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. Mich., where her book was WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1920 Did Poetry Really Do It? New Light on Lady Astor And Her Political Life ; Verses of Miss Chalmers, Another American Girl, Believed to Have Inspired First Lady in Commons. By Marguerite Dean, : Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 6677 ATHER, pray F That none of us may falter, till wwe ee ’ Man in both male and female, deathleas, free." Perhaps those three lines of verse put Lady Nancy Astor into the British Par- lament. For the lines sum up the lesson of Miss Agnes Chal- mers's recent book, “The King’s Cupbearer,” which is said to have inspired the American-born Lady Astor to tbreak with all tradition and conduct the whirlwind campaign which made her the first woman M. P. in Great Britain, ‘Miss Chalmers, herself, is an American woman, a mative of Grand Rapids, brought out by the Cres- cent Publishers. She re- cently returned from Eng- land, where she had been the daily aasociate of Lady Astor for several months. “The King’s Cupbearer’”’ is a historical morality play in verse; and an elab- orate allegory, Its hero is Nehemiah, the Jewish pa- triot who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and other- wise aided in reconstruct- fmg the life of the city gome 400 years before Christ. But the modern and political application of the play, which doubuless appealed to Lady Astor, is that for completely suc- cessful reconstruction of a civilization women are as necessary as men. “Nehemiah,” Miss Chal- mers points out in her Preface, “acted much as all others act to-day whose desire is to build rather than to destroy. He knew that the practical and the ideal, the male and the fe- male, must be forever united in the individual consciousness.” The five most faithful licutenants of Nehemiah, the nation builder, are beautiful women, who represent al- legorically the qualities of Wakeful- ness, Intuition, Faith, Discernment and Understanding. Foremost, also, among the patriots who volunteer to help Nehemiah re- build the ruined walls of Jerusalem are the daughters of Shallum, ruler of half the city. He expresses, figu- ratively, the opportunity for the mod- ern woman as a state builder when he says: “I came here with my daughter, they who rule ‘And work with me, her own tool Is building.” Then “the women drive nails,” ac- cording to the stage directions, Let nobody hint that women can't drive ‘em straight! And when the men drop their tools it is the daughters of Shallum who pick up the hammers and trowels and restore them to their owners, as a polite intimation that nobody should slack on the jab, “In his consistent desire to rebuild Each one with ASTO! BY 20h JACOm. pat ener the waste walls of Jerusalem,” writes Miss Chalmers, “and thus safeguard the remnant of the house of Israel, Nehemiah was, in reality, re-estab- lishing for all time that ‘quality of thought which Bernard Shaw desig- nates as ‘an eternal womanly prin- ciple in the universe.” Or, as Nehemiah himself puts it, in another speech which emphasizes the need for both men and women pillars of the perfect state: Friends, this is well, for thou wilt need to Both male and female in this task ye do— Complete and satisfied: Each cap- tive Jew, ‘When wakened, shall behoki nor bond nor free Is he, indeed. The courage of the male Is his, and woman's gentle tender- ness; Camelete and satisfied, he cannot Like another daughter of Shallum, Lady Astor, first woman to help in the making of Great Britain's laws, “with her own tool, is building” the new, after-the-war world. Be evening World OuijaLditer Asks Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publish! How about You? WOULD YOU KISS A GIRL WHO PAINTED HER LIPS? TRY THISON YOUR OUIJA It's a big question, Some will, and some won't. Young New York men, young women, have spoken on both sides of the question. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION? ‘Write it out to-day, and mail it to THE OUIJA EDITOR, THE EVENING WORLD, ' NEW YORK CITY. Here are some of the answers re- cently received; Dick F., N. Y, C.—-ias a Jane with painted lips? I should say not. Got any addresses? Sam L., Bronx.—Say, Mr. Editor, please don’t run any more of this series. I read it every night—all this stuff about kissing pretty girls—and it gives me insomnia, Would I kiss one? Lead me to it. Ruth—l'm a member of the painted lips clan, and judging from the num- ber of aspirants for the “painted twins" in question—well; Say! Chas, B., Torrington, Conn—Ii answer to your question—I'd say so! I'd take a chance on painter's colic any day. Lead me along. M. B., Brooklyn—If she had the right kind of lips, and if the paint didn't come off, I'd take my chance any day. Ed, Neme, Brooklyn—Being the champ osculator round my neck of Whe woods, t apeak, Co, (Tee New York Evening World.) I've kissed them lean and fat, beauti- ful and ugly, painted and not #0, and I've come to the conclusion that kiss- ing a girl with painted lps is about like kissing a shark, or an alligator skin bag. But—kissing a girl with- out paint on her lips—that's just like kissing a rosebud. I'm for the un- Painted lips, every time. Rit cone SWOOPS Do not give away your suit under the impression that tailored sults will not be worn. Of course, just now the separate coat is the garment mostly seen, but as soon as the mild days appear spring suits will pop up and you will know this typically American costume has lost none of its great prestige, Spring suits are prominent among the displays that interest Southern tourists. Novelty seems the striking feature.. One has a sidrt of Diack and white check velour in a combination of side and accordion pleats, and the hip line jacket is of black yelvet, with the pockets and buttonholes pound with the check material. Another has an accordion pleated skirt of brown plaid, and the straight box coat is of brown velvet held in closely at the waist by a nar- row leather belt. Grapes have been a favorite dress decoration all winter, and now they are seen in profusion on the hats dis- played for Southern wear, which is a forerunner of what ¥ ay expect wear the coling season, A hat in tur- quoise str the crown gur- rounded with bunches of gray grapes, And tbe effect is {ctching. Can You Beat It! cop by The Preww ‘The New York Eveniug ngright. 1920 res Tilia 6, ond) WHAT'S ALL THAT P¢ A FEW NEW SUITS | NEED FoR THE COUNTRY. (4 Tu SHow én To You. 5 WHY. As to Kissing Painted Lips; Hard Question to Settle By Fay Stevenson. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Kiss Painted Lips—if They're kiss a girl who OULD you painted her lips? Oulja boards in and around New York are very busy answering this question, The Evening World Ouija Editor has so many answers from responsive ouijas that he sees it pays to ask a “live wire” question, Dead questions put the ouwija to sleep. In fact there are such oodles of let- ters on this question: ‘Would you kiss @ girl who bas painted her lips?” that the Ouija Editor's curiosity is getting the better of him and he wants a whole bunch of other ouijas to get busy and send in their answers upon this interesting question to bim. Some of the letters made made tun of the girls who paint their lip: many @ lad has boldly said: wouldn't kiss ANY. girl who painted her lips!” But oh! what scores have been in the “aye, aye” class. So far it has been about ten in favor to one objector, therefore Mr, ©, Editor wants to thresh the subject out. How do YOU feel on the subject? Nearly every girl we ee is pretty well “doled up." We don't stare at her 3 because she is very, very eek and most ruddy pect her ta be as pretty i ana le: it g tha,, In- ad, we stare ut the pale little maid who ‘hides in the corner and looks about as DADDY. Ad her Co, (The New York Evening World.) the Right Lips. did some years flower.” Every woman who sees Miss Pale Face thinks in her heart of hearts “Why on earth doesn't she invest in some rouge and a lipstick?” Mere man simply gives one glance and thinks: "Gee! what a plain kid,” without stopping to analyze the sit- uation. “Paint, rouge, carmine the lips? Why not?” asks about 99 per cent. of the twentieth century maids, while the solitary 1 per cent. grinds its teeth and grows bitter in its condem- nation of those who fulfil the mission of womanhood, “looking her best.” Several little office workers who belong to the rouge brigade have con- fided that for two or three duys they have left their vanity boxes at home, just using a dash of talcum to keep thetr noses from getting shiny. Fut alas! When they glanced at them- selves in the mirror and then at the girls who had become ten thousand dollar beauties by the right touch here and the right dab there, they went home to dig out “ye little old vanity box” and cling to it henceforth, Would YOU kiss a girl who painted her lips? Ask your ouija and tell it to give you a heart to heart answer Fred F. of Flatbush had a pretty good ouija when it said, “Oni, ow, I'd kiss a girl who painted her lips Ds. ago as a “wall that cof.tte, it's the lips the girl and not the carmine. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, RS. JARR was looking out M from the front window to a like flat across the way, and said; “Those people across the way are not going to move this spring.” “What made you think they were going to move?” asked Mr. Jarr, “They were getting so many new things,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “They got néw dining room furniture, new par- jor furniture and a brass bed, and that's often a sign of moving, espe- chally as they sod their old stuff to a second-hand furniture man.” “It people are going to move, don't they wait till they are in the new place before they get new things?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Not if they get them from an in- stalment house,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “They imagine they can move to an- other part of town and the instal- ment ptan people can't find them. But they generally do.” “Learn something new every day remarked Mr. Jarr, “And what makes you think the folks opposite are NOT going to move and endeavor to lose the instalment plan collector?" “That's easy,” replied Mrs. Jerr. “Can't you see the woman across the way has put up new curtains? People never put up curtains unless they are going to stay. I saw Mrs. Muller, the grocer’s wife, pass ang look up to- day, and when she saw the new our- tains going up she smiled and looked. 0 satisfied.” “This is all new human stuff on me,” said Mr. Jarr. “Oh, you can always depend on that,” continued Mrs, Jarr. “When you see people put up new lace cur- tains you can feel eure they are not thinking of moving. I know Mrs. Muller was worried, so these people must owe them a good bill, She saw the new furniture come in, and she must have told Bepler, the butcher, too, for he wae around.” “AM is well, however,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “The curtains are up and the people in the third floor front, #8 the Way, are going to stay.” Yh, they are interest ; u can see, they have new urtaing,” said Mre, “It they had been the old curtains there might have doubi MON i OLD CLOTHES INTHE COUNTRY! (Tha New York Evening World.) they are new ones and they very good ones from here. “See, there's Bepler, the butcher, down there looking up now, and he’s going away satisfied. They got a new parlor carpet, too; that's always a sign People are going to stay. Had it been rugs, and if she hadn't put up new curtains, I wouldn't have blamed the tradesman for being worried!" “Clothes cause no suspicion?” ask- ed Mr. Jarr. “Indeed they do not!" replied Mrs. Jarr. “If you are drossed well the tradesmen are glad to accommodate you, but if you look shabby they won't trust you for a cent.” Mr. Jarr want to work so much im- pressed by these little insights into the psychology of domestic economy that when he returned at eve he looked across the way and remarked that the lace curtains still inspired conficence. “Huh!” said Mra. Jarr, “One learns something new every day! Those peo- ple moved out at 6 o'clock in a jiffy, just at the time they knew the trades- men would be busy in their stores. And they were in such a hurry to get away they left the curtains, Yes, they are new, but now I can see they are the cheapest kind of imitation lace," . Se Ningicly TAT Do You Know? Copyright, 1920, by Tho Prewe Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 1. In. what city in Greece is the Acropolis? 2. Who wrote “Fables in Slang 3. What were the wars between Rome and Carthage calied? 4. What was the one-eyed giant in the Odyssey called? w look hat was the mame of the famous kicking mule of the comic sheet? 6, Who painted “The Gleaners?” What longest river ope? What is the nationality of Mar- coni who invented the wireless? 9. What department store in New York was bought oot by John Wana- maker? the in is E 10, How many American tennis players will go to England for the Davia Cup Tournaments? 11 Who is the new English Am- bassador to the United States? 12 On what ticket was Hiram John- son « candidate for Vice President? ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. 1, Athens; 2, George Ade; 3, Puni 4, Cyclops; 5. wud; 6, Millet; 7, Volga; 8, [tallan; 9, Stewart 10, 4; 1, Geddee, 14, Want Your Face Changed Yes, It’s Done Every Day; New Ears, Nose or Mou Recent Feat of French Surgeon Outdone Here—But | Careful Lest New Worse Than Old. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World.) EW faces for old! That ts the cry of the Alad- dins of surgery in Paris, where “beauty factories” are being set up at every corner, The fad for being ' surgically beautified was started, ac- cording to the cables, by a discovery of Prof. Julien Bourguet of the Academy of Medicine, who is said to be able to give perfect form to any woman's ears by means of a simple operation. Therefore, the “ear-muff” fashion of arranging the hair is wan- ing in and would-be beauties are not stopping with aesthetic ears, but are asking the doctors to elimi- nate double chins, wrinkles and other defects. But for once Paris is away behind New York. These many years New York women not beautiful by nature have been made beautiful art. One of the physicians who hi “first ald" to many a. beauty of Gotham ts Dr. James E. y PoC . has written in his interesting and recently publish book, “The High ‘I had the pleasure of restoring to happiness, and self- respect many of my fellow mortaly who suffered unceasing mental agony owing to unsightly noses, mouths, eyes, or ears. The creation of colos- sal pelf-conceit, lows of identity, and the union of separated souls by sur- gical ie’ were my greatest tri- umphs. In extreme cases I am sati fled that a skilful surgeon with artistic temperament can rectify many of Nature's caricatures of face and form.’ “There's nothing new for New York about giving a woman a beautiful ear,” Dr. Ki smilingly assured me, when I called on him at No. West Eleventh Street. “I have made a charming ear out of what was noth- ing less than an elephant's ear. “It's very simple. When the ear is too large, you take an angle out of It —that Is, you cut’ a little! piece or perhaps two little pieces the shape of a plece of pie from the side of the ear, and draw the edges together. To make flat the ear which stands out from the head, you gut out a little piece of skin from the scalp just be- hind the ear, then draw back the ear itself and sew it to the scalp, I have even put a lobe on a woman's ear, by grafting a little’ pi wkin [ took off just beneath It.” bycille the Waitress, - BIDE DWDLEY Copyright, 1920. by The Prem Publishing Co, “J SEE by the papers,” said Lucille the Waitress, ay she offered the Friendly Patron the tooth- picks, “that they’re getting ready to denominate some more candidates for President. Who do think will win?” “{ don't know,” he replied “Neither do 1, although they was @ fellow in here a while ago that ex- plained the whole thing to me. He got on my nerves and I finally had to call him to make him keep his place. No sooner does he pop onto @ stool than he says: ‘Well, looks you like Wood will get the Republican nomination, “That so? 1 says. ‘How about coal?" “Wm talking about running for President,’ he sniffs at me, “All right, I says. ‘Go ahead and run. You know what I mean,’ he says: ‘I'm talking about Gen, Wood. Didn't you never hear of Leonard?’ ‘Sure!’ l says. ‘Benny eats in here once in a while.’ “Benny who? he says. Benny Leonard, the prize fighver,’ I says. ‘He's im the movies now." “This guy at the trough throws up bis hands and keeps quiet’ But he's got to talk and pretty soon he says: ‘Lowden's got a large following.’ “Yes, 1 says, Sir Harry's pretty popular, and, boy, how he can sing! “*You mean Lauder,’ he says, ‘Oh, well, what's the difference?’ I tell him “I's possible Johnson may get he ways. “LY he does he'll go to Jail, 1 says, ‘He better slay in Mexico. i s Bcls #O ore al me he can Jo taueh more an blurb be- cause his mouth is full of beans. Px oj, aang cots over the hen EAUTY MANUFACTURED WHILE YOU WAIT. & ag “What some of the other | hy a have added to the ; ask “I have made over many called Dr. Kelly. “For in take the large hump out of a hose, remove a piece of the draw the skin togethe: perfectly aquiline nose. © grafted a finger on @ nose which B been smashed up in an accid the victim's wife assured me that husband's nose was handsomer before. Noses that are too and turned-wp can be re-shaped symmetrical organs. “Another feature with which anything can be done Is the n th. have made many mouths most able. The mouth that is tod can be made smalier, the with the corners disagreeably down can be shaped into a Cu bow. Most of the mouth surgery done from the inside, 0 that mp How about double ching wrinkles?” [ asked, “Double chins can be removed simply,” he replied, “alt! woman will have one unless too much. You cannot m a double chin, but you can o jt and remo ‘ , to attempt to anything with wrinkles; opera’ them is likely to, resu' Aigurement. ‘The way to avol kles is to make a proper use of sage, and to employ the mu the face only for expressing emotions, “Cross-eyes can be cured ting a muscle; hairlips can moved in many different ways. nathous chins and beetling brows: be reshaped by the surgeon knows how. Dimples are easy make—you put a hot wire inside ¢l mouth and press it aga'nst the until the outer skin is almost ‘Then that will contract, and a d will be formed, : “A sear is usually the result | surgery, It often can be ) another operation, and the edges the skin brought together to without a mark or With one perceptible. But facial surgery,” cluded Dr. Kelly earnestly, “ig, ceedingly delicate business, and ‘woman who wants to be made titat py {he knife should take Gar hat her state is not " n her first!” bess o (Tee New York Hvening World.) though, and then he tears in “‘t don't mean Jack Johnson," he says. 4 “Oh, I says, ‘Lsee, Well, anyway, I forgive you.’ 54:3 “Ele looks serious a minute and then says: ‘Do you think Bryan eduld ” ybe, If he carried @ -bottle,” That gets him sore for fair. sisten, lady! “‘Righto!’ I says. ‘But it wouldn't, ne anywhere near filling the empty pace in your head.’ It was my coupe | de tat, as they say in French, and 18 sure did coupe him. He picks up hig check and out he goes, very angris 3 fled.” ” fe didn't care for your repartes, asked the Friendly Pateos it wasn’t the grub," gal of talk, to-day bill of by Too Prem Puttinbilig: Coy The Now York Braning World.) Y DEAR READDRS: May to you a law T pass on which works every time and which will help you? Tt is this: Destroy seriousness with @ jest and a jest with seriousnéss, When some one comes to you with a’ problem that looks like @ Punch and Judy show to you and like & calamity to your fri destroy the seriousness of the #it- uation by a joke, or jest, or laugh? Lincoln knew the value @f @ funny story. I try to give you the laws under which we work In smal doses and Jam elad some of you are digest. ing them. To write the most’ important recommendation of Don't’ lake anything seriously, The ancients used to destroy @ thing by declaring: ‘ I'y is NOPHING! Sincerely,