The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1920, Page 33

FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920 The Modern “Popular Daughter” Becomes Engaged Every 6 Months Between Sixteen and Twenty-Two at &@n American Author Also Contends That Flappers Met Be-| fore Eight o’Clock Might Possibly be Kissed Before Twelve. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprright, 1920. by The Prese Publishing Oo. (The New York Rvening World.) AVE you a little P, D. in your impossible; eating 3 o'clock after-| home? |@ance suppers in impossible cafes, Very likely. Yet you may talking of every side of life with an| be better acquainted wiith Lenine|air half of earnestess, half of mock- and von Hindenburg than you are|ery, yet wiith a furtive excitement with the P. D.—especially if you are/that Amory considered stood for a the P. D.’s mother. For the P. D. {s|real moral let-down. But he never merely shorthand for Popular Daugb-| realized how widespread it was until, tor—and if you|he saw the cities between New York | think you know/and Chicago as one vast juvenile anything about| intrigue. Her, even though) “Afternoon at the Plaza, with win- She is yours, Iter twilight hovering outeide and suggest that you faint drums downstairs, ‘The swing- test your knowl-| ing doors revolve and three bundles edge or ignorance of fur mince in. ‘The theatre comes by a careful ries then a table at the Mid- ike tity Ae night Frolic—of course, mother will of Paradise,” the|/be along there, but ahe will serve Bew and exceedingly clever novel of| only to make things more secretive F, Scott|and brilliant, as she sits in solitary State at the deserted table and thinks When we heard, the other day, that|such entertainments as this are not the mothers and fathers of Philadel-|nalf so bad as they are painted, Pita’s social world were forming a]oniy rather wearying, union in psa barn werd with the! “But the P. D. is in love again ® ¢ © Quaker 's “chi! set” some|it was odd, wasn't it, that ugh ef us wondered if the hints|there was so much room tae to ts about backless evening gowns and|taxi, the P. D. and the boy from Tate igen i hace ane Williams were somehow crowded out were verdone, ‘utiand had to go in a separate car?| gush rca ores ue mir- | Oda! Didn't you notice how flushed face Ks of mod-/the P. D. was when she arri ‘wn America's Popular Daughter, if| seven minutes tate? But tie PD, we are to believe the terribly candid, | gets away with it,” tense terribly apse analysis ies ~~ or ‘The transformation of the Giri of | enidkaioogl gia Ce aes i ie Yesterday into the Girl of To-Day! gees rn shale ; es Recee pseteees |e Fitzgerald sums up in one effec- | hishe: tive paragraph: Heo lirdap ied .oe to put, “The ‘belle’ had become the ‘firt;’! her! the ‘flirt’ he ‘he picture of the P. D. therein pre-'yemp The oa ince ae ae peor ei 4 | Vemp. he ‘belle’ bad five or six gonted is perfectly summed up in one cattery every afternoon. If the P. D., sentence: “Amory” (the Princetopian |, some strange accident, has two, ne who is the hero of/it is made pretty uncomfortable for | 7 found it rather fascinat-|tne one who hasn't a date with her. | fe to feel that any popular girl he | The ‘velle’ was surrounded by a dozen | wet before eight he might autte | men in the intermissions between! prasibly kiss before twelve. Try to find the P. D be-| & new American author, Witzgerald. dances. | TR was while Amory was on thé) i voon dances, just try to tind her.” nmuei Christmas tour of the Trian- ge Club, Princton'’s musical comedy @sgociation, which played before the @mert sete of eight cities, that he “came into constant contact with het great current American phenom- enon, the “petting party.” “None of the Victorian mothers— end most of the mothers were Vic- torian—had any idea bow casually @heir daughters were accustomed to be wlgsed,” the book explains, with calm cach other again. I wanted to come insouciance. “‘Servant-girls are that|out bere with you because I thought way,” says Mrs. Huston-Carmelite to/ you were the best-looking girl in) her popular daughter. ‘They are sight. You really don’t care whether | tap, You ever see me again, do you?’ ' kuwod first and proposed to after-|° oxo put is this your line for every | ward.’ What have I done to deserve | jit? | | _SBut the Popular Daughter becomes |‘! 4 nq you didn't feel tired dancing | @mgaged every six months, between! want a cigarette or any of the} sixteen and twenty-two, when she|things you said? You just wanted arranges a match with young Ham-|to be'—~ 5 | “Oh, let's go in,’ she interrupted, bell of Cambell & Hambell, who fatu-| 6 you'want to analyze. Let's not talk | ously considers himself her first love.| pout it!” and between engagements the P. D. ‘And one scene is given as typical of | the whole high-keyed, immature sex | drama. | “Why on earth are we here” he asked the girl with the green combs} one night as they sat in some one's| limousine outside the Country Club! in Louisville | | “‘ don't know, I's just full of) the devil.’ uet’s be frank—welll never see{ “When the hand-knit, eleeveless jer- (ghe 1's selected by the cut-in system |seys were stylish, Amory, in a burst aaccds aaa pple the survival (of inspiration, named them ‘petting at dances, w! aerrticn of the fittest) has other sentimental|” of course, no one expects perfect last kisses in the moonlight, or the} wisdom, self-control and decorum firelight, or the outer darkness |from a P. D.—which, nevertheless may | ‘ {also stand for “Perfect Dear.” But “Amory saw girls doing things that! wyere is the P. D.'s mother these days even in his memory would have been |—of what is she thinking? | | _Housewife’s Scrapbook | Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) F you thoroughly wet eggs before} and fill with water and let it soak a! | putting them into the bo! bind while before washing the dish. water the shell will not break 1 beers \ | To cleanse white or light-colored | windaw shades rub lightly with the | Coffee grounds have no food value | JOHN 1AN TOO Sicle To GET UP AND YOu TALKING / Te IS THIS PROFITEERING? WHY SHIRTS COST SO MUCH EXPLAINED IN BIG PROFITS OF THE MANHATTAN COMPANY 7 Corporation Increased Its Operating Income 275 Per Cent. in Four Years—Earnings Jump From 6 to 18 Per Cent. With the cost of shoes and other necessities mounting higher and higher eighteen months after the armistice was declared, The Evening World to-day continues a survey of the increased profits of corporations engayed in the manufacturing and handling of clothing and food. after ‘being once used, and should) very finest sand paper, then rub very | ever be used the second time. | gently with a soft cloth wrung out of | mixture of one pint of bot water | Light is injurious to olive oil, It}in which has been put three table- | mould be kept in dark-colored bottles | spoonfuls of benzine; dry by wiping | and when not in use it should be| wish a clean soft cloth | kept in a cool, dark place. | TT jifferent short- ening products on the market now | that the housekeeper ts often in a| ry as ‘The dirst | site to a successful use of any | | fat is that it be of a reliable brand. Old potatoes will not turn black if | With the increased demand for tutter | they put into cold wat when | substitutes, many products of inferior ¢ 90 man is mom tender if of milk. tatble- | A plain omelet mixed with water Use hot water and spoonful to each eee instead to cho! allow one are coowing them. W t to a! quality have heen placed upon the bot squeeze in a little lemon juice.! market, The wise housewife will buy | This will ulso improve the favor only first class lard, oi! or margarine. Besides selecting a go0d shortening sie A bottle of parsiey juice should be | mould use the right shortening for kept on hand in every kitehen '\) each punpose. For instance, lard is can be used for coloring jellies, frost= | egpeciany adapted for use in bread ing, whipped cream, &c. To Prepare) aoq pies as it makes a light, fluffy it pryise the parsley and sqneeze all! nisture, it is also preferable for | the juice double Heat) deep-fut trying, although many gooa | thoroughly and pour into a bottle | cooks have substituted salad ol) for | this purpose and have excellent re- | sults. ‘The oil is expecially nice for croquettes as it gives a rich, delicate flavor ‘that is most pleasing. For | cakes, puddings and sauces oleomar- * 8004 | carine is excellent. Nut margarine 1s | into a boiler fish witb 1 or salt pork and When baking skewer it thin slices of werve with same If the cleansing po’ ordinary stove ashe: der has runout will prove pingeler gy pg weet Pe Ea) ‘also tor tila pur mn, na and use | or cleansing sa t bj t ‘pose. H Digoolorations on china can also be|.” ‘rom the of of the white meat of the cocoanut with highly re- fined peanut oil and its value lies in| its delicate Gayvor, y removed with ashes. If food sticks terthe svusepans put in a cup of ashes a ania aa, : ¢ The attention of Attorney General Palmer especially ta called to The Evening World's articles. MANHATTAN SHIRT CO. If some modern Rip Van Winkle should awake to-day after a peaceful sleep of four or five years and go in quest of new wearing apparel he | would in all likelihood wish to go back asleep after being quoted present day prices and contrasting them with pric Not even the higher prices of white collars could jolt him more than the of four or five years ago. increased price of shirts. One of these big manufacturers is the Manhattan Shirt Compa 4 he Manhattan Shirt Company. And! ine equ to. 6.06 per cent. on ite IF any manuiaclurers lave increased | ¢5 990,000 common stock their prices of shirts more during the Because the make-up of the past several years than the Manhat- | ,, Fe. i Shint, Company it i difeait to (Company's income account aa fur San Bhi p nished, it is impossible to contrast the d th Spd them. |margin of profit the company now The Manhattan Shirt Company in| makes on each dollar of business with | its plants situated in various parts of|the margin of profit earned before New York, New Jersey, Vermont and|price increases became effective. Massachusetts: nderstood to pro. However, \t t that coincident duce approximately 250,000 dozen] with these price increases, supposedly shirts annually, besides having a) enforced to meet high costs of opera large production of coll derwear. Back in 1915, before the scarcity of | labor and the higher cost of raw ma- | terials were given as an excuse for a campaign of price increases, the Man- hattan Shirt Company showed oper-'! and an increase of 275 per cent. ating inoome of $450,454, and after over the fiscal year ended Nov. 30, paying the 7 per cent. dividend on thej 1915, preferred atock bad # balance neamain~ Similarly, whereas the comgamy 4 . and UD-|tion and taxes, net profits began to show remarkable expansion For the 1919 fiscal year, ended Nov. 30 last, the company showed operating income of $1,688,811, an increase of 57 per cent. over 1918 _Can You Beat It! axtzie. By Maurice Ketten YEs, But SHE IS Sick IN BED, VLLSEE iF SHe | | CAN SEE You IS MRS JOHN (LL WAIT TILE SHE WAKES UP. I'D LiKe TO CATCH HER WHEN SHE (S NOT MADE UP | EXCUSE THE WAY { LoorK-.! JUST WOKE UP DEAR 'Ellabelle Mae Doolittle | By Bide Dudley { Copyright, 1920, by Tho Prows Publishing Co. (The New York Rrening World. > we {Delhi Poetess Honors Town by Writing a Scenario} | Neel dee eddowen cool bes Scere cneee dn LAbAAM Ne Redtchicloo lied T looks as though Delht is going to|about her scenario Friday afternoon be in @ position to point with pride|at a meeting in Hugus Hall, She again to Ellabelle Mae Doolittle,|was introduced by Promptress Pertle| the noted poetess. The town is all|and was greeted by thunderous ap- | Agog over the news that Miss Doo- p. As she stepped to the fore \little has written a film scenario and rl held up one hand, has sent it to @ big picture company | wies," she said, “1 shall attempt, in New York. The fine part of it isin my humble way, to tell you about the fact that the scenes In the scena-|my scenario through the medium of rio are laid in or about Delhi, That|a poem, Kindly listen.” |the people of Big Puddle, the next! Migs Dovlittle was gowned in Ar- town on the railroad, are jealous 18| kansas creton, gathered ‘in the back levidenced by a statement Bilge)and draped with matden’s prayer | Hooper of that town made yesterday. | irippings, She made a@ lovely picture. “Huhi" said Bilge. “Big Puddle) ‘rhe poem follows: doesn't need no scenarios to advertise!» pure written a film scenarto; he It’s about a lovely gtrl, Who lives right here in Delhi, Miss Doolittle told the members of the Women's Betterment League all | earned 6.06 per cent. on its com- | Sie is wooed by a mean villain, mon stock in 1915, in 1919 it | But she does not know he's mean; | earned 18.47 per cent. {One day she found out the truth, These figures assume additional] Any nit him hard on the bean. significance wien further analy } For instance, the company did not! ,, have to make allowance for Federsi taxes before arriving at its com | dividend balance in 1915, but if al | ance were not made for Federal and | State taxes in 1919 the common divi- ster's child, Teeney Ricketts, | uried to bob her hair; a-| She looks like a worn-out mop, on But getting back to my scenario, | would last | versa, were it Setting the town awhirl; | he will have lethal chambers, with | Teeney, you are aounfair; | cig Z val FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920 |Good Taste in Selecting Clothes, Plus a Little ‘‘Makeup,”’ Wiil Bring Out Woman’s Personality Famous Beauty Expert, in the First of a Series on “ Polishing Your Personality,” Tells Evening World Readers That Careful Grooming and Healthy Appearance Are the Two Greatest As sets Any Woman Can Possess By Pauline Furlong Copyright, 1920, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Kvaning World) Polishing Your Person- | '°-4ay 1 intend to go into this subject of personal appearance very thorough- ality—No. 1. ly, because careful and becoming HILE clothes do not make @ grooming and clean, hi woman, they certainly do go a ance are two of the gt long way toward adding to her) woman can possess. attractiveness if} There are so many little things that they are selected) make such a big difference im one’s with taste and fore-|daily appearance, such as the proper thought, arrangement of the hair most becoming Alittle makenp,| to different ages and the careful ap- carefully applie 4, | plication of proper toilet accessories willimprove ay) and cosmetics, that each individual woman over thirty, j must find out for herself just the very and even younger! best things to do to make her mote ones may use pow-|attractive. dor lightly if the} While you cannot change the color skin is inclined to be! of your eyes. you most certainly cam greasy. I have had! make over your figure and your come some women tell me that they would|plexion, and you can greatly accentu- not use any makeup—"not even pow-|ate the color of your eyes, their size der’—when I really felt sorry for them. | and lustre through eye baths, rest and knowing by their shiny noses and fore-|care. Then, too, you can dress your heads how badly they really needed it,| figure to overcome or hide, tempo and how much just @ Uttle dash of/rarily, many glaring physical defects, powder would have improved thom./while you are working to bring your Such women are either vain and highly | figure to normal. egotistical and think their complexions| ‘These are some of the things that J are perfect, or else they are absolutely| shall outline in this new series, and indifferent as to their general appear-| hope that readers will not hesitate to ance. write and ask me anything they, e+». Women whose complexions are greasy | and who have these silly scruples about using powder should take immediate steps to improve the condition of their skin by applying hot water and soap each night and drying astringents until the condition is overcome, because such a complexion !s certainly not pleasing to others. i In the series which I am beginning The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1920, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Start this face, skin al course by examining and measu yourself carefully for defects. Miss Farlong’s Second . of the Sertes, “Polishing Your ||] Personality,” Will Appear om | Monday, i OPEL LP PLP PP PL LPP PPP PPP PPP PAP PPP PLLA LDAP PLP PPP PPP \¢{ There Are Still Hopes for Mr. Jarr’s Future H M“ JARR had that portion of | ’mplate two prize fighters signing en is | 4 contract to pummel each other for tie evening paper that cob! | rortusechat souoting what Heat make out of the moving pictures! Why, the signers of the Declaration Rbaiiiternuceds ies | of Independence didn’t get a cent; in the other aide of the| fact, they were lucky they didn't get hanged, and now two p.ize fighters— Jalthough Carpéntier’s all right"*"— ever you mind,” Mrs. Jarr im- terrupted, “you needn't worry, you won't see them fight!" Just at that instant the door belt rang below and ‘rs, Jarr looked out | of the window. “It’s Clara Mudridge- Smith,” she said. “There's her town. car down by the curv, She's come to tell me her troubles. Your well-to-do friends never come to see you uniees it is to tell thetr troubles.” “You can tell chem yours,” emg. gested Mr. Jarr. | tained the full page spring |sale of dress goods advertisement Unfortunately page had the sporting Mrs. Jarr held the side she was read- mg at such a slanting angle that Mr. Jurr coukl not read the sporting edi- news, and tor's dope us to how long Carpentier with Dempsey, or vice not for the moving pictures, If the fight did not go at least six rounds the moving pictures would be of little commercial value "Can't you wait till I am through with the paper?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “What are you so interested in?” MU nara Ge tie ieee Mr. Jarr did not care to say he WAS | ure,” replied the good lady, Py, interested in the championship box-| least I am not sore at the world be~ ing bout now arranged by Tex| cause two pugilists will get a for Rickard, Mrs. Jarr was u lover of| tune to fight fight I will net saa” peace and abhorred fighting, whether | and sbe went to the door to greet her it was “somewhere in France’ or | visitor. somewhere in Toledo or Tia Juana.| But maybe Mr. Jarr will get to see To avold an outbreak af hostilities | the big fight. They are making @ goot in the domestic trenches Mr. Jarr hastily mumbled that he had been Interested In an account of a hotel for suicides, which some advanced sociological promoter had proposed. Mrs, Jarr was aroused to such @ point of interest that she put down the paper to air her views. “A hotel for suicides?” she asked. "Yea" replied Mr. Jarr, “it's not a ee bad idea, either. THe promoter says ‘(The New York Breaing World) | 1. What is the length of a day tm all the comforts of home, and those | the planet Jupiter? who wish to shuffle of the mortal coll! “2 What is the chief city of Hayti? an him $260 and he will give} 3 what is the shoe leather made them ~ room with every mechanical | 07 horse hide called? or chemical contrivance for wlf-do- | "y"Wwhat aity was the capital of the struction. But before the rush act 18 | mncas in Peru? committed moving pictures will be/" 5 wnat ia the name of the shown automatically, These will de | 04 for making raisins in California? piot all the unpleamant wides of SUl-| 6 with what political movement was Susan FB. Anthony best known? at the office and will chuck dies to see who wins the price of a ringside seat and fare to the fight Know?’ oo, “There are very few people who! 7 What oil fields were the Germans dend balance would be found to equal) Finally the right man appears would commit suicide if they had/ endeavoring to reach by the Berlin to m th 28 r cent. on the! And theu are marred and are hapvv. | $260," remarked Mrs. Jarr. “Besides, | dad railroad? } $5,000,000 stock | For they are both sweet and dear, | that isn't what is needed. What is| 8. In what country bas most of the Furthermore, increased operati needed is a Bureau of Public Com- | world's platinum been mined? As she finished the rhyme Mias Doo- littl gracefully ups costs and taxes have not been so bur- | densome that the company was un able to increase payment of common | dividends from 3 per cent. in 1916 to| and then backed | and sat down, Un- » mised the chair and fell to the floor in @ sitting posture. bowed low fortunately s 4 por cent, in 1917, to 6 per cent. in| 1918, and lastly, to increase the an IP did not c her, however, us the | | nual rat 7 ver cent May 11 floor was pin Ine not so versed } \ 9 in self-control might have been pretty | | Plevense i849. ov 91,688,811 $450,454 | some, but the postuss merely smiled 191 ent. 275.00 and said, “Oh, punko! eon or | ‘The poem's full force struck Ube | “mon stock (per | audience immediately alter Miss Doo- cent... 5 18.47 6.06| little had arisen. ‘The ladies were de. | Rate ef Dividend... 7.00 3.00) Ughted to think a member of the | ‘The officers of the Manhattan Shirt | league had thus honorad the town. Company, according to the Jatest| Mrs. Peck Shirtley was so overcome lable list, are: Lewis Levi, Presi-| that she foamed a livtl the Abraham Levi, First Vice Presi-|mouth, but 4 drink of water @oon [tired af being a Private How many nautical miles a gec- ond is the speed of the surface of the either on salary or commission. I ain | earth around its axis at the equator? Bureau of} 10. What is the nationality of Bin- Comforting without pay | stein who has recently advanced new ‘Whom buve you been comforting | theories of gravity? | forting. It is needed and needed bad-| 9 ly. I wie [ was in charge of one, | | recently?" asked Mr, Jarr | U1. In what country did the term "1 have been comforting you, when} “subotage’’ first originate? you came home crows after trying to! 42, In what Irish city is the head- ix up your income tax phe first | quarters of the Lord Lieutenant? weeks in March.” : ‘ |/ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S “Wall, it’s enough to muke a fel-| low sore!’ ‘growled Mr, Jurr, ‘“Bus'- QUESTIONS. ness has slumped, the boss has a 1, Rabbit; 2, Ulinois Athletic Clmb; rough and i wouldn't be surprised | 5, Saini; 4, Hiram Jobnson; 5, lander J. C. Levi, Seoond Vice Presi- fixed her. Then came the deluge. ‘The dent; Jacob Surpuels, Treasurer, and ladies applauded with great gusto, Louls B, Tn, Secretary, pleased, “A if a ‘bunch of us got canned—and || Duncan; 6, Rubber; 7, Gluten; & dp had to pay an income tax without a 1101 W. Wes jamcyer %& help me, and have to oon- Lorneo; 1, Heliograph. enw to know about “polishing ate |} \