The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1920, Page 33

‘ '—PROVE THE ADAGE— There’s No Age Limit on ROMANCE AND MOST OF THEM ARE HAPPY ONES | By Marguerite Dean. Copyright, 1990, by The Pres Puhilahing Co, (The New York Evening World®, T HERE'S no age limit on romance—or on Romeo. observation that the old man who marrics a young wife buys a’ book Nor does the cynic’s for geome one else to read—put any damper on such marriages. While there's life there's love! For consider the recent lapses into: @onjurality of three famous French- men, whowe names are known here almost as wel! as in their own Paris. Marshal Petain, Commander in Chie¢ of the French Armies, veteran of Verdun, author of the famous war ery, “They shall not pass!" was mar- fied ast month at the age of sixty- four, to Mme. Hardon, at the City Hall of the Seventh Ward, Paria, The fmarringe, tt is said, was a relaimtion of the warrior’s life-long dream, as he had known his bride long before her ood marriage, when she was a young wi Two septuagenarian French bride- ms are Anatole France, perpaps ie greatest man of letters now alive, and Catnilie Flammarion, the astruno- » Anatole France, Academician, elist, critic essayist, satirist par excellence, has just atarted on his Boneymoon at seventy-six, his bride -Deing Mile, Emma La Prevotte, sald to be forty years his junior. One can fmagine the witty and ironic analysis of auch a situation in fiction, which might be penned by the author of fThe Revolt of the Angels" and “The Glo of Penguins” _ ‘The same wedding a: by M. France's contemporary, M. Flammarion who at seventy-vight has wed Mile. Gabrielle Rena the reported collaborator with hin Bhe writing of many of his books. Elderly Romeos are not unfamiliar ures In our own society. To every Now Yorker will ocour at once the mame of Richard Croker, He was seventy-three when he married, six ars =6ago, twenty-three-year-old ula Benton Edmondson, an attrac- tive young woman of part Indian an- ©estry, At the time of bis marriage, Which took place in the home of Na- than Straus, No, 27 West 72d Street, the former chief of Tammany Hall Was both proud and happy, and inthe fmtervening years he and Mrs, Croker m to have enjoyed life together at i# Palm Beach “wigwam" and on hls Irish estate, He mado a fine and Spirited defense of his wife last win- ter when his children charged that he had got most of his property afvay from him, and she stated publicly: “Mr. Croker is to me a remarkable Man and I have a great love for him.” Less successful, by far, was the In- @ian summer romance of another ‘well-known Now Yorker, W. ED. Btokes, clubman, turfman and finan- cier, He was sixty whon, jn 1911, he Married Miss Helen Ellwood of Den- Ver, Col, a pretty girl only a little more than a third of his age, She had been living with her aunt and uncle at the Hotel Ansonia, which Mr. Gtokes then owned. His first wife, who was Rita de Alba de Acosta, had divorced him some time previousiy waa chosen in and later became the wife of Capt, Philtp Lydig. Judge Hen B. Lindsey of Denver, Col, last February awarded the two cl and len Muriel, aged three, to ir mother, pending the trial of @ divorce suit, in which he named four co-respondenta, one of them be- ing his son “Weddle,” by his first marriage, Mrs, Sto! brought @ founter sult for separation, and @ffidavits and statements denying Btokes'’s charges were filed. She charged him, before Judge Lindsey, ‘with being a morphine user and with aving @ dogenerate mind. Another Stokes marringe ropre- ents the wedding of January and Mal. Only two years ago Col. Thomas Btokes, brother of W. E, D. Stokes and a retired financier, wed in the Town Hall of Patchogue, L. 1, & oung woman of thirty, named Lily: te Loulse Kuenemann. Col, Sto! wan seventy three when he became Wridegroom for the second time, his first wife having died more than twenty ars earlier. ea, ie true; it's all true—ha, ba, I'm going to get married at na’ fast # laughed Chauncey Depew to a World reporter nineteen years ago this month. And he was married that same year abroad to Miss May Palmer, daughter of Henry Palmer, a kK banker who had moved to ‘The then Senator Depew was eixt: even, The happiness of his late flowering romance ia sufficl ently attested by his birthday interviews for the last score of years, of which fhe general tenor is that he grows paper and younger every ye it attractive | America m , Mins Elizabet came the bride of sixty-sey id Luther Burpank four years ago, She was twenty-eight and had by bank's secretary for three years, It 4s not on record that this union is any the less successful than the num- erous inte ing "marrlag: which for years he has been arranging be- tween different kinds of fruits and vegetables, ‘An eli Juliet, ment in New York some eight years ago was the millionaire steel man, Edward Brome, Alsop, and his bride Miss Effie Pope Hill, At the time of Qheir marriage in Trinity Church he was seventy-five and she was adwenty. Mr. Alsop ad two sons in Harvard, one twenty-two and one eighteen. Two months later the bride was in @ Sanitarium, and Mr. Alsop was transferring $1,000,000 of his Property to his sons. In 1916 Mr, Al- pop sued for divorce in Pittsburgh, on grounds of desertion, and the ruferee Fecommended a decree. ‘Another latter-day romance of age fand youth which went to the’ courts solution was the marringe of ames Harvey Hart, a wealthy re- red jeweller of Brooklyn, to Cath- rine Wolf, a manicure girl. He was tighty-three and whe eighteen at the dime of their wedding two years ago, He asked for an annulment, less than fe year later, but the sult was dis missed and it was his wife who re- eeived alimony of $175 4 month under nett ene 1919 ARCHERY STAR * AFTER 1920 TITLE 188 DOROTHY SMITH, of Newton Centre, Mass, Na- tional Archery Champion for 19, is thie year a contestant in the annual tournament of the Eastern Arohery Association being held at Boston, Mass. ——»—---— HOUSEWIFE’S SCRAPBOOK Varnished wall papers such as are frequently used in bathrooms can be beautifully cleansed with warm water in which paraffine has been dissolved. Use half a pint of paraffine to a pail of water. Wring a soft flannel cloth out of this mixture and wipe the walls, then polish with a piece of cheese- ” cloth. If ammonia is used to neutralize acid spots the desired result may often be obtained by holding the thot to the mouth of the ammonia bottle. The fumes will effectually neutralize the acid Beat It! Mrs BLUFF "TOUCHED NE FOR FIFTY DOWARS To DAY, JOHN SHE HAS A GIOLD DINNER. SERVIC | NEVER SAW ried THINGY SHINING IN ENCRUSTED WITH DIAMONDS. SHE ToLd THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1920. Kyte, C Sue’ LL PAY S Reers ALL u \T'S JUST LIKE MINE, So SMALL HE Woucd LOSE IT IN A CRACK IN TRE FLOOR IF IT FELL \ He, SHE HAS LOTS OF SILVER VALUABLES IN HER HUSBANDS SAFETY Box IN THE BANIK 10 AGED BRIDEGROOMS: DEGROOMS | ) DUATILAT MIAGAZZINIE |W Can You By Maurice Ketten nee LUC I LE 1, WALT RESS DUDLEY“ KAHOE mo to-day,” Was in to sald Lucile, see the Waitress, ag the Friendly "J Patron took @ seat at the lunch coun- ter, “Who's Jimmy Tuckahoe?’ he anked, “Oh, that's so! You don't know him, Jimmy ts w Heth man who sleeps in the hay at Kramer's livery stable near the river. He's eighty and huen't got anything to do all day but Just stand around and wait You've probably seen him out here on the That's where he does most of his, waiting.” “What's he waiting for?" “What is there to walt for when you're eighty, ragged, down and out and sleeping in a livery stable? How- ever, Jimmy's proud and won't have it no other way, Once in a while he nd 1 slip him some , telling hit it’s sample stuff we mt th How he the rest he y knows.” tow did you come to know him?" “He lived next door tous when we had a place across the river, He had @ nice little home, too, all paid for comes in here fox out of his savings, Him and hin diugblor lived there. She Was Just twenty-one and pretty as a picture.” “What happened to her?" “oO y in love with her, got jealous and shot her. ‘Then be killed himeelt. The lived six months in a hospital and Jimmy sold his home got her expenses, She and she was all to pay nover woll love-sick ton't how Bhoot these young girls, scoundrels t? "Yes, but maybe they ain't wholly to blaine." a they mre, the cowardly brutes.” Lucile did not reply. She went to the kitehen soon returning with some roast beef for the patron. “What did Jimmy Tuckahoe come in to-day for?" he asked. “To make arrangements for a trip out to the cemetery,” replied Lucile kivery month I hire an auto and take him out for a little visit with Yo you go with him?" And together we visit the of the girl and the fellow who "You visit HIS grave?" ¥ Mother's too fee eto make a decroe of separation, And recently she asifd the court for mor Why do these elderly Romeos do it? Kipling has @ poctical explanation; he saya that Lo and Death onco drank together at the Tavern of Man's Life, and during the bout the arrows in th 1 mixed—so that some of the darts of Love stored In his quived arrows of Death therefore, their victims mixed, haps that ts as reasonable an answer as may be und to the eternal problem of wh “eld men love while young men die,” n the level now, n't such a bad kid. He was good to mother and me, L-I can't quit him, no matter what he done.” Luctle dashed her handkerchief to her eyes, "Say," she concluded, “how you going to have your pie— hot or cold How Do You Secpuse Authors Pick Phone Numbers in Plays? telephone numbers they use in thelr shows?. The Evening World's newshound waa told to find out Kdgar Selwyn Is at bat: ‘Where do 1 get my numbers?’ he chirps, bis black eyes laughing and his curly hair snuggling closer to the cranium which has produced plays on a shoe string, "I just guoss at ‘em. Allen Brooks, who is author- producers wt the Punch and Judy Thoatre, is second on the fungo-hituing expowe. Says Allan, epigramatically, aa ‘twere: “I bellevo Ji: how do playwrights pick the in the ‘half-and-half plan for hus- bands and wives. In my Jast play I chose a rexpectable phone exchange with a 60-50 (fifty-ffty) number.” Giddap! amy Gray, responsible for Follies in the Village, says jad you asi e In all my rketches and plays which call for phone business [ in-* variably have them call numbers as- signed to saloons. The characters know this and they stick with the show." George M. Cohan, he who knitted the wave in the fla wae queried concern ing his views, jeorgle, short and snappy pick out my lucky numbe them.” author of "Dudley the Bide Dudiey, 1 ent,” was timidly ap “L usually use the numbe of some out-of-the-way pay s#ta The numbers should never add up to 13, That,” confessed the Bronxville hermit, “ffs unlucky.” A certain well-known Broadway author, who refused to permit his name to be used unlesy it was placed in the first paragraph, sald: “Take it trom me, cull; use the phone number of jebrated under- taker in my shows.” were! Please way it New York Telephon pany upon learning of the quest evinced much interes all agreed, even unto those who con- fessed t considerable y @% one nuthor had d them for unused numbers. They seemed to conclude that the play- wrights just picked out their own mwumbers and trusted to luck cons) HAT IS THE BEST JOB. FOR A YOUNG MAN? | How Would You Pick . One for Yourself? .~ | HERE ARE SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS HAT is the best job? W ‘Thousands of young New Yorkers who will begin their working Comrright, 1920, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New Tork Brening Word) life tivis autumn are asking themscives this question. They want to micoeed, they want work which will give them the greatest measure) of money, of happiness, of ultimate power and opportunity, How shall they choose? They do not know, and often their friends and parents are no wiser, But choice ny ambitious young man or CANES FOR KIDDIES NEW FAD A LA PARIS Sadek tial BETTY Jang Bue: Oyperrsves N Paro even the kiddies carry canes, ] Pretty five-year-old wetty Jane Bupll, whose home ts in Tulsa, Okin., arrived from Europe the other day carrying one of the fashionable sticks” MAXIMS ° MODERN MAID TAE JARR FAMILY BY MVARGUERITE Copyright. Any young man in a state of nor- malcy hopes to avoid all entangle- ments with the state of matrimony, An affectionate wife doesn't mind being her husbahd's cook, nurse, chauffeur and audience, but she sometimes wishes he wouldn't ex- pect her to be the card-catalogue of all his belongings, The favorite game of all our blase young persons is = “Témptation— temptation, who's got a temptation?” According to the records, tew women commit suicide after thirty- five—they have learned by that time there is no man for whom it is worth while to die, Of political slogans so far, the most wickedly barbed arrow fg that of the unknown New York Suffragist who penned, with a chuckle, “Wads- worth's place is in the home.” When a woman tells you . she VRSHALL 1020, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Wants a “candid talk,” and you are on the point of telling her the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truta, frat make sure that her spell- ing of “candid” fs not “c-a-n- d-i-e-d.” In the competition of the fash- tonably dressed, the race Is ever to the slender and the battle to the long. Ther® is this to be said for the bore: If you fix him with a glitter- ing eye and a bland smile, you may plan your trousseau, your bridge leads, your deals in Wall Street fu- tures—he won't care, so long as HE has"the chance to talk! Why shouldn't the component parts of a divorced couple be friendly it isn't as though they were still married! Like Caesar, the modern woman refuses her crown—of gray hatr, Early Pictur PICTURE NO, 14 aro. they are The Evening World week will be printed, You'll find it @ very army of gucssens, Who are they? nend you Bach and the ZRH ure two more pictures of stans of stage Can you guess? Solution at once to the Editor, Magasine Wednesday so ions ih toch of Stage Notables GUESS WHO THEY ARE. Pts Fe late or screen, If you think you know who Pass preceding tuken years the correct Hat of the names of the most successful contestants, fascinating game if you join The Evening World's i CARDELL. Covgrtght, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) husband is a deceiver! ‘The qoales have fallen from my eyes!" cried Mra, Clara Mudridge-Smith dramatically, and she made a gesture to indicate they were no lightweight scales that had fallen from her optics, but rather iiacuieed hay or coal scales; and she e Y London's s American Newsie King Takes American Queen 11 Newdboy King has taken @ Queen consort, “Keystone” Ham Cole, who long bas been hailed as King of the London Nows- boys, but who !s American born and bred, has just been married to Adela Victoria Robertson at St, James, Piccadilly, She, too, went from New York to England, travelling with the Cana- dian Ked Cross, and is now attached to St. John’s Ambulance. She won a bunch of decorations for service during the war. The Newsboy King—-we might call 1 “Young King Cole,” for he te twenty-nine--his bride ia thir plenty of the war too, arrived here for a visit years ogo he had been through & Freneh military prison camp, Oran, snd bad been present at the fall of Monastt jince 1905 be has been globetrotting, making his way by ing and he declared Juring bis in New York b he would travel until 1920, when fiftwen only When three yaaw he newspapers, latest stay completed we would have yours of swinging around the world role and would bave been in every untry on earth Md He was born tn He Hagerstown and th rtd anil Pa, ng pap! n he game to New York, worked his passage to Liverp returned to New York, wok & flyer into New England, te maining some ‘months at Portland, Mo, then made @ tour across tho continent to Los Angelos, collecting letters from most of the Mayors along the route. In July, 1916, he went to Alexandria, Deypt, thence to Cairo and the return- ing to Salonica ero he met tw renentauves of the Amor lean Hed Cross. Will ho now man down" or will the ca still be a lure to the the moat adventurous al? looked aa though surprised they hadn't made considerable tumult In Gropping, for she had called Mr. and Mrs. Jarr in to sit in judgment in @ delicate domestic matter. “Now, Clara, be calm!" advieod Mra. Jarr, “although I'd do the very same if | were you!” “Wait a minute! Maybe all this can be explained!" suggested Mr. Jurr. “Yea, my doar, it can all be ox plained,” mumbled the elderly hus- band nervously, “I simply contribut- d to the campaign fund of the lady —ehe Was an old acquaintance’ “Yes, your suspicions scem unjust. No harm haw been done,” Mr. Jarr interposed; “and besides, Mrs. Bmith, admitting that your husband did sub- scribe to a lady's campaign fund and she was Weeping when you came in your husband's office—that only vhows he was but a friend to beauty tu dintrena.”” “SHO a beauty?” asked Mra. Mud- ridge-#mith soornfully “Besides,” Mx. Jarr continued, “your hunband knew the lady but ‘hadn't seen her for ten yeara and he wasn't married ten years ago.” “That doesn't matter. insult to me!” oried Mrs Binith, "but oh, out before it was too late Mr. Jarr didn't attempt to argue thie statement with h But he play- It 4s still an Mudridge- Tm giad 1 found it fully tapped Mrs. Mudridge-Smith on the shoulder and sald: “You shouldn't be hard on your hua- band for simply ta being kind-hearted donating campaien fund What right had he squander e cent on anybody or anythin, m eplied the aniry matron. cent badly else ix ting me i give all hin money “That ts the first ¢ Mr. Jarr, “but you must not ta thing » Jously. Even if yo to your lawyers they would a about the matter, You cert not get a divorce for an inne Uke that “But t weld sue im for the money,” repliod the t lady ‘Oh, L have read in | Apers about these campaign fund scandals!" “What good would that do you to sue him? If you take any money from your husband now you are only talc ing what you'd get anyhow, and have lawyers to pay besides.” mld Mr. Jarr thingy: The forme of this loxte had its ef fect on the indignant young matron “But Vil never forgive him! It's whe cried. said Mr. Jarr sooth- ingly, Let bygones be bygones. Everybody has a past There = tan’t one of us here who would wish even the most tnnocent indiscretions of eurlier years raked up and spread broadcast,” “I can forgive but I can never for- get! sniffed the young matron. But she suffered her crestfaien husband to lead her away d now, speaking of pasts, Mr. Jars," said Mrs. Jorr firmly, as the Yoor closed behind shelr friends, “WHAT WAS YOURS ” x > Mwhed by the Thomas Y. Crowell woman will find helpful ‘advice on the Man of To-morrow,” the book by Richards from which a list of “ to success” has been printed in Evening World. “Choosing a Calling, ab Mr. Richards polnts out, “means two things: the boy's adaptability and the occupation’s desirability.” And tho ideal vocation, the best Job, he sums up as follows: “The Will be energizing, not enervating, will afford Joy and satisfaction; it will make for character development; it will afford ample compensation; | it will uffer the opportunity for js it will be conducive to ideal home lite; and it will be accessible. “All work should be energising, enervating. There are occupat: which, pursued year after year, men to mere animated machines. ideal vocation brings into eontinugus play both head and hand, the working in happy co-ordination, locomotive engineer, the and the farmer all measure up ‘i ably to this standard, “Why is Thomas A. Edison able'to work elwhteen or twenty hours a or through a period of months and stil keep his charactertatic vigor and Ca cleney? He loves his work. must above all else be happy in thetr work. ‘Nhe man who Is happy in hin work is the efficient man, He is got eparing of his effort, He works with all his might, little fearing that he Will perform more than his contract calls for, “May it be urged thet every voy avoid selecting an occupation that will shut him out from the elviliged world. Ho will never be able to come fully to himself in some faraway tgo- lated corner of the earth. ‘There is always the danger of boy's getting into an unprofitable field of work. If he is a forwai looking youth he will guard aginst such a misfortune by selecting an @c- cupation that is sufficiently rem nerative, Whether he will admit it or not, it is perhaps @ fact that vay ‘y normal youth expects to be some at the head of @ family. And & splendid thing it will be if he house’them under his own roof, Income is adequate which renders it out of the question for a man to own a home, And there are many ‘vases tions that make such posseasion a mote dream of the future; they are ta be avoided, “It is often to ® young man's gontege to begin on comparatt low wares, peer there is prospect for future advancement increased remuneration. —Ulth gain may more than compensate for temporary sacrifice, The man with foresight will recognize that the total yearly income is more significant than the daily wage, and life= pay ts more important than elthers “A man cannot come fully to him eolt when his working day is long and exacting and his income emall. It is an extremely hard gle to meet the demands of those de- pendent on him, to say w ot voluntary work or contritu Jou, the man of to-morrow ‘ne oppar- tunity for service will br a veolgy consideration in his chewe of a work, “The opportunity for home life is another important acteristic of the {deal vocation, The working man's happiest hours should be spent at his own fireside. If his labor requires him to be a from his home and loved ones Saye at a time, he is denied one of oat exquinite joys of fe, Un- fortunately ‘i Limids foe 2d Samer pursuits seriously interfere \ pay aa fathers. There involved influence every young man tm the oholee of a calling. “Another consideration that should have a bearing of a young man's choice of yooation ts its acc lity. In the practical working out of thi there are often certain limitations be taken into account. For if the cost to prepare for a particular line of work Js excessive, it might be advisable for the boy to si some other occupation in which he might succeed nearly as well and for which he could prepare at @ fraction of the Or, again, preparing to pursue ectal type of work might involve pac rifices that In the nature of 4 case a young man could not afford to make; if he je already established fairly profitable pursuit it ae probably not pay him to throw @ hi experience and begin all again, In any case, all the evidence must be weighed before @ decision is arrived al “The Man of To-Morrow” ts pany, GOING DOWN! r Publishing Co, nrri, We York eveoine Won’) IGION ts beautiful, Dear” 1 do not mean church— RELIGION, It ts all we have that holds ua here on earth. eps the stars above us and the earth bes low our feet. It gives us our only hope bere and hereafter, I care not what your religton is. Take what your MOTHER taught you. It was good enough for her, saint that she was. Per- haps your trouble to-day is that you have departed from what SHE tiught you, So many people say they here cligion, How careless, How BE STILL, Go away from the world’s rush moll for a short th plate what has been ald with this thought before RELIGION 18 BEAUTI- you: FUL! Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH, + mre reie Lew = ——-