The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 25

a: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1920 IS cenaueemmmamtaad q the Waitress, was given ten dollars for Xmas by the “ec q 99 Bruce Bairnatather, ereater of thie Dwele, vest can you guess wines shovdia with Wf Wateh Olle Bills?’ ‘rere cnereewn eth veh hevt the thie page and find out. . funny things he saw in New York on thie page soon, ~ oe Rete ee, What Sort of a “‘Vampire’’ Really Vamps ? Is It the Long, Lean, Burne-Jones Type} The Rather Medium Height Rounded Seen in_ the Films? ‘ Girl With a Baby Stare? T SWEAR OFF STAYING OUT CR LATE BLES Me carey y ANMARGUERITE © SIQOERS MARSHALL 1920, Press Pubtishing Co. Cove Now York ‘World.) IL SWEAR OFF eae hg icing cians Listen to the Words of 4 HE dear reformers— © Who have taken all morais to be their province— Will tell us the sins - Which we must cross our heart and hope to die we'll never commit , = After Jan. 1, 1921; Such sins as Sunday golf and Sun day sodas, Short skirts any day in the year, Mincemeat with the “kick” that mother used to make, And other choice crimes, . Far be it from an innocent bystander To infringe on any crusader’s copy- ‘fight in New Year's resolutions! | Sweets to the sweet—moralities to the moral! But I wonder If those of us who are untinted with “blue"— (it not unspotted of the world! )— Might turn over a new leaf or two In our code of MANNERS. A person who doubtless would be iM ie IX | SWEAR OFF SWEARING HAT sort of vampire really vampe? Is it the long, Iran, alithery creature, after Burne-Jones, the youthful Kipling, and a thousand, thousand films; predatory, Theda- tory; with dark eyes as big as gancere, @ crue] red mouth, sinuous, sbarp-nailed fingers and an expres- sion which may be compared to that of @ tiger on the prowl or of an alley eat on the ash can? IB itt Or—is tt a pleasantly rounded young person, rather under medium beight; with baby-blue eyes and @ Baby tare; a soft Kittle pink mouth; riage to a “good” man—good for at feast five figures ab his bank—is the best all around bargain any woman vean im Mfe's department store? The menace of the movie vamp is greatly troubling our best little re- formers.’ But there are many of us | outside the fold who would put all our money on the taby vamp—every time! | ‘The fim vamps, according to the . Rev. Wilbur F’. Crafts, Superintendent | of the International Reform Bureau, are responsible for the transformation of the old fashioned American Sun- day inp the “vampire Sunday.” Dr. feela that he knows whereof he speaks. With that stern Aevotion to duty, that willingness to come to grips with temptation, to gage shudderingly yet firmly into the abyeses of iniquity, Dr, Crafts him- self once went to a movie show and witnessed the performance of the mother of all vamps. He described it at the recent con- ference of the International Reform Bureau in Washington. “That vampire women seduced a » banker,” said Dr. Crafts, “Later in the play she seduced two young men and before the play ended she seduced @ billionaire, “| would rather have my son stand at a bar and drink two glasses of deer than have him see that vampire woman, He may get over the effects of the beer in a week, but he could not forget that vampire woman until he was eighty years old.” Let us hope that the pubiicity agent of “that vampire woman” has not missed this obviously sincere testimony to her art! Nevertheless, does the vamp of this type have such a devastating effect on any heart save that naively un- sophisticated one which, as Dr, Crafts implies, accompanies the head that can be turned for @ week by two glasses of beert . I doubt it Rupert Hughes, popular and shrewdly observant American novel- jst “of today, has compared the } methods and the fortunes of tho } movie vamp and the baby yamp in his story, entitled: “We Can't Have | Everything.” The baby vamp man- ‘ages to annex no less than three hus- Dands—every man in the book worth YA Wisse Sethe avo Dewees By Marguerite ‘Dean, Copyright, 1990, by the Prees Publishing Co. Vampire"; 0 n the right, the Bab: mp as d by conce Eleanor Schorer, (The New York Brentng World.) NEW YORK NOTES. HE following table, com- piled by the General Passenger Agent of the Long Island Rafiroad Company, shows the volume of annual traflc on each of the railroads with New York terminals during the current fiscal year: During the first ten months of this year there were 62,826 mar- riages As against 18,683 in 1919, an increase of 4,143. In the opinion of the Health Commissioner there would have been many more ex- cept for the acute housing situ: ation, The number of births for the ten months showed an in wrease of 3,500 over the 1919 figure. The receipte of the Panama ‘Canal exceeded the expense of operation and maintenance last year by $2,387,699. ‘The expenditures’ of the State of New York during the last fiscal year amounted to $94,024,- 215, an Increase of 20.87 per cent. over the preceding fiscal year, siren, of the type flayed by Kipling in “A Fool There Was,” finds infinite difculty in tethering, legally, even ONE mant “When the average man sees a vampire," Mr, Hughes told me, with candor and emphasis, “he wants to run a thousand miles. I have known 4 good many men, and I can assure you that the lady with the serpen: tine gowns and the crimson-shaded lights turned low has one of two effects—either she makes a man want to laugh, or he says to him- self; ‘Well, I would be a darned fool to fall for thet!’ “As the game is played now, the most successful woman with mi the one who appeais to their prote instinct, who inspires in them a live- lier sense of protection than of spolt- ation, The trick of success for a woman who has no other stock in trade than her charm is to awaken the chivairy of men, to promise but not relinquish the last favors until the last tributes are paid. The mo- tionless gazelle in the folds of the constrictor may be in full control of the situation.” And Mr. Hughes bas written an amusingly true description of tho baby vamp whose young man kisses her in a cab, “She subtly wills the young man to overpower her and is so carried away by her own suco that she forgets who started it. She droops, swoons, shivers before the fury of her own inspiration, and cries out with absolute sincerity: ‘How dare you! How could you! What made you? or simply moans ‘Why, Opwald!’ and resists invitingly.” That is the real yamp stuff—at least Mr. Hughes and I think so, And we're perfectly willing to leave It to a jury of Evening World réad- ers, Baby vamp or movie vamp—for -Baving. ‘The dark-eyed, dinbolical which do YOU tall? By ROY L.MFcARDEL om, Yas wea RS. JARR was shopping—that is she was exchanging Christ- mas gifts she didn’t want for articles she did—so friend husband reached home before her, and pte- pared to take his ease ere his good lady returned. But little Miss Jarr, playing behind his chair, was evidently the author of the most distressing serics of sounds that Mr. Jarr had ever heard. The sounds were as though some one were choking the child, and ended in @ doleful -hoo!” & “What's the matter with you?” asked Mr, Jarr, looking up from his evening newspaper and turning around, *“Nothin'I" sald the little girl as she bid a small object under her dress. “Give it to me! It's the squeaker out of ur new doll, isn’t it?” he asked. © . The little girl began to cry, “Mamma'll whip me,” she whim- pered. “{ won't let mamma whip you,” said Mr. Jarr. “Let me see what it is, darling.” Thus reassured, the little girl pro- duced a small bellows-shaped affair. “Willie took it out of the clock you got for Christmas," explained the little girl. “He hid it under the bed and 1 found it.” It was a little thing that makes: the noise from the Swiss cuckoo clock that had been wished upon Mr, Jarr at Christmas by Fritz, the ship- ping clerk down at the office. The little Bit surrendered the in- strument of torture and Mr. Jarr put it In his pocket and forgot it, Home now being tho:oughly happy, the events of the. evening went on dn their usual way. After dinner Mr, ng his cout on, betrayed of wanderlust, “1 suppose you are golng out and leave me alone, alter my being 10 the house all day?" remarked Mrs Jarr, noticing his restlessness, She had ‘not been in the house all day She had been shopping all day, But this was the time for diplomacy on Mr. Jarr’s’ part, and not for contra- diction. “Well—er—er, I thought 1 would step out and get 4 little walk In the fresh air, my dear,” murmured Mr. Jarr. “Then you had better be back at & reasonable hour, or you will hear something you won't like!" sald Mrs Jarr firmly It was a late hour when he re- turned, but Mrs, Jurr was hardly con scious of how late it was, as roused from slumber she questioned sleepily. + “Don't tell me it's only 11 o'clock,” she said drowsily “I know it's get- ting near daylight. I went to bed early because 1 knew you'd be out until all hours.” “Nonsense, my dear! been asleep over an hour. Then he felt something in his pocket as he reached within It to hide his pinochie winnings in his shoe against wifely search {n the morning. The object was the cuckoo clock at- tachment. In the darkness he drew It out and pressed it softly eléven times, “Hear that?’ he asked. “It's just eleven by the cuckoo clock.” But the next day Mrs. Jarr was not surprised at the cuckoo clock being inert and silent. “It 1 wrong last him You haven't ght, and Y died aed lie on ite ips," she said anathema to the Lord's Day Alli ance, Once remarked, “Take care of your manners and your morals will take care of themselves.” Why shouldn't every husband Highly resolve on New Year's Day Never to tell his wife that she doesn’t know what she's telking about, Never to make her the victim of his suppressed grouches, (She really isn't to blame when his company passes a dividend), When hia tooth aches, t When their sixteen-yearold son stays overtime at the athletic club; At least to give an Imitation of en- Joyment When he takes her out to dinner, Instead of staring morbidly into the soup; Never to interrupt her, nor contra- dict surlily; Sometimes to consult her wishes, in- stead of announcing his own; Occasionally to give her flowers, or candy, or even an unofficial kiss? In short, he might resolve that he would practice the domestic amen- ides, Instead of playing the churl on the hearth! As for his wife, In the name of all courtesy and con- siieration,’ Her first New Year’s resolution should be NEVER TO NAG! After that, she also might take a vow Not to criticise rudely her husband's taste in dies, shoes or golf stock- ings; To listen politely even when he talks about electric dynamos and a re vival of the protective tariff; Never to keep him waiting for her; Never to spoil his pet story by “blurting out the point of it; Not to accuse the children, in his presence, of inheriting their de- fects from him; : Not to accuse him of being a Har! All of which may be a counsel of perfection, And yet courtesy, like charity, be ging at home— Or should! > RAR nnn “Light Brigade” Veteran Dies HOUGH the famous “Ligh Brigade,” made immortal by Tennyson's poem, seems tu belong to the far distant past. ee are alive to-day twenty vet oy erans who rushed “into the mouth of hell” at Balaclava in the Cri mean War. Some of them live at the Chelsea Pensioners’ Hospital In London and now mourn the death of John,James, who died re- cently from pneumonia at the ag: of eighty-six, He was one of the “Gallant Six Hundred” and wore for years his old fashioned scarlet tunic and the quaint peaked cap— the uniform of the brigade, HE great quantities of barbed wire left on the battlefields of Eastern Burope are be- ing made into hatls, Riga inven- tors have devised a stamping pro- cess for this purpose and hope thereby to relieve the shortage of nails in the Balkan states. Riga was in the centre of #0 much fight- ing that to-day the woods, streams and even some of the streets of the town are piled high with entanglements; You FORGGT To SWEAR OFF, DRINIKING HEY JOHN ! BEAUTY HEALTH BY DR CHARLOTTE OC, WEST Copyright, 1990, by the Press Publishing Co. (Tie New York Evening World.) Concerning the Hands. HE} band is second only in im- portance in beauty and io structure to the human face, Indeed, {t has been termed “the sec- ond face.” It is in many instances even more expressive. Types of beau- tiful hands are found in all races, classes and conditions of people, A bony hand, if not too bony or ‘scrawny, discloses one kind of beauty, 4 muscular hand another and ao on, for there are attractions to be found in hands (just as in faces) other than those that are merely small, soft and white; beauty of character and ex- pression do not usually ie in such hands, Those are the most beautiful that express the most capacity whether of a moral, mental, artistic or useful nature, A hand disproportionately small {+ almost a blemish. When seen on a man jt constitutes @ misfortune, as it ‘wars his looks as much as @ small mouth or chin or an undeveloped nose would, Lurge hands and feet on a man are igns of manly character, and express power of some sort, but no hand, huwever well formed, 18 attractive when it displays a lack of care, The hands are apt to show neglect more quickly than any part of the body except the teeth, because they are next to the eyes, the most active features we possess. In the normal hand the ekin should be white and clear and @ roseate hue quite pronounceable seen under the nails, the tips of che fingers, the outer sides of the palms and the tip of the thumb Hands that are well colored and warm show a good circulation and vitality, whereas habitually thin, col- orless, cold hands denote fragility, im- poverished blood and a decided lack of the vital forces, The hands are an index to the char- acter; they are bandmaldens of the brain, and reveal to even & greater extent than the face one's tempera~ ment and, general characteristics as well as one’s health, In fact, the nds have been termed the barometer of the body. They are such wonderful members that they deserve far more care and consideration than are usu- ally accorded them by the busy wom- an, more particularly the woman who works hard with her as. Yet there is no reason why hard worked bands arreronnnre 0% sould show evidences of toll, ‘ ad a eet SEE AMERICA FIRST Corr ae York wale Workthe ALF the world don't know how the other half gets by, and the brides of June can’t guess what's coming to ‘em in Janu- ary. It is Nature's playful way of keeping things ,50-50. It takes a cagey wren indeed to dope out what's on the other side of the bower of roses and what kind of a guy her landlord will be. Marriages are made in heaven, which la why June is the busy s@a- son for the angels, The three R's of June are roses, rapture and romance, and that’s one of Nature's sweetest combinations, The three R's of January are rent, grocery bills and instalment collectors, although they don't all begin with R. But they all end with most of the old boy's pay, and that’s the main point of the thing, There is plenty of difference be- tween June and Jan. “Oh, Promise Me" ta one thing when the church choir sings it and another article when an instalment man chirps it. I: is different as turning down the gas before you're married and blowing it out after you're married, without the formality of turning it off, The trouble with marriage, In fact, is that it’s a lottery and there are too many blanks for the custom- ers, Yes, June and Jan’ are quite a stretch apart. A that looks neat in white flannel ¥ ts when the larks are singing look. 'ifferent in a red flannel spirt when the wind Is howling through the window cracks. Which reminds us of Aleck Scupp. Aleck dressed like one of the Kip- pyheimer boys. pants and chocolate-and- vanilla sport ghoos. He also swanked # nob- by frat pin that would knock the eye out of a marble statue. He could spot Adonis a make-up kit and still beat him to the beauty medal, Aleck Mit : rp CAL were as il GHARA ed those fee cream pants, and the chocolate-and-vanilla shoes don’t Aleck wes a panic among the seem to fit. That is, they don’t to fit with the immediate wrens. He was fiippant, fascinating ings of ice and frost and sleet and carried » flask. If congeniality snow. * was politics, Aleck would be select- Alétk’s tennis craft and his ing his Cabinet now. So far as looks, tee seem to “ll flat with togs and chatter went, Aleck bad force, It is one thing to give everything. He had more than Oliver service with a dashing racquet ‘Twist could ask for and more than another article of merchandise Aladdin could wish for. On account give swell service behind « hardware of his effervescence and beauty, they counter, And that’s where Our Zero was reallysa guy de looks, He could swim, tennis, motor and dancé—in short, he could do anything but work, He had ice cream § called him Apollonaris, Well, to make a long story simple, Aleck got wed—last June, Flanked by a bower of roses and a buffet lunch, Our Hero copped the peache- rino who was to love, honor and open charge accounts. They left in & cloud of seaspray on one of those prepaid tours of Europe that finally land you back home if the rate of exchange doesn't drop. Yes, that was last June, and this is the thresold of another year—a@ threshold that needs an fron-beund weather gtrip, The moths have meit- RSME SATE ag EISEN TS 3 COURTSHID«*MARRIAGE = “ AR MISS VINCENT: | am only seventeen, but | am very much in lov I have had a number of boy friends, but now | have become very much at: tached to my chum’s brother, Ae. Sty | have given wp all my old playmates and just go out with this one young man. id not ox- arry, of course, for at loast ‘but do you think | am ne steady beau? “ANXIOUS,” Phat all depends vpon what you are doing in life, If you are a school- 1, 1 would say “yes;” but If you ¢ completed your edycation and in business life or a home girl, I would say “no.” “Dear Miss Vincent: Some months oquaintance of @ ago id oung lady wh veloped into mu- {eal Rive. However, the girl's parents ebjected to on financial nds and, realizing my present incapabili- et {s hustling now. For Aleck te back to darth, with a ball and chain 9” around each ankle and @ millsone caressing his Adam's apple * No more moonlight hopa, tours to bosky inlets and whirls on surfside roads for Mr, and Mrs. Aleck, Aleck new spends bin evenings washing dishes, pressing pants and shampooing the inside of his Ice box. He is in the January of his life, So far as the June of To mance and rosebuds goes, it might just as well fall ‘on April dret tor all Aleck and his fair bride care. ti itor and believes that | wet her, regardiens of her parent , objections and my comme ooh 4 your: S.J and try Amition But evidently it te net mon cents” they want, serious, 1 think hd easily. Why not ki yor lady's ftriendaht; your conditions and can do ™ ra. “Doar Mise Vineents | want ular girl, | have met @ Girls, but not the sort whe Ie and likes @ quiet home, do, wait patiently for thie 1 have ‘declded until thie