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pi gest is wwe pretty and smiling. In the intervals Of attending to “those Indians,” eas she playfaly charecterized a group of students whose work she directs, he toki me something of her work and is vatuable possibilities. “We have found the structure of crude rubber is made up of vesicles and somewhat resembies the atruc- ture of the human lung,” she summed up. “We have found a new test and explanation of rubber's elastic~ ity, and we have developed a tech- nique of microscopic examination of both raw and finished rubbers, by means of which their really ecien- _ Sie testing ts possible, 4 is, by examining apecimens ef crude rubber we oun tell which show the greatest elasticity and ‘therefore would be especially desir- able for rubber products requiring great elasticity. “Also, by ‘examining specimens of Gnished rubber we can tell, with “what we beliove is a greater degree exactness than has ever been at- what fillers and pigments are {n the composition, how much of each has been used and how it is distributed. Go, when a Teanatecturer eppena ‘produce @ particularly good piece be] 5 ve can tell him exactly he did it and give bim the for- for use over and over again. we can take & c naty ot Lapsed cormposition which isn’ wearing well and, by examining and analys- it, find out ver is the matter— uJ particles of rubber are per- ne large, or that the filler harmful effect and ‘Migs Diner's “we,” by the way, is not editorial, for she insists that an equal share of the credit given her welongs to Henry J. Masson, director of industrial chemistry at New York University, and her co-worker, “We are making discoveries, too,” she went on, “of what kills rut and, conversely, of how Its life ¢an be prolonged. Our finding that tho natural rubber structure is continued in vulcanized specimens may aid in devising new and more economical methods of vulcanization.” “And how did you #ccomplish all this? I asked this young sclentist, ques THI@OIP Copyright, 1970, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) A PAIR of silk stockings inclosed ot how aula Also, dn one of thowe delicate satin gold or lace trimmed eggs woukl Minake a dainty as well as practical gift. These pasteboard eggs covered with fanoy paper or fabric mako ideal receptacles for the dainty gift ‘and can be had in afl eizes in largety ‘varying styles. A fanay backet thet can afterward be used as a sowing busket ora trinket receptacle makes a very good Fift conveyor and these are being dis- played in @ large variety of shapes and sizes. A pilerecd estiver sandwich tray makes a good gift. One w#hop is featuring these in attractive designs at $2.97. When you present spring plants ®why not have it in 4 jardiniere? These come in ull sizes, If it is a small plant a taney flower will add to its beauty. A nice one can be had at $1.19. If the flowers ure i ulips, fern dish would be nice, A pretty brags one ® $2.97, Home phints look well in hanging baskets. A charming one in fancy potlery ix $2.97 and nice brass one is $3.25, bo out flowers there are novel Lankeia, A practical one in wrase is $2.50, There are pretty Gre vaiew ob APRI New York Girl a Discoverer; _ Irene C. Diner Solves the Mysteries of Rubber At the Same Time She Loves Dancing, Theatres. and _ Hiking, and Is a Farmerette. A, NEW YORK school girl, twenty-three yenes old, has made Most remarkable of recent discoveries in industrial chi @@ rubber manufactorgrs and users of rubber articles, 5 FO rh L 16, 1920 3 if ie | | i 2 : g? f Se [! i i He agit, A ilk | 3 5 = i i: i #s ! i 3 F & 5 i . e ij rt ge i Leaw at a glance, ts a “regular giri"—petite, dark-eyed, dimpled, piquantly who ¢annot be over five feet tail and whose face has the chubby contours of a child, “We worked,” she said ly. “And we had disappointmen's—'ots of them. You see, we had to invent our own methods of testing, «ince we were pioneers in the field, and a unique feature of our work is that We used both the.methods of biology and the methods of m: age tor the latter for the opaque or v elastic specimens.” iit “And what are you going to do Lose " mal on investigating the indus- trial chemlatry the commercial Dlithely “The possibil- yoies In that field are practically Imitless!” Yet, as I remarked, she’s a “regu- lar )" who loves dancing, tho theat biking and being a farmer- ette—her proud father says so! <> To Ascend 50,000'Feet, , Beating World’s Record, To Signal Planet Mars MEN Prof. David Todd of Am- herst College attem nal Mars om April poses to ascend in a balloon 59,000 feet, tHeroby establishing a now ulti- tude record, Measured on the ground 0,000 feet would cover a distance ex- Battery to Fort miles and a , recently attained the A an girpiane tbat Wee of machine, fon ha saserd dog Can You | 4AVE A HOUSE IN "HE COUNTRY Lt RENT You ! AN NO PROFITEER A FAIR PROFIT Ile Cer YOu! HAVE IT FOR FIFTY “A HOULD a young girl wed for love or social position? This is what Miss K. would like to know, and though it @ a time-worn question, each young lady who has to face this situation wonders, “Lam eighteen years of age,” writes Miss K. “I come from an old dis- tinguished American family, but by degrees they have lost all the wealth and prosperity of old times. Never- theless my mother managed to give me a fair education. I am an accom- Plished @imnist and have already made @ little money by means of my pen. “Now, to make a long story short, I am very fond of a young man of respectable but poor people. He is making $2,000 a year and expects to make more. He loves me sincerely and has asked me time and again to marry him. He ts @ dear boy and I would glady consent to become his wife but for the fact that my dear mother’s dye wish was that [ marry @ man of high position socially, é “Lhave met such @ man, but twen- ty-five years old, He igaii that my dear mother could wish, and he has told me that he loves me. I like him very much, ‘but I love only the other, Now, Miss Vincent, \hat shall I do? I am considered pretty and able to earn my own living. Were it not for my mother’s request I would gladly marry the man of my heart, What do you advise?" I think your mother would tell-you toa use your own judgment in such a case. Very few parents try to dictate in wuch a eertous problem as the man their daughter should marry. The moment they find the man ls of good character and able to sup- port their daughter they allow her to select her own busbend. Ask your own hear what the answer ia. If you are able to make your living and take care of yourself in this wortd you are able to decide which man you should masry, Love is fax more im- portant than sockal position Misa RB. save: “Tam going with a young nan » inks @ good deal of me and Wanis lo mytrry me, but I do nok bool bappy about ng Ta tel yeu \ 1AM SATISFIED WiTH Beat It! A Ary GLAl O HEAR THAT EFRON A LANDLORD Covrright, 1920, by The Prem Publishing Go. (The New York Evening World.) the truth 1 do net care very much about him. I went with a young man @ yoor younger than myself and I cared & wreat deal about dim, but re- centhy we quarreled and he has stopped calling. I wrote him a fetter Which ho ignored. I know he cares Yor me, ‘but is very stubborn; how- ever, I think I have done all I can without actually running efter him, Picase advise me what to do.” By all means do not marry the chap you admit you do not care for. This Would tbe both untfair to him und to yourself, As to the other young man, I fear you have done all that is in your power to win im back. Just walt awhile and see what attitude he takes, but be sure to apeak ‘cordially GOIN ‘The ree Hubiening Oe, (The New York Evening World.) EAR READHRS: It seems that there is an epidemi¢ of OUIJA boards — mysterious manifestations and «pirttualism possing over the world, For many years the eastern world has paid a great deal of at- tention to the SOUL, while the western world has been wrapped in materialism and the mad rush after money. The pendulum swings both ways. The time bas come when the western world must pay more at tention to the things that a within us than to these that are without, In & vain effort to discover what it is all about, we rush hither and thither consulting this one and that one, and various sorts of mechanical devices, while all—yes, all—is wrapped within ourselves, dt may comfort you to think that the dead return either meterially or wpiritually, and whould tt make you beppler to conmuntoate with them, by all means do #0; hawever, rms is also the fite The mind is very sions, bnd tee you investi f its realms or t ulms of supernatural, please know what you are bout And oblige al Aad Byki ak A ! DON'T BELIEVE IN GOUGING THE PEQme jm : By Maurice Ketten SHAKE OL0 HAN You ARE TH yy / RIGHT KIND YW OF A M\ (LANDLORD Courtship-"Mamiage ‘The gern Itimiiy Copyright, 1920, by The Prow Publishing Co. (‘Tho New York Evcnlug Word.) 66 AIS saving daylight is @ great thing,” remarked Mr, Stry- ver, Mr. Jarr’s rich neigh- bor, as tre two met on their way trom downtown tho other even ng. “What are the farmers kicking wbout it for? It lets me get away from my office an hour earlier, and as I have just got a new automobile, T can't see why a lot of grasping, } small-minded farmers want to pre- vent other people having another hour of daylight to spare for their 7@ Dieasures, It's these farmers acting that way, That's what makes Bol- air!” To men of the Gtryver type every- thing that interferes with their selfish Interests or pleasures is Bolshevism. But Mr. Jarr believed in saving day- light, too, Although after he ‘had saved it he didn't know exactly what to do with it. “Yes, now that we save another hour of daylight although I see the railroads still run their trains by standard time—-and that's why I got a new automobile Well, as 1 was saying, now that we save another hour of daylight, I leave my office at 8 P, M--saving daylight time—walk uptown for 4 mile or two, Then | have my chauffeur meet me and take mo for @ gpin out to my golf club, There par, 4# round-—ah, you should play golf, play it a least ‘three hours every day, Mr. Jarr. @ new man of you!” Mr. Jarr admitted this, but jyst at present an exacting wmployer and 4 tireless time lock intervened ‘be- bim and three hours a day at Mr, It would make Jarr Stryver. wald hinking about tt. And he had, too, “Yes, you should do as I do!” Mr, Atryver went on. “Leave your office, Arop all work—one's health and pleasures are the amgt important conaideration—drop all work at 3 o'clock-—-no later, and walk a mile briskly. Then get im your car #pin out te your golf club and play for three longer if the light holds. You must get out of the rut pt working, Mr. Jarr, you «must get out of the rut af working!” Mr. Jare was albout to say that he hed been seriously thinking about getting out of the rut of working, and also the rut of paying bis rent and the rut of supporting his family but he did not think this would in Stryver, as Che bh mow Mr tite thing!" fitry- skate has a car these days, and what distinction does it give a man to have one of the better sort? “No distinction whatever, except that you are sued all the more greed ily iby any one you may fbunyp into or vun over. Fortunately one's ingur- ance company looks after those things, but it is annoying to have #0 to court to testify, now isn’ it Mr. Jarr murmured that it was pe: annoying to ibe taken 10 1 vi when run over. Sut M er would vot ‘hear of this, 1" he chortied. ang 3 1 1 a fellow once and I took him fo whe nospital in my car, @ brand now imported car that com me 4 pretty penny, and the fellow had never been in such a car in his life before. And not only was he most unappreciative, but he abused me shamefully aft the way to ‘the howpl- tal. It's thay what makes Bolshevism, air!" Do You Copyright, 1990, by The Poems Publishing Co tis on soa eee We 1, Which disciple w or iginally called Simon? 2. What city in Maine was Longfel- low’s home for many years? 2%. What acid is the base of straw hat bleaching compounds? 4, In what State did Mary Pickford obtain her divorce? 5. What did Peter, Eater, put his wife in? 6. What was the name of Petrograd before the war? 7. What embassy [n Washington, D. recently been picketed? é what’ country of South Amer: fea did Roosevelt find the “River of Doubt"? 9. Who recently won the North and South golf championship? 10, What is shown by the number on a handsaw near the handle? 11, What is the real name of the fish called tuna when ft is canned? 12, Who communded the American the Pumpkin « Army during the winter at Valley burge? ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S QUESTIONS. Conta Casein; 3, Af Bowaprit; 5, Mona By San Wiego: 8. Armenia ha Ke Jette; AL, wOpe, 44, AnKrC; 43, sulUD -FRIDA ARY ANN BEVAN'S claim to M the title of “Upllest Woman in the World.” has been chal- lemged. No woman in New York, where ‘Mme. Bevan is sojourning, has come . forth to unme ber lack of personal Weoks ao greater. The challenge comes from mere man-—none other than Dexter Fellows, graduate of the | Depaxment of Domestic Science in the Fitchburg, Maes, High School. ‘The points Mr, Vellowa cites against Mme. Bovan's claim are two- fola: 1. Her voive. %. Her emile. Mary Ann has @ voloe which, ac- cording ¢o Mr. Fellows, is with the exception only of Edith Wynne Mathison's, the most beautiful he ever heard, and her smilo he describes as “that of a mother af a kindly heart, and of an honost woman.” ‘Then there is still another kink da the claim. Mmo. Bevan confesses to this one hergelf. To a reporter for The Evening Werld Mary Ann Bevan admitted that ohe was not the winner of the Usilest Woman Contest helt last Oc- tober in Albert Hell, London. “That is," she explained, “I was and I wasn’t, The pubic was for me but the judges were against me. But it was all a dirty meas. First prize went to—whom do you think? the wife of the manager of the contest,”’ Mrs, Bevan’s motto is: “Handsome is as handsome does." \“The only timo in my Ufe I actually felt ugly," she says, “was when I was on the ship, bound for the States, and they told me about this Pro- bition business, I'd have turned People Who Walk in Silence By Sophie Irene Loeb. ‘Tho Pres Publishing Co. (The Now York Bvening World.) Copreiabt, 1920, bs ‘BUGINDSS WOMAN, who has found time from her arduous labors to take an interest in some work for others, writes me a ‘letter that must reach every heart. It is en appeal for the Now York League for the Hard of ‘Hearing. She says: “You may not even be aware of its existence, but it surely does exist, Any one may wee what 18 being done at No. %7 Wost 39th Street. “The big thing\ about it all is to pring a rey of sunshine Into the lives of. those people who walk in silence —the hard of hearing. “We need monay, and we necd it, oh! so badly. And we must have it if we are to continye our work. “Heretatore we have approached only those who are afflicted, but the time hag come when we must have aid from those who have normal hearing. ‘The blind are not dependent upon the blind to help them; the lame are not dependent upon the lame for aid, “But in the case of those who walk in silence--those who cannot hear well—somehow there hag been titile synvpathy for them, and they lose 80 much of the joy of life. A “The Evening World, which is al- 4 ways so ready to help the suffering ones, js asked to look into our work and soe if it merits a word of help.” And so I found out about this little band of workers, who have also been working in silance-among them- selves, if They have organized « club for men and a club for women, They meet alternately each Saturday, and the fifth Saturday there is a ing of men and women ‘They have music, and many of them mand close to the plano just to get the vibrations, because they do not hear the sounds. Amid the feeling of good fellowship in the midst of music and cards, danc- ing is the big thing to which they all look forward, And the young people's organimuon, the fun and merry moments they get at these gatherings, certainly tend to alleviate the sadness of the days in between, And there are romances, too beautiful ones. But above ail, the great spirit that prevails during these moctinge is that of understanding. They come ¢ogether with human be- ings, who feet the same need of com, radeship and appreciation of their common afliction, Sad to relate, many a norma! per- 4on has sseured great merriment and laughter over the joke of not making mme one hear. But if thay were to comp intg tide amgpmleiion and seo ‘Never Felt Ugly oie Admits ‘the Ugliest Woman; Now Guess When The Mary Ann Bevan Has Wonderful Smile and Voic Ugh! When You Mention Prohibition. - Commright, 1020, ty the Prewy Pubitehing Oo. (The New York Hvening World). “4 , ? ° y; “of tesy yee tack, T was that put out, Syoh nome sense! me being un-ugly, and MARY ANN BEVAN, due to my thinking that in Geptem- ber I'll be headed home again, where if @ body wants a Uitte something— , in moderation, of coursq—a hody, has only to step around to the pub and get it’ $ Asked about Puasyfoot Jackson whatever his name is, van's eyes flashed. would have eald #he said. what it means to thesé people and how glad they are for sympathy an@ understanding never would they, even of the hardest heart, make fun again, ‘ 2 In thie respect, rich and peor are very much alike. Even’ the person Of woatth is out of it a great dea) and longs for the association of those who understand, - Besides, in thia same wonderful work is done~ thas are indeed patient, Theyyhave to be very much within pod west and therefore the work they do.is pains So in these rooms there ere found many beautiful things, the Sandlworis of the members. Only the very best and highest grado of work is, ex. hibited, such work as would grace = & beautiful home Ab, yeu. The 0 Er food people and in the interest of «ny one who is needa affiiuted—wno the chime of cheer at the time when ie as aatet be Tho Lengue for ‘Hard of Hheastog does not leony be yen oe ‘but a chance, an opportumity to the lives of those who Saree sth THE ‘ENING WORLD OUIJA EDITOR ASKS Will the New Styles in Straw Hats By a la Profiteer This Season? RY THISON -3$ Your V4 \ Answers to recent avestions: James Jackson, N. ¥. CI asked my oulja whether the wearing of patches would solve the Cast of Clothes Protons, | hat it said, “About halt 1 people wearing patches now—but that deosn't seeus wo hurt the cost of clothes ang,” J. J. McLaughlin, No.334 West 18th Street—In answer to the question, hey will we et or and lieht nes back in say, “When the people ‘Gomand them,” Newest Notes of Science. Peanuts are being produced in in- creasing quantities In Argentina, A baggage carrer to be mounted over the hood of an automobile is a Boveity. Great Britein hag motric system for use in t pharmacopoeia, A novelty in the motor vehielé ine is @ motorcycle limousine thet carries thee persona, There has been @ steady imerease im tho production ef coal in Venes aucla (or @OVGEAl YOM ly ail te ge the ofttctal