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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920 Y, JUN Helen Taft Tells of Her College Romance: Would Rather Cook for Husband Than Be College President TO STUDY AT YALE FOR PH.D. DEGREE Grand Old Time When They Tesue Licenses for Ei Cylinder Nuptials and Flivver Elopements. By Neal R. O'Hara. 3 Copyrieht, 1920, by Thé Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rventng World), ~*™ HB open season for June brides the flat is commencing to get thal ~ T is from Memorial Day to July way, there are things to think of be the first—which {s also Me aides love and kisses, You bet, ’ Such Is Life! HERE /S AN OLD GROCERY BILL, WHAT S FUNNY Han co, By Maurice, Ketten Bening World.) FUNNIEST..THING /EVER SAW "FUNNY 76 OTHERS Couple Met in History Class Four -Years TWENTY “YEARS OLD ~ ITS THE , TD SONE IS Nor niorlal Day for # Jot of us guys. It's Besides love in the cottage, the brid# | Ago—Will Be Married July 15 ; in Canada. the season when the janes step into Romance land and find the darn place is covered with instalment-plan car- pets that Have to be swept. It’s the will find paint to be scrubbed, c to be washed, sox to be darned i sigks to be damned. Not to two, thousand and two other By Marguerite Dean, (Special to The Evening World.) | Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Erening World), THRYN MAWR, Pa, Juno 3—"Assuredly 1 am an optimist about marriage! I believe in it, I believe it can be made a success, I do not at all agree with those radical thinkers who say It is an in- atitution on’trial, with the preponderance of evidence against it.” Walking with me under the shady Bryn Mawr ma- ples, wearing ‘the simplest thin frock of that lovely bade we used to all Helen pink” during the Taft administraticn, the well - shaped head with its knot of | © golden-brown hair ‘ é bent just a trifie to K escape the hot merry month when the frails grab that Mendelssohn's music makes you the gold rings in life's merry-go- forget. ‘ me round and discover the journey {#, One thing you ean bank on for thé” no free ride. In a word or two, June June brides—the fireworks will bé — {s the grand old time when they issue all over by the Fourth of July. By Heonses for elght-cylinder nuptials the first of September the sweet and flivver elopements. little brides can't tell.one Labor Day ‘There is no special reason why from another. As soon as the honeys | * June is the month for confetti blis moon express arrives at the Inst rs zards. As we look at ft, one month the June bride slips Harold's IT SNOT Your, HUSBAND ; FUNNY: TOME HAS ND SENSE DON'T You ( L iy THINK IT'S IT, SaTRAGIC | ‘OF HUNOR % Trays of late after- i oon sunlight fil- . 8 tering through the leaves, Helen Her- ron Taft, the most distinguished girl, ¥. in America, voiced * Nhe fine, mmple, Joyous faith of Everygirl in love, 14 on the Juns day her engagement is announced, Former Presi- dent Taft and his wife had just au- thorized, in New Haven, the news that their only me the Acting President of Bryn Mawr "College, was engaged to Frederick Johnson Manning, an instructor in history in Yale University. And I » “COLLEGE ROMANCE” BRIDEGROOM -T0-BE "GIVES HIS VIEWS Evening World Correspondence) EW HAVEN, June 3.—Frederick Johnson Manning, the twenty- six-year-old bridegroom-to-be of Mis Helen Taft, daughter of the only li ing ex-President of the United State: and the youngest woman college Pres- ident in Afmerica, celebrated the an- nouncement of his betrothal with a busy time at his classes to-day. Toward dusk last evening Mr. Man- «edaughter, | Helen, Miss Helen Taft had taken the first train to the fa- mous American woman's college, just outside of Philadelphia, where is Taft has been dean for two years and Acting President for one Pear. Sho is America’s youkgost col- lege president, for she is but twenty- nine~a girl commader-in-chief of a legion of girls. yyy") She is also, you perceive, a living contradiction of thesflead ol that women do not mafry! She is other interesting things. , with a belief in women's and responsibilities, she will her husband's career to further her Own. A disbeliever in what she has referred to, playfully, as “a rather erochety old bachelor’s dictum, ‘Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands,’" she will not keep her own famous name, but will take that of her husband, She will make HER home with her husband. “Are you going to give up your mA ea my) Md 25 EGGS 25:cENTS 2a ARTS oF a UNDS OF FLOUR 9 CENTS Sg POUNDS of SUGARY6 CENTS HE Would /F ME WA ay THE GROCER iy pyle NESS AS Yur is as bad as another to get married in, It's just a tradition that June is the best month for chickens like Fri- day's a grand day for fish. * June is also thé first month it's safe to step out of the old winter flannels, which may be the real dope, at‘that. Any one knows that's ever rubbered in department store win- dows that wool cuts no ice In the bride's , trousseau. Flannels may tickle a jane now and then, but it’s clinging sill stuff that gives ‘ema fit, Yep, June is the golden month for Romance, when roses are thickest for making a mattress, But divorce court statistics prove this bed-of- roses idea is all bunk, It only fakes a night's lodging in the petal depart ment to prove that it’s as hard to sleep on aromatic roses as it is on corned beef and cabbage. It’s a cinch for Romance to run wild in June, when there’s no. coal ror Herbert to buy. Later on, when the honeymoon has grown cold and neck, num Javalliere from around her neck and replaces, it with a gingham apron, She puts away the wishing oulja board and yanks out the iron- ing board instead, It's all in the game, girls; it’s all in the game, Many a chio’Wwren' that's & china doll before she'g married turns into a doll that scrubs china after,every meal. There is no way of telling what is in store for the bride on the other side of the bower of roses. Two days after the honeymoon’s over she may be driving her own runabout or carrying her'own garbage. But you can’t guess whieh it will be while rose petals fill the air. . a ‘ But despite what ay, June will ‘Yemati the miohth’ ‘yhen trousseaux outrank kitchen aprons and orange ~ blossoms outscent the smell of fried fish. It's all in the Book of Dope. As for luck that runs wild at this “ season, -wé don't know the bride's birthstone for June, but for the groom it’s a .milletone.eround the ning was finally located in his small work here at the college after your i room atop Beyers Memorial, Hall and marriage?" I asked. * 4 ell of rs . “ ’ Copytcht, 1920, by The Press Publishing C6, (Ne New York Brening World.) peared to tell of his romance to | “7 shall have to give it up,” she e vi yttad to dinner by auld Man, angie with 2 onre e Evening World corresponde: Answered, regretfully but firmly, “I “és W 0 are invited to c errs — ty. should like to have kept on w angles,” sald Mra. Jarr, male oever it will an old bh it ° 4 ° /‘ 5 but it can't be arranged very well— IMI a ° “but instead of iaving “Hyw} 1 ae Mngtheate cts § — Maneims of a Modern Mati “The ayorof Delhi anne at thr own home we'swslng ar Mpa ad pases ae ky Bide Dudles. ae with my marriag 2. i. “ iage,” Then, in the quistest way possible, By Martusrite Moon Marshall to a restaurant, ‘Now, -don't you be Ham 1 was informed that, this “college Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), a fool and. insist on paying. If “ compromised fry brealing It je) Bait ‘omance” will go on just as it be- R ; ; les want to dine at @ restaurant “Funny you women shoul ‘80 gan. «She and hex fiance met each yrs 6 long gana ue paar ba pay the check. Spiparacihignel aoe both mare other when they were going to col- nowadays it has as many turn- Be pea ae, Batak x . phen ee mt Pp ils jed,” ir, ngie. lege together. And they're going to ings as West Fourth Street, or Dios PANSY WALsou, only; chewing obenie 10 wae SRS Ler: ame wos winks havea “WAT: Bee Petter on going to college to- the crooked mile in Mother Goose. He graduated from Yale in 1916, Bibows are quite, quite naked this Now he is instructor in history at season—and not a clergyman has 0 . Dishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World), CORTICES YY Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing “ daughter of Mayor Cyrus ler, another Antl-Walker Democrat... t9 ao wauld ba to divide the @x- botter luck next Ume,* sald uns. ase Perkins Walker, of Delhi, was "You did this,” shouted the Mayor. enyoy7' asked Mrs Jagr. gle coldly. o married Tuesday at high noon to Bl- “Is Constable Pelee Brown present?” “No, I do not. Nobody ever doug Olt wan a jolly dinner party! Yes, Ackens’ Wal- “Right here, » officer, + . id the check, in spite Yale. And this coming winter his pounded the pulpit about it. mer Oscar Dangdog of Pickens’ Wal : Rig! ut here, bah said the officer, anything for us! said Mra, S6h or Men Sarre thpletence that Mar. ~~ young wife again will take up her “why should any woman try to low. ‘The ceremony, which took place Stepping forward. “and besides I'm very short’ this week would pay it. ; EATS yk Bn eg "i ‘6 Wualify as a wit, or even as a beauty, at the Walker home on Tanglowtlde Arrest that man! and 1 have'no money for exXpénsive | But that was because it was onl: Avenue, was followed by a reception The Constable flow at his prey. A dinners in, public restaurants, det Ree a waren s iike ‘soln out with’ which was attended by ail) Delhi 60- fight followed in which Brown Wa8 ine Rangles pay for jt; they su®- your friends and having a good, jolly. ~~ / ciety. Scattered in the crowd were knocked down four times, but he jo stoq i1," dime. * s invited by the subdued his man by, forcibly singing & college romance from start to fin- when it's so much easier to turn sh! large, appealing eyes on the nearest “[ don't like to publish my do- 4 4 : mestic affairs,” she sald, frankly, as Man and murmur: “DO tell me all We crossed from one sidewalk to the about your work! I am SO Inter- other. “But I am enough of a ested!” ‘ feminist to be willing -to say that No es F dotthink ihe wits'or to Sead ae Now that the busy seasén for love better for some serious interest out- !8 @pproaching, why shouldn't the who is to marry the daughter of Ex- side her home. Owing to the trend moon go on strike for an eight-hour President Taft. toward luxurious living and the in- night? erease in labor-saving devices not — Cupid's shock troops:-the wild and politician: numerou 2 You suggested it,” said Mr. Jarr. Mayo® who iy a candidate to succeed “The Merry Widow Waltz” in his “But they asked uy to dinner at their himself as the executive head of the ear, Loffler finally agreed to’ put UP pouse, and she has no girl; and she S city government. It, was a enutiful a peck of potataos id bond and the alway has chicken, and, I'm tired of e@ : affair and all went well until the crowd dispersed. ne ineldeut hax chicken’ said Mra. Jare. | “Hee ¥ BS Bride and bridegroom were leaving set the whole town talking, shicken Zid By eh is] Ci tee ‘ for their honeymoon trip to Big There {s much indignation Well, we're ‘eacapting tat," te- “Our real romance had {ta inception for a generation has the American wily widows! —_> pligd Mi. Jurt, “ay dont ket peevish.’ the blade and tts ‘co fp the year 1916, when Miss Taft and woman needed to devote alyher time It’s been “20 per cent, off” in most of th y, let any man to creep in, jo. wet peeviah pecn use iyeelf attended history classes at the and energy to her home. "The first ty (o take that discount on his wife's ations = lafely, but let any 0 Cree “Fine F ath M k such @ softy and you let. ev ale Graduate School. However, I thing I shall do will be to take up ange! 1 eathers Mare ddy Springs and then politics had r ine new ; Muddy Sp 4 are safety razor are held in place by @ body magnetized handle so they may be rede The newlyweds were entering one inpose on you!” cried Mra. Jarr. “If “easily remoyed for cleaning. knew Miss Taft slightly before that history courses at Yale, which I must Hint for the 1820 bathing girl: The better part of candor ia suggestion. 6 piipton Shockey's taxicabs when We have to pay half the bill 1 don’t pin at is, , have for my Ph. D. After that, my Add eternal questions: Why is it that when a man wants to—I mean, © Fees heath thiowitie, dower ° : ” seo what advantage there 19 ID 610K gooeoh experts Wave found that thi “Will Miss Taft give up her work Pl4ns are not matured.” when he MUST—arise at 7.30 A. M. he always tells his wife to call hint at 7, their friends began | se ROME Fine Birds out to dinner with other people. When | /ceten mi oe Andover Ppa at’Bryn Mawr?" was asked. When I asked her if, on the whole, and then turns over and takes another nap? at them, Mayor Walker stapd by one is afraid one will have Jo pay the African backed tree 4 ne bre “Yes,” replied Mr. Manning with a her marriage was to be now-fa Yes, Cecile, Lucrezia Borgia knew far too much about murder asa fine curb applauding and accepting the Will one orders all the chip dishes, [ete ore oe one tou, make inn gay que foned or old-fashioned, | Miss art—but perhaps the poor woman looked better in black than in any other congratulations of the other fathers und doesn't order very much at that? “Will Miss. Taft come lew smiled broadly. She has her fat color when he was suddenly felled by a ee Me ge al eel ng wy ie," ve pasa iy Kangle joined mand the two fam- mixer for asphalt or cot faven to make her home?” Pd aml ae well as his ple be Like virtue, children are their own reward—parents have nothing else })ow on the head. Eben King, head ihhes want downtown together. has been added ‘to a steam roller by? - She most certainly will’ he bluo-eyes, high forehead and deep coming to them in these H, C. of L, days. a sisted ‘the “What do the ladies want?” asked @ Pennsylvania road build . laughed. Mr. Manning evidently dimple in the chin. th usher at the wedding, assis What do th r) . does not think highly of the very At first she refused to answer by “I always knew,” said Aphrodite, “how men would fuss about pretty arayor ty his feet and asked him Mr. Rangle. operated by the same engine. MODERN marriage method, which advice of counsel, clothes. That's why I never have worn any at all—much as I adore them!” I“ : “ls the chicken good?” asked Mr, — embraces two breakfasts a Week to- “But you will take your husband's pena a at! whet bed nt him Jarr of the waiter. An inventor, has patented a fly . wether, separate names, é&c. I persisted, “[ don't know,” said Mr. Walker, . “We expect to get married July 15 Yes," she said quickly, ‘And we no plans to announce!" laughed Miss And if ever a father were justified in “Maybe it was a stroke of apoplexy.” | at Murray Bay, Canada. The Tafts shall have our home together in New Helen Taft, fiancee his daughter, {t is former President at that moment the Mayor received have made that place their summer Haven, I am inclined to be of the once more—we had nearly William Howard Taft. Five years ad +4 ction of the Bryn ago Mr. Taft said to me: another blow on the head aad droppec The waiter had nothing Dut praise swatter consisting of a metal plate for the chicken, He worked there, notched across Hts surface to hold but he didn’t eat ther rubber bands that act as cushions, “Well, L won't have any,” sald Mra. ‘r, “Phe only person that knows . rendezvous for many seasons. I opinion that, whatever else a married Je a: , French army surgeons have found . have already picked my best man, business or professional woman. does, Japanese lanterns —“L_believe every girl should be again. On arising to biy feet he how to cook chicken prop ly ls MP. that a mixture‘of freshly slaked lime but won't divulge his name.’ she should make a comfortable and arden party were functioning, trained to. some occupation which, {f looked around and found two old se ee oust Those chorus girs #84 Phosphorus will remove tattooing Mr, Manning was born, in East happy home for the man who Is her wive the impertinence,” I said, followed, will make her independent Braintree, Mass., in 1894, His father husband. I was taught to cook and “but why are you marrying? You of marriage as a means of support. is a member of the well known oil keop house by my own mother, Iam have fanie, power, position, interest- Then she need not marry except in ‘The merrymakers felled you in fun, importers, Marden, Orth & Hastings. afraid I haven't profited from the ing work, economic independence, obedience to the dictates of her 7 presume," said Hector Oliphant, an At Thayer Academy, and afterward lessons as much as I might have friends—you are the most truly for- heart, It ts all wrong to subject her 4 mtj Walker Democrat. at Phillips Andover, Mr, Manning done. But at least I have had a splen- tunate of America’s fortunate girla, to the humiliation of waiting around : @howed particular aptitude toward did example before me! Then—why?" at home for a husband, Beonomic “Yes,” sald Mr. Walker. “The Mistory, and later at Yale he decided “I am an optimist about marriage!” “Now that is a question to which independence will not make girl¥ young folks must pive thelr fun,” to make history his specialty. During exclaimed Miss Taft. "No, I do not I must refuse to give you an answer,” averse to marriage—the right sort of L his junior year he was awarded the agree with Shaw, Wells, W. L. smiled Helen Taft, marriage. Nothing can {ntorfere with He picked up th »vots and @ brick second division honors and high ora George, in so far as they represent “May one assume"—I put my ques- the natural, loving Instinct of a fell out of each one. The newlyweds tions, He retained these honors in marriage as an institution on trial, tion another w hat you are Woman's heart. We can always leave nag sped away by this time and all his senior year, He is a member of with the proponderance of’ the evi- marrying for woman's kmmemorial !t to nature to see that there are aad wire eomitel co la Mala’. several Greek letter societies of Yale. dence against it. I believe in it, and reason?” marriages enough,’ . ‘When we entered the war Mr. Man- I believe it may be a real success. here was a little pause. Then It is with a splendid record of “Aha!” be said In affger, “This is “* ning cnilsted in the 802d Field Artil- More and more I think marriage 1% the youngest college President, the achievement that Migs Taft comes to 4 plot to beat me in my race for re- Jery'as a private. After belng trans- evolving to a plane of perfect equal- daughter of America’s only living the mate of her choice. Her life i8 (ection Who threw those boots?” After debating everything op red to the Government Artillery ity for husband and wife, with co-op- Ex-President, said softly, slowly, little an object lesson not only to other @lection, 2. , wemen are wearing ostrich, card they ordered fricasseed: chicken, ining. Sctiool at Fort Sill, he was eration in public as well as in pri-\spaces between the words, her big girly, but to every man who, out of There was no reply and the Mayor plumes “from head to tos.” This as it wae about the cheapest thing 9a iven . over there! Just look at them!” Mrs, &° that it cannot be detected. Rangle looked and tuttered. : ‘Never mind the people here,” sald nada Mate rant Mr. Ji “What are you going to hard surface roadway. deprea- order id . sions on each side torcatch wheels of If you were here alone you would vehicles and preVent them’ skidding, 6 minding them,” sald Mrs. Jarr, —_ 9 | But when. you ure with your Wife gmat metal afticles are coated with eggs tin by @ process invented »in Europe What 4 in such which revolvyes..them in’g centrifugal PE ee ed eee te kind machine containivg molten metal ee hey seem to prefer!" said Mra, Jar youd oY jooked like a pleamant evesinn— indie kee ‘reves te: teteeee nie boots lying on the ground, not, And Mr. Ranglo suggested that o¢ vats or other animals, yet does ROM Paris comes a cable that ‘ey, order the dinner, tho !terfere with the flow of sewage, y hi to Asst iterests, That ideal.” i the vel that our his short-sighted fears for the race the question. ob the bill Se ‘War, College in Washingt D. 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