The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1920, Page 29

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1920 Women Who Need the Money; Why Not Syndicate Your Time? How One Does It NEEDED—Industry and Cleverness; RESULT—$60 a Week and Own Home Not Neglected. Ouprridht, 1999, by Tho Prees Publishing Co. (The Now York Brening World.) UPPOS® you are a woman with young children doubly dependent on you—1, for support; 2, for care. ‘What are you going to do about it? 4 Are you going to keep a home for your children—supported by sub- @idies from rola~ tives? Or are you so- ing to pay the bills by taking an all-day job in shop or office § while ' you live in @ haji ‘i bedroom and beara your little ’ family with rangers? Thousands of ‘Women choose one alternative or the every day— choose between become parasites or doing their mothering by proxy. There is a third adtution, This is the story of a ‘woman who found it, Mrs. Penniless— it’s not her name, but ft WAS her description two years ago—is sup- porting comfort- ably her two little fatherless daugh- ters, aged six and sight, and is Keep- ing them in a home with her by the simple process of syndicating her time, She sells a cor- tain number of Dours each day at at a flat average rate of $1.50 per hour and thus earns about $60 a week. Hach day is so woheduled, however, that she has enough time of her own to prepare her children's meals and to bé their com- panion when they are out of school. Mrs. Penniiess simply makes a profit- able commodity of the time which her women friends. She can find tio ser- vant clever enough to cook and serve @ luncheon as delicious as that Mrs. Penniless knows low to prepare, and gladly pays the latter $5, with lunch uded, for her service. From 2 to 4.30 Mrs, Penniless shops jfor Mrs, Jones and earns $3—besides WIFEY You rere To ) PUT ON YouR (SHIRT WAIST! getting a commission in certain shons where is well known. From 4,30 to 7.80 she is with her children in the jpark and at home, the three dining happily together. The youngsters go to bed early, and she has two hours moro plutocratic friends spend on bridge, matinees. window-shopping and similar diversions, For example: She arives at 7 A. M., helps the children with their dressing, prepares their simple breakfast of ce- real, fruit, milk and eggs and sends|and a half, from 7.30 to 10, copying them off to school at 8.30. They have|briefs or manuscript on her type their launch at sohoo! and are safe| writer, and earning $4.25, The total i date in the afternoon. \ | day's income is $1 Yor two hours Mrs, Penniless works} Saturday and inday she keeps free for her children, but for five 4 in the week her income remains prac- tically the same, although her jobs include almost every “chore” which Indolent incapable women like to have performed for them, Why don't YOU YOUR Aine? in her own Kittle apartment—washing dishes, using the vacuum cleaner, insting, making beds, perhaps pre- paring a part of the dinner which she puts in the fireless cooker, At 10.30 vhe goes to the home of Mrs, Smythe, who has @ weekly lunchgon for her Again—Judge Tompkins, Premier Volunteer Blaze Hound, Heads Mazeppas By Will B. Johnstone Competent, 1920, by ‘The Press Publishiag Co ys ‘yndicate {The New York Brening ANG! Dang! Dang! Daz dow affects the like u red flag ¥ . uk Fire | des a bull D Mere comes the Nyack Wire|") age ‘Tompkin done more to Departinent! reduce fire nan any | Who is the august figure in the} volunte York Sta white rubber coat? Why, it can be} For thirty three the J see ne = 6 4 sp n President of Mazeppa In none other than our hero, apreme ¢ Company of Nyack. He Squrt Justice Arthur S. Tompikins.| Yuithfully presided over a series He's not @ regular; he's only a yol-| nfernal looking machines in t dime, played end man on the handle unteer, The Judge has been # vol} sar of u walking beam pump, polished inteer fireman for thirty-eight years | up the myriad nuts and bolts of @ Give him a cheer, boys! "'Ray {01 | procession of intricate chemical en- ines, blown out many speaking yumpets and probably marched 9,000 niles in street parades, He would rather march in a flro- inan’s parade than sit on the Supreme urt bench—or just as soon. About two years ago there was an mportant case before the Judge at Poug ‘At an interesting point Jin the case djourned the hearing with I have a» extremely impor recess till to-morrow, ment” was @ parade, Judge ‘Ton the State I" N.Y. He also represents the Mazep- pa annually at State Firemen's Asso- ciation meetings. Mazeppa now has motor equtpment |and the Judge was the first one to the President of Mazeppa Engin Company!” For thirty-three years the Judg: | yus headed this organization, and now | peen re-elected for the thirty- 10" fourth time, Listen to an old-timer! “Back in ‘80's Art Tompkins, a young lawyer then, would beat ail the other volun teers to the firehouse. While his fel low-fire-eaters were shaving and put- | (| ting on thelr fine, red shirts prepara- tory to responding to the alarm, Art would be unlimbering the ‘hand engine and champing at the (bit."” @Vhen smoke was seen issuing from a stable loft the Judge was always ae ‘to swing an ax on all the stained- parlor windows in order to save! bey) | woman to another, jwere from her KIL Unie te HOW DoSou LIKE MY.NEW TAILOR ee Boos! OBODY WEARS | / A WAIST UNDER / A TAILOR Coat / ANYMORE | / \ TN A) Just A FRILL ie (S > ALL \ THEY CAN'T eer WITH i. y t -« be E STYLE ee TAKE OFF Your CoAT BEAUTIFULLY MADE Poor MEN ! Sa a primer, The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copytignt, . JARR Blather, was expecting Mrs. the dressmaker to} come and reconstruct several | gowns for the summer season, from) gowns of other seasons at present in hat condition so maddening to the feminine mind—not good enough to wear yet too good to throw away, When one woman is doing work for another woman for a price it is al- Ways ag 4 favor, Men take jobs be- | cause they need the job to get the} money, but it ts never thus aa one So Mra, Blather a tecl lke, affecting to have simply dropped in to call, And, ay i a fixed principle of human natute, li mule or fernule, to avoid doing the work one is paid to do ag long and as much os possible, Mrs, Blather rocked back and forth, simulating the casual and socially equal guest, and unfolded her packet of gossip ware— like a real visitor, “S saw Mrs, Kittingly’s mati box was full of letters—bills, 1 suppose,” be- gan Mrs. Blather, “or maybe they admirere—te he! For, wouldn't say word Mrs, Jarr, as I never y one, you know as weli the woman is talked rived quite gen- | although I a aguinst speak as I about As going out by the day couldn't make of > that a d and dumb dressmaker | her enlt, Mre. Jarr amiled approvingly { wd murmured, “Oh, of course! “And Mrs, Kittingly thinks he in pretty,” Mrs. Blather went on, “Well, all { have got to say is she better not look in the glass before she puts on her complexion and her transforma- tion!” ‘To the uninformod it may be men- tioned that @ “transformation” ts a large moss of artificial hair for ladies’ wear—a full wig, in fact, and it ts rightly named, for it effecta quite a transformation. “] always suspected Mra, Kittingly wore a transformation, but I wasn't! sure,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, never came forward to testify when Mrs, Leadbetter Grampus tried to commit suicide with lysol last wook,” continued the lady. “How the fashions do change in poisons! Don't 0, by The Press Publishing Co, McCardell (The New York Pvening Worla) never invented a genteel puison with a fragrance of fruits or flower, al- AYOR Cyrus Perkins Watker of | thougn I have heard that cyanide of | Delhi has decreed that no more i larcas smelled Ike peach stones, | vhewing gum shall pe sold in| and of course chloroform and ether | Fy, both smell sweet. Do not be sur-| bold ErOll BIS PANS Tae ee re prised at my knowledge of chemis. | being held there, He in exceedingly try, Mrs, Jarr, but my second husband | @ngry over what ‘he believes was an} ™. a ipaecr uel ba the drug/attempt to beltttie him in the éyes| rust, and everybody calling to buy | ¢ 3 stampa or simply to wise the selephons | Ot the voters and thus burm him in} and asking him to make change for | his race for re-election, It happened % bills so they could get ilckels to | at the hall Monday night, during a nop in the telephone coin boxes was Mea by ‘omen’ . what maddened bis train [Became palied BY che! Wamen's. Bete “He ran off to Chicago with a lady | erment League to encourage the cit- izens to have their agh oans emptied) embalmer and my life was dli«hted” here Mrs. Blather noiselessly blew her | regularly and thue make Delhi a city | jot beauty nose, which is stage oelety way of ¢ refined ¢ too dep fhe Mayor was on the stage, seated as I was saying,” the visitor resumed, “fl would dio a thousand |"°" Promptresa Pertle of the deaths before I would violate a con-| league. The chalr he had taken waa fidence!” |covered with a newspaper, quite by “cc TORMFDALD,” the beantiful Italian villaof Mark Twain at Branch- S ville, near Hartford, Conn,, is threatened with destruction, and American students and men of letters in all parts of the country are combining to save the historic house. It was here that Samuel L. Ciemeus, whose stories written under the name of Mark Twain are famous throughout the world, spent his tast years with his daughter. The present owners are Francis Ahren, an undertaker, and James J. ‘Wal, @ real estate promoter, who are said to have bought tho dulld- ing for $55,000. ‘They now esk $300,000 for the property. you remember when everybedy Nic acid? Now it's nothing but ne. Brave old days! Tw to-day a fine plate-giswa win- | drive the new machineg, took te of mercury, and before thet "T often wondered why Fxlison } The Hartford Art Society, on learning that the house might be destroyed, has made every effort to purchase it as @ mueeum and an appeal may be made to the te Park Commission to condemn the Beoperty for a State park The Mayor of Delhi By Bide Dudley | | Ongyrigbt, 1920, by The Prous Publishing Co, (The New York World), {in partnership in that game,” sald a laughter and the Mayor flually | Clemenceau, the Tiger, who won the FRIDAY, APRKL:9, 1920 ae c ° Dr. Welch Is Right ws |‘‘The Biblical Limit of Three Score and Ten Has Been « MAN who reaches the age of every birthday interview seventy may look as though|7°a7s has laughed at the ‘ee age!” cheerfully chirped Dr. William Pgh ie td me ana &. Welch, pathologist of the Johns A ‘iaealal New » “But what of tho Biblical limit of| his editerial chair on Hai Magee three score years and ton?” objected =, eyez! Thirteen on “‘Golden Rol Changed,” He. Says. . Siphns tte Sars oe Mr ar | eee Ec van a3 of Gray Heads’’ Proves Copyright, 1979, by the Prose Pubtidaing Co, (The New Yor Worldn, ‘byt that is pally not euch an advanced mie Mew yore, an honored citizen: of tleth birthday, which was yesterday, | threo last month but he still 1 Laon, “Oh, but we have changed all that!" | and ina wien be is fn ee HERE'S THIRTEEN FOR A STARTER, FINISH THE List Yoursege, was tho juvenile Dr, Welch's gay come-) him the eight-hour day 1s not! back. Samuel Gompers, President“ or ‘the We HAVE! How many of the great- est men alive to-day, the men of Feal Personal divtInétion and doing pro- ductive work, are over seventy? The Fvening World doesn’t pretend that tte Golden Roll cf Gray, Heads is ke complete, hore’ th! a startep—Anibh the Bat: The top-of the coluinn of aprightt?, undletiog and successful seventy-year-old-and- over belongs by common consent to him whom Lloyd George called “the grand old-young man,” to Georges Clemenceau, "jo fais le guerre” Se een: eh TaN fo accident it ts assumed. Wha called on for a few words, the Mayor step- ped to the front and bogged those present to have the ash cans emptied once @ week, | “Cal Main 21 and have Hector Bumper come for your awhes,” he pleaded, ‘Hector will ohorge you but @ smail eum and our little city) will thus be beautified.” “Understand you and Bumper are man's voice coming from the rear of! the room. " have nothing to d and garbage busine Mayor indignantly. Tho man did not veply, but he Was seen to move alor the wall to- ward the door leading to the rostrum. ‘The Mayor continued his appeal and | with the ash replied the! | Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, | Ugently | Steel Corporation, “the wor for France and who will be SEVENTY-NINE next September, Next, suppbse we put Charles W: 1, In 2. In what part of Mexico: is*most eisal grown? 8. What country first became cele who is thinking, writing, playing the rote of active good citizen as intel- as ever, although he was elghty-eix last month, Another Bostonian, Henry Cabot Lodge, is just on the verge of his seventieth birthday, yet manages to be one of the most forceful members of the Senate, New York has a notable quota of men who have not made their seven- tieth birthday a ijmit to their actiyir, ties, There is Elbert H. Gary, at weventy-thrée Chairman and chief ex- ecutive officer of the United States Billion Dollar brated for its fine watches? 4. What Bibitcal o Mira oa locusts and wild honey?) ~ + 5. What isthe ogo a ths base ot the skull called ?. 6. What Persian King was beaten at es Battle of Marathon? 7. What mythological chardcter dragged Hector around the wells of Troy? pet 8.°At what American port are’ float- ing grain elevators used? + i 9, What is the capital of Venpeuela? 10.) Whet was the fort firstxestab- shed where Chicage is now jocated? cighty next August, still busily at| 12. In what English’ city waa the first work every day in’ bis well-known | ©-operative store founded? banking house. * 12, What js the length of a othndara Ntw York's greatest lawyer, even | railroad rail? now appearing in the Prohibition cases before the United States Su- Trust ‘There {s Henry Clews, who will be ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S QUESTIONS. ended ten minutes Jater with a sug- gestion that he would be glad to have | all present vote for him. Then, as| the audience applauded, ho backed to his chair and sat down | “Three cheers for Walker lied | the same man's voice. The cheers were given und then the man called on the Mayor to stand up and bow. Mr, Walker did so and newspaper stuck to the seat ants. Walking over to Hromp 8 Per th her ongratulated her ot There the success of the meeting was much} covered why, He was fur Yank- ing the paper free from hig trousers he shouted ia “Who did this?” Done what?’ asked the man's um 0 laughed. more furious, shouted I Brown in the hall?’ “Here, air!” repli “Arrest that man! The constable flew at who proved to be Lige Daty, Walker Democrat. A fight fc in which Brown was knocked four times, but be subdued bis man by giving him a ticket to the movies. As Daly escorted Brown out of the hall there was a murmur of admira-~ tion for the rave constable. The affair has eet the whole town talking, There is much indignation, 1 the officer. ay preme Court and the shrewd leader m of New York Republicans—Elihu, 1, Meyerbeer; 2, Locksley TUN; 9 Root--was seventy-five last Febru-|Shoe; 4, Snath; &, Lincoln; 6,'Balti- ary | more; 7, Milton; “% Cambridge; 9, Til- Chauncey ‘Depew, director of @|den;' 10, Lebanon} "ii, Hdtson> 12, score of great corporations, who 4n/Bappho. 2 : ‘Maxims of a By_Marguerite Mooers Marshall Modern Maid Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) JAM was the first man who @aid—although he had the least poswib! Why do women wear so many fool clothes?" son of alooholic abstinence, a man buys candy “for his the same principle that a father takes bis gon to ti oxouss In 1 on is #e exactly clreus, The flaw in the philosophy of the book-blurb writer Is that he forgets the + hypnotic subject is the exception and not the rule im every audience. “*White collar men’ are not marrying.” Then at least the bride of to-day onjuga! hate song against the hand laundry slousy of a man felt by another man after the same womary infinitely meaner jealousy of a woman after the same and there is Job. Geing a bore annoys other people; being afraid one is a bore paralyzes \ onenel Many an entirely virtuous American ts an unconscious bigamist, giving his jome and one-seventh of his week to his wife, while sharing the other six-sevenths and all his real interests with his private stenographer, After a man has spent an hour ridiculing, criticising, harryifg and goading , woman into an explosion that lasts ten minutes, he pities shimsgil im mensely for having to deal with a creature “so temperamental” There has been & recent lull in the denunciation of backless evening gowns probably the pious are gathering strength and breath for a pulpit mid on 1920 bathing euits. In the average family the two principal topics of conversation are the dis« from whichNt is euffering and the food which |; likes-—or dislikes, kise is @ petal fallen from the rose of Pve