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The Funny Si A nr e ¥ ou Reading jvis meovrr OF LIFE IN NEW YORK)” utho Bts jon n_It To-Day: Mystery of Poison Gas Now Made Known At 98 Gives Secrets of His Long Life Can You Beat It! -2iith:. . horde ene OF THE INVENTORS, Com- DR. STEPHEN SMITH, Sickly Until 50, Now e ay ra A When as Found the Use Hale and Hearty, Credits Healthy Old Age to ade o' y Germans—How Nancy Leish- Well Balanced Diet, Exercise and Abstinence : eas , man Met Her Husband Despite the Military. From Stimulants— Will Pass Century. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. By Roger Batchelder. Copvsigut. 1091. by the Press Pubitalitng Co. (The New York Evening World) Loprright, 1981, By the Preen Publishing Co, (The New York ‘Breging World) HE German who invented poison as had a wife who was another Mine. ¢ ¢ 9 HAVE lived so long because: have been #ick so much.” Curie, She worked beride tim in the ratory: she shared the That was the Chestertonian answer of Dr. Stephen Smith when labor and the twiumph of Wis diwoveries. When the war came she gay I interviewed him in his apartment at No. 1000 1 Avenue pester. An what use the greutest of these—tho strange, agonizing, asphySlatir« day apd asked him for his eecret of pexpetux! youth vapor—was put ® committed 1t was hard to believe that Ne bad suleide. And ler German huydand junt. paaied tig Rinetyosighth birth Said in effect, “Thank God I have beer day, His hair is snowy white, and he Permitted to render this service to t has many wrinkles on his fice and Patherland; thank God 1 have even inds, but as He walked into the Been permitted to sucrifive my wit parlor to greet me his steps were ‘Phat is one of the new siories o n and his general appearance that fhe war from a woman's point of {@ robust man of seventy, Ho did ~ ’ told in elyn (Princess) not use a cane nor did he wear NY ! TS Bilucher's “An Fnglish Wife in Ber glasses. s! if Jin,” the true tale many vf us are Yes,” he went on, "I was sick un- COLD HERE! reading, though ed we never | I wae fifty, and simply on that Would open the of another account I am alive to-day, I had “war book.” But this one is different chronic dyspepsia —an affliction ‘The author had unusual opportunities which either kills @ person or dis- for observation and she used them appears if he waits long enough. shrewdly and impurtiaily, She was Naturally I had to be very careful torn an Englishwoman, a “Lan- of my diet. I could digest only @ashire jass," of ancient lineage. cereals and milk. When I was fifty Seven years before the war opened I gut well suddenly, and my stomach whe married Prince (then Count) was that of a young man. Biugher, great-great-grandson of the “By the time the average man is famous General who turned the tide fifty he hag ruined his stomach by at Waterioo. The Blichers settled excessive eating and drinking, nd Gown in England and left ynly when as a result his vitality is greatly im- diplomatic re! omy were gevered he- sai So you can understand how, paired tween Gt >) ind England in Au because of my careful and enforced gust, 191 wughout the war the dieting, 1 could begin to wnjoy life at Princess ani! lier husband were active hat age: 4n Red Cross work and {n caring for you begin to eat heartily the welfare of prisoners. Phey divided - eakel: aceustomed F + a was 380 Ch J to - - their time between Beriin apd the bankas apd Taek toed teat 1 kept DR STEPHEN omit Tiucher estates in Silesia. on cating ‘them. To-day iY MON soliowed ba rules and though tim GO OUT AND Princess Blucher’s English birt! onsists of cereal, mille and & little young yet, I expect to live to be } Ge / and sympathies brought her some eran por se nen Bxecnn hundred,” a Tr To T 8 é pr, as i! » "That was proof enougt: H Eieorrenie eaeriences ‘and’ forasd lignor, tea or coffee, So if you want to live until the year ANOTHER PIECE her to practice great diplomacy “L ‘simply couldn't when I was ob . 7 t simply ¢ 2000 or thereabouts, eat cereals, exore i throughout the war, Other women, young,” ho declared, “so 1 never hal Foeulanly, avoid stimulants and st OF COAL IN m+ 4 fa a taste for stimulants of any 4. occasionally ford sd overhaul Her bedtiad SH AR pa oe . Rven a glass of wine at a banquet (x “yh neerrak and font nee about armans, were ke « Some of 1 a nv ‘v wave me so much trouble that it your health too much. Just remem- the moat interesting bits in the book wasn't worth while.” ber Dr. Smith, who was kk for tifty are the stories: of feminine encoun ow just bes Siar ad soe 28 years, but was able to sturt all ove ters with the Inachine person follow if she wishes to arin and enjoy life be a hundred?" [ asked. There js the tale of how a young very person should jive to be — t American woman, well known in ) that age. The old theory re pa York soc overcame war handi- score years and ten’ is a fallacy i yy, r, AP Be ae Sere Te ate ee he et cick GOING DOWN! for fifty years like L was,’ be said with Copy by tho Press Publishing Oo, artists just to meet her husband, The a smile; “but it would be a good plan (The New York Evening World) American girl is the Duchess of Croy, to follow the rules of ' ing t we 3 EAR STRANGER: I[ saw a who’ was ‘born Nancy Leishman, she went to the police station, thente forced upon me. A well balanced ¢ me picture the other Gaughter of the onetime Ambans- 4 stationer's to get the proper form, —that’a the most important reat day called “The Devil." 1 dor in Berlin, Bhe was living on her , {What shall I write on it?" she Ment Foe iin everything 8 § may be wrong, but T think the husband's country estate, some miles “Phe answer was, your name, your necessary for the tissues of rag boay. Devil is nothing more nor less Ass ¥ out of Cologne, when she got word age, where you were born, what st- ane pods iss wonderful Piece or 2 than running around aeking that he was being seat from West to Jéet you are, and last, but not least, Mochantom made wp of Meni ies 2 ADVICE. Of all the vices in a sy F; Kast by the powers that be, ang pot how much ae VOU REaSy ais ones take their pluce. ‘A proper dict $ this world the worst is ad-VICH = 3 = =e 7 eam: EEE t would she—could she—meet his train, friend fied in all this, whereupon builds the new Bee ane Hsp i If you will sit quietly and ask SorPHiE ould pass thro’ Colog the official sta d her paper, which and regular habits throw of os ourself estion yo > D wake ‘hed Tot much Unne ta eee meant tht he guarentend the ‘Gain ones, NWe really have a now body $ Yourself a question you will get 2Y IRENE Wonder, How Many he had Hot much time to spare,” thereof, and then sent her off to the every seven years because of this § the correct answer from SOME — LOEB« \ Iwrites Princess Biucher. “She had to place where she Mehl receive, the changing process, but If we neglect $ ONE who is neither friend nor Rang the Bell? i hire an old village taxi, their own permit. This was a good walk from the rules of bh ey ae cata toned relative, but is your higher and § Covrriatt, 1921, ty the Peme Vublidhius Co. where she lived, because there were lunity of the great White Way, al- WENTY million dollars i ¢ Sootors having all heen taken, ung here she Mee ad whe decided to 6) tex youre or ionger, ‘The result. Is § better aclf, and who js always (The New York Rrenme World.) Various kinds of people in it and st Ways hopeful that he avill “become hee a oe 4 bad to implore the man ta drive as ‘look in the afternoon ahe was told lowered vitality. ; in the office and never out—-who (RIBLE-WEED, according 1 was all xo different trom her farm ‘ are a pomueltlag yeey wort Welle ‘nee ikea? ie, ee hard as ever he could. Just as they the office was only open from 8 tol | “Every year I go to & sanitarium vill guide you and help you and webaters it any one of sari life, ‘The thing wus novel to herand iq the wid marines “le Ie betien ts Phones thriughout “the Calted < were nearing Cologne a tire burst, o'clock, Patiently she trudged home, for @ thorough examination. Tat /s & never lead you astray tng nee anes wie, on wither- she stayed on, be a big fish in a little pond than § Sulies during the teut! tom montha ‘ “Naas Abene Aha to start again next day. a gC ea, when one becomes old. : ° Aare s in the autumn, break sway On occasions when sho visited a tittle Ash in tho nea of 1920, accord Sho was in despair, and had to get When she arrived this time she People overhaul a good motor, but How in the name of al! thats 2 from the root, and having a more or « se . vie! nh ~The «wise ones will not uproot 2bx Mn As Be Berry, President of o out and kneel down in the middie of was asked what the permit was to they don't seem to realize that th holy can you develop self-reti- 3 jcas globular fi ro driven about pag home,” she came in touch eversining and fy away to feds of+¢ tie Chesapeaks apd .@blo Teles }' the road and work her hardest to help be for. r three pairs of combina- f nest piece of meshaainn 8 the , confidence und courage if ag b ae Sahai abe? ony with the youth she had loved. which they have Jittle or no knowl. {Phone Company, This, Mr, the ‘chauffeur to put it right, every told the official (there are world-—the buman hbody—also nev: are always depending on 9 White meen yn NY Bhest Plant or ie was a country boy who ploughed edge, It takes a good while for. & (oes Aa ae ee fod 5 ‘ fi hi ahs secrets from officials here overhauling it adnice? White pigweed, the fields. diis father and xrund- tree to grow and self-sustaining 0,000 over the corresponding > milnute thinking she was inbwing her i) yay time) At this point another caller ¢ ud vice The other day f read a love story. father before him had done the same, and worth while period of the year before, .To il u husband. She was only twenty, and What!’ he exclaimed, ‘you want peared. He was a young man ahead yourself It told about. a young woman who They had considerable acreage and "The hutnan is not unlike this. Once $lustrate graphicaily, the $20,000.-% © ? ber buby wus only three weeks old, three pairs? You cannot have m oe ae ist wean tive Make a mistake or two. IT 9 had come to the city from the coun. NM Was very anxious to work the farm You. have. intrem hed yourself per ee siskeik id plated Sabe to anume h e v0, 0 re pi the fh er ee eee ae eh 4 SE YOU UP! und bring r e ot bh through diMiculties, ger long ne nickels, q on. Then, on reaching the station, “shoppin; aes the Dapers- 4 Yours truly, and loved them. She loved the ex- Hie grandfather had toid him that that means new roots and perhaps: 3City to San Francisco and then i | there were more difficulties in the princue “become a Srmeeee ante ne eat Baten of tne eee Re ALFALFA SMITH. citement and the going throng, Mother Barth alwaya gives full meas. very slow growth, ‘It ie better to be fextend a thousand miles inte the } i tape, They flatt: 20 2russian official- "e di 24 es sl ve. e Litt! ure in return for what you give to @ staunch tree in a quiet wood than 3 Pacific Ocean. Pe Gatos Eps AES: a fms when, controlled by Prussian ofMfclal- ynows what he is talking about. I'v Ghe lowed the litte boerding hous ze it, You take oars of her ahs wills tunide-weed (n a crowéed section ' ro lo let her on a . _ ——— —— ———$——-—————~ inke care af you. Eid SanEEnE RD ERAERREREPSEaREREREEERRE ! without a pass. As a@ brilliant idea, want nee. other stories of women in The tale wont on to tell how the ra eho sald sho had an Important 'tele~ [TMi for chample, of the poor woman young woman tried yery bard to get 5 O wat counting Y the country thoy to come to the cls gram for her husband from the War persone, two, three, four, five—over ich she had learned to love, Y a & ne le , wince Office, and they then said they must ind til the passengers smiled hey had been betrothed when. sli ° BY Rov 1, MECARDEIT + sce the telegram. Her patience nearly “9nd then her husband sald simply eft, * Copyright. 1021. by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening Word) Don't laugh at my wife, ladios und {t happened then that the boy's . gave way at thut, but abe rouieed all PONE Men at my wife, ladlos wi Ue ercenen nt Tie Ble Id 1s certainly aatir” minded would be Jost if she did not carry it asylum. Her wite are pene. She hive Franaenthee died and left him the remarked Mr. Jarr, “It's the "No use argu that now, But 7 . at iey sally ; we mon had better start @ movement through, so she said: ‘How dure you lost her five sons—all killed In action He loved the girl, but so long had fominitt movement that seems ‘ediinl: Tikhta too’ de. mcan ae Ue insult me by agking me to show you /There paar re) tee ee ya Y¥ poor old dog has got the fleas, he's pease “apace the aid t he to be creating the most stir. Gee! States a husband Is responsible for re = stributing roses it - emed to hi ot unt of » . ie e 5 @ private communication from tho a hospital fo the blind, had her flow got the Jerks and palsied knees, he's the trees there. © one Of Pie women are Wearing men’s clothes, his Wit Gata But tee viaresers War Office? 1 shall report you for ers handed back to her by one man, got the mange and got the sneezes He tried the city, but he could not filing men’s jobs, getting om juries, [Phe Mee Woe Lites Pt this.’ It acted like magic, aud they who sald: 'T don't want your roses: ‘smi lke dt. He gave up the girl and re- Smoking, swearing id “That is as it should be. Women fell back and let hor through, just in give me back my eyes bat still he’s. mine, © Place where he bad, oThey ane Mot Aweering!” Mrs Jerr who marry take. thelr husbandr 0 There 1s a tale 5 y . it were ., 0 s' o . a time to eve her husband's train come Ne 1S tala of how the pretty He's stift as any baseball bat, he takes no Of course, thors We another girl ICs mo wonder. “Hesides, they have names. Sfen do not take thelr wives a.” Austria saved the loveliest of Italy's interest in a cat, he doosn't know where he is: Who loved the same trees and Mother but up with men swearing for ages. ‘has to do But ancther friend of Princess cition “His Generals had. converivd at the great” ‘time. Varth, and the story ended happily. Maybe. i man Aro ghocked to hear with the debt question--Eene eer Blucher’s was less furtunate in her former Emperor Charles to 1 us ere in considera ‘ood tor ° of frightfuiness, “but when the yl contact with the Prussian war ma- But still ) spread his honor round, T praise thought in this simple narrative, feels to be sworn at!’ any debts a wife contracts r invpre woollen underwear, She saw what)" 40 one gave po ene onutae Fan i d I He about my pointer rare, I lie about his me ane te bim “hae stirred bis «Dum not going to wwear and I wn , ay Jars ShOON Hie een) aes ae sho wanted in a shop window, ¢n- or ihe most virulent of the tenet his glossy hair, 1 name his honor everywhere, not going to smoke, xo You need not MN UsO tO argue on this point elthe Hundreds of such boys come and are tin the maelstrom of th ovre. Little do they re tered and gyve her order. Then the ‘Che’ hero of another girl clerk asked hev for her permit of anecdote is old Count worry,” sald Mrs. : Jaer: “but, Just the 1 Nis opinion, so he simply temarked sane, If mer because he's mine, right todo those ‘it he gucased that as the women My dog is shabby and run down, he's never medi- ize how well have ¢ Nh i , Aue ; things; women uve teas? now had the vote they would want j rohase. She had none. first even during the war, accor 3 off they were buck on the farm, “So cigurettes and cuss words are °Verything else, only they, did not -- Princess Blucher, flew over Munich, licked a dog in town, I am ashamed fo trot him Tt does happen occasionally that part of moments i Nags sof Well, xActly know what they wanted, dropping flowers'on the heads of the oT hee rm bright lights in a success firmament ['m learning something every day. “Yes, DUC that's what we are try- people below. “A Indy galt ate wot Found, and yet he's min me from: little rederoofed teva "ty Guth, Something every day.” |. vty Rud Cut teeter whet eee SCIENCE NOTES bot relish omy draped instead of He hasn’t got the pep to roam abroad in ives. But how many hundreds a.© wanted to do those things-—-I mean, feminist movements are inquiring lowere, ny said Zeppelin, 1 am 0 e, he loa Ww at truly commonplace in the great a! using b language,” remarked Mrs, into, what we do want.” ¥ HREE new dyea have been Q sure t wish 1 could always drop how: —«-SeaFCh of juicy bone, he loafs away his time There la something very finu te ho arte Ateth eiee that ee ned Airs, To you want to smoker aghte Mr. @iscovered by a North ore home because he's mine, spirit of one who refuses to lured sive male prerogative. Of urse, Jarr, 48 he tendered her a elgarette. Carolina chemist, one col- ne me mutes a remark supposed And every day he gets three feeds, I eater to by the lights of congested corners, many Women are smoking, but Lam "No, { do not. I tried. to emoxe eee ee y a $ {2,0 uttered “by the then Crown When you stap to think about it, old-fashioned. 1 don't." nce when L was at bigb echool and ring silk @ page hue an Vrines, early in the year of 1918, and, his earthly needs, it is a carefree life he leads, hwppiness can be found anywhere, “I thins the women are going too It made me sick,” she sata, woo! a tan shade, wentiae mak- pera TS nes dey because he’s mine, nee the world began; success can far,"' grumbled Mr. Jarr, "The strong- “Un glad of it,” remarked Mr. Jarr, silk purple and wool a gold ance enowrh to find ¢ found anywhore vel ninded Women Want to run Ul I don’t like to see women smoke,” ing Dwe Li another Job, but what will happen to 1 let him loaf around the yard, a yard that he fd. Pain gee WOReR Wantte. run 'y aa color and the third producing The wandering o1 vho fi eh) Then ou Bee a lot of th! the aid tan if'we have tsa: ne wandering ones w find their uy nen ~ things you could never guard, while I go oul to labor hard i way to the asphalt pavements, va Why muldn't they?” dare do not lk Mrs. Jarr replied, “for bronse tinte Wee: Rend OF the Book t in t ine ried there by the winds of chance, retorted. "It ix ¥. that so many women smoke nowadays that oF Te ossatanal sed ida i Ae adie eteramnebonal lor me and mine, ure not unlike the turable-weeds which the weak-minded mon do it, & woman who doesn't smoke eort of Experiments in England indi- qh: Agy whe “hen been , 4 PCALKE POS* re brown from thetr natural roots And that reminds r eo menalways feels she ten't a lady,” cate that fish dried in electrically there,” which should make furiously It's funny what us chaps will do beeanse po a a A reminds mo, the men alway and find themselves only ghosts oi called the women leaders for women's | “I think ['U swear off, then,” seid fundreds rather than the real thing. rights ‘strong-minded women. Did Mr. Jarr, “if smoking cigarettes has to think American girls about to | session tells us to; I guess I'd board a walrus heated air can be kept in geod unequally yoked with ter lgners. “An Hingdinh Wi Cj too if it were mine, lousy, ol In like manner, many @ young man it never occur to them that this |m- become ladylike I do not wish to be yt condition for years, glint Wite in Berlin” 49 publiatiod renee of Aeanee cad gach at esidy Rscless onlay And Fant shen a6 Meslets” 1% YEE Tien whe te doing well plied ‘that those whe were against unmanty.” and he put aside se elge by © P, ‘on & Co, gang 7 d ats, becwuse they're mine. in some busines hastens to the hix equal rights for women were fceble- urette and lit hig pipe.