The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 29

| Male Vampires Printed on This Some Unique Impressions of New York, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920 To-Motrow. iy ts the Title of Neal Ry O'Hara's Humorous Essay Which Will Be Don't Mise itl ha By Tom Webster, Noted English Cartoonist Course oF A FEW MONTHS —— COWECT MORE WWFORMATION Than A HOTEL ROM Land's End to John o° “Groat’s, which Is a figurative way of saying the length and brea#ih of Britain, Tom Webster is a Dousehold name. No sporting event ‘Ys complete without Webster, whose ‘wonderful eye, aided by a wonder- fully alert brain, picks out appealing points tn boxing, football, racing, tennis and every game that is played, go that his cartoons, apart from their delightful humor, often as not con- vey to the millions of readers of The London Datly Mail and kindred publi- eations aituations that even the still and “movie” camera fa!! to record. ‘Though first and foremost a sports cartoonist, Tom Webster ts versatil- fity itself, and no social foible or freak of fashion escapes his facile pencil. Webster was one of the first to rush fo the Great War, and in trench, dug- @ut and rest camp on many a stricken Flanders field his art gave pleasure @nd joy to many thousands of his fel- low Tommies. He ts probably the fastest working @rtist that ever did cartoon for, # pewspaper. His rough sketches are om Ro inn made by the ‘ringside or on the foot- field in a five-cent his od ball or cricket notebook—this is only one of SS = Joker of the Breakfast Table. HATS the differenc: tween @ game of basebal! and the opera?” asked the thin boarder breezing in to breakfast. “Oh, I know!” exclaimed the blonde rthbon-counter girl baschall games you at ony men in the boxes,” “Wrong! baseball you see only one dia~ mond” —Yeakers be- be careless with your from the conundrum ixey,” came from the thip one, < Tue PRESS Pucto: BOARD THe Boats Must — in THe FLoo® CLERM. ttle affectations—and tn his office “den” these are transferred to card- board with almost photographic -rapidity. No matter at what late hour @ pig -boxing match finished, Webster never yet missed the edt tion. Webster ts thirty and looks as if he will remain so tll the end of his tether, The fact that he is a con- noisseur of clothes, silk shirts and wonderful neckties helps to this supposition. He is as chock-full of imagination as an egg is full of meat and goes about in a quiet, re tiring, nervous sort of way extract- an Te WEBSTER,who giv: to him after a week's s1 foremost English cartoonists. NORK— Every Wwe You y in the city, is co RASE YOuR HAT ing humor from every new sight and every ordinary and novel phase of our complex Ife. In New York the Wrigley Kids are his special joy. He simply can’ dive in this city without seeing them twice a night. They are 60 like his own funny little fellows that fall in or out of most of his car- toons. Webster’s work is altogether die- tinct from that of any other car haan in Europe, and it fs to gather impressions in this country that his chief, Lord Northcliffe, has sent him on a tour of America. In hip funny depiction of the sights Please .cw that he has observed that our newspaper men never pass up new steamship arrivals—if they igsue with his pictorial observation of the hat-check girl demanding ONLY 10 cents for a hat. Perhaps, however, he struck a bargain day. ir to pos: appr Jarr mov L. PFC Jimjly Copyright, 1920, Oy Thy Prue Publlahing Ou ibe New ork Evening World), 8°Mr. Jarre turned up the street the other rainy afternoon he was aware of the figure of a Uttle girl under a very large umbrella. “Hello, papal” came a small voce from under the umbrella. “It’s mel” “Won't your mamma miss you and be frightened?” asked Mr. Jarr, “For surely she never let you out in such kind of weather!” “Oh, yes, she did,” sald the little girl solemnly, “She said, "Poor papa will get all wet; be has no umbrella. Willie, you take the uinbrella and go for papa.’ But Willie said, ‘I won't do it!’ Ain't he a bad boy? “Why didn't your. mother come with the umbrella herself or send Gertrude with you? It ls strange she'd let you wome alone,” asked Mr, Jarr, still mystified, “Mamma was afraid shed spoll her new hat,” said little Emma. s Mr. Jagr picked up the umbrella with one hand and the Mttle girl be took on his arm, and thus they went home, ¢ “Mamma said, as I was euch a good little girl, you was to stop and buy me a whole jot of candy, and Wiille wasn't to have none,” remarked the little girl, es her glance fell upon the window of @ candy store, ‘Oh, yes, to be gure,” said Mr. Jarr. “And pow, dear, are you sure your mother went you with the umbrella? “She just begged me to go," de clared litle Buuna stoutly, "Well, it's very strange,” said Mr, Jarr; “she's generally so careful about not letting you go out alone, even In nice weather.” The little girt Aid not answer, but began to cry and ate candy harder than ever, “There you arel™ cried Mra. Jarr a] | Jurr entered the house with the ttle girl. “I euppose she was down in the hall waiting for you to tell you what @ bad little girl she’s? been this day? A significant glance wa» exchanged between Mr. Jarr and Uttle Emma. “Oh, well,” said Mr, Jarr, “ehe’s only @ baby.” “Yes, and you spotl her till there ts no living with her, Guess what she wanted to do? “Oh, never mind, tt» all right,” said Mr, Jare evasively, But Mra. Jarr was not to be put off. , “She actually wanted to take an umbrella and go Way a@round the corner three blocks to meet you in the heavy shower we just had. The idea! Just to humor her at first I told her that we never knew what tiene she might wait there for hours; of course, 1 had no intention at al permitting her to do such a thing “Oh, of course not—a Little thing Uke her,’ said Mr, Jarr, “Then,” continued Mre. Jarr, “she arried on terribly, She certainly in. herits her temper from you. Bo I sent her in the front room and told her not to move until you caine home And If she did I would make you whip her—and whip her good!" “Oh, I don't want to come home and punish the obildren,” said Mr, Jarr uneasily. “You have just got to thie time,” said Mrs. Jarr. “She divobeyed me by allpping out of the parlor and down Into the hall when she heand you coming! And you've brought her candy, too! Give me that box!” added Mrs. Jarr to the little girl, “If your papa won't punish you, you whan't have any candy. Now, papa, take her into the front room and talk to her!" In the front room the Iittle gtrt put her arms‘ around her father's neok and whispered, “I took the rest of the candy out of the box first, Do you want gboontaye Peppermints or gum you would come home and that but 4 tera The WAT: CHECKER WUCTURESS LOPES OUT OF HER LAIR _ i ~ (1% WS SORT OF TING That rep) JE 7 ~ Goin Down. EAR FOLKS: Do you know what the word RUT means? Rut ts a vasant of route, and freight does not get far unless it is routed and—nelther will You. A train not ip a@ rut ts lable to hill some one. When you get into the proper rut you will fing you will graduate to a SYSTEM, and all successful lives are based upon a system, Route yourself. Plan your life and your werk. SYSTEM has taught me to do my brain work before noon—my leg work after that. How about you? Get ih @ rut until you get onto the system—there is 4 raise in the salary of those who stick until the end of the line. Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH. Laxims of Modern Maid By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ee EOPLE used to Take Marriage or P Let It Alone; nowadays they take it and then take tt to pieces, A man ts amused or tndignant at the idea that his wife should expect him to be tnterested in new clothes or the new poetry, but he expects her to tisten with rapt enthu m to hi dissertations on radio-telegraphy or road- maps. The summer widower is now try- ing to explain just what the postal service did with all those letters Promised but not written What's the use of & woman being either Intelligent or when it's go much easier corners of and to say to t know you understand all a won't you p-please help m No man is so sordid finan w self-reliant, te t the her a superior to details of ad he who lives on his '# money. After reading the certain female citizens of Con cut and Delaware, 1 wondering ne Niheter Amend- ment will be like the Eighteenth more honored in the breach than tn the observance, Afler having cornered the vistble supply of egotism & man is natur- ally both alarmed aud puzzled to see @ woman in possession of any of It. The eastest way for a woman to the reputation of being a good sport te lo speak of some other woman with praise insincere and uo deserved, In the home @ quota is the amount a woman asks her huyband to sub- scribe toward her now elAbes; @ campaign fund amount she gota of ti confessions cannot winter fa the MUCH MOVING IN YOUR HOUSE THis SEASON Gee WHIz2 | [SHOULD SAY So! - FLAT 6.B. WHICH ARS MERRY WIDOW PUNK 'S FIRST WIFE MARRIED NR SPORT AND MOVED To 6.B. By Rocer BATCHELDER. (Copyrtahied, 1920, by Roger Bachelder.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. Hickeas gang plane te whe ing oowspaper. — Whittng “tall Fifth Avenue belfena, wor! ‘a ove to, Hi to’ Incognito. ful Hetty Buliagasley, « gil reporter with whom O'Connor falls lo love, © Connor, Visiriet Attomey Fiéward calls O'Connor te le office, compliments him om his work and (alle kim iat he iows of the prrecat, stwatiua Home monihs later, Betty Willinesley te 1 tourment nu to sad te be t 8 fobs sory about O'Cunuor, whida te ‘o shaicied “to New Server, but fe rescued after Van Winkle spyware at the Disiria Attoraey fella of sectng ‘her that’ aftern Ou.” "The gnagaiere confess when grilled in ‘the otitoe of rr Ww aiding. to. the house of Mise ‘liryant, “ou Fifth “Avenue, finds erful ats) thet be leew 48 0b cost ‘settlement hom she tober “astonishment 1s president “ 0," he decided, “Til let every one think it was Just an accident, And it was, thanks to that copy boy at the office and the picture on my desk.” Whiting reaghed the office at 11 o'clock, and found the tlekers bugging furiously with news for the next morning, The day elty editor was not due until 7, and he reported to the man in charge of the night desk. “Where've you been?’ he snorted ‘The Boss has been down here all day, trying to get hold of you. He sald you knew the people in the O'Connor case, but you dropped out of sight by that?” He adjusted bis spectacles and glared at Whiting with all the con- tempt of a veteran newspaper man for @ fledgling who has missed a story. “Mr. Hamilton,” said Whiting, “I have been covering the story since yeaterday noon. And I've got It, from start to finish, with all the frills and pictures, Want it?” “Want it? Why, ye geds, mant Every good reporter in New York ts after it, and they're all stuck Tell me what you know.” Whiting sketched briefly the events of the past thirty-six hours, The What the devil do you mean “whiting, you're a corker,” he cried MR SPORT MaQVED To ial FLAT 5.A To MR PUNK, WHOSE WIFE JUST + DIVORCED HIN [IRS MERRY WIDOW NARRIED NR PUNK AND MOVED To FLAT AND HR SPORT.S DIVORCED WIFE MARRIED THE ' LANDLORD AND. SHE and with satisfaction, His story was police officers in plain clothes, atill q “beat.” Bald the Gazette in part: ‘The events of the past twenty- four hours promise vhe greatest scandal mince the shake-up in the District Attorney's office five years ago, From information gained by a Gazette reporter, it eooms that the article published’ @aturday by an afternoon paper about Deputy Assistant District Attorney Joseph C. O'Connor was @ fabrication on the part of one of the newspar.t’a reporters, Much mystery attaches itaeif to her whereabouts, and the rumor ia current tut she has been found and is now in this city, very Hl. Accordiag to Mra Patrick O'Connor, mother of the young assistant, Mr. O'Connor came home early last evening and re- Ured early, He refused to be tn- foytully. “It reminds me of the Um teryviewed, but sent word that the in ——. Oh, hell, get to work! At sory had been proven false, that leamt five thousand words, life tory figs Billingsley hud been forcibly of O'Connor and the girl, Dig into carried into Now Jersey and that the morgue and get the records of Howard, Zaunstein and everybody dine, Got'e picture of this doclety lad, Cut Some Manting imtornation + - 4 this morning. District Attorney Aiden ele wend 10° Howard had also retired at The old man thought foramoment O'clock’ last evening, and grhen verhere's two envelapes for you on servants were questioned they de- the desk, Go tet ‘om clared that he had been away Whiting found them’ and upon “nee Saturday atternons Dreaking the seals found in one the The Sphere contained a despatch picture of Van Winkle and his car from one of its New Jersey corre and in the other a picture of O’Con- spondents, which read nor and Miss Billmgsiey. Attached Morristown, N. J, Sept, 12.-It to the latter was a slip, “Thought you {8 reported that a Aght of some might need this, too, I had it taken kind took early this morning at Coney that night, Joe,” at @ whack formerly used as a “flere ure the ones we wanted, and hunting lodge and owned by @ one of the girl” declared Whiting. wealthy New York man whose “Great! Bully! Copy boy, take name is not known, Upon visiting these upstairs to the engravers, quick. the scene, the correspondent for Fine work, Whiting!” He paused for the Sphere found every evi- @ moment. “But what are you eawp- dence of a serious confijot, Purnt- ing for? Get to work.” Hamilton ture was overturned and there glared yenomoubly. Whiting opened bis desk and took off his coat, ‘Morning papers, Mr. Whiting,” cried a boy, running to the desk. “Boss saye you'se to look at ‘em.” On the front page of every paper was @ story on the wb@uction, But they were all miseratiy tnoomplete, older men trembled with emotion aad Whiting scanned them eagerly ah - the District Attorney would give were spots of blood on the floor, Many automobile tracks led to the lodge and persons Living in the vicinity reported seclng @ fast red racing car bearing # Now York Hoense, and packed to overflowing, on the road to Now York early thie morning. Some of tia ccou- pants were bruised, the reports ame 6 te gross tons, a decrease of 13 front the year before. eay,,and the men looked bike to meke, them val a cnn cients trltsineencnne ete eer we * ae The Sphere had quickly and ao; , curately Jumped at the conclusione that this incident bad some referes), ence to the mystery, as the District, Attorney had been seen leaving in ® %, car of that description Saturday> night, and returning with severaly;. other men Sunaay, > ite The Courter had @ plausible storyyiq: which, so far as it went, was fairly® accurate, It also linked the New Jersey Incident with the mystery, anf! suggested that Howard and his men «had made an,arreast in New Jerseys after @ fight, and that the prisoner®> had been brought back to New Yori.” Complications might be expected berep cause of the extradition laws, Rexhq Ports from Police Headquarters, 18" stated, showed ‘that a number of men had been locked wp at Howard’ 4 orders, but no other information had beon given out, The Planet had learned that sev, eral east side leaders had left their . homes in custody Sunday about noog/ i! and had not returned since, A son of one of them had declared, “Pa's inches before his mother had ustied bim inside, tt “9 (Read To-Morrow’s Interesting Inve talment.) tent Kiowosh Noles * Fiotd# Schemes « claims for its easy riding 3 Are made for & NOW AULOr the jon springs of rich extend nehes in front @f and behind the axles instead of Geing. - comined to the wheel base area. 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