The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1920, Page 33

thinks that girls show too much Page to-morrow, Here Are Methods of Proposing| FAMILY And That This Henry Arthur Jones 2 3n.0;" interview with thie interesting English playwright on the magazine i, Remember, Fellows, That Leap Year Is Nearly. Over oor Re Ine doesn’t mind back and bare arms. Read the the Six Latest [Ned BY ROY L.MFScCARDELL ked Mrs. Jarr as Mr. Jarr opened an envelope that had what Master Jarr called “a window to it.” “Notice about my life insurance be- ing due,” replied friend husband. ‘Why should they send you that at this time?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “Let them wait. Christmas will be here in a few weeks! “The Insurance company doesn't have to buy Christmas presents may- be,” ventured Mr. Jarr. bat they should be more busi- ness said Mrs. Jarr. “You might send them a few dollars on account or write and tell them to wait until after the holidays.” “I'm afraid they won't wait,” said Mr. Jarr “Why didn't you open a charge ac- count with the insurance people, then?" asked Mrs. Jarr. “That's al- ways the best way. ‘t's a great convenience to have @ charge ac- count.” “Unfortunately, the insurance com- panies don’t do business that wa: replied Mr. Jarr. “And therefore ‘it behooves us”’—— “Oh, let them behoove, not us!" In- terrupted Mrs. Jarr {mpatiently. “I suppose you are going to say that |f Iam saving any money to buy Christ- mas things ll have to give it to you to pay your old Insurance.” “But the insurance is for you,” said Mr. Jarr, “Will I get it if I die? No, you'll get It, you and the children.” “1m not so sure of that,” remarked Information Is Strictly Confidential oh bila Mrs, Jarr. “You'll outlive me and it will go to a second wife and most ~La BASRA By MargueriteMooers Marshall Onporigit, The Prem Pulisting Co, Me New York Drening Works.) H°. are you going to propose to her? Next year, you know, you'll have to do it. There are only about six weeks of leap year left. In 1921 your quadrennial alibi will have expired and Cupid will expect every bachelor to do his duty. Are you ready for the question? Brer-r-r!_—s It’ make you shiver worse than the thought of coal shortage, doesn't {t? But before your Vackbone turns to ice und your knees to putty and your teeth to chattering castaneis, learn that Kind persons have had your hard case in mind, that a set of thougntful philanthropists have prepared first ald for fussed, with special directions as to what t do when suffering from a case latent proposal. It's all down—direc tions nd diagrams—in “High st and funniest of eng published books, being a co! ection of the drawings of “Fish,” ht gifted young Englishwoman whose work has delighted New York and London for the last half dozen years. When “Fis real lit is Mrs. W. fton--did these sketches Patric or Fair and the the accompanying precepts were prepared by Dorotny Parker, George Chappell and Frank Crown- nebield, three briluant, expcrieaced and sophisticated individuals. Could a bashful youth hope for better coun sellors? In the two pages of “High Society’—by the way, it is publi by G. P. Putnam's Sons—entitled “Th Strategy and Finesse of Proposing” there are described, with minutest de tail, six methods, five of which are recommended. And “Fish,” lest there remain any doubt, tells it in pictures, as reproduced to-day in The Evening World First, there is the Proposal by Let ter—but our experts’ advice 1s, “Letters of proposal,” they point out, “have any number of drawback: Yor instance: (1) They may miscarry and be delivered to the wrong candi date—some lady who leaves you cold. Or (2) the dear girl may accept you by a somewhat precipitate telegram— before you have had time to think the thing over, in which case you will find yourself in the cart. (3) Letters sound so deucedly silly when tue a torneys get up to read them in the court room for the benefit of the press. Finally (4), a letter never hus the force of a good face-to-face reci- tation.” “Which brings us to the second method of proposing, the Proposal in Person. This is advised. “The pen,” we ary warned, “is hard- ly to be compared th efficacy with the three great alds to wooing: the capa- cious sofa, tbe soft-shaded lamp and the smouldering fire. So demiss the page boy and step around to Irene’s yourself.” No, 3 ts Lsted as the Proposal ‘Terpsichorean. “There {8 only ome certain way,” declare the authors, “of making the modern debutante capitulate, and that is to dance her into complete sub- mission. Remember, that nowadays hearts and thrones are oftenest won by revolutions. Remember, that it ts only in dancing that a man inspires in @ woman that close feeling of con. fidence 80 essential to bliss and felic- ity in the married state. So, if a maiden is even a little wary of your advances or in ahy way dispdsed to fight you off, just get some willing friend to strafe the piano for you, then lift the diffident child out of her chair, give her position A and launch out with her upon the whirlpools of the dance.” ~ es No. 4, the Proposal a la Pasha, I should recommend — especially to youthful sons of profiteers—who else could afford it? “No gril,” it is pointed out in “High Bociety'’s" advance leaves from the (toa Handbook of Courtship, “acous- likely her children, Oh, I've seen such things.” “But look at the risk I take," sald Mr, Jarr with a smile, “If I die be- fore you, you may marry again and the second husband will live in luxury on my insurance money.’ “Lf that’s worrying you,” replied pea i ia sl loo Mrs, Jarr, “don't pay the old tnsur- ance. If I should marry aguin, I would take good care to marry a man New York Not So Gay — “s29's8it mic ne an 0 better next time. “T suppose so,” said Mr. Jarr. “But, dearie, I don't think I would marry Country Woman Approves of Rouge, again if you died. And if I die first 1 would wish the children to be taken Pretty Ankles and Pipe Smoking 22: 2: 1:0 sor veins wnier ov- ligations to the fortunate millionaire By Fay Stevenson. who will be your second husband. Copyright, 1920, by The Prom Publishing Co. (The Now York Prentng Wortd.) “You shoukin’t talk that way,” sald HEN | was in Somerset, Pa, a few days ago I met a woman who Mrs. Jarr. “You know I would never W made me see New York in a new Wight. Heaven knows, we New marry agnin, and I think it's real Yorkers are conceited enough about our old town, but after all mean of you to talk. of dying just New York is New York, and the name certainly sounds good to outsiders. when it’s getting near Christmas.” as well as to ourselves. “All right, my dear," said Mr. Jarr, After leaving Pittsburgh I took @ little Jerk-water route to Somerset, consolingly, “we'll say no more about and when we had stopped at Friedens a tall, thin, middle-aged woman jt, and I promise you I'll do my best burdened down with two suitcases and a hatbox tou the chair next to and try not to make you wear wane widow's weeds among the Christmas The Friedens lady caught my “So am 1,” I confessed. greens.” eye und I had to wrn to the smoky = .Nyt ee arent mever go “ANd I suppose you tell me this be- hills of Pennsyivania out of sheer there again, 1 thought, as 1 beheld cause you know I've been trying to decency. However, it wus not long my sooty hands and blouse, which te- save a little money for Christmas 4 ee semble, miner's). before my arm was tapped and T bee Well, . - Loiee ead aay. things?” sald Mrs. Jarr. . ing into tan ¢riend, who hddn't the slightest ‘‘Well,”" replied Mr. J tata mine, idea of wearing a hat, but did have think it best to tell you so we could “I'm going to Somerset,” she said an open heart and friendly spirit, pe prepared.” Soe as ree ae Th ven ey amaoome after along «just the same I'm not going to tomed to the sort of things which “yey | was born there,” she con- let an old insurance company spoil She is forever advertised, 18 tinued, “but I married and moved to the children’s Christmas,” remarked going to marry nai who never Friedens and I've never been back tre J y. “It's plain to be gives ber anything put roses, and, gince. That was twenty-four years TS y a) here aud there, « choovlate or tWo. ago, To-day I'm going back. See seen that insur a Lid prent fe te t oe tele e that ttle brown cottage over there in haven't any childre always to stick to jewels > ees? f 4 Marts cou you havea hal CGty Gia eee naka he ted hee the notes BH te mela, ond the holidays ‘com- in the stones, Jf sie doesn't marry with the red barn and the cows in the '98." you, you can forve her mother to pool? That's Jennie Smith's house, ‘Oh, all right, di held her gazelle eyes pe firr nea companies or they wouldn't t worry,” said return then.” my schoolgirl friend, 1 don't suppose Mr, Jhrr cheerfully, “I'll try not to No. 5, the Proposal by Telephone, [il find many of the old folka lett, but Mt JArr cheerfully, “Yl try is recomuended as a Uime-siver, I'm going to hunt upalllean, They've encroach upon your holiday funds “Wherever sie is, teicphone! Call ‘the names of all the stations I'l raise the money some way, 1 5 1 in her bed sketch shows the At this point my friend stopped Nant t relationship short and scanued me from head to nowhy didnt (your enya) 6 nes established be- foot. first?" asi 8. Jarr. “Never bor tween the dining room at a man’s “Where do you come from?” she row troubl ut bills when you can club and the bathing pavilion contig- asked Roprees th ‘ne bil uous to a lady's siceping room, It “New York." porrow te money to. pay thecails was a scene such this that in- There was @ rustling in her bag, And comforted by this f spired the composer who wrote, pockets were searched, und at last she was cheered for the day ‘Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven, she drew forth # notebook and 4 “In proposing by telephone, it 1s stump of a pencil of courye just as well to get the right | “Write—write your name in that girl on the wt A friend of ours book,” she said, breathlessly; ‘I—I recently became a trifle confused— never met a NEW YORK WOMAN after being accepted by a female before." voice, to learn that the houri at ghe Tho tribute was to New York, not other end of the telephone was®no me, I fully realized, and now it was less a dignitary than his lady-love's my turn to talk I told this woman, maiden aunt." who had lived in just two places ull No. 6, the Proposal by Phonograph, her life, a little about New York. 1 le the “new, exclusive, patented and told her that some New York women correct mode! for diffident bachelors." like to Wear low-out gowns and skirts “No more tortured proposals on the to their knees, displaying fancily clad knees (ruining the fit of the new ankles; that they painted and pow- trousers).” the humanitarian Inven- dered ‘In public, smoked cigarettes tors impart to us, “If she accepts, and frequently danced cheek to cheek she writes to you she refuses, she dances in cabarets, files the record alor 1 her latest My friend listened intently, but her Hawaiian Aloha song. In buying clear brow was unwrinkied and her your posal records, insist on hav- lps still retained their optimistic ing the phonograph e insert your curves, name and hers op the disks—ttthout “Oh, well, young people have to charge. The names can be added in lve," said at the conclusion. (Here less than ten minutes’ time. was no Rev. John Roaah Straton, but “[f you are a busy min, you can, of just a good, slmple woman, who was order your records by the able to see thinge in a broad light) merely cautioning the makera “If a girl has pretty ankles. to use the names of as many girls as shouldn't she show ‘em? If she has p fat’ you happen to be wooing at the time. pretty arms and a@ beautiful throat, A Law of Aviat’on. You can then distribute the records why hide ‘em? I don't object to 4 Spooning in airplanes of Venice, to the girls and await developments. little rouge, and say, 4s to smoking— In case you should happen to receive why, my lands! my grandmother Cal,, has started to such an extent two or more acceptances, the simplest wore curls and was the sweetest her up an room, This litt delightfully 1 which lg some guess.” method is to toss 4 coin.” woman who ever lived, but 5! that aviators always warn their fares & Girls, if he st simply Won't come smoked 4 pipe out on the verandy ry F to the boint, ive him a copy @ "High every night.” to refrain from kissing during the Go, after all, New York aint 60 gay! trips. It’s\dangerous they say, Society” for Christmas, ty : i‘ oe % | TOLD YOu TO HANG ON YOUR. MOTHER'S its water supply from the Nar City of Tunis obtains same source that suppli: the ancient City of Car and still is using some of its cisterna, As @ new doll rocks on a curved base it opens aud closes its eyes and mouth. tected 100 miles from land. Equipped with a lock and over prevents tam- pering with the contents uf # key, a ne bottle, miniature kitchen, consist ing of three cooking utensils andles and solid ified alcohol for fuel, is packed in a case the size of a collar box French Government or ucture of i chinery that will turn ou 750,000 a day. In only fourteen Cftinese cities ire there telephone systems of appreciable size ‘ osity sufficiently Mica dep to dev Can You Beat It! DONT HANG) ON MY COATY( Sediment carried out to sea by the Amazon River can be de- yn charged with the ease the output by installing large p are known to exist in \ by The pom Pubiehine Co rhe New £ Orn raht, 1920, ber the Prem Publishing Co, wo! New York Evening Worl.) labor situation is one t that the strike i ever enjoyed, Every one's quit working, like 1 penny-in-the-slot ma- ch ne. On account of November con- taining four Sundays, Blection Day, Armistice Day and Thankagiving, folks seem to forget there working days w any ft. That ts a bum frame of mind for the working man. wasn't built In a day, even if Nero burned it down in a night, Just because this is @ dry country 1s no reason to con ceal the Bweat of your ‘brow. Lightning never strikes in the same He should remember Rom place twice, but labor some doew, A sry that gets eighty buc’ mes one week wants to be a restocrat th next, That's all wrong. A bird that h plentiful striki the tin ts FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1920 Maxims of a Modern Maid *ts¢ piquant articles by Marguerite Mooers Marshall, brimful of satire and fun, will appear in to-morrow’s Evening World. Satie, . By Maurice Ketten . ves Go ano HANG ON YOUR, MOTHERS SIKIRT Seu be ARE OU COMING BAcK DP | CANT. LAM Too SHORT TO REACH AOTHERS tir LABOR, §yTUATION) = 6, qualifies as a ten-scoond, sucker, proof the trust is sewing buttons on Labor is certainly getting cocky. sults without buttonholes to match. There's no danger now of any dow- And aince the Government clerks ager having too many cooks to spo'l quit Washington thousands of rub- her broth. The best families to-day ber workers have been thrown out have more cooks a week than meals. of work on account of the lower de- A hash sculptor doesn't stay long mand for erasers enough now to even locate the gar- "The letter carriers want fewer let- bare can, ters to take on thelr backs and more Tt is thus in al! the great indus figures to read on their pay en- tries, The street cleaners want velopes. They don't see why Bur- whiter suits and shorter streets, The leson can't make @ profit out of firemen are kicking against the postage stamps. Pont did. The eght-hour day and four-alarm gires, Chorus girls want shorter dances and ‘The bootlergers are dissatisfied with [/nEer racing nue ten aloe working conditions, and jurymen gycaking parte for thelr tading dele~ kick at working in a closed shop. katvs. ‘The Democratic Postmasters he ministers will soon be wantng Je the only folks that want to works 4 longer than their contracts call for. Sundays off, he commuters are demanding The Buttonhole Borers’ Grievance shorter rush hours and longer sub- Committee claims the cloak and suit way trains, The prizefighters want trust is cheating them. They have ja'ker gates ond less swinging, The of a la carte meals. The sword BE UT Ys» HE LTH avalon eg cerned. io take @ i} L \ A uw beller average of living, Te * BY DR. CHARLOTTE C.WES Street car conductors want bigger Copyright, 1920, by The Preas Publishing Co, (Tae New York Evening World) fares and higher bell ropes. ‘The How to Develop a Pretty Neck. c LMOST every one can cultivate yrucetul neck, which is not confounded with a long or th k. It should be rather long, yet nent of ite graceful lines lies in {ts cor proportion, It must hartnoniz bust ag wel it does thi, It may even and yet retain thts quality h the shoulders as with the head and It be short of # race, but {It must be molded in a circular form, with a clear color, smooth and polished in texture, intelligent graceful fn mot on. and The peasants of France have most wonderful cks, not only they are entirely fre unrestiicted garb generat reneration, but because th: from the age of clothes and wear thd Use bond same on after ey carry heavy burdens on their heads a develop the muscles of the 16 princkpie is the same us the hand resisting exercises, A few devoted to this morning 4. will soon effect a change tn and neck n nutes nd night the most unpromising neck, and persevering for one m erates many awk moulds the neck 0 stand, which r is Most convent Virst--Place the han the back of the head Just below the crown. Aw you try to press the head backward the hand resists the effort If you jook, you will notice that this force every muscle in fromt of the Waite: 3s Union wants to give the customers more waiting and less heck stand out prominently change. ‘The steeplejacks threatem Allow the head to drop forward to walk out of thelr jobs unies they, Into the hand, which is held agalnat #ot higher juck and lower steeples. the forehead, just over. tho eyes, The muatcians demand to work on an Preas the head down, at the same Swht-note scale that begins with Ume resisting this forward: preawure Aough and knocks off with the same with all your strength by pressing #Fticle ha hed back; am inthe other exes , 1H fact, the phone operators are) cine, the muscles become tense and the only ones satisted with thelr rigid, Sagging, “lumpy” musctos working conditions, The company is uightened out, holiows are filled in Siving them more pay stations am@ and ugly lines are transformed Tone tehophones thas Work, curves: Now to develop the line of beauty GOING DOWN! and give & grace so essentially fe nine, press the hand against the t ple, using the saine foree as bet with the right hand presa the 1 Coprnate, 1920, by the Prem Publishing Oo. tempi rop the head over tows (Te New York Bvening Wertd.) the right shoulder; force the hand PAR ONE: It ts interesting firmly against it, and press backward 7 with considerable geal; the shoulder to reed in the SeRnORRE muscles will feel the strain their en that missionaries are be- tire length. Alternate, first one side, § ing sent to China. then the other, being mont eful Conristency, thou art a jewek not to exercise one side more than the i Roe to Senne roe Ae ay espectally when we exclude the It will be observed thai these ex- Q Chinese and are threatening to ercises are extremely simple, but that 2 keep out the Japanese. they are marvelously sitective le It is useless to try to find some. easily demonstra by any woman who is ambitious to build up a #hape- Q thing that already existe ‘The ly neck. Brotherhood of Man iy here new Massage, even when given by o- ¢ ——why hunt for it? called professional masseurs in beau- ty parlors is highly inefficacious, The Yours truly, neck t be built up by conscious ALFALFA SMITH. endeavgs from within, 0 "