The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1920, Page 21

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English bank + Rattling th Old New York Sd When the e Bones of City Was , JAZZLESS hs MOTORLESS DIVORCELESS |__Edith Wharton’s Book Starts Gossip_| By Marguerite Moo era Marshall. ‘Copyright, 1910, by The Prete Publishing Oo, (The New York Brewing Worley tles—motoriess, jarzicss, divorceless; old New York when “nobody” oO”: NEW YORK im its Age of Innocence; old New York of the seven- .lived north of S4th Street; from ‘the shabby red etrings on Fifth Avenue Sehind blue- Mbbon trotters, entertained in draw- tng rooms “done” In purple satin, din- {ng rooms furnished in black walnut and@ bung with prints of “The Coro- nation of Napoleon,” Gothio libraries it by @reen-shad@l keronene oll student lamps—a New York as in- credible, as bizarre, as fascinating as buried Pompeii to New Yorkers of to- @ay—that is the picture drawn with sure strokes by Edith Wharton tn her new novel, “The Ase of Innocence.” | What Mro, Wharton, with literary artistry and the “inside stuff” as. sured by her own unasnallnble social position, did for modern society tn “The House of Mirth,” she has now @one for society's grandmothers in hor latest book, brought out this week by D. Appleton & Oo. And how tongues will wag among the knowns on Fifth Avenue in the attempt to fit the aharacters of the author (now safely domiciled in Paria) with ‘real Nite identitics! The gossips will pounce with guste on “The Age of Inno- eencet* Who, for example, really wns old Mrs, Catharine Mingott, “who, tn spite of having been only Catherino Sricer of Btaten Leland, with a father mysteriously discredited and with net ther money nor position enough to make people forget it, had allied hor self with the head of the wealthy Mingott line, married her two daugh tera to ‘foreigners’ (an Italian Mar quis and an English banker) and put tho omwning touch to her nudacities by building @ large house of pale eream colored stone in aa inaccessible wilderneas near Central Park?” This “bold young widow” (her hus yard Ged when she was twenty vight), after untying her husband’ fortune, marrying off the daughters and boswing the tribe for a lifetin spent her old age serenely - ng for life and fashion to flow north- ward to her solitary doors. She wns stro that presently the hoardings, th quarries, the one-story saloons, the wooden greenhouncs In ragged gar dens and the rooks from which goaty would vaniah De © the advance of residences a tately as her own—perhape (for eb was an impartial woman) even state Such was Fitth Avenue th mark; looking at it to-day, one «le des that “old Catherine” wae right! And who, experts in scandal will onking, wan Beaufort the c successful invader of th ' Manhattan's eld came to New ¥ was whispered) had been » loave” England; who m sautiMul, fmpecunious, at whiter Of the South; srat and finest ballroom in New Y who ho was “agreeable, handsome ompered, hospitable and witty,” but whone “habits were dissipated chose “tongue was bitter,” se antecedents were myst H ad “the most distinguish New York,” and wa ysponsible for the lored brougham wh lack cobs” the appea m Fifth Avenue, with aired Indy named Miss had profoundly agitate “Such ‘women’ allied) were fow in New York iriving thelr own cart fewer.” When Miss Ring's 1 passed, on the rid Catherine's" Lowell Mingott sow and ordered drive her home. It's all exceedingly prehiatoria, ‘Then there was Mra. Struthers, and puzzling tre- when nd-golq boxes at the Academy of Music, took tta “soctety” went to hear Nilsson mendoun, black-wirred, red-plumed,” the widow of Struthers's Shoe Polish. She entertained Sunday nighta, when New York didn't know what to do With itself, According to aristocratic censors she was “out of a mine, or rather out of the anioon at the head of the pit. They were Living Wax Works touring New England, After the police broke that up, they say she tived— Then Lemuel Struthers ame along, They sa used the girl's posters. Anyh cried her.” It was owing to the epidemic of chicken-pox In New York the winter Mrs. Struthers first appeared that the his advertiner 1 for the shoe-pol- W, he—eventually married men slipped away to her house while their wives were In the nursery.” Basy ta the deacent to Avernus—soon the ex;barmaid (was she drawn from life?) “belonged’ for “once people had tasted of M Struthers's easy Sunday hospitality they were not itkely to sit at home, that her champagne Was transmuted shoe polish.” Tiut the most perfect pleture ef eld New York” js contained in a conversation between two of the riatocratic matron of that day extravagance in dress.” “‘stllerton took mo to the first Night of the ofp s@he one latty, Wn only | you that June only one I reo- st year: and oven that ' 1 changed. from Worth because my seam !n to make over ire before she w sone of us! sald vt the few, In my aon rejoined, ‘It ir to dress in the fa Me amt Amy Sillertor that tn Boston way one’s Paria Nd Mre, Bax everything It wis @ standing was I for tw: found had to wear re consery «; but T atwaya for a lady to lay Iresnos for one #ea- M Ar ‘ 1" aneldental ybody between the Street, and no kept a car You see, there are pasta the Int vwever, a lender of Now ¥ was hdrrified to n that int “thoy think we that ‘ ke omibshe s the Age of Innocence, ef Eden before the Fall, on ¥ Early Pictures of Stage Notables PICTURE NO, 17 ago, Who are they? they are, send > The Evening World I eee are two more pictures of stars of stage or soreon, taken years ir solut Next Uwe re Can you guess? on al once to the Saturday the final correct list will be printed, and the names of the most guccesshul contestants, You'll nd it @ very fascinating gpme if you joln The Byening World's army of GUESS WHO THEY ARE, Baite If you think you know who zine Page, for this week THE EVENING WORLD, T URSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920,% JDAIILAT IYI AGAZZINIE [knowsNo On 1020, ores ‘(The Now York Brening Work), LET HIN SLEEP | WHAT Do You THE Tick Tick OF A CLOCK KEEPS HIN AWAKE ? HE ‘LU LOSE HIS JOB IF HE Doesn GET T THE OFFICE ONTINE ~ When Rich Society Gir VERY now and then some poor E little rich girl, rebellious against the shackles of her wealth and her “social standing” and the unwrit ten laws of her mother’s set,” makes her gallant declaration of independ ence ®y marrying an “outsider’— maybe a policeman or a coachman or a chauffeur or 4 clerk or a milkman. And no matter how often it hap- pena, it always “makes a sensation” that fairly olattern the teacups and testa to the Umit the contgolled #o- lemntty of the butlera in the back- ground, ‘The case talked about just now, be- cause it le the latest, is that of Louise Beaver Webb, one of New York's fanolest Norsewomen, who has just gone and got married to Policeman Thomas J. Leonard of the Central Park mounted squad, They thought it was logical. He loved horses, and so did she, Sb joved to ride them, and ao did he. He loved her and sho loved him And in apite of the housing problem that keeps so many New Yorkers single, they figured they could man: age. So they got married, and yhether the hu@band is to remain the police force or not js an un answered question ere Was @ case something like this last June, when Misn sephine Limburger, the only child of Mra, Frederick Limburger, No. 43 North High Street, Mount Vernon, married John T, Tierney, who was well known as “Mount Vernon's model policeman.” he bride, a Juughter of the inte Henry Lim- burger, who made a fortune in real entate ‘and manufacturing, first met her policeman when he was sent to her neighborhood on a burglar bunt Whether he caught the burglar that evening or not does not appear in the records row available, but even if he didn’t 1» need not regret the effort. He had been a policeman for four- teen years and he did not give up the job when he married. His wife did not want him to. It was as a police- man that she first learned to ad- mire him, she sald, aml she wanted him to continue to be the same sort of mun, So they took a house at Ne 117 South First Street and started comfortably on thelr matrimonial voyage. She is supposed to have had all the money she finds a use for, and her husband, who had always been distinguished for good financial sense, had $26,000 or $30,000 of his own saved up, 80 that even if he had not kept bis Job tt woukt not have been neoossary for him to live on bis wife's money, Not at of the girle, however, who insist on @electing their husbands re- gardless of social or money considera- tons, and bee 80 pli ‘There wee the ond ry of the a daughters Mc est Hiuelkamp-S une «id husband went ¢ were both practical they came bank to @ jab an a street car she ayMeared in tt an she wan valun purposes, but tha Then there was tion between he she disappen home. But counts of her desor in @ hoarding houre Her husband } Victe aister the bulk of the fortu 4 Arth marr had be man, port # the incident curred, of the Moros We ner ini es to have shown « espe But and ¢ to the the gate gave bim a *] ally tn financ of the of Riv le fo was not tak aat pit hed h in f ned t sa Alulin, xoupti ul away f re JOSEPHINE LimsuRGER TIERNEY THE TROUBLE ? y Maurice Ketten | HAVE To STAY AWAKE AT NIGHT 10 WAKE UP AY HUSBAND in Ue MORNING ~~, IGHT HE IS NOT FIT LR NORK 1 Marries for Love Are the Odds For or Against Happiness If the Man Is Poor and Socially Unknown ir thing About Women That’s Why Lady Scott Sculps Males and Kiddies Only | Finds Men Most Interesting | |__And Admires American Heads By Roger Batchelder. Convriant, (800. Uy The fubtientng 8 (The New Yuk wort) 66] FOND men far morn interenting thay wore In fnct, 1 know. very little about women,” «ald Lady Kathivin Scott when adked yesterday in the course of an (ntervibw fo Evening women of to-day. “And, really, the only thine I can taik about Lady Scott was made a peerene in retognition of the deeds of her late Nerves ant Md@ery World to é@thouse in voulpture.* on do they make husband, Capt, Robert Falcon Scott, better modele than persons of Jeet the famous explorer, She is 9 eeulp. proihinence With ters on thelr minder 1 can't really aiwwer that.) sta smiled. “It all depends on the man” Paw ibly oo ioteaded on. the aphere of onfidenee, 4 She in a nan of medium height with derk walt ang darker eyes, whioh are always alert, and intentiy whe she her volee are and pleasing, Which mga one ated yet they are strong Beott hornelt w Fhe did not wa and whe eatd mo. ¥ when whe finality conaen most obligiogl? to the 4 wurh ehe volun- teered thing, and ipver- Jeeted, from time to time, “Ten’t thas . When L vieled her whe black gown, A désoription of) nd tie women readers? Ic ple and charming—one fan’€ espest a man make further de- scriptions of a woman's dreas with~ ONL Fink Of ohalionge. you expect to make acuiptures of Amerteans during your stay nere”"* | asked. “T mould Wire to” whe admitted. “The features of the American type of Angto- tress of ability, and during the war held an important position in the British Ministry of Pensions. Her monuments of her husband stand-in Portsmouth and in Waterloo Pinca, London, and at Litchfield her monv- ment to Capt. Gmith of the Titanic was recently erected. Ghe has made bunts, or “sculpture portraits,” aa she calls them, of scores of prominent Fnglishmen and also of Ambassador Davia and members of the American Embeasy in London. Ghe has always been an ardent travellér, Ifke her hawe- 2 s on the In a Gin band, and has vistted all parts of the world. She is now in New York en route for an extensive pleasure trip tm South America, “Tou nee, all my ethjects have been men or babies,” sho explained “I have found their features more inter~ enting, and on that account, no doubt, know so little of my own #ox.” “How do men like Asquith, Gale- worthy or Gustav — act while +: they are powing 2" 1 ask ° BY Roy + MECARDELI. + Fight, 199%, he (The Pree Punishing On (The New York raving World.) ’ S Mr. Jarre burried inte the offtce boas ge mad; Because there wat so A (hat morning he noticed that ba he coud ent Ne Oneee Nee Johnson, (he cashier, looked ‘aie tabi J Q 8 establishme: Uke a scared ratidt and thet Jem trestect ogy kins, the bookkeeper, was already “That in fair waraing to the busineny hard at work preparing statements = of oe yo Wes ign Brey B's and making the loom-leat ledgers Sheer, dane aeotn " rattle. “Oh, I know what you are going to Mr. Jarr threw up his deak tid with ey!" “You are & business-like bang and upset the rong to ony that the ee WAS Or nk over some salon slips, when sud- repeatedly to sting the brawny jenly he hoard a buszer sounding and Johnson fms told me that; Jericiny a fist hammering in the boss's private has told me that, and the porter's ox office and his name being roared from cupe ie that he ie & poor man With « behind the partition of the same iair. “Ah, there you are at last!” roared “What right has the porter tp hav» the bons, as Mr. Jane glided in, calm, these times? 1 haven't alert, business "1 quem this of- . What we want here fice must have bad warning I wee agg Bg te | and less family!” coming this morning, Breryeody it of the ink-statned Bore on time!" pet on bis dewk and hoped thy “Yeu, air; L mean no, str, not at a, would keep #0 angry bo woulda’’ sirt” to eee them. “Do you know how our business can't fire the porter becaure he comparns with this time last year? famfty. An employer ho boss went on "De you know daye!" the boss ruri “How large is your family? you expecting an incremse’” t keep up if business is neg- why, if sales fall off an Who started this asked the boas prices, Henry Ford? “Onky in walary, slr.” replied Mr. Jary auld ne thought Ford waa Jarr, meekty. gully. party, and then stood “Hium,” geumbled the boss. “Weil, never mind, let us all get busy, Mr Jerr” back to aitlent The dona’s face was frowning with the grouch he wan laboring under. Mr, Jarr went hie Yeu, sir! ‘There js going to be af desk wondering just what his em- apheaval in this firm!” the bons de ployer meant He asked Mra Jarr lared, “I return unempected when he got home, and Mre Jarrs what do T find? What do I find, reply was that if Mr, Jart’s employe le & od Mr, Jarr eould have anata the was starting any campaign for more a 1d found everybody on the job, Dut or better babies. it did not interest TECTORIA MOROSINIGSCHILUNG jy sunpected that was What made the her, wealthy ordak ' | 4 : ~ * Ba WSFA Fee oOo AMARA + Comey. 1900, he rai@ing 8. K Yes, conl tn going to be scarce Grade A milk. Btokers will be fired HIB oval on ta wertoua, thie wint ven if your bin {8 Instead of furnaces. When the snow * Allee e coal in i be be pa _—— FP . --f yp ——] | ke an Tiden auccses. eas Wed the n it will be scares, begins to fly the steam pipes will GUILIA MOROSINI WERNER Figure that out on your slate! as silent as the flivvers in the garage 2 E Virginia plantation OWES Foe coal is high because {t has to ‘There won't bea rattle anywhere frain from wo! ore an policeman He dit’ not win the suit “Pe holding out for 16 cents a pound Ky crate Nut coat ts higher be The shortage will have disturbing Dijoit t eventually the marriage waa for raw coal and 24 for the refined cause of increased wages granted the consequences, Silk pajamas will ef rong nujled on she ground that his Noy product. P Ivana clinker mag: nut crackers. There ts only on® the gate and there will be a run on “One divoree from hie firet wit had % 1 4. And with the annullment nates are demanding $9 a cu foot of ners that haven't had their flannel nightahirte, The country wil! . w int he got a “aettinment” with an option of 80 per cont. addi pay hoisted. Thos» are the guys that tremble on its knees and shiver om its on tlonal in case it burns, Hard-bur make little ones out of big ones on back. Things would be O. K. if the ee Oe ing coal is now being rushed from State and Federal rock-plles United States was in the troples, But eal NCE NOTES the New Hampshire quarries to re Coal is bigher and sugar fs lower— the country bas been in # temperate inherited NCE NOTES Heve the situation ut’) the situation tn black and gone since the Eighteenth Amend je 1013 ROPELESS, poleless and The latest news is that the miners white. The coal barons do little to ment was pansed, Our only hope is A pegiess t for tour- are striking again, Those guys are give us coal and the miners’ dukes that Santa Claus will bring us coal intr r “l by fas always striking when the iron fur do le The only thing the Demo ‘The wise guys will hang bushel bas- tening one side to an autom ace ought to be hot They ure at Admintetration gave the min kets alongelde the fireplace, you can and the other to sleeping ¢ walking out in sympathy the s was daylight saving, which fe @ bet We will all pase up a white Cee aan on ctacay, @ iaaltors. ‘The coal diggers’ brother grand thing for coal miners Christmas if Santa will make tt sai ered on Mexican t#lands in the § hood has voted to give us the hor Ponnsylvania i6 a Republican State black julf of Callfornia, pathic treatment this winter. We'll and the miners are leaving plenty of ‘The brainy householder should matters. n income of $10,000 whe had contracted to e@mount if he would re- A fir an ordinary trie lamp. 4 cooker Invented by an English woman is heated by incandescent olee For persons who have many packages to tie a Chicago man fhag invented a device to hold « ball of twine on one wrist. get zero coal for zero weather, Try to get some bituminous and you won't find !t very soft. But this season's all-ral} coal will go out with- out touching water, Try It on your furnace and seel The coal spect may be filling our hoppers with hop, but they are filling their pockets, 0, but no stones unturned to get take no chances! the Democratic Administration io approved by the Bureau of Weights wrong. They want the public t and Measures and be eure that your blame their coal troubles on the Dem- esh man ts bonded, It eure looks ocratic alate. like a tough winter from here, Bome The miners threaten to tle up guye have practically nothing tn every furnace in the United States their cellar except a fow gallons of and make Pitteburgh ag white ag hard fue ‘ 7] é Have your sigve + % i ’ ae eed ee ee senna iain: