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His Official Correspondent Gives Us the “Inside Dope’”—True Impressions of the Royal Guest. “New Yorkers Have the Flutter of Laughter in Them—Men and Women Appeal to Me More Than the Sights’ By Ro; Coprriget, 1990, by The Prem Batchelder, , On (The New York Brentag Worl). ‘ YORK motorcycle cops chew gum! ‘That was one of the discoveries that His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, made on his visit to this city. : ‘Though he remarked that they were remarkably efficient and had no jequal pig batons he nevertheless noted the fact that thelr jaws are contin- motion, ‘was not so long ago that this heir to the British Crown was the guest United States and of Now York ‘City. He went everywhere, saw "et tho “TAR PRINCE oF Wales Our Royal Visttor le Fond of Golf and Jazz Dancing. ‘ everything, attended numerous banquets, made counticss speeches, danced ‘with our prettiest to the tune of our jazziest jazz bands, and after endear- tog himself to our hearts left with profuse thanks and remarks about his “ripping time” Ever since bis visit, when New ‘Yorkers have seen accounts of his @othgs in the papers they have asked, “Now, I wonder if he really enjoyed it or whether he was bored?" or “What “36 he really and truly think of this olty?™” Many months have passed and finally we have the answer, not ex- actly from the Prince's own mouth, - but indirectly, from the pen of a Boswell named W, Douglas Newton, Who accompanied the royal guest throughout his trip as “official corre- @pondent” and wrote down every de- tail of the journey. So, while “West- ‘ward With the Prince of Wales” (Ap- pleton) is not an autobiography, it Is ery evident that it is “inside dop,” fad a true reflection of the Prince's wn sentiments and opinions. The young scton of royalty is Drought immediately to our minds by ‘the declaration that “he 1s not an in- fellectual und he certainly is not a @ullard. He rather fills the average @f the youth of modern times, with an extreme fondness for modern ac- Givities, which include golfing, run- ging and walking, jazz music and jaza @ancing (when the prettiest of part- mers is by no means a deterrent), ightseeing and the rest, and he Is Much more at home in the midst of a hearty crowd—the more democratic the better—than in the most august @f fotmal gatherings.” Young Edward had a good time in Mew York, according to the author, mi in spite of close contact with erowds for weeks, found New York ¢rowds a “fresh exporience.” They hed “something fresh, sparkling, hu- man, warm, ardent and provocative, WIFE OF NEPHEW OF LORD| FRENCH COMES TO PAY us VISIT. RS, HUGH R. FRENCH, daugh- ter of Gen, Robert H. Wynne of the British Army, on her the Olymplo yes- i here abi y.. Her husband is the nephew 4 Lord Froncn of the British Army, They had atways the flutter of laugh- ter In them; they were crowds that had personality, insouciance, an inde- pendence in thalr friendliness.” He more “ruth!oas' ir methods than the London “Bobibies,” but po- the throng “like & Wales was struck with the “vivid- ity” of the New Yorkers he met, as they had ali “xn air of passionate aliveness, intellectual avidity that made contact with them an affair of delightful excitement.” The profile of Manhattan, with its sierra of sky- ecrapers, caused him to remark, as he saw it from Jersey, on “the beauty and dignity of its towering sky-line.” Another imprcssion, in his own worls, was that “New York men and women appeal to me more than the sights, So far eas entertainment went, New York's ‘hospitality “rushed its guest off his feet." He saw Caruso ‘at the opera and enjoyed not only Music but the spectacular masses of wuditors that crowded the Metropoll- tan. He frankly Hked dancing with the prettiest of the metrop apd rather fancied the : His The book Royal Highness said, @inally, had @ Ane, and I want to come back soon,” he meant ft, Add New York is mighty glad to hear it. wiiiger. ~_ “Mra. Jarr has probably gone away for : few days,” suggested Mra. Smer) admirable, rather C! gs hf ‘ 1H Jurr children are staying at the Rangies’s,” remarked Mra, Smork to Mra, Terwit!- ger as the two met, Mrs, Smerk com- ing from jes ‘butcher and Mrs. Terwiliger going to tt. “Why, that's strange. I saw them in Mra. 8 rer’s maid in front of the gro- asked her if she'd seen Ger- domestio trude, the Jarr’s scientist, lately. - Mra, Stryver’s mald replied in the negative. ‘They must all be gane to the eeashore or the mountaine—all but the chiltren, They are being taken care of by friends,” said Mre, Terwilliger; “that is, unless Mr. and Mrs. Jurr have quarrelled and par' —they quarrel enough.” Mra, Stryver's maid returned to greedily report to Mre, Stryver that all the neighborhood was talking about Mrs. Jarr running away and @eserting her children. “Nonsense!” snapped Mrs, Stryver. “You mustn't repeat gossip, Fleu- rette!” Her right name wes Izzie, but Mrs. Stryver thought calling her Flourette made her a French maid, Ligue—that 4a, Fleurette—thought so too, “No, Fieurette,” Mre, Stryver tinued sadly, “you mustn't listen to || wip and scandal, i urthermore, Fou mustn't repeat it.I, for one, am not interested tn my neighbors’ af- fairs, What more did you heaf?" “Mind you, 1 don't say * nothing, ma’am,” replied the self-made Fre: maid, “but Mrs. Terwiliger sald Mra. Jarr wags gone, everybody was gone, and the chil was with friends” —— “That will do, Fleurette,” said Stra. Ettyver. “Not @ word to auy one! But 1 know Mra. Jarr never deserted her children. But that man Jar? hos Probably done so— “There, say no more; you may go now!" Mrs. Stryver added. Ghe probably did not wish the maid to say more, as she intended fo say it herself, As soon as the girt “Home-Jamesed” to the kitchen to spread the news Mrs. Stryver had a Mudridge-@mith on the phone. + "Ia that you, Clara? hia is Miriam.” Miriam was Mra. Stry- ver’a name sinco she bad money. “Listen! What did you hear about the Jarrs?” Mrs. Clara Mludridge-Smith had heard nothing about the Jarrs, out to confess this would have shown golf to be out of the zone of the cial wireless. “Did you ever hear the like?” re plied Mrs. Mudridge-8mith. “And those deap little children.” sala Mrs, Stryver. “Oh, T wouldn't have af attract've girl vistt my house, althour those Cacklaberry girls were not very attractive.” “Well, what did I alwa: lady at the other end of the wire answered. This was another shot in the dark, but such shots always fbring down something when a whole flock of lics are flyin Wel T don’t helieve dt, thouzh everybody saya it's ao," sald Mra, Stryver, And thus, having stiitally “paesed tho buck" to her friend, Mra. Strv- hung up the phone. Meanwan lo and rr were only syend- a dny in the country with the y fr. in Jenkinges, RUNWAY, BY Sone beene: Lore Copyrigns, 1920, by Tho Trae Pablisiing Co. WOMAN in Kalamazoo ap- A peared with her ex-husband before the County Clerk to ob- tain a license to remarry. She had secured a divoree on the grounds of cruelty, but she found her husband was not so cruel after juli and that he was truly “the oue man." Another young woman much in the public prods in New York is also re- gretful phat sho loft her husband for another man and states that ahe ts afreid that she had appreciated hor husband too late, Following are some of her publlo statements: “When a woman and has gone through all that T have known, I guess) wh ver romance there may be In life goes, “I have found the other man out. T always respected my husband, but T thought I loved the other man. Now I find that I have no respect for the other man and when a woman loses her respect for a man there ts no love, “My husband saw that I was in- fatuated, and, like a father, he wished to make things right for me. “It is said we have a_certain amount of worrow in our Hives to make us see\things as they are, “I do not know what I will do, But I do know thia—I respect my hus- band more than any other man tn the world, That's ajj T can say." This woman {s hopeful that her children will bring her back to her husband who seemingly was an ex- cellent husband and father. Such cases may bo labelled “hasty action, but repontunce at leisure.” Such people think they are finding their happiness when they make such @ momentous move ax to break the great tin ‘that is intended to be last- ng. There may be supreme moments, fays, months, perhaps years, but in the final summing up eadh parson will not more than the average eamoummof happinesa, ‘You can't get drunk on it for any length of time, ‘Tho trouble 1s that some-people get an {nfatuation, a temporary attrac. tion and they think the thrills will last forever, "They find they are mis- Life ie not regulated this way. { know @ woman who had every- thing wi while—a good husband, children, rfohes. And yet she longed for something, she knew net ahas, is twenty-eight UES (The New York Reowkny World), She was always’ complaining that she had never hod any youth; that she had married too early and that she had m something in the scheme of th! Many people t ever pity thom: She fell in lov younger th k like that and tor- vou with @ man much an herself and thought that she wor now some the youth that r ret she hi lost, What she really got waa a good jolt —the chance to make comparisons and fully to realize what a fool she had made of ‘herself. It wasn't what sho wanted at all. It was only by bitter experience and an opportunity to make significant contrasts that brought Uys woman to « realization of just what happi- ness really means. When she was truly happy whe had made th worst of It, and now, when she was miserable, she couldn't make the best of i When ‘sh her own te me she was the finally did get back’to le years she told ‘happlest woman In the world.” She understood what it meant to wel) enough alone. She learned a big truth—that it {6 bad Dusiness .o put aside that which gives you a fair average of happiness for something that Is uncertain and most always proves disastrous. Analyze your state of being. If you have a fair amount of happiness, hold on to it. It ts pricelrss. € Manhattan’s Faithful Fire Horses Have Answered Their Last Alarm ,. Doc, Mutt, Jeff, Carl and Carnot of Engine Co. No. 47 Will Be Sadly Missed by Neighborhood Kiddies, Who Looked to These Charging Beasts for Their Supply of, Thrills. , pr Seems wen ee : =: Nich ALARM By George Buchanan Fife. T HD fire horse has given hie last heroic #ervice in Manhattan. For the last time hp has gone Plunging through the streets, his collar straining against his mighty shoulders with the weight of a five- ton engine thundering at his The old devotion of duty that car- him to @ fire breathless and almost spent with his effort to be there betore @ rival team whould ried gain the ground; Patience that made him at ouce nder and au idol in the city, tnat him friendships, eve euch as exist beyween Human folk—all thie is past now. horse has served his time and his und a wo! won for the hee’ faithfulness affection The fire generation and, so far as Manhattan is concerned, 6 & memory trum, lo- day onward, And with his passing thas gone the gsiamour of fire fighting. for the disaster, or tho threat of it that a fire spelled, it might be said that there wes an eloment of sport in response to an alanm. was sport, or, of New York. way, of course, narrow janes through which to pilot the three great beasts, tart runny Lost, all Were it not real hore at least, a sporting savor in guiding three huge plung ng horses through the crowded streets Vehictea got out of but they away, left chilarated to thy nicl the ponderoua machine that roafed ‘beh! ¥ mip the ind them. truc! yple used to stop, wherever they t be, to watch the engines and and the hose carta gu by. Gone, too, 48 no uncertain clement of the pride a nelghborhood tock in This was thé pride that made it boastful of the horses that wtood so patiently, yet so olert, in their stalls for all to see ng they Its halted at the door. sonal interest in “Toms" machines fire house. and the “Riis” so much “Jims ‘They had a per- and that drew. the better, 80 much faster than any other horees in the dep by yes! rubs ot artmont ten" he passing of the last lay when the fl hed to ¥ horse caine great an!- Company 47, at 118th Strect and Amsterdam Avo nue, were taken from thelr stalls to make room for & seven-ton motor- They haye not lett driven machine, departinent, merely left Manhattan, for they have the however: the © been transferred to an as yet un- motorized company in another bor- ough of the c'ty, Swittly upon the heels of thes passing animals have niseenees, recollections of fathtulness and segacity on the part of the other come reml- horses that have gerved their pur- pos ment, rep! put cha © in other sed on. ince th nKe; Fir And ears and, comes brance which goes back to 1882, When horses were first used In the The working force of the old volunteer department was ao weak- ened by the cholera epidemde of that year that horses lad to be bought to e extausted men, Tut horses were found to be go ef- ficient and intelligent that they were into every fire house 1910, according to Fire Commissioner Thomas J. Drennan, there were 1,43) animals in service in 204 fire f ghting, companies, st now of these 804 companies, 243 are at this date motorized and there in comes until turn reme Aeopart- the in are only 577 horses left in the de- partment, and 100 of these will ba gone by January, The automobile equipment’ consists of 600 pieces, ranging from a chief's buggy to a truck half as long as a city block. There is no doubt of the value of the newer equipment in every way save the spectaculan—that went out with the horse, As to what becomes of the horses that pass, Commissioner Drennan says that many are turned over to the Park Department, where they get easy work and ood care, Others ar sold, with the perm! Sinking Fund Comm! aid of the hignane sox a. Stories of the loyalty and sagacity of firo horses are lerion. The names of many of them will be remembered as long as the department exist, be- cause they have gone Into the sagas that a the history of the city's fighting force, The speed and endurance of fire horses not better shown than in the performances of Dick, a blooded trotter with a record of 2.12%, who (these animale deserve the personal pronoun df any creature ever did) for fourteen yeurs took Deputy Chief John Binns to fires. Bipna used hi for short ruus even after the motor car came into the department. ‘Two of Dick's “rur are memorable, When the Adaans ‘Express Bu Iding La Lower Broadway blazed Into a “two- nines” fire Dick carried Binns from Elghth Avenue and 48th Street to Ex- change Place in 15 minutes! And once this great creature carried him from that uptown station to Nasrau Street In 1144 minutes! Dick had a stall once in the house of No, 7 En- gine, Duane Street, near Broadway, and when the stalls wore ripped out in 1911 to make yoom for motor ap- Paratus his stall was left, And it's there to-day, Dick was retired in 1917, was bought by Binns and dled ater at the age of twenty- a farm in Connecticut, was a big gray horse, the contre of one of the three that for ra drew No. 65 Bugine In Broome : t. One night a man came tn to give a {1 alarm.” ‘The house *watehinan ran out to see how big the fire loora open. At ving 4h Worldlings| Honest tax! driver has been found in the Hronx, but no tax! patron ean do af} his riding in the Bronx. was, | Evening Swann and Shevlin are co-operat- ing in separating the gvats from the Lanza. to date industries now have who find Up their ligh-prioe engineer reasons for boosting prices Jersey olty woman who, thinking henelf too old at fifty, enfled her ‘life, was merely too old-fashioned to make herself up to look like twenty. A “still” {8 certainly freuutent when it gocs up tn the alr with @ deafening explosion. Tennessee showed true Southern Politeness after all the same instant the regular alarm sounded and the five animals dn the station started out. Two of them got to the street in their excitement, but Dan, realizing he was not harnessed, stopped at the threshold, tumed about and blocked the way so that the other two could not pass, There was a big bay horse tn the house of 16 Truc! Old Slip who hecame @ great favorite with the children of the neighborhood. They used to go into ‘hia stall to pet bim One day an alarm sounded while a little ¢'rl of sqven was standing di- rectly in front of him, Instead of plunging out of his stall nad prob. ably tiling the child, he stood stock suil trying to muvsio her out of the way, though all (he other aniyints ‘had clattered out in response to the wong. Drivers ag well as horses have often been called upon to take a “sporting chance” for life. Jim Callan, driver of No, 34 Engine in West 33d Street, was all ready to go home for his Christmas Day dinner In 1895 when an alarm sounded from 424 Street and 10th Avenue. He jumped into the seat and swept his threo roans out of the At 39th Strect a woman and a child got in the path of the engine, There was a Rett LAne car golng north and Callan had three chotces to make, elther to run into the woman and child, into the car or into the curb and over- turn his engine, He chose the last— and died under his machine, The affection of firemen for their horses is so well amplified in what Joe White, now a Captain, did last February when the dilzzard ted up communication throughout the city. One of his horses developed an ab- eas on the leg. White knew that it ‘ould take twenty-four hours at least for a department vet to get to the house of &8 Engine in the Bronx, so he sent out for a vet on his own account and pald for the services to the horse out of his own pocket, that its sufferings might be quickly re- lieved. One of the crack teams of the de- partment was that of 7 Engine, which was housed years ago in tho old brown stucco station In City Hall Park. These animals won many > S prizes for speedy rexponse fo alarms in exhibitiona at Mndle Syuere Garden, They had a revord of 4 seconds from atall to complete har- nesing. The harness was hung low in the house and the animals learned to Jerk thelr heads up as soon os they thrust them into the collars !n such a way as to fisten the enap catch which locked them on. For many years the show house of the depurtiment was that of 6 Engine in Weat 434 Street, the club district, There were five black horses in the house and they were petted and ad- mired by every one in the nelzhbe hood, Lou Sherry, the restaurateur, used to send almost dally supplies of ugar cakes to them. Once when Mra, William K. Vanderbilt had t house decorated at Christmas tume for the men who could not get home for dinner, the horses joined in the feast by eating most of the amilax off the walls. Tales of the horses could be told ad infinitum, Tut new they've gune— dnd there isn't anything to tell of a moto, Here Are the Latest Terpsichore Tremors oo S SE" pussy-FSor ano Be CAVTIOUS ° wel alia ae WALC FRENCH “TRIANGLE One STEP Dance wT Wry ONE Noe asp AVOID THE e- ETERNAL TRIANGLE” To Be Adopted By the National Association of Dancing Masters wrroouce A BALLET STEP - You CAN MAKE A STRONG mic 17 1F Wanted" TH is the greatest thing that’s happened was invented, It moans that the first Tuesday of next November te ® be Ladies’ Day, The right to make crosses tn the vacant squares, though, doesn't alter the fact that woman's place is in the home, chasing the ants out of the sugar bowl. Just because the polling booth is now co-educational mean that home is just mommer’s ‘Sleeping address, Woman stay at home and bring up the children, And ‘also, the coal and comes but once @ year, The landlord Woman was created when the Lord took sparerib from Adam and made {t into a chicken. Adam still had thirteen riba left, but one chigken = was considered plenty. ‘That proved that woman was equal to man at the start, but that’s all, The frails have had to scrap every inch of the way from Eien to Tenn- essee to get on an equal footing again. And now that they're equal once more, we have got to face & bucket of problems, Can the flappers purify politics? Maybe. But if the dames had to clean up politics with a mop and soep they wouldn't be #0 anxious about {t. A reformer thinks he can clean up politica bf windjam- ming from the top of a soap box. But the trouble with all great male reformers {s that thoir feet are on the soap box, but their hahde are in the contribytion box. So maybe the dames can improve on them, If w@ give women a voice In the affairs of government they'll never be natisfied till they get thelr nose in ‘em, too. No doll will ever read a Presidential message unless it contains recipes. When the frails tmvade the halls ot Congress we'll have a Commit- tee on Miliinery Affairs and a Com- mittee on Foretgn Creations. And hereafter a Conzressman will send URSDAY,AU If the Dames fad to Clean Up Politics With a Mops Soap They Wouldn’t Be So Anxious About It, By Neal R. O'Hara. Copyright, 1990, by The Prees Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World), EINNESSHE Legislatnre has made tt legal for the dolls to mark on the Australian ballot. Bighteenth Amendment took the X's off the stalwart sex’s barrels, Nineteenth Amendment now pute Ge © on the frailer sex's ballots. The new spare part of the The Candidates Should Make the Booths ‘The home ts still more important than the polls! GUST 26, wD) { preg to women since the fnstalment ss je for Mirrors and Lipatiolg. Yea, bo! Election Dey, comes once a month! ; to his voters pansy seeds and tulip bulbs. But it all goes to that woman has ‘improved @ince the early days of America) ‘Thoge were the days when a moth+ er carried » papoose on her balk, To-day a mother has nothing on @er back but georgette crepe. ony But—the Nineteenth Amendment doesn't shuffle the fact that @ dame’s place fs in the hammock be- fore she is married and in the tote, afterward. Home without fs a vacuum. And a vacuum ts not ing with the wind taken out of {t, . Any Jane can do more for the dinner pall tm the kitchen than can by trotting down to the And a mother ts better off “AU Babe Baba and the Forty Thieves” to the kids at home thaw hearing about Ali Baba and the government from some soap windbag on the reform ticket - If mother must dabble in nattonat forms let her stay in the nursery : study the wet and dry problem , With the frails OK'd for polities, it's @ question whether woman be at the sink or In the swim, only answer is that woman's {a In the home along with the brew, That leaves no chance her husband to go out nights ‘he's looking for a song. Ellcbelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Dudley Conyrisht, 1980, by The Prove Publishing Co, (‘The New York Bening World). the noted poetess of Delhi, was the honored entertainer at the Literary Meeting of the Live and Let Live Geetion of the Women's Better- ment League held at Hugus Hall Thursday evening. Miss Doolittie apolewized for the lose of three front teeth, stating » they bad been taken out by Hog- gio Hopkins, the dentist, but read a delightful poom, nevertheless, Mra, Cutt O'Brien complained a Little about the hissing in the diction of the poetess, but when it was pointed that O'Brien whistles when he Ks and usually has halt @ dozen dogs folowing him under @ false im- FE “the note J MAP DOOLITTLE, pression, she had nothing more to say, Vicanptress Vertle presided, After had sung a new ustn’t Monkey in a pleas- ttle wue called ing manner, Miss Dod and she re- on to take the floor, eponded gracefully, The noted girl was gowned tn a pink and blue lozenger dress trimmed with imitation Forget-Your-Wives, @ flower that grows In the vicinity of Delhi, She bowed, almost tripping over Toby, the Hugus Hall cat, whioh should not have been there, and then read a poem called “The Poles und Bolshivekia.” Tt todlorw The Poles and Rolshivikis, They are having a sear, The reason tt is tricky T cannot any what for, Firat the Bolshivibis won, Then the Poles turned on them And fought like a son-of-a-gun, Hoping they could hound them, My sister's chitd, Teeney Ricketts, Snipped off Grandpa's whiskers, They were his pride; what a shame? He wag a very sore Mister, But, getting back to the war— A lesson we must learn, Do not be a Bolshivikt, dear, ‘Twill cause you much concern, When tho final word fell on tho ears of the ladies they nudged each Here Was other tn rapt admiration. & resident of Delhi ¢ oughly conversant with around Warsaw. It seemed ful for them, Mrs. Boney Hock leaped from her chair and waved her bande in the alr. “Three cheers aod a tigress for our gril pootens!” she yelled ‘The Indies rose up and tespomtied with great gust j All were pleared, deavoring to lea world in extreme fashions, T ie shown the with @ Supiion 0 of the sowed on the baok of the au ? ticular inetanes Seams ts have a fondness for sah. weould el dans Clade ee ee A LES LL LS FS BT