The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1921, Page 11

5 SATURDAY, JANUARY 45, 1921 ! Sad A ccident Turns Out Blessing in Stenographer Before; Disguise Student Now Dorothy Brenner Losi $20 Job and a Leg at the Same Time, but With $45,000 Damages She Can Perfect Herself in Art and Music. By Fay Stevenson. Copy rignt UPPOSING you were 1931, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 4 young woman twenty years old, just in the Dioom of life and nature had been exceedingly kind to you in giving you an apple-biossom pink tering golden hair and tar; Superfluous Hair. VE hairiness of the scalp ts a disturbing and women, who by ventions are forced w the hair Jong. It becomes 1 sary In many instances to thin the hair out every year or two and to cut a foot or two off in length in order to dress it becomingly. it hygienically. When in addition to this the hairiness descends upon the forehead and brows and grows down the neck, in front of the form- ing “sideboards,” it constitutes a de- eldedly annoying element, Just as other features may crop out in various members of a family, or descend from father to daughter or from mother to son, so is this pecu- Narity also often hereditary, and, of course, constitutes u far more embar- rassing condition in girls and women than in boys and men. As I stated above, it may be profuse or grow to extreme lengths upon the scalp, when it is easily remedied. Now it may first @ppear on convalescing from a severe fever; it is often noted upon the in sane and the immensely nervous, A growth of hair is often excited upon an otherwise fine, smooth skin by the employment of irritating cosmetics, Any blemish upon the skin, such as @ mole, may act as an irritant to the underlying hair follicles, and cause a disfiguring number of long hairs to appear upon the surface of the mole. Pulling these out forcibly only re- sults in a more pronounced growth. The sole remedy here is entire re- moval of the mole—but only by an experienced professional hand. No woman of mature years who yalues her appearance, will permit the existence of so disfiguring a blemish; what constitutes a mere beauty spot in a young girl, often develops into a serious skin affec- tion in later years. Bushy eyebrows, hairiness between and above the brows is disfiguring to any face, man or woman. Now, although most skin spectalista advocate the electric needle, this pro- cedure is suitable only for use upon a small area, such 4s 4 mole, or to thin out the wild hairs that appear in the well as to shape thes is painful and where is under treatment re- quires repeated sittings, which, besides being expensive, consumes time and exhausts the nervous forces. Then, too, it Is not uniformly successful, acting in many *48¢s as & stimulus to air follicles, so defeating its own object. Again, unless done by ong who specializes in this branch of ders matology the skin Js frequently scarred and life long blemishes result ‘Depilatories act in the same man- ner as does shaving they remoye the hair at once, ut Affect the hair fol- Hicles even more powerfully and thus tend to a heavier growth of hair. However, nothing actually destroys the hair follicles but the electrionee- dle, and when this is employed only & akin specialist of reputable standing we be co! the con- to or to brows, Electrolysis ‘arge sree ae and white complexion, masses of glit- p expressive hazel eyes, and then, you were caught in a horrible elevator acci- dent and lost your right leg. What would become of your girl- hood ideals, your dreame to do big things In the world, those flutterings of the heart which whisper that you might wed any day and that perhaps, some day, you might have the su- preme joy of womanhood—mother- bood? How would you push all these thoughts aside and readjust your lite? That is the problem Miss Dorothy Brenner of No. 8 West 119th Street, a decidedly pretty stenographer, who has just been awarded $45,000—said to be the Jangest verdict ever given tor the logs of a single leg—by a jury. in Justice John M. Tierney's part of Supreme Court for the foss of her right leg, has to face. Miss Brenner was injured when an elevator in the building at Nos 215-219 Fourth Avenue fell ten stories to the base- ment last August. Climbing up three long flights of stairs to her parents’ apartment, 1 found Miss Brenner sitting at a table in the dining room calmly writing a letter. A beautiful smile, res’ but very sweet, played about her lips as she greeted me, “Oh, it's all over now—the shock, T mean,” she said, “and of course I must nt my fate. The money, thut $45,000, cannot repay me or make it very muoh better, dut of course it dors help, too, in a way, Sometimes it seems as if just when you are the happiest in life something happens. “I shall never forget that Aug. 31. I had just returned from my vacation and everything was bright and cheery that morning. I had had two weeks in the country and now I was ready to go back and tackle my typewritor with renewed vim. I was a stenog- rapher for the Alt Woolen Company and only earning $20 a week, but the world looked big to me and it was only my second position, Before that 1 worked for an automobile company. “When the elevator I stepped !nto reached the tenth floor something ter- rible happened—we dropped, and be- tween the tenth floor and the buse- ment I had that awful sensation of fulling that one has in a dream. There were other girls In the elevator with who didn't "even get a put you see that was my ace me—girts scratch, fate.” * There was a slight pause, a pause in which Miss Brenner's hazel eyes met mine, dry, keen, still full of life and jo} rw that you have been awarded this money, Which, of course, is so little and yet, 48 you 6ay, may mean something to you, perhaps you can follow out some bent, something you might have done if you had not needed the salary which your typing brought,” I @aid to Miss Brenner, for I saw a light in her eyes which still told of girlhood dreams. “Yes, there are two things I want to do,” replied Miss Brenner; “1 have a pretty fair education. Iam ea grad- uate of the Julia Richmond High School, and that is where I received my course in stenography and short- lund, But if I had been a wealthy girl I should have studied art and gone on with my music, I used to draw for the school magazine. 1 loved art and I played the piano quite well, but we have a large family, so I had to push such thoughts away. “L have four brothers and sisters, Claire, eighteen; Frances, twelve; Myron, seven, and a little baby sister, Renee, thirteen months old. Therefore, you can see, I had to seek an occu- pation which brought Immediate se- muneration. Now 1 may follow out my first wishes. 1 shall probably take a course in art avd study music.” “And you will find great pleasure in both these arts,” 1 reassured Miss Brenner, “Perhaps, after all, you have some talent which might have been lost.” “That is the way I am trying to see \t ull,” replied Miss Brenner, her voice almost a whisper. “At first it was 60 hard—that Is last summer— but now things look so much brighter However, 1 shall not be able to do very much just now, I am still extremely nervous. I don't sleep very well and I can always feel that dropping, dropping through space. Very soon I am going away to the country, as my physician has advised. 1 want to go somewhere where everything is quiet — have readjusted my life pretty well, but 1 still have to think out a few more things.” And @o I left this hopeful, clear- minded young woman. As I glanced back at her 0 saw that she had taken up her pen and was writing, finish- ing that letter which 1 had Inter rupted, just as she has now ploked up the threads of her life and is going right along, calmly, sweetly, hopefully. ~ (1 Nice nk WHERE Do You Keep THE JELLY ? LOOK IN THE STEVENSON PEACH TAM HAW THORNE, APPLE Jey. WHAT HAS A LIBRARY CATA LOGUE TO DO WITH Coorrich ‘The Prew Tibliehing Co, Y hiew Wood), you DON'T HAY! By Maurice Ketten ' E TO DISTURB ALL THE BOOKS TS GET AGLASS OF JELLY_ Purien WHERE “SHAKESPEARE CURRANT JELLY’. DICKENS PLUM JELLY. Poe GRAPE Jéus’ * yous KEEP ON You'll FIND THE APPLE ai il OT =i ONE HAS To REINA SMALL FLAT QUITE INGENIOUS ‘THE NEWLY RIC Copyright, 1921, by the 1 (The Now York Byeu! HE poor and the newly rich are always with us like a shadow. every alms- house (here's a Fifth Avenue palace with a garage. Wor every guy that’s wiped out on margin there's a new millionaire chalked up at Dun's. It really wouldn't be so bad if the new- ly rich only kept quiet. But they make more noise changing from flivvers to limousines than a lumber- jack eating celery. A nouveau riche is a guy that wouldn't think of going in his stock- ing feet unless he was treading on Persian rugs. The female of the species is a dame that has no more difficulty taking in symphony con- certs than she used to have taking Publishing Oo, Word) For Here’s Uncle Sam’s Wet Weather Tip OOTS and shoes are peculiarly subject to damage after they ave become soaking wet while being worn, warns tie De- partment of Agriculture. The wet leather is soft and therefore read- ily stretches out of shape sutches cut through the wet leather much mi easily than through dry leather, and wet soles and heels wear away rapidly Great care must be taken in dry- ing wet boots and shoes, for they often burn before it seers possi- ble, Moreover, if dried too fast and without proper attention they shrink, becoming hard and mis- shapen. To dry wet bovts and shoes properly first wash off all adhering mud and grit with tepid water, and in the case of work or rough shoes at ofice oil or grease them. Then straighten the counter, heel, vamp and top to the proper shape and stuff the shoes with crumpled paper, which helps them to hold their shape and shortens the dry- ing period. Tinally, set the shoes aside in a place that is not too warm and allow them to dry slowly. Wet leather burns very easily, much more readily than dry leather, If it becomes hotter than the hand can bear it is almost sure to burn, The shoes should not be worn until they have be- me thoroughly dry. in washing. They insist on culture, even if it takes two weeks to get it! A quick-rich couple in the elemen- tary stages of this disease don't know whether Rembrandt used of! or iodine for painting. They think Whistler is a vaudeville act and a Van Dyke is a trick set of whiskers, When a petroleum geyser blows a bird from Texas to Madison Avenue you can’t expect too much, On account of this being a democ- racy, it is possible for a guy to own a million dollars and still think Mendelssohn and Lohengrin are rival song pluggers booming a wed- ding march. Lots of folks that pay weighty income taxes like Shake speare because there's no shooting in his shows, and hate statuary be cause most of it looks damaged. It is stuff like that that makes us a hardy nation, It is not illegal in this country to save money like soap wrappers or blow it like soap bubbles, If a guy and his wife would rather look like a four-flush than a’ pair of deuces, that is their own affair. But we can’t expect to reform the yeggmen while the quick-rich wear diamond shirt studs where their egg stains used to be, and while their wives have lavallieres where they used to get sunburned on wash days, At that, it's a tough trick making folks believe you were born with a gold spoon in your colic medicine, Mind you, it is no disgrace to have worked with your Wands, provided you sidestepped pickpocketry. And it is no disgrace to try to make your N&aL BY re O'HARA fingerprints in the Bertillon card in- dex, But that doesn’t help a quick- rich guy much. Three years ago many a millionaire owned nothing attachable except a necktie. Now he could buy the Hope diamond for a wtiekpin, but that wouldn't smear him with elegant culture, multi-millionaire broad A's. And if he has nothing from the neckband up, he's eure to have a napkin from the neckband down. That's one way you always spot a quick-rich, But still the nouveaux riches have their uses. True, money isn't every- thing, but ancestry pays no grocery bills, And a family that settles the first of each month is still better than one that settled in 1620 and hasn’é done much settling since. Plenty of family trees wouldn't be so upright to-day if it wasn’t for grafting half a century ago. TAK JARR FAMILY Comrrigh! 1091, by the Pres Publishing Co. “More waste,” grumbled Mr (ihe Hew York Brvning: Word) “That's sutar burned and chocolate HE boss had been er borned, and things as dear as ¢ business hud been bi are! ‘That's what keeps us poor— had voiced his critic - Waste; juet waste.” out restraint, uding ‘not a few Sugar iy much cheaper, and I adverse comments on Mr, Jarr’s‘de- Wasn't, much sugar or chocolate partment. Consequently Mr. Jarr had 1 “Mrs. Jarr Don't come home in a bad humor even when the children had ran ta the boss looking at meet him at the door with many wied Mr. Jarr. “I couldn't cries of delight and inqiiries as find any clean collars this mornin whether he had brought them any Why, you hurried out this mo: cundy, he had not softened suid you were late, and you dids What's the matter, dear? asked for a clean collar,” remark: Mrs. Jarr, as she greeted him with a s. Jarr. . wifely kisa. “You seem out of sorta.” Well, it doesn't matter now," sai “Well, I think a big bey Hike our Mr. Jarr, "Only [ wish you'd * put a bankbook cover shortages in the Willie should he e, clean hand genealogy table, It is no disgrace, ATywied Mr Jann. “And his face is but it’s one hard job! "I just told him to go make him self neat t you would be hr Ancestry is a queer commodity. soon; put the child must hay The steerage can never gmell as gotten it when he heard you si door.” sweet as the Mayflower, even it “Wiat'a. beon burning sleerage tickets cost twice as much, Mr, Jarr ffing the at That's a nouveau riche handicap, *"pper amiin. 1 hone” But at the same time, it ia better ang the chat to have left no footprints on the said Mie. Jurr. Th ae why they sands of time than to have,left \pur Sei pou le vou Phoebe, Chere: We ) \ butt MONTENEGRO TRUSTS “AMERICANS ONLY” MERICANS alone, of all travellers, are grected cor- dially and without suspt clon by the peaple of the litte kingdom of Montenegro, a United States passport fur an all-sufficient entry into any part of the country, Be ye of kuspicion of ulterior mot natives hold themselv from Continentals, bat Ameri cuns are unsnimously believed to be disinterested and friendly. The inhabitants of this coun try are almost exclusively of the Greek Orthodox Chufch and an Serbian fugitives from the Turks In the fastneases of the moun tains they till their few fields and zealously guard the handfuls of grain which suffice for their meagre subsistence. The men rave, honest, and Notism ssion with them. However, they are ehild- like, fatalistic and believe in all kinds of fairies and “spooks.” Both men and women wear a crimson cap with a broad border of silk as a token of mourning for their defeat at ove five centuries ao, when independence was stamped out by the Turks. aloof m my vest," kul You to leave yuld put a button it cleaned bp i dare. Jarr my Don't want any supper, I've Kot 4 1 snapped Mr MY DEAR Convtignt 80 often T criminating every day odd tint called “spruce” is becom- ing, will behold with enthusiasm the newest hats of it made of coque feathers or mohair cloth and trimmed simply with an Oriental bead orna- ment or perhaps 4 wingle ribbon rose, Others of you, blonde and pale, will look upon this new color, green, as hazardous, but the capperish red color appearing in all possible tints and tones for spring and summer will receive your gracious approval. Dame Fashion aims to please one and all; ehe is not partial, but it is up to the individual to use her powers of selection, Have you seen the newest thing 4n bagu? I\saw an interesting col- lection which were hand made of raMa straw. Some of them were en- tirely woven of it, while others were only embroidered. The designs were unique and the colors delightful, so that with dark colored spring frocks they will receive a pleasant welcome, Raffla, by the way, is urging recog- nitfon of (ts charms in more than one way—it can be employed much the same as silk floss, and I saw it em~ broidering @ taffeta frock with de~ lightful individuadity the other day. ‘Tiny roses made of it were applied amidst the embroidery, giving @ pretty ruised effect. I wonder if you ever considered the possibility of the jeweller beng in league with Dame Fashion to promote the mode of the short sleeve? It was brought to my mind recently when 1 saw a jeweller displaying a group of eight or ten thin gold bracelets to a society matron, with the remark that “the short sleeve is indeed a pretty fashion.” These bracelets, by the was, wero linked together by a fine, almost invisible, chain. Another fetching nov~ ity I admired in tho sume shop was & pair of bracelets made of three-quar- ter-inch squares of fade held with links of gold. ‘These, ft was explained, were to be worn above the elbow. A charming complement they would be to a short-sleeved black velvet frock or a simple white sport silk. Wo seo many boots with «traps across the instep and around the ankles, gome of the smartest ones decorated neatly with inserts of black pitent leather on lMght suede. But an original conceit thut attraot- SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1921 SET : Sleeves Are Becoming So Brief That Bracelets Come to Their Rescue Listen to the New Ways of Raffia 198k hy the Press Publishing Ca (The New York Brening Workt) HERE ts an iffinite variety of changes rung upon the calendag ever ‘They sometimes chanm the eye and they sometimes make not the remotest atom of appeal, Some of you, for instance, to whom green im thas Women are becoming more dig- ed my eye at a recent afternoon af fair was a binck patent leather slips per, minua straps of any kind, supplemented by an inch wide F black ribbon” tied about the wearera dainty ankles with a bow in from. Touches of black will appear many ways this summer, and I tell of it another time, : MILDRED LODEWICK, » cenicenceeliiimamennscl GERMAN WOMAN “RED” WHO OUTWITTED THE. FRENCH BORDER GUARDS SENSATION was created at tho Tours Congress of the French Socialists by the ap~ pearance of Frau Clara’ Zetkin, @o- cialist member of the German Reichs- tag. Frau Zetkin had been refused & passport by the French Govern* ment, but enruggied herself past the border guards, afterward diswppeade ing an quietly as she had come. MAXIMS°5 MO LMNARGUERITE’.MOOCERS MARSHALL.» Copyright, 1941, by the Proms Publishing Co, BY ARRIAGE used to be a life sen- M tence; now it’s indeterminate, wilh time off for bad be havior, Once Mre. Clintber had to grease the wheels of the social chariot with her money, and now she also is ex- pected. to fill up the tanks! Advice to girls: Be weak, be in- competent, be irresponsthle—and watch men struggle for the privilege of saving you from the penalty of your deficiencies. Love is blind, but the reformers will change all that—they’ll make Love wear blue spectactes! When men learn to like cream soups, fruit jellies and dressing for dinner, when women are willing to have roast beef every Sunday and steak three times a week—some slight progress will have been made RY Roy lL, MS CARDELL What is the matter with you? asked Mrs, Jarr, “Supp were cross and fussed with you when you came home? I won't have you come hone this way and fuss with me and growl at the children, and all for nothing. Now you stop tt and you come aud eat your supper and you and quit finding fault, or UU re Whe a start to W you star aid Mis, Ja unything?” asked anything Mr q 1s hungry as a bear, thang gvodness, be never acted like ana. | ? < DEPN MAID. (The New York Byoning World) in solving the problem of happy mama riage, i Romance i a candle soon blows out in the wind of reality. Yes, Cecile, after you are murnieg it will be perfectly proper for youg husband to see your ears. When a ¥irl's eyes say one ching and her lips another, the wise young man is deaf but not blind. Definition of a Prohibition hostesd One whose motto is, “Never say dry!" 4 Short skirts and corsetless pose Slam the door on the doctor's nosed) Lafayette Lion Crippled by Wounds Hi Hon cub which was adopted ag @ mascot by the Lafayette Squadron of aviators, the first of the Americans to go to fight and die for France in the war, now ig # melancholy spectacle in the Paris zoological rardens, But the keepers refuse to Kill him because of the sentiment resulting from his connec tion with the American fighters, One eye is missing, much of his hair is gone, he seems decrepit with age and, if met in the desert, his appearance would inspire nothing but pity, The indignation of some members of a society for prevention of cruelty to animals has been aroused by his mournful appearance. "Why don't you chloroform the « poor old fellow?" a visitor asked of keeper, the other day, do n by ‘ol4 tek orted the or. “That lion four years Me Is a vietimy war, If that Hon ts lame I® is because he got rheumatism In the first line trenches. One of hia legs Was broken when he felj out of ag ulpplane 40 feet from the ground, He eye from a well directed reht hand swing of one of the mes lanies whose fur coat he had stolem and played with.a bit bebind the lost his Ki lion he exclats mbol of those that he ia t lads tn py khaki whose now lie along the Vesle and Mouse, will him bome es @ pet rE Treecennle, iSO UF Ree