ease," aa and going to dinners and saying ‘What a charming party that I wisht I hadn't spilled, Ever do] ‘‘That so?’ 1 says, ‘Well, there's a] “What are you going to do, now | Mr “bul suppuss she saya? ? this is’ when all the while I should like to tear the that?” jot of our victims in here that ouga,} you huve me alone ~murder met”), | lade ier eg Sa a A as table-cloth off and smash up the best china, “Once ina while,” he replied, “But]( live in Auourn, ‘They got @ ti | shed Mr. Jarr. keep it in the litte plush box that ‘ i 1am tired of weak vacillating * aye Jarge jail up (uere.! “] want to show you some of the! cojies with it,” Mrs. darr went oa people and those who do not know real love—Love is WhAUA bothering You nowy “How vig is the Jail?’ asks the kia | “E want | OF Citetean: Ti eat | (NSN IC Wil TiMavalaneenoe Buk no love at all where for its sake one is not w “Oh, it's about a man and a kid ‘Oh, is got two hundred celis, || “1285 | BO! * k of | fuyWay, servan ulways stay with to commit a crime. that come in here an hour of so ago,” | suas’ I ays, you to tell me what you think of) 01) 1) { Nate wat CHES ai cites ae Lucile replied. “He's a thin, wore Point Poe Share ‘ heim,” said Mra, Jarr, ‘ o gt, thon thoy go away ays the man, ‘you asi i PaKiGEntrudy wee It Life only had long hair so that T might run my hand out-looking man and the kid le the|too nun iuestions | et YOU Oh, they right,” sald Mf |, a Puy LER NR OAN RIAN VS Lele cars through it and tear it from its roots! If I could most questionable boy I've rug! "Hut l wanha Know what a cell 1s," | Jarr carelessly; “what's the good of | 270% UU Tey Ak, Bal Mali only be an earthquake and shake the very civilization acrost in many moons and a few Ne says, | | showing them to me Jare of life} Givilization what a farce! As It there suns, They perch onto a couple of| yoo ne inows! Peaye ee 2 7%] “You might at least take @ Mitte! Mrs. Jarr gave hin 8 witherin: Lg tend Biter vingh YAS our best stools and the man orders] yyai was the guy toat had handed tntere eald Maw dare reprowohe | Votia chaps as wink wet Gp end A thousand dead bodies to-nisht might lie in my way heh AY at @ | hs AP: ARO: iO) » y a sandwich for each o . Tha a 2 ully, “I've had to save anc e it a 1 and [ should like to walk o: thamicccyes Reneas . Awien ae: Siete HAE jaw skin i 5 tee Ae Heap!) ca Nb dessa wrinyivid sie haotio hanahiaate ean i part's all right, but when I deliver! @Ughing how, 1) | and sacrifices to buy these lite t you ¢ Chaotic wild thoughts are running through my brain, ‘ Wuy should I know what a cell ff \ it ‘shye but mostly darkness and a mad desire to end it all, H goods the kid gets gabby. HE ise be asks mo, ‘Do you mean to in-| tle » cheap ag they are, and fr was valuable, shed Sincerity, neverthcless, and a capacity for thought and for humap|tokes a bite at his sandwich and npulate that I been behind the| i's nothing to you! Christmas i8| realize she had all she moght expect, hies characterize the work of society's newest poet, 3 nothing to you! My feelings are noth: }und that extra work would be - $$ ____——_—.—___. 4 ‘ ‘What kind of bars?’ asks the kid. | POPE s lraanded of her and if she «didn't what's in a ham sande} pny) geiting all balled up. ‘I ain't) (ne to you! Nothing ts nothing yi Mead) Hah tay oh Rak aise wana - —-~ _ saying @ thing about you being be- | y: oli whon we hod eumpany [Je “Sih , sor’ nd uny bars,’ [says to the once thine hing t of | hints about the fin ristas pr J 5 Sliced pig, I tell him, smiling sort : bir " , MK hing is nothing ™ | \ r i no wiz ' : stays when she dors r tion What's a wizard? comes from the s!ilingly, “but someluing is jmuch e expects, but nev Jennie Geddes. mobbed. ‘The town arose. The ‘What's sliced pig?’ he asles, boy thing to me. Goahcadand show me; |giays when she pets more than. she a eraees ba ;Deople of Scotland stood up ‘Ham,’ I says. “It's more than Tcan stand, T put} i snterestod,” ©} It isn't human nature! Now NNIE GEDDHS lived in ¥| War roared, And the destruction ont baat the kid, when he! ™Y. arms askimbo and give the man |! ‘ i wi you what [ got. for tn for one r-flung’? deed, She} the royal government came fiom the Dy RRC ORR TRS aOR ©) with the Ikid one look. Well, U've. just had the most tere flung her stool ata Bishop's head, | bold, brave stool of old Jennieldon't sce at all, Then he aera *Is he your boy?’ I ask, rible time with the children all thie !" ehrilled a little voice out- b sy jeddes, * at kind of ha . lady?’ “Ves,” replies the mai ¢ — " ! Jamia, - want a drink of In the Antiquerium Mus um, Edin-| at ae What kind 9 |) swell, ‘lemme say, he's the moat | ¥eck they're ap culos” Mra darr ey : purgh, Scotland, Lhsre is preserved & | ——_—____—— Pi inquiring ttle chump T ever saw,’ 1] tesumued. “dort see wy is Hore Gy and get w drinks tell Gertrude quaint stool that mbles our camp W D Y, D || sy, Why don't you take him home | can't de! M t u ’ 4 A . . sth and tearn him launch counter manners | during schoo! hours, But that wouldn't | typ, ‘the dour, “tm busy? Hose PHE broad SBA 1G ApeaI eS | h a (fh oO ou now é |, oF let his mother learn him some” | de very much quod, for Guiirude, aur) 4 L come inv cried the Utge Oia i fy 4 . Pei LA a | Qopsrisht, 1919, by The Pree Publis ng Co, (The New York Breoing Wotld.d |} ara, ap a oe | iu aus eenoane ee bar heii! ae LL a De of England was endeavoring to force = i you go home our} What » exp bi die ¢ aint Ww ¢ iN a Inte he ARSTRE Ceavene | of the boy, | expec etuing, Don't you think lin trom that Bplacopwy on the Seoich ®) 4, What is the chemical called) 9. In what country was gunpowder i he aay: la watch would please her—one of pi » best whip- enters, and he 1 contrived to Be) witch is mixed with water to fora | first made? ‘Gadding about town, ch thas little enamel watohes? They are pina y . truduce Bishups into the kirk, On ylene gas? 10. What Russian Premier wes "he save. “The aus wp. ‘Bucy break Wuon youl At th’s threat the little girl stamped the 24 of July, 16 yer book | |, Tale ype, country. wos christ overthrown by the Lenine Govern+| away yesterday, Pop ya ahe try to wind them, but they are very ang Httle boy aken shortly afte bi i a a lor| showy, and they are only four ninety> © be quite was to be read in St 6 Cathe. | KER shortly Mfter His birth? he mony? Bee Be ast BN cee Soming beck no more. We hada Ir | showy, and they are only four nin | ne alah éral, Edinburgn. A reat crowd had |ihe 10-yard dash? Vipin ty s but T don't want flowers—I waar! “i can't see how you can get muct | m He gathered to worship. Jennie Geddes n what sicge were soldiers hid- a t Mom!" of a watch for tour uinely-egit In a winu answered Mr, Jarr, | orgpalyy ol ac the vear of tne} len inside a waoden horse? What opere: containe: the: mat! MEM summed and went, to thesis Mr dare. “Ge away mM H Ww ls the tool called bh is Kitchen. When she returned she ap-| Wall, if you saw how people are | ia 4 nT see what came in old calhedra eek 1 te make 8 hole wer after it} ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S | progched the Priendly Patron again. | buyimg then ay Christies ' pit the Htthe girl, been drilled in steel | j “A fellow give me half a you'd thing they were all rig 4 “f-you childfen don't. ran away ‘ 6. What city in Nevada is known | QUESTIONS. fay for a party oft Mrs, dart. “They tarniah in a when mamma bay @ headache, Ren Wow buried at. r its divoree colony 4 : Aristotle; 3, Harpers | gaid. “I was mighty e two, and the enunel ehips c von't br ra sin hing Te eine o H ads Neha tas culled the Grand Qid | Herr Falcon; 6, Seattle; eanae T know a kid they strike asfainet the least th net a single thing!" suid Mra Jarr AN uproart Pae ai an of Kngland? TiN rtures; 8, England: % gome now mittens and, T think it's only glued on, becuse | monacingly darlene by More and ior & In what feld of art is Gutgon | Mark Twain; 10, Paranip; 1, Italy: going to hare ‘em after @ while it falls off them, py Ant at this threat the children weing oburled, ‘Phe bishop wa» Horglum known? <i leanne | 1% Mayflower, many questions he ask» ma,” ‘patter how cureful you may bE” pattored BWAY, mien: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919 A Litany of Christmas. Receiving Ky larguerite Mooers. Marshall 1019, by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The New. Yok Rveniog Werld.) o 4 Copyri being the Kervent, u Provably hutie, Kea Put Up Hi to Good St, Nicholas, Dispenser of Gifts, by Husband, Wife and: Child. ca HB Husband Speaks: - Krom the cigars with gilt-paper sashes, And on the cover of the box pictures of lovely Spani: noritae Brom the too-smail slippers, whose pinch is sharper than the. patent leather pump, From the too-large slippers, built on the scow-boat plan, Ong of which | am always losing—would it could be, botht From tho teetery table far “sinoking things,” Which ja aways falling over and which lies in ambush for my shine tm the dark, From hectic neckties, which I must sneak out of the house and give my waiter at the club, From boxes— Boxes for collars, for handkerchiefs, fer gloves, for cigarettes, for studa, for matehoa— For everything for which chiffonier drawers and men's, peckets were mada, From pipes that come in beautiful, velvet-Hned cases, but will not draw, From smoking sete ia brass and) smoking, sets in oxidized silver and amoking scts in ebony, oak, zine or platinum, From the biameless handkerchief, From cigar holders that T never bosiy ee From cigar cutters (hat wear hgleg In my pockets, From trick cigar lighters that never work except when the clerk is selling. them to my wife, From “desk furnishings’ That | already possess or that I wouldn't take as a gift , xcept at “Merry Christmas," When | am staked out and hog-tied and can't help myself From the eternal ashstray in all of its fye hundred and fitty-seves varietios— Good St. Nick, deliver met The Wife Bpvaks. Prom Christmas cards, From pincushions, handkerchief cases, hatpin holders and “fapey work” Purchased at church fairs ’ And wished on ME instead of on the Salvation Army, : From the identical china clock I sent my friend Christmag, before last, Krom silt stockings @ sige too small and without the exchange slip Probably bought at a “non-returnable” bargain sale~- From purple motor veils From perfnmery 1 must pags along to my cook, From my best friends’ taste in best-sellers— Which I HAVE to read, singe 1 am always cross-examined about the plot. before New Year's From boudolr lamps and breakfast: coats, Prom the gift of the woman | forgot And to whom I must instantly send off something of my own whieh £ roally lke “With warmest lovelta= Prom the check my husband writes at the last minute, because he won't take the trouble to find out what I want, and then take the time te. buy it for me himself— Good St. Nick, deliver met The Ohild Speaks: From the. sort of toys mother and dad buy Recause THEY NWke to play with them, From clothes 1 would get anyway— And that aren't like a Christmas present at allh— From books to “improve” me, a From hygienic candy, From money | have to put in my sayings bank, and “useful” gifts.” From silly toys that smash after I've used ‘em once or twica From dolls that haven't got golden hair, From things that BABIES like, From fewer presents than any other child I know, From having to make my parents believe that I believe in YOU Good St. Nick, deliver me! \Yhat to Do Until the Doctor Comes, | By Charlotte C. West, M. D. 4 Pneumonia, Conyriaht, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Co. (The Now York Brenig World.) Ss" pneumonia threatens the) danger of inviting ap attack of pnege rich and poor, the infant as well] Monia. as the aged, and is counting 114] ,om, "ktauaty Seureelt im a chased Victins in unusually large nYMbers/ in any event and. infinitely mora go it might be well to devote a little} when the lungs are corigested, t space lo so dangerous a disease. aan fore ath, Ong Alwoye q cab 4 kixposure to evld, particularly toli'ghty and warmly, open. the wie. cold and wet, are frequently fol ows wide, then en the dccter. lowed by the initial chill which usher |-omes be will be bees d to find” nh pneumonia, ‘’ne germ has bec pet as, patient hee, already made fuund in the dust of rooms, an walle! covery. le toward ap! clothing, furniture and in fact, Wherever man inkabits, The danger At present from outbreaks of leu | or even pan-epidemics lies in the fact | Mak WU COM APO AOCUNS, war kG, 4# LO Lvl, BO Lhal expos- we ty Cold io gieaier; ae Ly food, Bo tat a lowered vitalily is probable; | as lO wirain Upon tue Hervous Lures, | oy Lil Lue genuras Morale is lysoened, In aadiuon w these agencies 14 the — by the— Character Analysis Editor weather. Given & low aigady: tunpar- " ture there iy loss dauger Chan in| ]] Copyright, 1919, by The Brws Pubtishing Gn, worupt baromectiical changes. The New York. Brenig World.) — Wnvwing ues facts avout the _ ise , it we easy Lo employ proper = Sy caulions to maintain the body in P. O.—Painstaking, intellijremt, ve tate of piysical equilibrium, and | 99s Of humor, Optimistic. Excete avoye all, to sustain our oudovk upoa|tent mind. Well balanced head World conditions and life in general.! which contrais affections. Keeps afe ‘There are many varieties of pnew-| airy to himself. Dependabl J mona. The type which we are cans » tependable. Pleges ldering now way oveur in a very] 484 but not susceptible. Meditative, hi form so mild that it is mis-| versatile. (You omitted address fee Loken for a sharp cold, ‘There may | return of specimen), J for instance, be a slight ebl mod- F H fever and some cough. Many], L. (or 8.) Ry Jersey City—dood Sid ces Mave gone abou at | Honest type. Conventional, tramke en to their busimesa and «th Gonac Neen 4 precise, Some stube fever and cough to! bornness, which appears to be thi aut rs Pde scant ee “thats Ve only : lnpertection sch, the correct moptou of lun involverme, oni er. Ls! le ce. rusts ‘? eymotome of lung ny iy toent AT? | thy, but not éxelting. ba a few fave and its true nature be| %. ¥. 2. (Peggy)—Kindly. Incigne overlooked tions are that he le not incor Intense pneumonia occurs in mid-| but doubt whether he is ready. to ay dle Ife usually 9 large, decp cheat-| Ue down. Calm, head controling afa on who have previou bern in} feetions. Is not specially adapt abl d health, The Initial ehill is se- | but bas power of eoncentration when Here and. prolouged, fever high, face | he wishes. Indications are he would Yared great, and every | Make good tn some travelling pasie ndicat « nflammation of | Von, the lungs. se cases are attanded Q. X.—Good husband and fatror, if with great danger to life. Tee so-| you are lgvking tor the placid, reli« Ned typhold pneumonia je far more} able kind, but’ is rather cold, ang dangerous. Were the typical symp | gives out ttle sympaihy. Ls, howe toma of pneumonia are marked or | ever, perfeatly safe. No great forey overshadowed by those of @ profound | no originality. A little obstinate. dee toxaomid re is early a prostra-| cent living tration, delirlum. faund and vn, | NADINE R—Somewhat odd. Exe ! stupor, alternating with Wane |travagant Not adaptable. Inieas ring delirium, The condition is 4/ tions are easily influenced, b.cdig mixed infection, settled enough for matrimony a Remember: A proper amount of | present Evential success. nourish ng food, warm elething an ~ —— fres) air; keep the oxtrenn tles warm ADVERTISEMENT. and dry, the blood freely circulating Cay < —_ ind exeiciae the lungs-don't merely | — Manicuring Net Eno» gh breathe Beauliful hands are more Cates Tt is safe to say that we directly| matter of manicuring, — ‘Phe n many diseaves of the resp ra-|skin around tho najl is kept fd igy by dietetic errors and vith; | soft and white when Velc pon le ated atmosphere. When the Junge |e autting ra Siar waehirs, oie wid gly passages are constantly ha See how fine and patie (n fash air, and When. the YAN ARE, PAR LOM eta ae blood stream is pure, there is in the collapsible tibes—2 ’ ro 8 SCRE oP