The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1920, Page 9

| = _ SATURDAY, APRIL 10 Deserts Good Business, Fine Home, Two Autos to Rejoin the Circus at 57 to Be a Clown. | By Marguerite Dean. Ouprright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Oa (The New York Evening World.) | ‘Mactorard, ¢arm bachkward, O ‘Time in thy Might! Make me ® clown again, just for to-night” HAT ia the little cong which has been sounding for almost two-score years in the heart of Robert E. Sherwood, publisher, author and book- seller of New York, but once a clown with the one and only P. T. And to-morrow the lure of _ the tanbark, tho call of the cireus wil prevail at last. Mr. Sherwood will leave his book-ehop at No. 40 John Street, Is big house in Flatoush, his two automo- bfles, and, putting on the~ same “Joey” suit he wore forty years ago, will appear im the ring at: Madison Square Garden as director of the producing clown act. When tho circus goes on the road, Mr. Sherwood will ©o along with it. He ran away to join the circus at fifteen, and now he's running away again at fifty-seven! With a alightly sheepish grin, ut his blue eyes a- twinkle, the bi square- shouldered President of the Booksellers’ League and the author of “Love Letters of @ Rookie to Julie” and lang Slycopaedia of Baseball,” told me tales of the tanbark of other days, and confessed that he had yielded once more to call of the wild.” | “It's sheer sentiment,” he laughed. “I have the busi ness here and I can writs my check for fi thou. sand—but I ¢ stay DOLL MODELLED AFTER ROBERT E. away from the old ring and the old crowd any longer. “I joined the old one-ri Crews in 1878, when [ SHERWOOD IN HIS FIRST CLOWN COSTUME. ing clown, and 1 made my biggest prefer hen ‘hit singing ‘Down in the Coal Mine! won, Toran away jhome. | T did tumbling over the horses’ backs, ‘vats T Datchered of the seats.—that | ang doubled-with a ‘Pete Jenkins act’ ‘oid pink lemonade to the crowd} that’s the. fellow who pretends to the tent. We used to make it of be a drunk from the audience and fe acid, and stick in a lot of lemon | finally, after tumbling all over vel which the advance man would| horse, strips to riding tights and 7 ; na | does ‘bareback stunts,” ‘Then, with syd hy da ahd val | the ring master, I ‘spelled the riders’ “Then, after two years, I became a/-—that is, entertained the crowd with Barnum a boy of from home. I was the first sing-| Jokes while the horses rested, This ante Reba sbakg , | was one of the jokes that made a wrilet great hit in those days: ‘Why is a og? Because let loose at | | “After 1 had hurt myself falling ove! a toe-peg while | was watching Linda 1G, in her act, they made me master of transportation. I was with the , off and on, till 183 And why did you le i a minister's daughte |laughed Mr. Sherwood. jof travelling with the c Nou Pull MY How DARE WANT TO BE BLIND FEATHER ? EXCUSE ME i You ARE * OKING MY EX Out WITH Souk FEATHER You ARE AY EYE YouR FEATHER! | i YOU he —— In 1898 we | came to New York, and my first store was in the old Astor House. Then 1 went to Maiden Lane, and..besides | books was a pioneer if selling ’ wear downtown and ‘n having | ¢ a place where girls could dance after lunch, But I've always had a hank- ering to get back to the circus. I invented ‘Joey Ringling,’ a clown doll | oh | dressed just as I used to appear. Every time [ looked at it I got more homesick, store in the hands of the best man- | ager in the world—my wife—and I'm! wh ROBERT £. SHERWOOD, going back to the ring! le Rangle gave me a crackerjac Fables for the Fair [cit tomas ra arndy | So now I'm leaving my | Plants,” she added. The Jarr Family | By Rey L. McCardell | Copyright, 1920, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) OW that it's long after) dollars, and the dress is a bargain ut Easter, potted pl: id La A ai Dlante an¢ | “Well, here's the money,” aaid Mr. spring drenses will D8} Jerr, “Get it to-morrow.” caper,” remarked Mrs. Jarr; “not|""“To-morrow?’ echoed Mra Jagr. that I am interested in potted| ‘To-morrow Mrs. Blather would have had it, She was only working for me | two days, to make up the balance to “4 pay for the dress—she had $48. It remarked | was she who tad me about the dress, | ‘But, listen; | so 1 slipped out to-day while she was re- | working for me, and ordered it home “The boy’s waiting in the dining, #8 1 had to let him} me—you take grape juice amd 4 | in quictiy with the dress, because Mrs. | m not either, not even in a plant here I can get potted, virtuous Mr, Jarr. It Pays to Be Polite | Copyright, 1920, by Ine Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) FRIEND of mine drew my at- By Sophie tention to an act of politeness shown by a hotel proprietor to a soldier man in the matter of mak- ing him comfort- able. The hotel man seemed very much pleased when somebody wrote to him appreciating his politeness. My By Marguerite Mooers Marshall » of yeast, and"-—- Blather was sowing in the front room friend remarked, Gopsrieht, 1420, by Tho Preas Publishing Co, (The New Tork Hvalng World.) you mind,” Mrs, Jarr inter- | plied ray ae sn Pilyard Prete] va in telling me the me ihe Boring heel ou ure not going to MESS) ome mean trick, She's just the sort story, “Lt might She & Some Birdic! : cleaning | of woman that would delight to do! oe ae e the ho- She is Meat for unybod ma Spring ever fer-| such a thing!" [tet man to bo unin.” And ” hee — aap heaton menting crocks full of home m ee eh. His 1? cRammi Rtas = one od She hes taken a a P aleabolic poisons, Dear me! So! N Ye kb H If. P d B b sie be thi s ad ost, i ab peablend serie times I wisly that you still had your ew Ore Ss Mati-Foun aby With feathers on her | sid Gua's place at the corner: but onc 188 Lot Why does a Spring Chi 0 road? thing sure, my house isn't going to M tts Seana piu Because her skirts are as Maurice Kettea draws them, urned into a/brewery or a dis-| Sa aye 7 And the high cost of silk #tockir 4 nothing in her young life! eer jes in Atte t tit > has not plucked are gayer than ever! Whin’ tte dateea. dato | th ha 5 »-face” hat thop.” grumbled Mr,|POUnd bab With cherry dingle-dangles arn: “en ps aes ae ant | im haif of Kaster lier l'remch pumps have round toc fell over a dress form a he b : and an 6 . There is @ cunnin’ 6ash around her brand new wasp waist { Gnd the front room sofa stuck full | 5 0,0 deceter And a sort of half-portion hoop skirt, with waddle-bag pockets ot pins and needles and ecissors and | 0 ot iene and what used to be her hiplessne ps gTow wher: of the Boudoir, Though how Is a part of the Se What does the Spring Ch she puts her little claws on the oulja board and flirts with the spirits; she dances the shimmy rc Aone grew betore 1d goes on French pa: try Jags The very latest, january-sixteenth, Temptation of the Flesh; iain cs pal Nations liday, rs She chirps, cha curgles and twinkles nae ae National Holiday, | father and moth. Ke Over the tee nners which most or us find ao “weary, stale, flat ana | ~Pt er, Mr. and Mrs, uprofitable”. Tnprofitable to everybody except the its who sell four dollars’ worth being held of food for ten dollars. Jurr interrupted im- | Phen, too, the Spring Chicken offers no end of sport to the Hunting Pars He NEVER tires of tak pot-shots at her clothes, amusemen firta. it wilicte Pane serena tions, ideals, jewels, favoriie plays, favorite love stories, extravagance, | falte: _ phe ny ns te r art'fictality, morality, lack of morality; ‘ MROnDG, | Samared Ma; Sars, “At Lou RAY FOU'YS [clever Darwe, le “percaciiy yeniiny ana celll’ te die tones She is Fair Gamo for every Vigilante of Vic got to have 4 new dress, I guean|the world, with tho strongent ape . i sy | you've got to have ft, But when ¢ “She will not ee onsest muscles And the Spring Drive against her is the chief Sporting vent of the Pulpit, | 72" ** 4 n di ot remain little,” Miss Kenard prophesies confidently Which is surely reason enough why she should be Preserved, | vou you'h have these new daily development is a thing beautiful to see. She now and, after al) what wonld the reat of Now York's fauna do with-nt ner? | slothes?” and three onnces, and ber face J becoming round, her } Silly, pretty, «dy, naughty, harmless, jaz smart, entirely indigenony| “IT beve to have them right away °° + her skin is growing rosy. Sie tests very eo YOUNG Spring Uhteken bs or Ae aaty the hone," replica tr Davies ta erperature of 1% dex ‘ ate Blue Bird of hi and yety and anti-Pu oie Jarr or Mra. Blather ight anc vieit +. cheatant w Du Bik CHR GEN MrRlDg, DUDRLAR eee itontn tees cca sayy | SBOlled thy two ond vases J riaaid that if the atory of hee walght was tr fe ati) offers to a dry, di), dismal, distraught world! tall | to make over. wat 1 don't dare say a /She is fooling everybody, for her heaith is perfect!” SOMP Chtoken--I'll say set i cloth remnants and”-—— » slogan of the Spring Chicken of 1 “TUe the only way ean afford 1o| Ths 3s the mos that twenty-year-old Yaudeville Jap {got a new drese—make it at home, |"2Cet photo. eas hie Hee replied Mrs. Jarr. gain or two, With the true poultry yard twitch to her shoulders; ‘And th at Fourth of July: the nis most dnutiv beat “Well, shoc 30 round the shops and nail a bar-| Joanns ‘Oo Decoration Day is on | Now york’, e Way, and prices may go up Agaln. | Hound paby. n, there's June Bug Day, and | young indy, who it's too late to cele- | resides with her replied Mr. J “Oh, you needn't worry! I have se- | toy and it Beata Migs Jeanno, in the right hand “Mat, a2 T was maying, | wom atxty def, whieh weighs amctly the same as oka Fortably ther watches over her day beautiful bavy in “Her welgha one pound nds are filling mm her little dhe was Worn, all the doctors e whe could not possibly live, half of the Raster ees, is ber HOW DARE Y FEATHER! Higher Education vs. Wages | Who Gets the Loot? Stevedore or Collegiate Clarence Answer—Wages Wiggle; Salaries Static. © By Neal R. O’ Hara. Copyright, 1990, by The Prose Publishing Co. (The New Tork Rrening World.) N a distant era when the celluloid output was made into collars in- stead of cinema scenes, Higher Education was considered very Gouang OUT WITH / snappy and something beyond the reach of the mob, i In those fine days a rube would hock his farm to shoot Bzra thi four years of learning, and a fond popper would go without waten charms so the son and heir might eke education. Those were the days when $18 a ‘week put a guy in the Upper Middle Class; when you got something for a nickel besides the wrong number; and when Higher Education was sup- posed to pay big dividends. Once upon a time the college diploma was a skeleton key to more kinds of success than Heinz had varieties, It let a guy ledve the halts of learning for still greater hauls. A guy that could prove 2 and 2 were 4 by algebra had more glimt to his fu- ture than the zob thgt fell back on his fingers for proat. ‘The collegiate Clarence that had as many degrees as a thermometer was booked solid to go up fast! Brains were then regarded as an asset in- stead of a filling for the skull. Today education is all right so far as it goes, but the higher it travels the harder it falls. A guy with a gen- eral education gets a corporal's pay today. A Johnny that’s learned to call signals for four straight ‘varsity years may make an excellent cab starter, but he finds running a busi- ness isn’t much like scoring the six winning points. After looking for a | swell job\for sixteen months, the col- leger decides that when stevedores are scarce it is folly to be wise. A stevedore is a guy that thinks Servant Girls “TOUCH Irene Loeb therein is something for considera- tion, AS against this, I was told recently about a woman who arrived at a 50+ cial gathering. Sho was dressed very modestly and simply in comparison to the other guests, who looked upon the woman as a r relation of the Loatean, Gee Wah loftita @ corner to ‘The goblins will get them if they entertain hereett. don’t watch out! And the goblins in | Somehow, later in the evening, it| this case will not be big, black eruwws, became known that this woman hag | but big, stalwart judges In black gowns great wealth and position, and all the | #2d cap» like Justice John R, Davies rest. Then overybody tried to “kow-}0f the Seventh District Municipal tow” to ber, whereupon she graciously | Court. bid them adieu and departed, and did| Justice Davies announced his pros not come again in thelr midst, |pective servant-profiteering crusade ‘The politeness that truly pays ts | after ho had thrown out of court most which comes spontaneously-- | of the 250 eviction cases on the duy's | that which comes by force of habit. |calendar. “We are going to stop all Vor it is a habit, profitecring,” declared he. “First wo It begins with the child. are getting after the fJandlords, and A good illustration is that of two|next in turn will come the servant girl sisters, friends of mine, ‘They bot! | profiteers, and then shoe dealera, and | bave children ang when I visit these | thon the dealers tn flour.” families the contrast is most noted But of course it was Justice Davies's | Lessons learned in childhood have| crusade upon sorvant profiteering a staying quality, By teaching po-| whith inspired mo to bombard him | iteness towards each other, it be-! with questions. cones innate with them and it is un-| “Yes indeed, I'm on the trail of this | necessary to call out “company man- | gomestic profiteer and home-wrecker,” | ners.” emphatically declared Justice Davies, | When I visit the other famity, 1am| He stopped for @ breathing spell constantly dismayed by the mother! at the noon session, “I've had my | Comtinually Prowmpting, the children. | eyes on them for « tong time and I fyou eay?” sometimes think that the servant | who comes to your home, demands sixty or seventy dollars a month, de- IRVANT girls who have beeh prot. iteering had better take warning. fore , politeness, Like every- jthing else, must be expl | children. explained to the| res mh will neither do the wash- if you appeal to thelr better side |ing nor the troning and flatly states and make them respect each other their daportmant becomes a matter of every day. They get used to it, It | becomes second nature. what she will do and what she WON'T is even a worse profiteer than the old landlord himself! “Of course she has felt very little Instinetively they become naturally LC. of L." I eaid. “The cost polite without reallzing it themselves. | Of Me janitor service, plumbers ‘This is true of adulls as we You 4 carpenters’ wages cannot be her can tell a polite person immediately, | 224, care ” k y: | wait when she demands more money, He does not have to think of being ri said Justice Davies, polite, Ho just 1a so—to the stranger, |.s0-* hasnt even as plausible an ‘to (ho friend, to his family, And he has begun very early—in his own home, with his own people. After all, that is where true polite- | new really tella, It is @ joy to sce it wherever it urs, ‘The man who rises to give jady bis seat. The young person excuse as the landlord. The cost of food does not affect her but rather the master and mistress of the house. “1 think that we might bring the servant to the same terms as the landlord, or even a litde less, be- ise a8 I just said she reall Homer means a pigeon instead of a coming’ in and is there to meet it in overalls. And while the educated duckling is trailing a Position, the stevedore’s unloading at $1.20 an hour. All of which proves that edu- eation may pay, but not by the hour! Working at a flat-top desk yo WHILE THE EDUCATED DUCKLING | STEVEDORE’S UNLOADING AT $1.20 AN HOUR, longer means superior pay. To-day it is foolish to be on the inside look- ing out unless you can look out for yourself! It’s a lot better to be on the outside looking in, provided You're a window cleaner, who is oer- tainly well paid for his panes. Now shampooing plate glass may seem uncultured to a Bachelor of Arts, but it's a job that gets steadier money than wiping the dust off of Virgil's poems, These days it’s wages that Juggle while salaries stay static, The wages of sin are the only ones that haven't inereased since the unions yelled murder. A cub that's whirfing through col- lege now is missing @ lot of $-hour days. There are no books he goes through faster than the old man’s checkbooks. So when Son is plastered with an A. B. title he represents four ears’ expenses and not much else, By the time Young Smarty bas got his degree, the plomber’s boob, who was his classmate up to the time ef the high school commencement, has © who aids the aged as he passes, The . individaal who goes out of his wey to|sonal budget, I should like to see a beip @ bewildered stranger. law passed, and shall certainly do. fin & Word, politeness is the mark ‘everything in my power to introduce ‘of rewpect that makes the wort mere much a law, to class servants as prof praca . 4, eee whe ack over 45 per « t very little increase in her own pe already stored away four years of lead pipe loot. Which means that when the A. B, baby gets up on the firing line he has a debit that's longer than the Siwash cheer and a tiger! And he only has the rest of bis lifetime to wipe it out! It takes less than a plumber to figure whether higher education pays, Beware! You Face the Fate of The Other Profiteers Judge John R. Davies Threatens to Put the Law on “Home Wreckers.” By Fay Stevenson. Copyright, 1990, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wortay “RP"T™ ~ what the regular old fashioned hired girl_received.” “Then you don’t believe in calling this now boss-servant a ‘household assistant,’ taking her out auto riding and treating her as a guest of the family rather than a worker? I asked. Justice Davies snapped his fingers and scowled. “I believe in getting one's money worth,” was his answer. “Housewives can never solve the servant question by calling their ser- vants ‘household assistants,’ hiring the washing outside and making fire. side companions of them. They haven't solved it that way at all. The fact of it is, most of them aro doing without help. “There are a few childless women living in tiny apartments who stil! ‘keep a maid.’ They pay just what the profiteering servant of the day asks, send out the laundry and eveu allow these girls to wear their eve- ning xn" but the truth is that the poor little housewife whe has thre: and four children is making herself in doing all her own work. Many bh in the suburbs are abandoned 0 of Imck of help, and the me eral run of home life is not as smoots as it used to be. vat jt ax ach’ of' bone we poet. But a stevedore is also a guy that always knows when his ships Pa ea AL AL Rimi he Sees eae ne on te oN Cae. be Re Se ewe = Re ee