The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 17

THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1921. Nero Played Second Fiddle to the Wasters of Deauville He fiddled while Rome burned—they fiddle away money and time on exotic fripperies while millions are crying for bread—eighty dollars a day for a room, and $150 more for meals—$500 dresses worn once and thrown away—a woman with a rope of pearls that dragged the floor—any girl wearing stockings pointed out as a freak—an ocean resort where no one goes near the water—these are only a few of the almost unbelievable—but true—things Mary Brush Williams tells of this curious freak of fashion. Forty-eight Laws That Make Marriage Really a Gamble Thousands of men and women, legally married in one state, would be bigamists elsewhere. Thousands of children become nameless when they cross from one state to another. Divorce is bad enough at its best, but when our multiplicity of laws makes men and women criminals, when it blights the lives of little children, it is time to do something—The Twentieth Amendment, written for THE HomE JouURNAL by one of our most eminent woman lawyers, supplies the remedy. Which Was the Failure— the Millionaire or the Poor Man? Here were two men nearing sixty years of age. One had a ruthlessly acquired for- tune of dollars; the other had a wife who believed in him, and a happy family of boys. ‘The world called him a failure; his wife thought he was a success. Which was right? And what is success? Tens of thousands of luwyers, doctors, ministers, teachers, farmers, business men are called failures when—the answer is in Hugh McN-° Kahler’s splendid character study, “The Failure.” These are 3 out of 44 Big Stories, Articles and Helpful Features In the January | Mathes HOME JOURNAL YEAR (Canada $2.50),