The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1920, Page 25

P Street, but who once was * woman he ever sat H D., _Ae THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920 oted Society Beauty Now Efficient Worker Among East Side Poor WIDOW OF A POSTMASTER GENERAL 'Bister Joseph, now of the Sisters of Brom being the wife of a t statesman and editor, m the role of “prettiest nd witties) woman in delyhia society,” from wealth, social leadership, rious lving—to the duous labors, the long jours, the frugal simplicity, the strict discipline of a Catholic sisterhood and settiement house in A crowded, ill-emelling dis- trfot of the East Side— thet i9 the remarkabie transition, the strangely @famatio life-contrast of the woman who to-day Is known simply as “Sister Joseph” of the Institute of Qur Lady of Christian Doctrine at No. 173 Cherry the young, © beautiful, Breatly~ admired wife’ of MoKinley's Postmaster General, Charl¢s Emory Smith. Although ‘er — distin- guisited husband was a Philatelphian, ‘she herself wus a New York girl, the @aughter of Dr. Romaine Nichols, who practised for many. years in this city, and she hi a sister, M Clows, who lives at 1 85th Sirect. She Her honeymoon was and James RB. Fifth Avenue was married in scureely suddeniy uch in loye with ber husband, though he was con- alderably ol than she, and his death months after their mar- age a great shoek to her,” satd anot ster in Philadelphia, Mrs. James. EB. Sullivan, several years ago, “when the then Mrs. Smith became a novice at tho Institute of Our vf Christian Doctrine. “We had no doubt,” Sullivan, who was World reporter, “that & brilliant match in the She associated with brightest men in the country ¢ admired her wit and beauty once said that she Lady * continued Mrs. speaking to would tr futa ne of tl nd they ready Depew was the brightest with at a table. terms with the She wag on intimate families of 1 Roos President McKinley and no “function in Washington was en- sidered complete without her pres- ence. . It was’ this woman whom I saw yesterday jn the black robes of Sister Joseph which she has worn for sev @ral years. Her beautiful hair, of course, was Liidden, but her blue eyes were ‘clear ‘and bright, her face freshly pink and almost without wrinkles. Obviously, it was the face of one not only at peace, but happy— , cheerful. Sitting {n the sparsely furnished reception room of the brick building ie E . 173 Cherry Street—a room with » painted floor, whitewashed wane and a few plain, hard seats— her ready smiles showing white, beautiful teeth, her voice ciear and | unfaltering, Sister Joseph spoke of er activities in what {3 really a Catholic settlement house, and a most efficient one. It serves at least a thousand residents of the neighbor- hood every week In its club work alone, and ts richly deserving of the few thousand dollars it is asking the public to contribute, that Its clubs, 2a Health 1920, Skin B eae (by request)—Mrs. €. J. H.s ‘The skin bleaching process to which you referred in your letter im which Fuller’s earth is used, is a Mix Fuller's earth to a paste about ithe consistency of butter with perox- parts of witch hazel. Wash the face ' thoroughly with mild soap and warm water, then rinse well warm water. After gently drying, ‘ spread the paste over the face and neck, belng careful not to touch the ‘eyebrows and lashes as the paste will bleach them, Be sure and see that @he neck 1s well covered also, Leave the paste on at least an hour unless by The Press Publishing Co, Sister Joseph, Formerly Mrs. Charles Emory Smith, Happy Caring for Children of Poor, Working Mothers, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1020, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). HMIN I see the lives led by these poor women who work in the W sweatshops around me I feel almost ashamed to be leading a lite as quict and peaceful and restful as the religious life!"— Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, for- merly the wife of Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster General under Presl- lent MicKinley and at one time Ambassador te Russia, MAS. CHARLES enony, 34: Shur nursery, bread lines and other ki speed agencies: why Bo) bs cur aileg * I-said that Sister Joseph her work, buteps coutse te pi she always used: was “our? every member of the community she speaks in terms of the community, However, you and I may think of this tly ‘bred, gently reared woman of and.charm performing daily yet arduous work she gpid There are only twelve ning Institute, tyy tor » community, ot oun member ot ned. “As morning the h every she x, poo their babies here f and all the nuns 8 jock the year round.) “We take a year old; we have we ve afternoon instruction for hool children; children come to us their mothers return abies as little as a kindergarten; om work. “Then thete are the clubs—for mothers, for fathers, for boys and girls, Po and women. We Ol tables; mu- y dances—which we chaperon, of course. Isn't it bet- ter for the young people to come here ang dance than to go to those places on the Bowery? Then there is our visiting the sick and needy in their homes. And we go to see the women in the places where they work. “Oh, when I see them there, those poor women; see the way they are speeded, not daring to lift their eyes for a minute; see the treatment they receive from the bosses—we see all that and so we understand them and their problems—I am almost ashamed to be leading a Ijfe as quiet and peace- ful and restful as the religious life! impulsively exclaimed Sister Joseph, her blue eyes shining. And then gentle, stately Mothpr Marion Francis came through the door, and Sister Joseph went qutifully to fetch some photographs, T didn’t talk with her any more, But 1 knew in that last swift, sincere utterance there was the answer to the question of why she gave it all up, and to the other question of whether sho ever has regretted—the answer the con- vinced humanitarfyn will ays mane to the call of the world add of 2 | Pauline furlong QUEPICS Gad BeEquty (The New York Evening World.) by nest ring any of the nourishing creams lotions so often given in my columns. Reducing the Face—Peart G—ifthe finest thing in ‘wonderful remedy for obstinate tan. bony struoture of your face 1s broaa, friend, {t is impossible to reduce it to any marked degree. Ordinary excercises for reducing the body should cause ide of hydrogen, or if the skin 1s very~excessive fat to disappear from the have ma: tender dilute the’ peroxide with equal face, but its general contour cannot ference. be changed. * Like* MRS JOHN ! You ARE NOT GOING BeFore THE DANCE ! LET NE CALL ‘A DocToR d. NOTHING; SERIOUS | LU HOPE ne Marcie By? SoM ORAMNB Beck. No THE SOONER GET HONE ( THE BETTER THE HERE |S Your Coat DEARIE . ) SHE “LLEBE ALLRIGHT AS SOON AS SHE GETS * HONE PLAIN TRUTH IS HER CORSET STRING ie Copyright, 1920, by The Pross Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). WOMAN friend of mine was in &reat distress the other day. Old Colonel Remorse had taken hold of her and she was in the depths of despair. It was a matter which did not really con- cern her person- ally, but she. felt she was responsi- ble for It all. It seams that this woman had @ girl © friend whom she loved very dearly, and n few years ago she ‘had played the chief part in making a match for this girl, which has proved dis- astrous. The couple have separated and divorce proceedings are on. “Lt {t hadn't ‘been for me,” she walled, “it would never have hap- pened. It is all my fault. I planned every step of it. I invited her and the young man to visit me. I gave house parties. I threw them together whenever I could, He was well to do, and it looked like such a successful mar- riage that I thought I was doing the the world for my {t lasted so short a And time! belleve another man liked the girl much, and most likely would her but for my Inter- his fellow married. an- other girl, and his marriage {s most successful, Indeed. He is a better and very Number of Hours to Sleep—Fred P, finer and bigger man than the man Iittle. Most condition, Foul Breath—Mrs. Davie F.: may arise from,so many different conditions and the treatment must be in accord with the condition which causes foul breath. Indigestion, con- This of matchmaking where with more —Too much sleep 1s better than too my girl friend married. persons require at least eight hourg eleep to Keep in good intérfered, shi “I feel somehow that, had Y not would be happy with this man to-day.” ‘This is only one of many instances the person who makes the match hag little for which to be thankful, To be w guide on minor matters ts one thing, but to influence people on the skin burns or feels sensitive, In gstipation and decayed teeth are some the subject of marriage is a proposi- whieh case remove at Warm water. During the bleaching bicarbonate of soda in water before once with of the causes of bad breath. A little tion clothed with much responsibility When you sum It all up the one vess you may apply a towel fold- or after meals will overcome sour, thing that people must be permitted and wrung out of very hot water over the paste, renewing towels as /they cool, ‘This hastens the treatment ‘and abso alds the process of bleach- ing. Do not go into the street for at least three hours or more, ‘This treat ‘ment may be given to the skin at in- dance during dinner, as it is too marshal all fou and is perfectly harmless ex- bagi! an exercise and will re- ca digestion. Cnihoos exercises only bealthful cept forthe Sack sat it ie apiringant thod, and drying, and it fg WRO too gy herr ae the treatment \ acid stomach, - DANCING AS AN EXERCISE— Mabel M —Dancing is a good exercise {f not indulged in too soon after din- ner. No, it ts not a wise plan to same &c.—are far more to decide for themselves and from which every one should withhold judg- ment, except parents, 18 the choosing of a Hfe partner, The men or ately set out t women who deliber- make a mateh and of which they are le, are, doing an injustice not to the couple, but to themselves. are presuming to decide the Of two people, and if the. union turns, out wrong their con- sciences might well hurt them, The matchmaker is like the peace- maker who is never forgiven for mak- ing peace, In a word, couples like to feel that they are working out their own sal- vation and do not continue to like the person who Interferes, It is the way of the world, od Now Field Secretary, American Land Service ERE we have Miss Elizabeth Gerard, whose efficient work in supervising the peppery farmerett of Ulster County, last summer, responsible for her ap- pointment as Field Secretary to the American Land Service, which is re- cruiting young men and women for farm work this summer. She has a ready ‘listed 5,000 names. The head- uarters are at No. 571 Lexington venus 4 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, oan CYRUS PERKINS “WALKER of Delhi, who is a candidate to succeed himself as head of the City Government, has appealed to the people to pay no at- tention to the attacks that are made on him from time to time by the Anti-Walker Democrats, He made this request In & card In the Bazoo of Friday as the result of an incident that occurred at a meeting of tho Young Men's Social Order, held ‘Thursday night at Hugus Hall, Jere- miah Shultz, the Mayor's opponent In his race for re-election, read a poem which, according to Mr. Schultz, was written by the Mayor thirty years ago to Miss Hellie Walters, now Mrs, Bilge Porter, Porter is @ rabid Anti- Walker Democrat. “Ladies and gentlemen,” eald Mr. Shultz, on taking the platform, “few of us know that years ago our honor- able Mayor was a poet. But it.is true, Listen to this!” Mr, Shultz then read the poem, which follows: You are a cunning little thing, Of you a little song I'll sing, Of all the girls you are most tovely, I love you, by the stars above me, Tam not much, I will admit, Yet to your side I'd like to flit; It you'll be mine I'll be so happy, Dear heart, let me be your chappy. “A poem of passion,” said a man’s voice, when Mr. Shultz had read the final line, The Mayor arose “I want to make a protest,” he said. “This meeting is for the purpose of arranging a minstrel show.” “Set It to music an@ warblde it im gaid the vole the show,” “T was just gotr remark,” said Mr. Shultz, “that our Mayor scemed to be afflicted with the taint of poetry, It is fatal to the consumma- tion of more sturdy ideals, I under- stand he often writes rhymes, There- fore, I ask you—should we elect a man with this weakness to guide our ship of State?” - “Oh, let him be our dittle chappy,” maid the voice, The Mayor became & ‘The Mayor Delhi (The New York Br “Ig Constable Pel * be asked. ight here, sir!” said the officer. “Arrest that man!" Brown flaw at the man, who proved to be Harper Sapton, A fight fo- lowed, in which the Constable was knocked down four times, but he suc- ceeded in subduing his man by prom- ising to tell him where he could get hooteh for a quarter a drink, As the prisonér dragged the officer from the room the Mayor sald: “This is an outrage, here to be insulted. Porter dug that rhyme wife's memory box, Well, let me tell you something—this man, Shultz, wrote a song when he was young. ing World.) Brown In the ‘hal I am enticed I presume old out of his called it ‘Suzie Took a Snoozie.’ What « Mayor would he make, 1 Du So much ‘argument followed that the meeting was adjourned. The in- cident has set the whole town talking. There 1g much indignation. > GOING DOWN Ouprright, 1920, ‘Th rome Publiwhing Oo, The New fore Prong World,) PAR TIRED. CREATURE D Draw near and read a story that may help you: Once upon a time there was a Vool and he was so kind to everybody, so gentle, so ready to help, that all ex- copt his mother thought he was a Foo). ‘Just Ike @ Fool,” so they sald. He pved to Chicago where hy got a job the packing room of a big cun- in cern Hoe was 80 , go kind and oblig ing—never losing his tem| tha everybody shoved the extra work on him, However, he neyer complained Finally he was #0 good natured and simple minded that he: attracted the attention of the superintendent, eded a door man who knew could keep his mouth shut all hold his tongue. The Fool got the job And now, D. T. C., thé Foot is getting $6,000 per year and all he doos ts stand at the front door and keep the concern'’s customers happy with a cheery smile and a kind word to all, Try being simple. minded for a time —it pays Yours truly, . i Alb AL A ce mks N addition to making the world ] rotate, love keeps a lot of guys in cash. Guye like the florists, Jewellers, ticket ecalpers and candy merchants. Love has progressed @ lot since Romeo plunked his lyre; In Romie's day Juliet would Masten - to his plather from the balcony, But to-day, no jane will open her eara except when occupying an orchestra, seat, It is always the fratis with the far-away look that have to sit inside the firat five rows. The Freddies that are making an impression these days have to act lavish with the bankroll. What doth it profit a sap to save up for a Almost Any Dame Would Rather)Marry a Pink Shirt Than Corduroy Trousers. By Neal R. Copyriaht, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) O’ Hara. spends money like Congress, an@ Luwey never exercises Ler veto power, — The object of courting these days & ~ to be bankrupt jist in time for the wedding. The new process estab- lishes a guy's name and addfess in all the credit departments, In the mart where flappers plat their grooms it’s noise that always counts the most, A mauve vest has ever screamed louder than shoddy pants crammed with Liberty bonds. Beethoven wrote some sweet sono sonatas, but {t's Sousa’s Band that) lines,’em ten deep. It's the ballyhoo guy that turns an educational ex- hibit into a prosperous sideshow, and all he does it with is his voloe. _ NOWADAYS, WHEN A FLAPPER MARRIES, SHE GE¥S THE GOOFS NAME—AN’ EVERYTHING ELSE HE POS: ESSES. bungalow if a tricky free-spender cops his prospective bride? Tne boys that dine on terrapin and breakfast on tick ate grabbing the widest smiles from the flappers. It seems a pity that a plodding guy's bankbook looks drab and tawdry alongside of orchids, but It’s true. Bevery day in tho week nine out of ten girls will vote for instalment- plan roses ahead of savings bank lettuce. Almost any dame would rather marry a ‘pink shirt than corduroy trousers. Romeo, as Shakespeare wrote him, found romance was pretty soft. In those days a guy said it with flowery pei and let it go at that, All Romeo was recite his hokum, without an obligato of orchids, bonbons and platinum brooches. And when the speech wap over, Juliet was his'n without week- ly payments on a two-karat sparkler, But to-day the scenario’s changed. A guy and his lass aren’t engaged nowadays until Archie takes her to twenty-seven shows, twentf-seven dances and 108 cabarets, Archie had to do Make a noise and the world ts yours, bo! Jugt look at Henry Ford! There's just one way to spend cash with crescendo trimmings, and that’s to spend ft om a frail. Noth- ing is more slapadoortus than to pay a dinner check while your sweetie — sighs. That 13, while she sighs for © More boobs to conquer, Touring.the’ white light zones and low-life caba- rets, and spilling largess’ along, the” The socaces pur HSE AMG 1 this: By tho thme the gatis his, his money isn’t. A lot’ of marriages’ would never be if the parsons ~ take 1 0 Us, A bunch of guys ‘don’t think matrimony is a fi 0 admit that It's voluntary bankruptey.‘ The reason being that the gay Al- freds spend walle the world laughs ‘at them and: weep when they need a® Joan, And that ts the subject of our” text to-day. No guy can shift from 4. courtship Croesus to a married miser without learning that while love makes the world go round,’ it doesn't “pied the Pains away. "The > Sarr > [img Coprnis R. AND MRS, JARR sat togeth- er at eventide, ‘The clamor from the street below came through the open windows. Mr, Jarr was smok- ing at his ease, the lace curtaino— noted absorbents of tobacco smoke us all good housewlves know--having ‘been taken down for the summer, “Edward!” spoke up Mrs, Jarr sharply, id 1t ever occur to you that you must waste a good deal of money smoking?” “It isn’t wasted,” calmly, “But I say tt 19," sald Mra, Jerr. “When a cigar is burned down’ to a stump it is gone, and so ts the money you paid for it.” “And when a meal's eaten it's’ gone too, and so i» the monty that ts paid for it," quietly remarked Mr, Jarr, "Well," rejoined hig wife, "you ¢an without smoking, Dut you can’t without eating. Yes, I can live said Mr. Jarre slowly, said Mr. Jarr without smoking,” “but life lan't worth the living. You won't smoke the clgars I buy you," said Mrs, Jarr “Cigars are a matter of personal a remarked Mr, Jarr. “I would the kind I like that you get at have whole one of box “Well,” continued Mrs, Jarr, “I feel sure that what your cigars cost would re enough in a yéar to buy a new rug f the dining room."* Ar sighed Mr. J) , “it's wad to think of me sitting here smoking a t of dishes or dining room rug, nothing of a piano, . I tried topping smoking once, and yuu know and you were much better off!" replied Mrs, Sarr ow, look here,” suppose | was smoking’ twice many ¢cigare as T am now, when [ stopped. That came to, roughly speaking, $170 a I stopped for three months, didn’t I?” “Yes; and there was no living with as cro#s & a bear arked Mra, Jarr then,” said Mr “What was “gone with that that was saved? Did you with it or a new sei of dishes or pay wnything om the piano with that 0, specifically?” You can't get a rug or dishes or anything for that little money these days,” murmured Mrs. Jare, “eyen if the stores are cutting prices.” “Well, you st noking right now, it makes you ne " commanded Mrs. Jarr, Mr. agreed to ibis But he By. by The Prose ROY The Co. (The New York Rveinisig World), was po cross for the next three bi that Mrs. Jarre ordered him to start smoking again as it made her nervous, ———$ The Open Season For Lions de Salverta, carry- ing her pet lion, The tion wi too mischievous -to keep ‘at the Savoy, England, where the Countess is staying, and is now being ns i at the Zoo, where the Countess is 3 frequent vistior, » She ean papel along the streets ef "Londen t sionally