The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1920, Page 21

' | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1920 | Two Beds for This Giant, —\ Shoes Cost $70, Hats $40; 7 Feet Tall at 17, 9 at 19 And What Do You Suppos# Van Albert, Swiss Human Tower, Eats for Breakfast? His Bills? Wow! . By Elias McQuaid “it Coperight, 199, tiy The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Eveninft Word.) } HB first time Ike Rose . , saw Jan Van Albert, ke says, he thought _ one of the Alps had broken from its moorings. ‘That wag at St. Gallen, @witzertand, not far from the Lake of Constance. When the monster turned out to be merely a g0od-, matured boy of. nineteen, Mr. Rose, international showman, offered him a * contract and signed him for @ two-years’ tour of the United States, Van Albert claims to be the tallest man that ever lived, Nobody in New York who has given him the up and down—it takes a min- ute or two—feels like dis- puting him. All “exhibition” giants are why 6f tape measures but the young Hollander twill teH you that hie is a trifle ‘ander nine fect tall. Ike ~ Rose places the boy’s height ~ at mine feet five inches and _)‘ mndoubtedty he will be that bigh on stage or platform ‘When I asked him how he got that way the moun-~ tainous young Hollander aid: “It is onty a theory of (Wing, but T,betieve T am hfs- YAN VAN ALBERT STANDING ALONG- S Shaty. clpesting iteett, aay SIDE AN ORDINARY SIZED MAN. 1 uative Amsterdam, you know, is built eggs, three helpings of smoked fish, on ninety islands joined by 350 bridges. a steak the size of Rhode Island, Who built such a city, the conquest of seven slices of bread with butter and man over the sea2 Who but 4 racfot marmalade, and eight cups of tea. At | siants? 10 o'clock he began asking if I was * “My father, lAibert Van Alber? f+ ‘ever going to have dinner? In the _Jkmsterdam, is e maker offfancy baS- ogsence of Mrs. Rose and my daugh- ‘kets, He is Give fect eight inches tall. tor, @ho remained in Berlin, I am My mother is of ordinary size and 90 toarding the boy ‘at my: flat out in are my brother dnd four sisters. AS jis9th street. He occupies two beds far out on either side of the family yy id 46 eating me out of house and as can, be traged there is no other home, 1']] be glad when he goes to (aga work, “I was always big. When Twas «on al) subjects ex ‘ cept two he's seven years old, I remember, Iwas tWO tne hest natured big kid I ever saw. metres tall, or nearly 7 feet. A little Jn one of ¢he books of the Old Testa- later, when other boys would spend ment he has run upon the story “of QInTERNATIONAL Palace to see the gulf and the ancient that we had to have an iron bedst. 4 end Lake of Haarlem, the towers of Utrecht ping cubits Jo! 4 four wide. . J ‘and the red roots-of Zaanfiam, I would hes sound thet Ov’s medatnen nan found that Og’s bedstead was stay at home and see most of these 13 1-2 feet long. The only way I can things without moving.” pacif7 him is to tell him the bed’ of ‘The giant dmokes cigarettes, Ifkes his 4 Xing usually is whout one-third ) )schnappe and, despite a careful ‘bring- longer than the royal sleeper, That © {ing up, refuses to go to church. places Og’s height ‘at about nine fect, y {_ "T have always smoked cigarettes,” so Van Albert has five inches on him he saya. ‘ and _{s :reconadled. , | “T like a dtm once-tn a while, and _ “The other fnatter is an aversion to Writers of all kinds, particulart: jihat is ome reason J dread to leave those who write fairy stories, He (New York. Says the way these men have slan- “I did not go to church yesterday, cen weal is a crime. If youve ( 7 or enemy you want somethin ‘and 1 don't care it 1.never go. People ft, an enemy you want something ® 0 to church and say their prayers and and introduce him as the ‘author of © make all kinds of promises to God and "Jack and the Beanstalk.” ’ |, then come out ang start wars, I'm ,, But I've got to get him to work. | It takes 8 metres (8 8-4 yards) 01 ) against wars. When I was younger to build a suit for him’ ‘the ‘a ia ee my mother always gave me apenny to has on cost me $70 and the hatter putgen the collection plate. I always Wants $12 for renovating his ‘profes- rs sional’ hat or $40 for a new J spent the penny for candy. That's why “Van Albert has mastered oniy a few i'm so big.” words Engl ish, ‘The girls here are ‘The giant, Tke Rose says, is as play- the prettiest’ he bver saw, he says, t but none of them is going to m: }) ful as a boy of ten. Ike says half his gee noresa, whe iF ol ie ie | story must be taken with a grain of Zuider Zee. The thing that Bi. 4 silt, because the big fellow is an in- him most is the number of womtan veterate kidder. ‘He wants Ike to take ™Motortsts. yim to one of New York's big ball- y aaher nce YOU think of New York?” rooms, though each of his shoes is a3 = “Goed!"" he said, and then changed big as a battleship. this to “Moot,” which the interpreter But there is no joke about his size, “ij, means “Wonderful!” Rosessays, or his appetite, haean tach since reaching Anes “For (breakfast this morning,” said Rose says it's the food. The boy 1s the giant's manager, he disposed of destined for the Wortham exhibitton shows in the Southwest but may be two doup plates of oatmeal, fifteen shifted to vaudeville, . Copyright, 1920, by ‘The Press Publishing Co. (‘The Now York Evening World.) APPARENTLY the. young Now don’t paint thgir lips, and I Itke kiss- Yorkers who believe that the ing them all right. paint on a girl's lips doesn't at | H. B. H. New Bedford, ‘Mass.—Up all affect their kissability, are merely Herp the girls don't paint thelr. lips. ‘ ge ike it from he, kissing is ju: ‘meyicker on the Jump off than the New ay much fun here ug it Is @aywhore rkers who are entirely opposed to else. red lip idea. Edna W., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N.Y. Yesterday the painted Hp was ap- —! think that there is mo more dis- ipved by almost every letter to The SUsting sight than. the many young Bd girls that we see these days on sub- ja Exditor, but to-day there are & way and trolley care with thelr taces of kickers in the morning's mail. covered with powder and their lips low @bout you? u brilliant carmine. No young man LD YOU KISS A GIRL WHo 2%, the right sort cares for’ these PAINTED HER LIPS? ae ersonally, we would. Veteran, Rutherford—American girls Ya make me sick. I've been back a year WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? TRY THISON iL to go back. Oh, boy! Do you re- member those ‘bright eyed, red chieeked, luusky and healthy and ‘happy girla of England and Scotland? I'll say we do, Put a painted-up New York girl alongside of them and she'd look like @ cheap lithograph . M. McQ-—I want a genuine wo- man, What's the use of a soul. kiss if a man’s face looks like an Easter egg when you stop? I ask you. Cynic, New Rochelle—What's the Write out your opinion to-day and use of’ getting lead poisoning or +4il it to painters’ colic just for a kiss? f te Ouija Editor, young. Acierion, Tie Breeton not one ose unkissedt college boys AeThe Evening World, + - and Idon't carry a pocket microscope. : New York City. 1 kiss a girl—and I take a chance. Here are some of the answers re- Old-Fashioned Young Man, the ceived $9 cater rs Bronx—Even oulja can't tell me ja, New Yor y—I don't see where I can find—and kise—e girl who Ty wtutaceerens if sale’ ee , eRe ee men doesn't paint her lips. By Maurice Ketten “E-THINK HE 1& HIDING IN | BELIEVE Tre KEY IS HIDDEN IN THIS VASE SA, “SEE IF THERE /S 4 BOX UNDER THE COUCH : MA ‘S HIDING UNDER THE COUCH, MA HE IS Nor UNDER: THE COUCH Poor LITTLE’ INCOME ! WHO HID YOu IN THis BOX 2 WANT. INCON TO Go Our : SHOPPING; WITH ‘You half an hour on the tower of the Royal Og, King of Bashan, who was so big [=———4 Paulime Furloags Queries Jarre iri Roy Lo Mt Cardé@ Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) THOUGHT the whole world would be reformed after the great war was over and we would have the Brotherhood of Man, and all that sort of thing then,” said Mrs. Jarr, as she handed the even- On Fieall Ch and Beauty, “Ime, Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) TO DARKEN HAIR—M. B.—Wal- But stain is a vegetable coloring and 1s therefore harmless. Pour a pint of boiling water on one- half pound of@wainut shells (dried When e¢old, strain and This rubs off, 80 is a natural laxative and is therefore a wholesome food and.very beneficial It may be used as substitute for sugar in cake and candy making. a HEADACHES—E. F — Headaches are the result of many different con- most common causes nervousness and de- digestive organs, is restored, and when your health is restored you are normal, and when for children. you are normal you are no longer “You seem to know it all by heart,” ventured Mr. Jarr; “is that from @ black ones). brush on clean hair. it 18 well to. repeat every day; and as it stains the pillow slips, care should be taken to prevent this. TOO THIN—Linda W.—Rest, good food, drinking plenty of water, sleep and relaxation help to upbuild the Deep breathing and moderate exercising Will stimulate both appe- tite and circulation. VANISHING ‘CREAMS—As these are very difficult to make successfully in the home, I do not think it wise to give formulas for them. HONEY as FOOD—W. 8—Honey “Why, yest a pamphlet Dr. Gumm it wonderful?” replied Mr. Jarr. ‘0 we need no longer go to church to be good; we should go to the X-ray photographer's and then to the den- ‘4, preferably to Dr, Gilbert Gumm.” ell, all | know is what they te Jarr admitted. dirs ago it was adenoids that caused all ill health and wic fore that it we baseball editor's would pitch the “And I thought anxious to see the Bugsses as to who next day’s games. there would be no more wickedness after the saloons were closed. maybe Dr. Gummp 1s right,” she con- are eye strain, rangement of the Leg muscle exercises often overcome a nervous headache, overtaxed blood vessels of the brain and flushing the muscles of the lower body, where the blood is needed. DRY HANDS AND FINGERS— Edna P.—Acidity from may cause this condition, "il say it is relieving the “Dr. Gumm, that flossy young den- tist, who nearly killed me—after fit- with a golden crown, too?” asked Mr. Jarr, teoth, and everybody Ith would be better and be so wicked If extracted at Apply cocoa olive oil at night, wearing gloves to protect the sheets. Keep hands out of water aS much as possible, and wear rubber gloves if you must wet the world would no! our teeth were Clara Mudridge-Smith has no tonsils, no adenoids, no appendix, and now she's going to have her and extracted. Dr, Gumm says she we EveningWorld Ouija kato Asks Mudridge-Smith has be She used to believe in ouija board communications and malicious remarked Mr, “we don't see as much of her as we used to, that's ev The Honeymoon. Special Of an Indian Maharajah everybody should have X-rays taken This was a puzzler for Mr, Jarr, and he looked it. Jarr went on. Clara Mudridg with Dr. Gilbert Gumm that if every- body was X-rayed this would ke a better world to live “I knew that Clara Mudridge-Smi th was a student in she says she !s—and is always @m- ious to read all the suppressed books such as Jurgen; but why it was sup- pressed umes» it was tateresting gets me!" said Mr, Jarr. . “Never mind your old suppressed n,just what [ Smith believes Know? (Tho New York Evening World.) 1, Who 1s tho manager of tho Phila delphia Nationads? is the present Secretary of ology—thag, 18 3. How many-cuble fest in a cord at 19 the name of the most common type used on a typewriter? 5. What wood is used in the con- struction of very light and I'm only saving up enough money ' Hickett told me that she was horri fied to find her dayghter ,Cora, read- ing that one you mention, and she took it from her and read it all the Way through, and {t is dreadful, and Mra. Hickett ‘says I'll be shocked my- self, and she's going to let me read it # Clara Mudridge-Smith and Mrs. Stryver ever return her copy.” Jurgen got to with X-rays?” asked the bewildered 6, How many 7. At the entrance of what bay i Cape Charles? Tv untry do the Capary 9. Who invented the revolver? 10. In what city in Italy is the Ad- lied’ conference beln Ll. At what city Institute of Technology? 12, Who ‘is Chatrr je because of the optimistic at th to think of in getting married Even if a family must live in poverty for the rest of its existence marriage ceremonies in that country must be celebrated The time it takes to contract a marriage is usually three weeks, during which the expenditure amounts to more than Instead of the guests presenting gifts they rec: es for weeks the newly shown in the photog: curs should take heart ‘The bridegroom of India has far mot than finding an apartment, only @hows how wicked everybody low that wickedness , and metabolism e# at the roots of the teeth, he roots of the teeth 1 by X-ray or radio- of the newly Railroag Commission? ANSWERS ‘TO QUESTIONS. . Cravath; 3, Alexander; 3 128; 4, Pica; 5, Cedar} 6 9; 7, Chesapeake; Samuel Colt; Remo; 1, Pittsburgh; 12, Hum, elaborately and ornately. and abscesses gt can be detect photographs; Dr. Gumm can treat your teeth. Xow teeth once treated, your health them from the couple. ried pair start on thei jeymoon, pense glone almost ruins the exchequer ef the flustered bi After profuse festi hon . TUESDAYS APRIL 27,4981 THEN —Home, Sweet Home=NOW., Some Things That Are Different Since the Days of Ol ‘By Neat. R. O'Hara Coprrteht, 1020, by ‘The Prem F Stacy ec peta ran ae before the. Furnitare Trust ,be- gan hoisting prices, Ten years ago @ guy with $500 could jam hiW nest with sold mahogany and never see an instalment collector, To-day 600 bucks will buy a nice oriental rug from Newark, N, J.; but every-° thing else cosjs extra, ‘In days of old, when brides were Dold, they thought nothing of toss- rmerly a Couch Ia Now a Chaise Logue. ing off $16 for a parlor sofa and $15 for a kitchen stove, To-day the parlor sofa is a divan—it’s got a fancier name and a fancier price, And the same vning goes for the kitchen stove. The kitchen etove is now @ range—a range that’s dead- ly for shooting holes in hundred- dollar bills. The atuff that was classy in, 1900 all has a new name now. The side~ board has become a buffet and @ couch is now @ chaise longue, just like the Mays and Alices of twenty years ago are Mae and Alya now. The telephone has gone from a new wrinkle to a nuisance, The floor is the only thing that’s stuck to its name, ; The guy that furnishes a flat to- day filla it full of period furniture —period with a question mark after ft. ‘The latest word in modish trim- mings is the living room furnished in William and Mary, the dining foom in Bacon and Eggs, and the cellar, of coursd, in Haig and Haig: ‘The. bill,should be made out @ la Barnum and Bailey, with the em- phasis distinetly on P. T. Barnum. A Morris chair is now’ all wrong unless it's spelled’ Maurice, An up- right piano is declassee mq matter how you may apell it, The bigh school diploma no‘ longer wates as Cc) Copyttaht, 1020, by ‘Tho. Pree ‘Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wertd) The Fable of the Modern Antony and Cleopatra—Moral : All for Love and the World Need Not Be Lost! Antony: Brown adored Cleopatra Smith : With a wild elinorgiynish, passion. Antony had a wife and two young sons, r ‘ (Although it is only fair to say that any discriminating person, 4fter 0: glance at the photogtapht of .his plaintiv Would put her in ‘the pigeon-hole marked As for Cleopatra— wh smart friends all call her{Pat"— . She had aT. B. M. buvband and a small daughter, whom she saw at | once a day. Antony and Cleopatra mot at dances And in country houses, and took long rides together, Vowed to be “friends—real, true, splendid friend: She quoted Maeterlinck to hiin, for our set had taken up Maeterlinck tha! year; When I tell you Antony was enough in love to listen patiently to blan verse from ‘The Betrothal”— I give you an idea of the mad splendor of his devotion! He wus quite unwilling to walt for a Reno divorce, 38 And Cleopatra knew that only the second-rate people go to Nevada. 17 On the other hand, she and her Antony decided they could not possibly contented with the status quo arrangement de Which so often keeps Fifth Avenue out of the divorce courts and the nehd. Ml ‘ h lines, And preserves conventions, if not morals. ei Not that Cleopatra had any ethical objections to following the examplp off most of her friends and cheating her husband, Or that Antony was unwilling, becauge of his principles, to-smile ath lawffl wife and be a villain still— ‘ But the lovers simply didn’t want to So they fled, hb Vamoosed, skipped, flew the coop, Jett thelr more or less unhappy homes jy) mt! And went to ap Itallan villa, Where they lived with roses, -nightingales and @ corps of well-trained tpi sorvants— “AN for love and the wortd well lost.” Only it wasn't! tude, First, Mr. Cleopatra aad Octavia got their divorces with oblighag, vedios i And Cleopatra made an honest man’ of her other sout. Second, long came the war, Cleopatra was the most fetching Ri peninsula, And Antony drove an ambulance Without Mnching—even though It was a! * Ford, ‘ ‘Third—and fourth-gwere the "Twins Jord» bought limousines, The ed Cross nurée in the whole Italian py ser pore’ pelo ok: snappy parior picture, ang Ul Pikes blees ur Rhea Pactiaeen Slipped out of use since the sheet crayons of Mother and arg still good for patching a the roBf, but otherwise th very much not-on-your-lHfel “"* "Since All Baba and” hia atalt ’ yegemen stepped intothe ful business, a lot of thirgs” pend to the fashion, sla roll. Grand Rapids furniture now, shakes more out of the public. Detroit filvvers. Louis Fou) u Street stuf! now. sells at Fifth Ay nue prices. The only way to bedt,’ the Hardwood Trust is to furnish your home in Elizabethan styje/Thé Elizabethan period was when. they, used placards to show wherethe Ba chaira were missing, All of Shike~ a speare’s home ‘comedies © eta 3 housekeeping im that period, and ‘ they had were ‘plenty of curtains,..7 € « Since the tornadoes and cyclones) broke loose, even the, housgy ‘a going up. The Howse That) Jack =o Built has jumped from tents atty SS conts at all book stores! ‘To-day.{t “a> takes plenty of jack to bulld any house.” A guy that unfurls’@ ‘cot, room for instalment collectors.” 5 bird that can pay’ for his interior ese scenery before it warps and crashes“) in is’ either a fast stepper in thrite, ‘cat or an escaped bank messengers «et , The yap that’s stilt making "fey — ments On the broken jardinieres,cam ss |) figure that marriage ts an“{isit-—— 7 tlon for the blind. ‘Phe average goot finds that out quick. There’s only t one thing we maintain: The John that can furnish a flat according to Belasco ‘should be- given tot. x Cp ‘eredit these days. He needa Ao Warmall evish Octavia, on “MADE TO BE DDSERTED,’ ol Hl share each other with anybody.f 4 + Even Nature was Willing to belp with the rehabilitetion of Antony andi) | Cleopatra—~ Nothing is quite so beavily respects able as Twinst, } : The four trickled back to Ameriqa just after the \ armistice was signed. Néed I say that oar aet in New York and Newparl was most cager to “make allowances,” Hospitable to the point of open arms? Though, of course, taetfyl hostesses were a litte careful: not to ask Antony and Qleopatra, to, mept, @\ther Octavia or Mr. Cleopatra " The moral my dearg-or the “ime ‘ou prefer t forgiving worki— ‘AN eat your cake and have BCLENS Oe