The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 17

Page Sick Moth Greenwich Villag as Told by One of the Oldest Inhabitants, Will be Printed en Thie and ite Barly Landmarks, Wednesday. er’s Recovery Speeded by Music Played by Her Son, a Violinist, Three Miles Away; Relayed to Bedside at the Hospital via Phone THLEPHON®, a violin and a tal- cles in the convalescence of a mweet-faced little woman who has just possed through @ severe opera- tion. Every day this patient litte woman holds the telephone recetver to her car and listens intently to the soothing strains of beautiful music. As she listens the color comes back to her cheeks, her eyes sparkle and she looks as happy and refreshed as if whe had caught @ breath of cool mountain or taken a draught of invigorating tonic. “Oh, I feel #0 whispers 9 down and bly in her bed. “And sho IS better each time she Hatens to the music,” admit the doc- tors who claim she will be able to feave the hospital in at least one half all ls ber son, Maur Nitke, the Sell known violinist and musical dl- gector for John Barrymore, who daily Maxims ofa air much better,” sho puts the receiver berself comfort- he settles Every Day for Ten Minutes Maurice Nitke Se of Classical Music Over the Wire From His Studio, No. 1854 Seventh Avenue, to Convalescent Mother at the Flower Hospital. nt No, 1854 Seventh Avenue he spoke freely of the value of music for the {ll or convalescent, “Some day I believe that music Will be looked upon as @ great cure for physical ta," said Mr, Nitke. “When any one has been very il! or just paased through a serious oper ation they have that, ‘dead’ feeling. that depression of being absolutely out of the living world, but let them hear @ strain of music and they be- gin to forget themsolves, to follow the alr and then to realize that their facultios are stil] natural. Music is a form of life, Every one loves mu- sic whether they know anything about tt or not. Ohildren will flock to the hurdy gurdy, old mé@h and women become young again Maten- ing to bright tunes, while the hard- ext man on earth can be softened when under the Influence of music. In time I believe that music will be ‘as uch a part of hospital equipment ae doctors, medicine and nurves.” “Perhaps music wilt play as great a role in the patient's recovery as fow- ors,” I sumgested. “and Instead of dropping into a florists when our dearest friend is 11] we will eeeure the most talented musicians.” “Tt would be a great ald to bis re- covery,” declared Nitke. ‘You see the moment you arouse a patient's faout- ties, the moment you take bin mind from his sufferings, you have given him @ good start toward life and henlth, Musie, Hke medicine, would have to be prescribed for certain people. Tam not an advocate of rag: time, but at the same time Ifa person does not care for classical music and needs bright, cheery airs I am broad Modern Maid Mazchatl “cs HE trouble with marriage,” Diagnoses W. L. George, F. E. M. (Fictional Expert on Matrimony), ly that women have taken what It J#— A whole time job; While men havo tried to run !t On & part time basis," Ob, perhaps! But suppose the men are right? They get along so comfortably, Just being married from 6 P, M. to 8a M— From dinner-time to breakfast-time. Why shouldn't WOMEN profit by the example of their cheerful life-com- panions, And put marriage on a basis? I know @ woman Who must wake up every morning at 6, In order to start the coffee percolator. And the maid, And ber husband, it for part time Coprright, 190, by The Prone Publishing Co (The New Yor Evening World), (Ho would never catch his train unless his wife cated htm And put studs and cuff-links in his clean #hirt) She must order and often cook hia evening meal, Cail up the tailor who preasey his Mend his socks, Pick up bie laundry eulte, Put away his pajachas, slippers, bath-robe, towels, shaving things, the book he r 4 the night before, the paper-knife with which he out ite ‘Throw away his cigar stubs, cigar aah, burnt matehes, torn envelopes, yee terday's newspapers, the empty oracker-box from which he hunched at 10.30 P, M,, Tejephone to the coal man for tim, Write an amiable letter to his cousin's wife, Sew the butions on his overcoat, Go to the Library to get him some new books, Meet his train, at night, with the car, Listen politely and even enthusiastically, To his boastings, or his instructive remarks on bigh finance and the Re- at dinner, Publican Party, or his grouchy silence, And at the end of a perfect married day, Go to sleep, hammering into her brain the thought ‘That she must be sure to wake up in time to And all the time whe works at being If her husband cares about her—or tg just accustomed i him. & wife she wonders to he Tt he still thinks she is pretty--if he even knows what she looks like, It there |s anybody else, if marriage meang nothing more—? For wives not only have a trick of But they THINK overtime! And. dear Mr. George, ian't “The trouble with marriage working overtime, THAT sometimes ‘al ' nds Sweet Strains enough to say give it to him. I have seen convalescent soldiers whose apir- ita flourished under the spell Of jazs, T have neon old couples in, homes for the aged who tapped their feet and moved their hands as if young again when listening to bright, happy tunes." “And in the case of your mother?” I aaked, “There has been a marked improve- ment In ber health ever since 1 start- €4 to play-for her. I play for her over the phone because {t mellows the mu- sic and also because I would not want to disturb some of the other patients who may not have reached the stage where they are ready for music.” “If music will work such wonders swith the Ul, then wo who are well need music to keep us in a healthy condi- tion, don't we?" I asked Nitke, “Musto is life,” concluded the clever violinist. “It should play as much @ part in our every day Life as air, water and salt. To quote Pope: “"Musto the flercest gricf tan charm, And fate’s severest raye disarm, Music can soften pain to ease, And makes despair and please,” madness ' Ellabella rion | Mae Doolittle Dudley conten ty The Prem Publishing Oo, New York Byening World) LLABELLE DOOLITTLE, E the noted pottets, Is being con- gratulated op all sides in Delhi for her wonderful poultry poem, “The Music of the Hen, which eho read to the Backyard Section of the Women's Betterment League Thure- 4ay at Hugus Wall. After she had read it @. repérter for the Basco rushed onto thé platform and pegsed & copy for bis paper. Mins Doolittle handed him one and he ran all the way to the Baz00 office with it. ‘The Backyard Section of the League deals with subjects of Interest to the culinary department of the home. One weok an casay on radishes will be read and the next week the sub- ject will be cucumbers, chickens or pigs. It was poultry day Twireday ‘and Miss Doolittle was inyited to speak. Instead she read the poen and it made euch @ bit ae bas had an offer from a film company for the jcture riehte, Promptress Pertle called the moet~ ing to order at 2.90 and immediately announced Miss Doolittle, The fair girl stepped to the front of the foe- trum, gowned In Alice blue, trimmed with {mitation tadpoles, Without o, further than to hold up one hand Se etiance the applause, abe read tho following poem When the eun ts brightly shining, And the rooster ta reclining, ‘And a beefsteak odor 4s climbing Through the alr unto the nose, Then the hen, a comely beauty, Starta in on the “tooty-tooty,” she hag laid the egg of duty, And is delighted, I etppose. With a amile she'll “eut codaket,” Boon Sir Rooster will ratse a racket, Sounds like “Polly wants a cracker,” But, of course, it's surely not, Those two birds will keep on singing, Tilt the earth and skies are ringing, And in comes Teeney, bringing The goo laid by the red top-knot. Oh, the fiddle makes sweet music, Played by artists lke Bill Cusick, But I could not never choose tt Instead of the cackling of the hen, Sweet fowl, thy song ts edifying, Long it will live, never dying, For it ever I am meekly sighing, Accompanied by grunts from the old pig-pen, When the final word had been spo- ken and the full beauty of the poam had sunk Into tho intellects the ladies present, there came a sort of Approval. Tho club members ap- plauded with great gusto, ‘All were pleased, The Jorn Jrimily Coprrtat, 100), ty the Bree Pubtistius ‘“ know why it is,” re. marked Mra, Jarr, coming im with her shopping parcels, “out I can got a little box of corm plasters for ten cents, and yet they charged me ‘twenty-five cents for this little bit of a tin box of tooth- ache and there is only # aod ft isn't anything after all but pepper!” “That's because nothing hurts Ike @ toothache,” said Mr. Jerr, “Any- thing you want to put a corn plaster on cA walt, but a toothache won't, and the druggists know you'd give a dollar if you thought you'd get re- Met" “Maybe |t's because the toothache ters are guaranteed under the ro Food aod Drugs law, as it saya on the box, und maybe the corn plastere aren't,” replied Mrs. Jarr. rAnd, any Way, What you say doesn't exptaln the snatter, because when | bought the toothache plasters I had no need for them, I just like to have thein in the house--only when you 4o have everything in the house for an emercency you can't find what you want when the emergency af- “Well, don't worry yourself about it. You've bought them now, vised though,” “y plied Mrs, Jurr. “I'm thé one that has do worry myself, re- oo ? ING Down. Coppright, 192) ‘ny The Vrame Publisuing Oo, EAR Hurried Oncs-I may bave time to write this and I may I must catch the 4.04 Some one will be disappointed if 1 1 wit! be upset. Instead of staying until I have tho week end. Unless ny work ts done it will be a I will sit on the hotel porch and worry about the office, Hang it! How ts a fellow to choose between love and duty? write thie, There ts another train at 4.90, = (The New York Brening World) D hot. do not, PINISHED THE JOB, I must go for BAD end for me I will then return for a rest, I guess it is better to stay and re- Goodby. Yours faithfully, ALFALFa 4 (The New York Eveuing Weed) to worry because I'm the one who bas to do all the scrimping and saving in this house, You men don't care what you spend or how you apend st. “Well, don't argue about it," re- Pied Mr. Jarr calmly, “say no more.” “L will say more; I'll aay what- ever in in my mind!” said . Sarr. “tm old fashioned. I don't pretend t© be up to date, I'm fond of my home. 1 am not one of those kind f women who are silly about so- y or polities or the néw religions.” ! Nobody's classing you ried the now exasperat- But tt takes all sorts of ed Mr, Jarr. women to make up a world, I sup- p “That kind of women?” asked Mrs. Jerr soornfully. “Still, that im the kind of women men seem to admire theso days,” And Mry. Jarr sighed at the thought of the decline of masculine tastes, “They don't interest me,’ those kind of women,” growled Mr. Jarr, “I'm pleased to hear you say it,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. “But you don't of Rest “The Second Latchkey,”’ : Love and Mystery by G, Ne and A. N. Williamson, Begine | In This Paper. By Maurice Ketten | HAVEN'T! IN coat case SLEEP INA PORTIERE ? Glaes me with those kind of women, I om 8 plain woman.” “Bo would they be if they didn’t ewelry, fale ‘hair, atlk inte: Mre. Jerr. “I haven't had a real new dress, that ts & GOOD drese—tor two years, You know yourself that I took my beat gown, and it's almost @ rag, and had it made over for the second time, ust recently; and as for hats, the wt hat I have that is new is the shape I pad #4 for aod fixed up my- self, with some old nee T have aro! the house.” ‘Well, don’t let's discuss it,” said Mr, Jarr, “You would get all the things you could if you had the money “But I haven't the mon: \,” sighed Mrs. Jarr. “ff I had the money to get me a few nice dresses, a couple of nice hats, gloves, shoes, etockings ~~—all the things T need-—d would have the pleasure of wearing them.” “and I'd have the plensure of aceing you wearing them, and they would bo very becoming to you, my dear,” ad- mitted Mr, Jarr, “Weil, I'm glad to hear you say #0 for one sald Mra, Jarr. And a0 the storm blew over. Curtship“Mariage SETTYT VINCE. “é“ EAR Miss Vincent: 1 am working In an office as a stenographer and there an office across the hall, which | can seo from the window. During the summer vacation a relative of the boss took a girl's place and since he was @ very interesting young man 1} found myself looking in that offiee more than ence, The young man also looked into my office and during the secor week emiled quite often, The last day he was there as | was leaving the building, he said, ‘I never thought you were sueh a little flirt’ 1 have never seen him since, yet | know his name and address. He h. also asked the girl, whose place filled, my na Vinoent, tam r tell friendship? JEAN,” Despite your declaration that you are nota Mirt, Jean, 1 am rather atraid your letter telly another story, While you bave only acted as any natural sirl under the same circumstances, | would not advise you to follow up such a Birtation. ff the young man has your name and cares to seek you out, that ls another story, but do not revue bim. Dear Mise Vincents | am a young -six and have had many Recently | fell in love with @ vory sweet young girl whom | did mot suppose | could win. One evening | proposed in fun and she accepted then and there. At first | was the happiest man on earth, but the next morning | felt that | was not ready to wed; that | was too young, that living is too high, &o. Honest- to-goodness, Miss Vincent, | don't want t© break this girl’s heart and yet | do not really want to marr, eo what shall | de? ED.” Under the conditions no doubt you would both be very unhappy. But on the other hand you must not hurt this young gtri's feelings. Probably if whe had refused you you would be planaing ail sorta of ways to win her. low the best thing to do in to be frank and tell her that you do not think It advisable to wed for a year or Ko, “Dear Miss Vincent: Am sixteen and very much In love with a boy of seventoen, Whi on the atreet we just some: thing about the ut that all, His sister m at me very much but that he is shy. Please advise mo what to do as | am unhappy. ANXIOUS." ont boys of seventeen are very “shy,” therefere do pot take your love affair 9 seriously, ver her, ; Will New York Lady Adopt Paris Fashion of Henna On Faces, Bare Legs and Arms? By Marguerite Dean, Copreiatt, 1920, Dy the Pree Publishing Oo. (The New York Brening Work) the New York girl going back to Uwe daughters of Pharaoh, the Mahommedan hourle, for the newest feature of her make-up Dox? You, if she follows the latest French fashion, of which news has been brought to us by Mile. Claras, a New York modime who arrived from Hu- rape in bare legs. Bhe says that the Partsinn beauties are using henna powder not only on thétr faces but also on bare lege aod arma. Nobody knows when the first woman thought of using henna as a cos- metic, Possibly the slender little shrup with ile sweet-mented flowers and lance-shaped leavee—from the latter the powder ts made—grew tn the Garden of Eden and was plucked by Eve for her yantty box, Certainly it now grows im Persia, India, the Levant and along the African coasts ot the Mediterranean, and we know that it formed a most important part of the tollet of ancient Egyptian beau- ties, Doubtless Cleopatra kept it on her dreasing-table, but it waa popular long before her time. he daughters of the Nile ased henna to dye their fingerpaila and other parta of their hands and feet the peoullar orange-red tint, which in somewhat like the stain of lodine r rust. In fact, not to dye the natin with henna was considered in ancient Pgypt a dit of personal sloveniiness and indecency—the feeling moat mod- erm women have for the girl who goes about with a shiny, unpowdered nose, Bwen the nails of leyptian mummies were carefully henna- stained 4 Ti India and {n Mahommedan countries women use henna freely and have done so for centuries, There references to it in most desemp- oma of the beauties of the East, Our modern use of benna an @ hair dye ts common In Persia, where the hair of children, the beards of men and evea re the tails of horses and asses are thug changed in color, Faddists No leas a great lady then that daughter of Pharaoh who was Mra. T€ Solomon—or one of the Mesdames Bolomon—-te thought to have set the fashion of benna as 4 cosmetic among Jewish women. 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