The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1920, Page 19

rid. Read Today's! Uncommon Sense ,'*,*'."." jonal essays to be found daily on the Editorial page of The Evening eantetee “Pixcessive Play Is More Exhausting Than Exces- waive: Work,” Is she Claim i / often Eminent Psycholo- ‘SHREWD physiplan whose él “entele included many “nerve 1-74" eases” once said: “txcessive play is more exhausting | than ‘excessive work. My patients " tell te they have to have stimul- lant¢'fn order to do their work, but the Aruth is that stim@Mants and nar- cotigs are generally taken not to in- splr® work but to key one up to the pitehhot play. A woman has been known to work all day on tea and todst—or even without the tea. But if she° wants to dance all night and pubseme pep into her pleasure, she's likgly lo resort to cocktails and per- haps drugs of an even more danger ous character.” ba F'rench police, whose business \ Mas tiide them more famillar with D the play than the work of the “gay- esteapital,” were recently confronted withthe mystery which was Inel- dental to the death of Olive Thomas, thevactress who died in Paris after taking mé@feury by mistake, . THB is no reason to doubt that theiease was as simple as it appeared to b% but the French methed in all euch cases ts, “Ask questions—ask many), questions—take nothing for grarited.” ““ey remembered the famous Paris “case of Lucite Lantelme and the” equally famous London case of BiblieGarleton, and in thetr inquirtes ‘ about Olive: Thomas they. specially learned that she too had been “play- ing’ and that fever of pleasure seek- ingad led her to many a “party” in the "reckless Monmartre district, { whigh' was the citadel of merriment, even 4n the darkest days of the war \ i is known now as the “gayest se earth.” death of Biflle Carleton, also » beautiful actress, was an aftermath of London's merhorable “Victory Hall” in December of 1918. She had been “playing” very bard that night vnd for many nights before. Reggie je Veule, a French dancer, well nown in the underworld of his own and the English eapitals, was neld for’tionths on a charge of man- slaughter on the ground that he had suppliéd the actress with cocaine, ite was finally tried in the Old Bailey Court and acquitted, But the inefdental stories that were brought out included a descrip. Hon of orgies in which rich pleasure / seekes mingled ;with the riffraft from the four corners of the world » Limehouse Causeway, said to be second in wickedness only to the old st, Satd of Kipling’s description in fophe Light That Failed.” It was { ébown that Bille Carleton and the ’ = Ks the Wild Night Life of Europe =: Responsible for the Deaths of Mlle. Lucie Lantelme Billie’ Carleton Olive Thomas "WLLE_LOCIE LNT LOCE. nee THELPIE. group with whom she associated used to be patrons of a Chinaman by the neme of Lo Ping You, whose English wife was celeprated for her Skill in “cooking” opium. And the court proceedings brought out de- seriptions of the “unholy rites” con- ducted in the resort of Lo Ping, rites which last Yor whole week ends; rites in which men and women flim- sily clad lounged about the little cen- tral lamp where the “cooking” was being done. Lucie Lantelme also was said to be addicted to oplum, She was known as the most beautiful actress on the French <:age up to the time when Alfred Charles Edwards, journalis and “connoisseur of women,” mar- ried her. His “exactions” were sald to have caused her to resort more tn ever to oplum ior relief, and it was said that she had never given up her comradeship with a Paris apache known as Guillaume le Blond. One day she disappeared from her husband’s luxurious household while they were cruising from the Seine to the Rhine. And her cody was re- “A Woman Can Work All Day. on Tea and Toast, But She Is Likely to Re- sort to a Cocktail or Drugs Pleasures.” OLIVE TFIONAS Goin Dowm. Y Dear Friends: If your bank account is short—blame the ‘weather, {f things go wrong at the office— blame the weather, If your food does not agree with you—surely it is the weather. If you are unable to sleep—it is the humidity or the cold. If your shirt or skirt is wrinkled— itis the dampnees. If you are unable to go to nurch morning, noon or night—it is either too cold or too hot. If you are unable to keep appoint- ments—it rained. If your employer or your employee, nky—It is the weather, In rt—blame it on something other than yourself, Yours truly, ALPALDA SMITH ported to have been recovered by the Germans—but there has always been some mystery about that. For, al- though a body was buried as being tat of Lucie, some of her old friends are sure that they saw her years later, strangely changed and doing heroie work as a war nurse in the midst of the great Battle of Verdun. It was said too that she had been seen again with her apache friend. And the casket in which the body supposed to have deen ‘hers was placed was twice opened with vio- lence, once apparently to steal the jewels it contained, the second time for no discovered reason, It was in 1911 that she was reported to have died. Her husband sald he heard her scream just as she fell from her houseboat window. But the mystery never has been really solved. SUMMER GIRLS OF 1920 Diagnosed From a Dicky-Boy’s Diary - No. 7—The Beach Baby PEACH down on the beach passed across my fleld of vision this morn- ing and I’ve had heart trouble ever aince, Eyes affected ton. All dazzled up and nearly blind. NO wonder!!!! Just imagine if in your own case you were just awakening from a peaceful slumber on the sands and some- thing suddenly loomed up in front of you, paused and passed on liké a tantalizing, bewitching vision—well I'll say you'd be dazzled too, Oh-h-h Boy! They're taking advantage of me here. HELP, Gr-r-r-r-r-r-r woot woot!!!) RRR de to Instill Pep Into Her ° 0 ree | papice Fore | ce 1020, by The, Pnwm Publidite Co ie New ning World.) ry} ELL, well!" said Popple, tho Shipping Clerk, who used to live in Pittsburgh, “the Pirates Layen't got a chance.to.win the pennant this-year,” “That guy, Gilbert Sullivan, who wrote ‘The Pirates of Ponnints,’ missed it a mile with that show,” said Bobble, the OMflce Boy, grining. “Such ignorance!” sniffed “Miss Primm, Private Seoretany tothe Boss. “He means ‘The Pirates of Penzance,’ written and composed by Gilbert and Sullivan.” “Sure he does," replied Poyple. “1” remember that opera. Jt had a great song in it called ‘Pinafore.’ ” “I hope you're joking, Mr. Poppe,” said Miss Primi, “{ hope he's choking.” chirped Bobbie. “What do you people mean?’ de- mandéd the Shipping Clerk. ‘Pinafore’ was not a song,” sald Miss Primm, ‘“{t was another Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Don't you remem- ber the song, ‘He Polished Up the Knocker on the Front Street Store’ ?” “Oh, sure! You're right” | “By the way," said Bobbie, “was this fellow Sullivan any kin to John L, the prizefighter?” “Of course not!’ snapped Miss “Why ask such a silly ques- “I used to hear my father say Sullivan's operas always had a punch and”— ‘Can it, kid said Miss Tillie, the blond stenographer, “Gee, burt there's fa lot of ignorance floating about this place to-day, I don't suppose y people Know that they're claiming now that Lord Bacon wrote those Gilbert and Sullivan operas, do, you?” id Bobbie, “I read wbout tha “What a joke! came from Miss Primm. “They're claiming Bacon wrote Shakespea “And did Shakespeare answer his letter?” asked Bobble. “Enough!” snapped Miss Primmi “Bobbie's jokes are stifling me. I'm going out to get some air.” “Look out, or you'll get the air for non-neglect of duty,” sald Miss Til- e, “And she says wé are ignorant,” snapped Miss Primm. ‘As she opened the door, Mr. Snooks, the boss, entered. “Well,” he sald looking around, “why Is’ eterybedy so solemn?" Nobody replied. “I know what you need,” he continued. “You need ’ few of Bobbie's jokes.” He turned * he said, * to tell five jokes to your friends here each morn- ing. I'll pay you ten cents apiece for them, We must brighten up this bunch somehow ‘As the boss disappeared in hia pri- vate office, Bobble grinned “Tl start to-morrow, friends,” he sald, And everybody scowled, , ‘Sweethearts for | Now running in The Evening’ World, is full of ge Bi ryron 3 relative to the methods of the Digtetet Attorney's offic _ing to-day's instalment. i) Corea, 1920, by The Breeg Wat that The Now You Evening Poor Little Income! i! HOW MUCH WILLIT COST. J US To MOVE ok NoT So FA) “You haa ol PUSHING ME NoT MUCH we besa ne \FURN (TORE NY TURTLE 1S FULL OF AURTLE MOVING CO WHERE IS OU LITTLE INCOM The Jare Family 4. MA$Caraail. Coprrtaht, iM by The Prove Pubilshing Co. (Toe New York Rveutws Wor.) IS8 LVA BELLOWS of Brooklyn Was visiting the Jarrs, and the Jarr household was all in a fluttor, At least Mrs. Jarr was—the others didn’t count “How was the car strike when you left Brooklyn, Iva?” asked Mr. Jarr, to make tal'c, “Oh, for goodness sake,” interposed Mrs, Jarr, “don't bother the girl after her tiresome journey by asking about your old strike! It wasn't Mr, Jarr’s old strike, but he ceased his questioning “What became of that Maude Bow ser who Was trying to catch that young Bindeison so hard when ( was in Brooklyn last?" asked Mrs. Jarr “Their “engagement’s announc sald the fair vialtor, “I hear he'd to get out of {t, but she won't give bin the chance.” }@ chanee!" cried Mrs, Jarr shrilly. “Poor fellow, he'll never get that. It was simply disgusting the way that girl set Her cap for that young man. Don't you remember the night I tried to get you and him off in @ coruer by asking him to bring me ove & glass of water and then saying, No, I'll get it myself, because, of course, you want to talk with Iva? Did you see the look her mother gave us and nudged her daughter to call him ‘er to them, In the boldest man ner, and when h excused hin If and went over to th for they se to came over and talked to us with & hypoerit sm n her face." “She doesn't care a thing for h said the fair Brooklyn belle hasn't anything but his salary in real estate office, but she's go afraid of ‘being an old maid—and she I8 an old maid, for if ahe's a day she's twenty-five—that #he just made up her mind to marry him, no matter what happened!" “{ wonder the men don't ses through creatures like that.” mur mured Mrs, Jarr. i “You know she visited in Cleveland and came very near getting automobile manufacturer said the think « although too young- t with no husband? Perfectly disgusting!" said Mrs Jarr. rl could be that b: Maude Bowser |sn't any go on long visits 1k a in mind than to hope you are going to may us u Jong visit this time, Iva.” sald Mr Jarre “OF Course ohe is, guid Mire. Jars eee Sae awee Se eS ave him hypnotized, the mother sharply. “Why should @ girl ike Ivu waste her timo tn Brooklyn?’ “It’s'a dreadful pc the visitor gloomily; as if there are any nice young men t all, And you know that Harry nington, his father’s the rich urriage maker, He's a lovely fellow nd Sue Dedham and Kathryne Ketehem are both making a set for him. Poor Harry Greenington, he’s such a But he had sense enough to get out of Brooklyn.” Then Mrs, Jarr whispered some thing to the visitor, and Mr, Jarr thought he heard the girl's whispered reply “At the College Club.” “Do you know anybody that be longs to the College Club?” asked Mrs. Jarr of Mr, Jarr all of a sudden “Me? Sure not! How would I know any of those college Willies?” replied Mr. Jarr, "It would ba better for us all if you knew more college men and less persons Interested in violating Pro hibition!” satd Mrs, Jarr, And then she turned to the Brook lyn young lady and said: I'm getting some nige engraved paper; we can ‘ him @ cor 1 Mttle note and he'll call.” And Mr. Jarr sighed, He knew the neta were being spread again, _— [DOOK. ight, , 1920, by ‘The Pree Wahine Co tin New York ng World.) AM or acon should be put into boiling water, when cooking It, instead of cold water, It will cook more quickly and the flavor will be preserved. i The annoying feature of having batter atick,to the spoon when drop- ping muffins, &c., can be avolded by dipping the spoon into milk each time before taking wp a spoonful of batter If the family prefer the botled or Amed potatoes peeled, just peel off na ind the centre potatoes are d drained dry, press the op- posite ends between the thamb and forefinger and the potato will readily sip from the skin. Something different tn the line of flavor will be obtained if a few # clove in with the prunes when (hey ase pul op 10 cook. t a Crete G2 ee The Female of the Speechers Ain’t So Deadly as the Male—The Modern Whiffenpuff Will Anything From a Soap Box to a Pork Barrel. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Frening World), RATORY 4s one of the fine arts that is fine for the windjammers and It 1s the forma] system for uncorking bro- A bromide is something It is not to be confused with bromo And an orator is always some guy with a message to deliver—but the message is never boiled dowa to ten words, Talking may be woman's strong point, but making the speeches be- GF) Talk on tough on the ear drums, mides on a simple, defenseless audience. that always gives you a headache, In the Days of Greece, Demosthenes Was the Prize Liberty Bond Salesman. longs to the half hose sex. The female of the speechers ain't so deadly as Back in the days when Greece was the prize carbuncle of the Demosthenes was the leading Liberty Bond salesman, was little Demo's trick to pack his mouth with pebbles and deliver a ‘That was before the Smith Brothers found a sub: Demosthenes gets credit for discov world’s culture, rattling good speech, stitute for pebbles. ng the ball-bear In a later age came Cicero, who put the stone age spellbinders, Cicero did all his spouting ves his wind by running, Today Bryan’ changed a bit only @ nimble s The modern whiff enpuff will talk on anything from a soap box to & pork barrel July Fourth kind of guy that makes the eagle scream by untying the bull In addition’to these there is always at the old location » Nation deaf, modern orators, dumb and dr comes campalgn a blizzard of bunk that s any are called jiars und trick for Breezy Bill—the pebbles be deatial oral ¥ Ube year is divid in two parte—from the front of a porch and the rear of @ train. : Debs is speaking {n the middle of @ sen+ tence, But if platitudes were plati- num the Republican campaign would be worth more than $15,000,000, It's developed into @ phonograph campaign, and the talking machines have confused the voters. The phonographs have fixed it so you don't know whether the issie “ia “Columbia, the Gem of the, Ocean" or “To the Victor Belongs the Spoils." The second tune sounds good on @ politician's music box, © The campaign is now settling down to steel needles, That means it will be a long time befqre it gets down to brase tacks, But phonograph ora- tory is @ great ald to both the candt- dates. After six months of “Dar- danella,” the tired voting man is willing to Usten to the first cam- paign record that comes along. The beauty of the graphophone stunt {s that all the speeches are limited to $1.35 worth of misinforma- on, A candidate's record 1s now four minutes flat, An athlete can cover a mile in that time, bus the candidates are covering a League, It is certainly a new wrinkle for the voters to go to the talking machine department to look up a candidate's record, but {thas {ts advantages at that. A defeated nominee at least gets a pape in the Laitinen cabinet, Newest, es dy Telephones small enough for both « Uansmitter and @ recaiver to da varriod {n a& vest pocket have Seen invented in Holland, The Unlted States now has 48% teel abips using off for fuel, and of 0 vexsels under construction €36 will be oll ‘burners, l deel Bative o the first blast 1 © for the production of pig tron nanufscture bas begun oper- ations in Nasal ireattiet tee q }