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ee A ORE, a eg a I cli MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921 J. Why Bennetts Quit Palaces For Log House. WOULD SOLVE UNREST PROBLEMS “No More Society, No More Servants for Me,” Says the Wife—Two Young Daughters Will Share Beliefs—To Teach Novel School. ~ By Fay Stevenson. ‘Chart. 190, ty the Prom Publishing Oo. (The New York Brening Worlf.) $65 'kare reared three ch There is great social unrest in the world. Will White House Styles Lengthen Women’s Skirts? Mrs. Harding’s New Frocks Indicate This They Will Not Reach Above the Ankles, and Many of the Evening Costumes Will Be Made With Trains—No Backless Effects. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Coprright, 1921, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Bening Warlt ) TLL, White House styles pull down our ekirts, put back the backs 4nd sleeves on our evening gowns? Will one woman, the wife of our Incoming President, triumph where the embattied cohorts of clorgymen, collage Presidents, magazine satirints, Mrs..Grundys and soformers of every ilk have failed? It is not at all impo For cer-* tainly the most int ng “fashion notes” of the moment for thousands of women are the brief bulletins eap- tured from yspica. which contain in- formation concerning the newly pur- chased spring wardrobe of Mrs, War- ron G. Harding. And all the detail yet divulged indicate that the mili- fant morality of Marion, O. is in the saddle; that the new gowns’ pure obased for wear in the White House are characterized by that conserva- tiem, that dignity, that innate mod- esty which must take back all 2 our + @eat minds tothe days of the dear Queen.” None of Mrs. Harding’s spring ekirts, women of America arg in+ formed, will extend above the and many of her evening gowns be made with trains, A The backless evening gown, ever the paeudo-disereet "V" which ex- tends to the waistline, will find’ se in the wardrobe of the First of the Land, after March 4 The Harding evening gown, accord+ ing to all communiques, is but mildly decoliete; which would seem to sug. geal that the AFTERNOON gown r? | the New York woman is more in its disclosures than the new di frocks of the future mistress of Executive Mansion, All of these frocks, say the mes-) mages taken from carrier pigeons, willl have half sleoves of lace, chiffon or! | net, in most cases extending as low © as the elbow, And the sleeves at- tached to the LUNCHBPON costume of New York women, this winter, stop. at a point at least four inches above the elbow dimple! Clearly, no effete metropolitan fash- jona have penetrated to Marion, Ohio, | And it seems equally clear that Mar~ | fon’h Set feminine citizen 18 not ad Ing to allow her own standards of sar- BY ROY L.MECARDELL I arial dignity and propriety to be ob- Covsrinht, 1921, by the Pre Vultlivhiog O% scured or compromised by what (The Now York Brening World) “they” happen to be wefiring tm Ni 66QQOME of the women objected York. t and you'd be surprised to We all know how like a rook the, . chiselled countenance of King) know that they were mer George's Queet Mary has been set red women, too, and not old mald® grainst tl demoralizing modern or bachelor girls, as unmarried modes, such as the ultra-short skirt} women omael r days, and the backiess, slecveless evenings coe tps Lal Len Pkt gown. Pictures of the frocks allow ‘The uomarried oney we out at Court, recently published on of It—still the motion was tabled, and this very page, perfectly tilustrated, it’s to be brought up again at the how high is the line of iow visibility ” : sked in Buckingham Valace, how firm is ea Pg cel gon ate al the conviction that a slecve—and not MAY BE YOUR HUSBAND WOULD LIKE To HEAR. How SHE WAS DRESSED No, HE IS Nor INTERESTED IN WOMEN ‘'S ' CLOTHES I have reared three children and now they have flown to develop theif own lives. I am ready to break up the nest. I want to seo what I cam do to help right our present conditions. I want a jab.” HER WAIST WAS CUT SO LOW You COULDN’T SEE IT. AND HER. SKIRT WAS SO SHORT YOU - COULD HARDLY AND HER STOCKINGS WERE INVISIBLE You COULDN’T SEE Caen Ter IT'S ill ee ct INTERESTING! ‘Vhat is what Mra M. Toscan Bennett told me as we sat in her beautiful lonial heme at Hartford, Conm., and fiseussed the plan which she and her husband have just announced, namely, ‘o give up their luxurious residence at Hartford, their country home at Farm- GOING DOWN! ‘ngton and live in @ log cabin at the 2 copyrignt, 1021, by the Prem Publishing Oa new social settlement, the Brookwood (The New York Brening World), School, at Katonah, N. ¥. Moreover, EAR ONE: Isn't it Just ter- ‘he Bennetts, who are prominent so~ rible the way people are «ally and politically, intend to keep no being robbed? Yet I say servants and will do all their own ¢ unto you that millions and work, from chopping wood to frying § millions of dollars’ worth of bacon. time is being stolen from em- Mra Bennett is widely known in @ Ployers each and every day. If the Woman Suffrage movement, and § you are late ten minutes a duy, Mr, Bennett was formerly a law part- ) you are tate one hour a week, or ner of Charles A. Goodwin, cougin of Q over a month of days, counting 1, P. Morgan, ead Ernest Walker eight bours to @ day, during a Smith, a brother of Herbert Knox § year. ; : - at Mr. Jarr as though to my “And ‘shoulder. strap—tle the life-pre< smith, He so was in the American oe ean to business NOW! what do you think of that?” server of morality. Also, an Engliall iz imbor Party movement in Connecticut ‘ours very truly, “1 haven't the least idea what you lady’s—er—limbs may not be dis- j aud was nominated by the Farmer- ALFALFA SMITH, 4 9 are talking about, but when you've played in the presence of hey sove- ¢ Labor Party for United States Semator. ce been to any of those afternoun meet. "\E" ‘ ) - Why should not Mrs. Harding, wife {iat mow bowh Mtr and rm Beane None Need Be ownan ut’ on the bowery ‘new of your clube you are always of aster nage Mule tat at eat f are to forsake aH interests save the me That is why I am willing to full of information beyond my eom- four years, exert a similarly purify- }, Brookwood Community School give oll my interests to my new good, The younger men go back to Burow and before tong is fitted with prehension,” remarked Mr. Jarr, ee 58 ee oe ae ‘ a: ere a 3 exuberances of the mo The Mr. Bennett is even more inter “And willing to live in a log cabin?” their old ways, but these men have 4 pees fig A he Ceti Vise ‘Well, if you'd only be patient and Country at large has followed the ested than I am in the outcome of y janghed. on G OD TIP FO HE N Usually been ‘through the mill’ and Yn O08 ce cee eae paid wait tH! 'dfinished, what I was say- fastions of the Wo ic How more jf ma new gueial order,” said Mrs. “Oh, call it a cottage in the woods,” once they get a etart they can keep jyrg ~ {mg wouldn't be beyond your com- than one occasion .1 the pu When if Hennett as she sat before a huge roll corrected Mra, Bennett ——— going.” ‘The first few nights when he was prehension,” said Mra Jarr. “I was Alxe Roosevelt was a debutante, 7 op desk in @ room on the first floor on she explained that Bi ome, wh: ittert rogers ach loca an B 0 ha Then Dr. fo! took me all edit he was put in a dar M. how many Amorican girl, Katona N. > on fifty. acres ro! Can G B Clothes ssed rc LCR Bare = we going to toll you that It was Mra. West, North and south, ware of her h ich she has fi UP Kato N. Y on nttystieee oo Le ke One ‘et Shave, Bath, tf Pre: 9 through the building, explaining just dormitory, but now that be isa wade Die yiy NUGn thee are bance OS a ee earner, if he so desires, he may have | I , . il ac toed onpendahpled erg emmy orang TEA Food and Bed — Pay Back Expense what happens w the man who Comes eee Et owe: “fie muy eat ie ‘Hudatala’ afternoon’ at the akub by members of the Fellowship of Re- When Job Is Secured. in as a “first nighter. the cufeteria jastead of the 5-cent and make them come,” ho Taft Adminigtrition, 7 followed, there was a lovely smade gt | y wislay two well-shod feet and conciliation to apply to education, Ragged, dirty, perhaps even in this restaurant Cm ne may sp ish “Make them come,” murmured Mr soft rose color which won Ration: ¥ shapely ankles. Her tron-gray hair through communal living, the social Pree Publishing ¢ Byening World. day under the influence of Uquor, @ evenings in the reading room, which Jory uneanily, “Well, dear, it's a busy wide popularity as “Helm pink Pt was becomingly arranged around her ethics of Jesus, Charles Garland, who Scene ae ae ee ? man drifts into this big, inviting !s fitted up with periodicals and a pi iy those days, or, rather, The prevont Mra Wiens favorite heen, serious face, and as she talked Tefsed $1,000,000, is much interested MAN is never “down and out” in New York. building in the heart of dirt and PIANO) teatime we und expect times will be COPMKe bouquet ef orohide has been me ad it e ¥ ir. Chiffor: many tea! a hh 4 m edb another fi she flourished a well-sharpened pen- "ane “sim of the school ia te assist ‘That is not if he knows about the Bowery Branch of the adopted by many woman, squalor, Here without a bss key and Interesting letters from men who busy, and I don’t think Lean attend." And already the mews despatches are taking Jt tor grapiad that hig credit, Have. aot on “Lt hasn't been decided on, so you telling us ; — recor the ” vender,” tint Perhaps the first chanee In his life. | porate characters, many of themwith Jarr. “And when 1 try to tell you guid to oe He is first taken to the “S-cent” jong prison recorda, but because they something that 1 think will Interest “Ty \f hot, however, the shade sh@ cil to emphasize her point young men and women who see in the ¥, M. C. A. at No, 8 East Third Street, = : “But don't you dislike to give up break-up of present-day sopiety the Here a man can drift in “dead : this ebarming home, Mrs. Bennett?” Dope for @ more just social order and groke,” get a meal, a hed, have his “What do you think of this who desire to offer themsal) if ~ 81 aske'!. I asked. “Do you think you, WhO vice to effect the needed and inevit. Clothes fumigated and pressed, em- Present erune wave I - have been used to servants, can do able chance. . dloyment found for bim and begin el) | . “Well, we. see it all around Us, Dut Ot nere''S conte will buy @ chanced to visit this Buwery ¥. 30 you you need not sit up there like the jikeg beat. ‘In there no subtle signif all your own work and live Ina gim- ,,There is a central community over again. Nery few of these fellows come to Wi’ pow! (three cups) of coffee with milk CA. they have been given & BOW Omnipotent Com, as though I were cance in the fact, many times caren: He little log cabin?” , Crary. dining rout ent Bee? sf” And thie js not a charity but an Teplied Dr, Clifford, “The men who Pow! (hive cape Sl Coley wether 6 we, east’ 6,000 men a year, tem- discunsing Freudian complexes—al- lee, that the hue mos frequentiy “There will scarcely be any work,” Gaal woe one academte laboratories. opportunity,” eaid Dr. John H. Clif- Fe active in this crime wave @re not cents he can get @ bowl of soup or & porntiiy ou: of money and work, are though 1 don't wee any aikereaas & hate gor fonenad oF informal dream, ‘newered Mrs. Bennett with a wave Members live in cottages in the ford, who ls in charge of the religious turning to us for help. They have ap bee re satisfied, this stranger trusted and helped,” Dr, Clifford con- Lake uae of bases . BLUE, The color of blue jaws, to live in a three or four room affair role ” the man's expenses, his food, his tres. m SHO fello! 2 ~ before the resident doctor, examined, the las < ie “You start to talk of a husbands’ We wll 4 3 which we will build. Of course, it a epwenty. ve, at tearean® replied lodging, his haircut, everything that out a cent, the fellow who hasn't ® given a shower and then a bed made hearts broken and their spirit Rome. 10h or) * womans club, and Tés#pect and deference, the more gere- e' And yet all they need is credit, a ig? a " fully we survey the advance Info en't really a log cabin, I will be a Mrs, Bennett. “There are five teach- jg done for hint, and then, after he friend in the world who comes to us. up wih cen Sects, Wille ie Seen Siean start. We have men who were ‘hen Fou Syston to the euee a nt ton available as to the wardrobe of y cottage, and we are not Arca- °fs and Rey. Wiflam Finke who iook® nay found work und ie established, ‘Most of the men,” continued Dr. hie clothes huboes—men that wamen and children OOM nnd | Fre: e and the next mistress of the White . * : ; and pressed. The next morning he psycho-ana pe 4 Er + ‘ian idiots who intend to sit and look Trookwood aocapts studente froméeti he Days us buck. And % por cent. Clifford, “who drift in here are be- SPUD" tne barber shop, shaved Would FUR POO ae tg are “You know what 2 mesa!” Mra Hous the m Me apptontmteneey oF 4p at the stars. Living conditions classes of society. We have Bohe- of the men who come to us make tween twenty-five and thirty-five. and given a haircut. cipnealied A retorted, "I only happoned to sry Maine's tavorite colpre:! |" n the Freudian complexes and “s.. Republicarts promised Inst No- There is plenty to do sians and Americans, We only ask pepeho-analysin because Mra Lucila yornher tha. they, would, sithe | and if every one does that the student be sincerely in sym- " ‘ SOPH Kmine read a paper on thowe things country if the country gave t a his own part, menial work and all, pathy with the purpose of the school, BY TRRESTIE= |hat everybody applauded and didn't chance. Perhaps the tauttelt//Ra- We oan greatly change conditions.” Most of the pupils range from fifteen. e LOEB understand But if we do ha US- publican woman will save the women rhen you don't believe in ser- to twenty-five years of age Servants are of the mians, gevernl ¢ F yment respectable citizens.” scho-Slavies, Rus- good.” That is usually the ase they make Then he visits the Pmplo: hard working, le hands’ afternoon L want you to come. oon wer ae of the country from them: in, vants?" T asked She achool is financed from - Pe 5 had been accus- It is a good legwon w learn. It is Bor 1 sometimes wonder if some of Ce it it | believe ina new social onder, tral fund Into which ai contribtions CMA. 1a. tw te Trem Putiihioe OX in the girl and she determined to get Sete then me not so much how satisfied other iim women really believe I have a 92 it, wor: ledd the ee alex. mplied Mrs. Bennett, avoiding a and student payments go and from {the New Youk Brenna World.) 4 position where there was a pomsible ton deemed to be her People are with you as how much husand.” » travagances among which the: n= Nirect answer. “We don't exactly which all disbursements are made ‘YOUNG woman tells me the chance of advancement. What ehe had em satisfaction you find in yourself, “So it is to be a husband show?’ ar i iAP snow how the thing will work itself ‘There is no fixed tuition—the pring A following story: With the praises of her employer besb in the other place was oMly OF Qyeryong who weurches Wienmalt will Mr. dare inquired SeTinere be eynten Le RUNG rN \ a ut it is certain that the pr pJe acted upon being ‘from each ae- iv 0 ring! gougit dinary here Yealize that he can do something a ‘Certainly a * atand ready to point 4 via im \ system Is all wrong. Bene to his ability, to each accord- Te goer lis Ded worked a5 etith vinging ie Lerenrs: ae a0ne Ghe had to strive for other achieve- bit better than what he 1s now doing. “And you hend not start making fun, {Vind meer t Polns Uae Dom) Syl oe workers; we need to study history ing to his need.” a stenographer and typist. She was another position ig highest This Ineans “progreae—a eal to 1 think ita splendid idea, for fm dy- Washington itself the, soolally elect \ to wolve our 90 al unrest, and every Asked about the currteutum, Mrs. fairty good in her line. She went t0 As she was a good worker It was ments in order to reach the hig Digher and better things. ing to se what sort ot Jone Bean what “the Government set” gi ons are both members of the faculty and “Smidem instruction in_mathemar- Work for a small firm and made 0d. not qiticult und whe secured aNother Jans (hat ane found In thin new 4 lite intromection now and then Mrs Morkicigh's husband isto Yul Oy veang, and. tht mophisthetiegh kes repo: St ate. ane . © miegiwers. oe rh pleased with nice big thi . may gv a long way toward realizing a Apes Yorkers are eau by ayer, Bu Pen oote ee RUE Wi Peo balte ekg Relish Gnd RMORP BINS: Gaston on Penne ME) Havana. piace where many LE OHO Se gave the girl great food for just where you stand in the big Mra Birkybile. I saw her om the i tee tan oc a Beh i Mound, | wach law and economics, while l may moot afters excenional, wok ines, per Werk: We RENE Cae reflection. She thought she was an Scheme, Terhaps you are standing Yio vin iane introduced im to me mi who shall Yeon nieth Saltttivion: tench Liston una voce ¥ Por offers ext problems, religion She could have contimucd there for qo her astonishment, «the girl Dal Bek i ‘This is stagnation indeed, her son, aud ahe introdused btm to me (8 Boone pe we ut what of your two daughters, and the history of civilization.” a long time~perhaps years, but the ound thet her work which her for- Avi worker. oy connection with No matter how well you are paid, oo opened € just want to see If ehe Od to the bein Um ats (git pad who are both getting very near the “And then there is the log ombin employers praised her so much and mer employers had praised so bighty Tally ® bexinner jt is bad business to stand etl 1) bring him te the club afternoon Suppose Paris ing iebulante age?” | asked housework to consider,” I reminded 4 ye big things that could be done. Huch worker should want to get usbands or not. For, if the reno- skirts will be evpn qpopge (T, snaa ’ They are both at the Brookwood Mra Bennett aan errr abe wen thar the tocen 2zi Shout which she bed benome 'E,|'ct cave me the Idea for this higher and better im hie line, Ae eamoee through, women who have sible) than those we war Chis Win School as, student®.”” replied Mra “Yes, faculiy and students share stenographer she was that sho bos rather proud, seqmed to be just ordi- She # Masts moos there ine way ta do it is to look at jiisiands, of say they have husbands, tert “Wat bawe. wal tei dg aylil 7, Rennett. “They sare but sixteen and alike ‘in washing dishes, cleaning to grow restless. rary and mediocre in this new posi. @rticle. law many pe other standards [kt thin girl found. o's) age pring them will be fined.” Furape?’ c giteen and T do not believe they house, tending fires, chopping wood, — sie thought to herself, if 1 am auch he are Who go on ¢rom day to day think- The standard t you pare a (pa "Oh, that’s the idea? The club ta - Bere, bine ponry oof 8 Mi See are any more about society than tend): vase aw “1 i to erase c i 7 yourself may bo very low in. the J ' age Roach Btraton must rejoloe i . | HANEY Goin SE aN RERNTLE I Get contd Goin Tang MLISE waced worker L.auene tac Hixter’ Sibmdy creined er tor evaerthina ine Shey are doing Deir oest wore Kalo of mies Look into other ae ee aah e iuuea ae exceeding aind, ersitiaieny ionelins | nen and away a€ sch t don't know just what this new mp- I ought to do better things I ought sno did In fuct, she oecured a great "hen in truth, they are giving standards ck wears her akirts to her ankion {f dane now, but he too will join us at Urook- cial order will lead to, but we hope it to get more money. While these oat of liwism for vurious Little t - Many a one will find that the very “4 ’t the intention at all,” ree Harding restores to (eventng; ite ul order will lend te et mo! ! . eri or vurion Just decause some employer te eat. MB nd at thew “That tsn't jn m at all, wid, FAd\bervanlavaths tol Ray Meee ee Ye WM OPONS) ccia are vary enon and’ Mind Bas. anosiecia qua wicthede in her Work WAN Gi ie Gee eet ee er Tr emt eteaiee. piled re. Jerr, “he ides ls So have lost back ee Sere whoa oan eT Ma cHed WHEAT eee: 5a SU SEPMaine Ge Moey of s man ‘appreciate mam yet they onanet sive thet she fad siwaye thought were the best Ua Chet parece cam do. js that can be done. our mente See te ee, ee . “ ‘I married when T waa, and woman who are willing to give me an opportunity for betterment truly excettent. Un coy Bh fare ht oon pata ih a ered wabeus cea mae ever get to mect socially, t d my home life and up two beautiful homes and dwell in will succeed in a tig way, for Lrougnt. my family up with ‘great po log cabin, Gall im eotheme teeven shat I seek--which was true in hort, this mirl realized thas bere hag learned the lesson of diamtiefec- measure for every one especially for any length of time, the men they Jk But now they no longer peed wish Now this was a very healthy sign was 4 Dew standard entirely from Lion with herseld. those who are slespily satisfied, married. Sat a er reer eaehenasieiietilieiniertnsionrnet—. <piteetcem oie an apeedita ed nee ee ne ee cote eememageaiennsiamel eo oe ee