The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1920, Page 29

FRIDAY, Here! The Gorgeous Girl! Know Her? Her Imitators: ‘Frumps,’ ‘Funnies,’ ‘Frills’ JUNE 4, s 1920 ts fmt ne nn ee | HEIRESS 10 THE WAR PROFITEERS | She Throngs New York Whipped Cream Existence—An Embryo Cleopatra. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall.* Copyright, 1920, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World) HAT is the feminine of “profi- teer"? “The Gorgeous Giri" answers Nalbro Bartley, povelist and searching analyst of her sex. In Miss Bartley's latest book, published by Double: , Page & Co, which she has called “The Gorgeous Girl” she The Gorgeous Girl's Motto: “Spend T o-Day—For To-Morrow We May Di: Paints with bold strokes and bolder evlors the newest American woman of all, the wife or daughter of the (war millionaire, and the after-the-war Profiteer,, who dances with light, heedless feet over the ruins of a world and the bent backs of her own countrymen, whose motto is, “Let us @pend and spend, for to-morrow we New York ts crowded with Gorgeous Girls—it is their lappiest hunting ground. Since the mistice the big hotels have been increasingly full them—some native bred, more flock- ing here from every corner of Amer- ea where one of the milllonaires— since 1914—has sprung up. And it is the female of the species which is de _ serfbed unerringly by Miss Bartle the girl “wearing bright gold tulle with slim shoulder-straps of jet sup- porting it, absurdly frivolous little shoes of blue brocade, her brown hair {n puffs and curls adorned with J end pearl: lace searf throw her shoulders and a greatec white fur covering riding in an elegant the tulle little car frock, with fresh flowers in a gold-banded vase. through the crowded streets filled with envying shopgirls and clerks, hard-working men and women—a man beside her laughing at her in @uigently, excusing her frivolous li tle self, adoring the fragile, foolish sori) of her “The Gorgeous Girl,” remarked Miss Bartley when she was in New York recently on a flying trip from California, “is no other than an em- bryo Cleopatra. She swirls through her whipped cream existence of froth and frills at un amazing tempo, dart- ing from one new and daring ex- travyagance to another, her great am- bition—for she really has one—being to bring her little set to her feet as Pgypt's Queen did the world, “Cleopatra was after all a victim of “eireumstances! If she had possessed ® kind-hearted millionaire father to «ive her nk checks, and a weaithy and indulgent husband who consid ered it his duly to humor her slight est whim, she probably would have Deen content to be the Queen of Alex- andrian fashion, %o give the most gorgeous bulls and the wildest r and flimsy From All Parts— Leads parties, instead of robbing the Pyra- mids and doing away with her lovers. “But in one sense the Gorgeous Girl ts pedullarly new and pecullarly American, for she js a direct product of the social upheaval that follows war. Perhaps it is a bit too hard to label her as the wife or daughter of the profiteer, but she ts an attribute of that kind of quickly gained, un- bs ti (AM IGHT PERcy | earned and unstable fortune, the albatross of the millionaire,” added Miss Bartley wit- tily. Of course you remember the dead albatross which the companions of the Ancient Mariner hung about his neck 4¥ a constant reminder: of his crimes. "| think you have isolated perfectly the type of America's newest wor an,” I remarked, “yet, after all, are there enough Gorgeous Girls to have any real effect on our society To which Miss Bartley’s answer is that though Gorgeous Girls mhy be oniparatively few, their imitators— oreeous Gitl seconds”—are legion, Do you know,” she raid, “how I used to identity the kinds of people that rode in the street cars with me? rom 7 to 8 there were the Frumps. The majority boasted of white kid o boots or some one's discarded near- electric-seal jacket, plumes in’ their hats and an absence of warm wool- len: ba “From 8 to 9 c; and the majority h She is get-rich-quick (NEANS ame the Funnies; d white kid boots silk frocks cut as low as our grandmother's party gowns, and plumes in their hats and silver vanity cases rom 9 until noon came the Frills —the wives of modest-salaried men who cannot motor, yet write to out of town relatives that they do so. “And every one of these Frumr Funntes and Frills apes the Gor- Keow rl kind—white kids for shop- ping, low-cut pumps in January, bizarre coat, chiffon waist disclosing a little thin neck fairly panting for protection, rouged cheeks, and a plume in her hat—and not a cent of savings in the bank, “Now there's sumething when we've come to this wrong does not lie with thi peopie but with those they imitate—Gor- geous Girls, new-rich with sickly con- boy who wishes to make friends kelences and lack of principle and i f , common sense; and these Gorgeous with. girls but wishes tobe aury Girls in turn take thelr styles, slang they are “the right sort” of girls. wrong and the HIS is the story of a lonely city Phrases, and modes of recreation, as am printing his letter in full, because well as theories of life, trom the bold- now there are many such young est dancer, the most. sensational 1 * Rece AFP BRS Aued Fe URR chorus girl—and it's wrong and not men in the city, also m lonely what America should be called upon young girls who fee! exact to endure. The Gorgeous Girl is the most gorgeous failure we have with = us to-day," | A Daring French | ‘The Jarr > oily |_ Evening Gown | ROY Ile Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), JARR came in and kissed the chil around with eager affection, Then she gave ‘Mr. Jarr a good big bug and a few kisses for himself. en all “My, my!" said Mr, Jarr, “We've gotten very popular with mother, haven't we?” “T Aagn’t care!” sald Mrs. Jarr to friend husband in half bashful acknowledgment. “There aren't any children in all this world as pretty, as bright end nice, as our children!” “And our husband?” asked Mr. Jerr, with an alr of carelessness—for ft doesn't do to spoil a husband by @howing you care too much for him. hey presume upon it and tmpose on a good wife, Oh, every woman knows that ind then she deftly parted the shildren, who had begun to snatch at a box of candy she had brought home, ‘Now, just for that,” she sald, “T'll lock the things up and you sha'n't have another bit, you bad children!” fut Master Willic sister Emma had po to such An extent, after the manner of monkeys and squirrels, that this dire threat had little effect. Noticing this, Mrs, Jarr added: “And I was going to get you a doll's tea set, Emma, And, Willie, I was going to get you some of those me- chanical building toys. If I do get them for you now I'll lock them up and won't let you play with them, gust for being greedy!” This was to show the Jarr offspring that while mother loved them discipline must be maintained. “Did you have a good tii my dear?” said Mr, Jarr, and his little hed the candy 6 to-day, "Gertrude id you went downtown with Mrs Biever, when I got home before you id" “Well, now don't go throwing that up to me!" retorted Mrs. Jarr. “It isn't often that happens, and only that I wanted to prevent a scandal because Mrs, Stryver tried to make trouble between Clara Mudridge- Smith and her husband and between Mrs. Blodger and her husband. But for her I wouldn't have gone down town at all; you know how little I care to go shopping!” But what the impending ndal?” asked Mr, Jarr. Qh, there was nothing happened, after “all,” said Mrs, Jarr. “But really, how some people close their eyes to disagreeable things is a sur prise to me. Sometimes I think they don't wish to know what they should Raswit “Tell Jarr, "There's nothing to tell," declared Mrs. Jarr. “We ran into old Mr. Smith and he took us to the Hotel . Vitus, and there right before our very eyes was Clara Mudridge- Smith and that Mr, Blodger dancing together, perhaps by secret appoint- ment! And old Mr. Smith declared he was so happy his wife was there and had such a refined partner, and Mrs. Blodger thought, or pretended to think, Mrs. Stryver “and I had brought her to the place to recon- cile her to her husband, And she gave him a cheek. As you won't take up dancing, I wish you'd start a bank account for me. It's so nice to be able to just write a check for as much money as you want whenever you want it! “And that's why,” Mrs, Jarr con- cluded, “I was so happy to be back in my own little home again and to see my dear children once more, I just thought how nice it was to have them, even if one hasn't bank ac- counts,” us about It," suggested Mr. ERE is shown a particularly chic French gown for the ball- room. It is fashioned of pale rose tulle, covered with @ tunic of aliver with beads. RSSTC revs Donn ENON nT OVW SSSR Tce Can You \ 1D RATHER ) NOT Butt INTO YOUR. }) FAMILY AFFAIRS J cues gaa g oN Beat OF COURSE }TAN RIGHT! AM | No ( MR Percy You Are BoTH WRONG -YOu OUR, / Wp ©) e (The New York Evenin t, 1920, rene Pub linh orld, PERCY, | LEAVE IT TO YOu > (A FINE | ) FRIEND!) | WON'T ALLOW A AN OUTSIDER 7 TO TELE ME ( fe HOW To RUN HY HOUSE ! @urtship“Marriage Berrw VINCENT Coprright, 1920, by Tho Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) way. I hope that my advice will reach all those who need it along this line. “| have hesitated for some time about writing yo: the lonely young man, had hoped that my luck might change. But it seems to go along in the same rut and is making me more despondent every day, so | am writing to you for ad- vice. 1am sixteen years of age, having completed a high school course at one of the leading pri- vate schools of this city, am earning $1,200 a year which is even if | do say 80, not so bad for my ag indulge in all boys’ sports, athletics, &c, play the piano and can talk with the average intelligence upon current topics, In all, | am very happy except for one thing; | haven't got a girl, “Other fellows always seem to beat me to it when it comes to the opposite sex. It's pretty hard for a fellow to work all day and come home knowing that another night will be spent in either walking the streets or attending the movies always alone unless, of course, accompanied by some one of my boy friends, of whom | have many, “| have seen fellows pick up girls on thp street, but | want the right sort of girl friends. | am alone in the city, my father being dead and my mother out of town in a little village up State, What do you advise me to do? H.C.” You certainly neve: find the right sort of n by “picking them ip.” But there are plenty of young Iris who would be glad to know you The b way f you to tind th girls is to join a “young people's club ome city church the same denomi 8 your parents or sume meinber our family attends W are a Catholi Pew Prote you find tha © socials for y 1 be cordia ullow yourself t hurehes and you w Do ‘not for go out a comed and pine Ko chureh or YMCA fret ne friend and join some iation, ch as the or a club where you will meet new friends, haps some of your boy friends will bave sisters or cousins whom you would like to meet ‘There is just as’ much opportunity In a big city to meet nice people as in a small town if you only know how to do it and go to the right places, sit ctl ‘u ) ( prease ) | DON'T | \ ASK NE !\ Es — ) DoYouBarH ) INSIST ON / MY TELLING ; You WHAT 5 i: \ PLEASE ( TELL US IT'S NONE OF YOuR BUSINESS HOW WE | D Wee Amerie 5 ai tos Bye Sophos Coprright. FEW days ago I visited the Bowery Mission and had the pleasure of speaking to the men who congregate there, Before I went, the good people tn charge suggested that I might talk on Americaniza- tion, a8 many men who come to the mission very often are In touch with those who have small regard for this country. 1 must say, I found very little need to talk Americanization to that audience. They were alive to it and recognized its importance, Many men who visit the mission are out of a job. Others are weak and wan and weary. They were glad to hear words of encouragement, of advice—something to keep the spirit I love to talk to sten, t Beenie nerd ose these appreciative, respond. They know what you talking about. Many of them been knocked about from pl post, and experienc taught them bitter lessons men, They they are are have r to Sweet ones, as well, as s the smiles of laughter real life living, they cbuld tell and en uinly evidenced by pleasure and the cheery How many stories of rich the world's knowledge There is no need to tell them very much about Americanization, They have heard the whisper of the law less one and given the proper answer to him They have doubtless ween the sin ister influe those who would tear down than build up the country in which t Some of the thoughts | had hop would aid them to recognize the mpter who would wi them from the path of Amer! nism @r When in America do as Americans do. A man's best country is that which gives him his bread and butter The man against the country that gives him opportunity Is worse than a traitor. Men who violate the Inw aro ually those who first run to seek its protection, Violence is the y live, pent that al- 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, {rene (Loeb. (The New York prenin ways leaves its mark on who uses it = The people who are constantly talking about those good old coun- tries abroad seldom go, there to live: Many a man in his hour of pros- perity forgets the country that gave him that prosperity If you want your obildren to be good citizens, teach them that the first thing a’ good citizen must do \s to stand by the law. The people who always seek to de- stroy are never able to bulld The man who attempts loyalty (> more than one country and one fig has no rights in either one. An ounce of constructive eriticism ts worth @ pound of destructive preach- World.) the man ings. Free*schools, free libturies, free op portunities are the th elemente first, that helped to make Amertc: Every man is born with the right to be happy, but he cannot secure it ut. less he grants the same right to bis neighbor Winning the war is the Idler; preserving the peace is ork of the man who stay The pursuit of happiness is along the line of least resistance th \ 1 order which he i must be loyas to the one ho elects to liv battle of th: tne not but nc may love the s born, but hy n whieh GOING D Copyright, 1 The Now York b bay PRINND: called Pudi ng World We Week once & have Up comes ar, when everything that ts no away and the dust ed from one phwe to another then you move it away from your own home Why not have a ING MIND CLIQAN Bless you, | n ‘ you miy i e I might be aghamed to bear hat they are Get rid of them! Here is a parti st; Ml in the rest Pnvy, hatred, malice, fear, unrest deceit, sin, sorrow, sickness and death Get rid of one at a time and do it NOW. Bincerely, ALFALIA SMITH. Did Timepieces Civilize Us ? “Cleopatra’s Needle” Once Served — Then Dropping Water and Sand — Real Clocks in the 11th Century — What Would Happen if No Watches? By Marguerite Dean. 1920, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). oy have in the man of to-day, s «irl and his dinner waiting eve® unpunctual modern—except when the caveman brought home both girl and dinner under his arm. For the only way the” caveman had of telling time was to watch the shadow of the cliff,under 7 which he lived, as the shadow moved with the passage of the sun. And this in the st of the first clock, as it is told by Harry ©, Brearley in bis new book © Telling Through the A “Suppose some long-armed mam set »pon and laid gether with pins and rivets. They & stone to mark the spot where the Were poor timekeopers.” | is shadow fell when the sun was high- spring camo into use, Minute est in the heavy second hands were added to the hour tp be | Covrriant. HE caveman mus The caveman im longer than does the have kept Up @ pole In some cae n# ‘That would be an TSS ae Rage a THe CAVEMANS “TIM artificial sun dial—a device dettbép- ately planned to accomplish a certain purpose. The man who first took such a step was pr manufacturer who had supplying you with your wateh, The shaggy mammoth, the terrible saber- tooth tiger and the eohippus, the small ancestor of our modern’ horse. must have been familiar sights when time-recording ut the hands of sone rude, unconscious inventor thus oe gan the long story of its develop- ment.” In “Time Telling Through the Ages,” published by Doubleday, Pago & Co. for Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro., in commemoration of t fifth anniversary, we more or less ingenious devices, from sun dials down to the very latest thing in radium wrist watchea, whereby man has tried to get a live ather Time, to spy on the old boy and prevent him \from slipping anything past in the way of hours or minutes. “leopatra’s Needle,” the big obe- Usk in Central Park near the Art Museum, probably was used once as & pointer to cast it shadow on @ mam- moth sun di This method of tell- ing time was quite commonly used as late as the end of the seventeenth entury, but it obviously had its djs- advantages. “The original {dea was simple enough,” explains Mr, Brearley, “It was merely that of a vessel of water, having a&a small ho in the bottom, so that the quid dripped out drop by drop, As the level within the jar was lowered, it showed the time upon a scale “After a time people noticed the Interesting fact that water ran faster = from a fall vessel than from one { which was nearly empty; this was, { of course, because of the greater if pressure, ‘Since guch @ variation i terfered with calculations, they upon the id of & doubi vessel; the larger one below containing a float which rose as the vessel filled, thus t marking the hours upon the ‘scale, and the smaller one above, the one / from which the water dripped, being kept constantly filled to the point of { svertlow OR ‘Attach a cord to the float, cause It y to turn @ wheel by use of the pulley principle and the motion of the whee! would indleate the time.” A MOOERH SATS and jewolled bearings were introe duced. The chronometer, for navie gators, Was produced. ‘The mechan- ism of both clocks and watches ‘was practically in its. present state by year 1800, ‘The ‘grandfather's ol of that date may look old-fashioned, but {t tells time a modern way, and the mechanical ideas in George \- ington’s watch were not so Vel - ferent from those which we find /in our own, What remained was to dempcratize the > eping of time; ‘to place mechanism equal to the hest of those days within the reach ané within the means of every man, “Does it seem too much to that if all the timepieces in existence were destroyed and men were given no other means for telling time, ‘civil- ization would swiftly drop to pieces and man would find himself travel- ling backward to the conditions /of the caveman?” cate aon “The Breaking Waves Dashed High...” vit This sort of clack was used by the Romans during the time of the Bm i peror Augustus, And at sume } time the sand glass, or glass, came into use "The Athenians, saya Mr Brearley, used to carry As early as the e entury rm in the monaa! ex nple of one of the first und finest of mediaeval clocks th at Stras hourg Cathedral rraine, built in 1852. It Was Galileo, in 1581, who dis ot 1 the principle of the pendu jum Watches t rs were pieces of ° jew and people ld time by wae oval in shape and made about t nlein of N mburg; hence But Didn't Wet This Two-in-Qne t wee oa gd i, Boxe” iit Suit of Worsted, With Pants of the was thick and heavy, * Mr. Pacts Hreatley, “It had no crystal and 8@™me Material and Walet Maid only one hand—the hoyr band. The works were made of !rou and put te- Color. Caveman Invented First One 13