The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1921, Page 29

No More Discarded Clothes For Housemaids _ RESULT OF BIG WAGES AND: PRIDE Society Women—at Least 200 of Them—Decide to Donate Their Old Frocks, Hats and Shoes to Be Sold for Charity. By Fay Stevenson. Lr hee Gopsrisdt, 1921, by the Prens Publishing Co, (Tae Now York bvening World.) EW YORK SOCINTY WOMIBN have a new way of disposing of their last season's clothing. ‘There was a time when Agnes, the cook; Maggie, the seoond- @mistant cook; Lacile, Babette and all the retinue of French maids were tiven milady’s slightly used evening owns and substantial tailored suits nd fur coats, But now, since thes fashionable fomales are derhanding uch outlandish wages and taking so many afternoons off (o toddle and do the alligator glide, society women have put their heads together and Bit upon another plan. Two weeks ago between two and @hree hundred representative soctety women of New York establisted *fverybody’s Thrift Shop” at No. 114 Bast F0th Street. Here theif slighty used garments, some things worn perhaps twice, others almost as good @s new, are donated and college giris, art students, shop girls, or, in fact, eny woman who appreciates fine materials and cuts, may select wear- img apparel at remarkably low prices, ‘The proceeds of this new and @uaint shop are to go to the follow- tog six charities: "The Bryson Day Nursery. ‘The Kips Bay Day Nursery. The Union Settlement. The Maternity Centre Association. ‘Lhe Association to Promote Proper Hiousing for Girts. The Vanderbilt Clinic Auxiliary. Au the patronesses of “Iver body's ‘Thrift Shop” we find suc names as Mrs. Frederick W. Vander- bil, Mra. Mortimer Le Wiliam Sloane, Mrs, Henry White, Mrs. Gvorge I. Baker jr, Mrs, Cor- nolius N. Bliss jr Mrs. BH. Harri- man, Mra Felix Warburg and Mr: George W. Wickersham, Mrs. Philip G. Bartlett is Chairman of the shop, Mrs. William Rand jr. Vice Chair man, Miss Mary Choate Treasurer @nd Mrs. David Dows Secretary Although most of the articles in Sverybody’s Thrift Shop” are eve- fing gowns, summer dresses, tailored @uils, capes, fur coats, shoes, hats end lingerie, as the name “iuvery~ body” implies, there are clothes ror children, suits of clothes for men, a few pieces of furniture, one piano end even choice bits of bric-a-brac. “We hope to not only furnish ®lothes for everybody who wishes to make purchases at reasonable rates,” Miss Mary Choate, the Treasurer, told me, “but to sell furniture, beu- ding, linen and many articles which ere almost as good as new. This is not a second-hand shop, nor a rum- mage shop—only good, fresh articles ture to be sold.” ‘Then Miss Choate went on to ex- plain that she knew the history of many clothes in the shop, knew the people to whom they belonged and knew just why these things were dis- posed of. Although, of course no one will know whether they are wearing Mrs. Astorbilt’s evening gown or a hat delonging to some muitimillion- aire’s wife, many little ‘art students and women of the neighborhood will wonder to whom these articles be- bonged. ‘As I walked about the shop I saw just such a question pass over the face of a young girl who looked very chiff, Mrs. much like one of our popular art students, She was standing before @ mirror, a pale blue pe de chine gown over one arm, while she wort @ Javender and pink chiffon combina ion over a middy blouse and skirt Both gowns were imported and had probably cost hundreds of dollars, a yet this girl could buy them for $15 each. ‘Tailored suits which were custom made, fur couts and cloth coats elab- wrately trimmed with expensive furs can be bought for a song, and it is waid that no matter how many hun- dreds of dollars a tailored suit may Dave cost, the highest price any have Drought ja $35, while many have been sold for $20. Passing around to @ talble full of @ainty summer hats, many of them trom Paris, others from Yifth Aven shops, Miss Choate picked up a lar cream straw, lined with pink sati and trimmed with bits of dainty pink thers. ‘This hat has been worn just once. ‘a eaid Migs Choate. “I-know the lady to whd@® it belonged, and she given it'to us becauee she real.z that it was most unbecoming to her ‘A table of shoes came next. Daint jittle French pumps, which have been ought on the impulse of the moment, have proved too amall or too some- and 80 But éhing for the owner's whims they were donated to the shop. they are not all too small! sensible shoes, with military fre waiting for some sensible pur- ennd then there are tables and tables of summer asses and lingerie. Dainty bits of feminine wear, all ‘made of the finest materials and laces and embroideries, are waiting | th purchase of some woman or refine ment and taste, Tt js hoped that many of the refined girls of this city who come here to jake their own way, have litt money to spend but appreciate good qualities and materials, will take s vantage of ‘“Bverybody'’s Thr Shop.” Since many of the husbands there society women are becoming interested in the shop, several suits ‘of clothes and overcoats, to say noth~ ing of sill shirts and qjightly used neckties, are finding their way to the tables, ‘Therefore, it is hoped that college boys and young men of re finement will wend their way to the shop. Little is being done to advertise the shop, and only a whispered “Te your friends.” Ja given as the pu whasens leave. Hundreds of comin rth of clothing are stored away in 8 verybody’s Thrift Shop" and ey: cent of the proceeds is to go to char ity with the exception of the rent of the shop and two paid clerks, who also act as secretaries, Usually these two women open up the store in the morning, but by afternoon many society women are volunteer mileswomen. So you see New York society women are killing two birds with one stone. They hope to sell their clothes mt reasonable rates to people who will appreciate them and at the saine time raise enough money to aid @hearilubie imetitutions, ‘ LARGEST SOLID SILVER VASE IN THE WORLD Oxsysv9em ITTLE DOROTHY KNOWLES, IL Brookline, Mass, is here shown peeping out of the im- er yase in the lobby of the of mense Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, where her parents, Mr. and Mra, H. A. Knowl: are stopping. The vase is Gix feet six inches tall, weighs 160 pounds and contains silver enough to coin 2,000 silver dollars. HOW ARE YGu ARS MERRYLINRS How (INTERESTING! , ce WHY DaYou PRAY FoR. YOuR. hott Aisne Co, The New York Evening World )ISYOuR Ulnrue: 7 YOUR HOTHER SAYS YOu ARE VERY GOOD AND PRAY A GREAT DEAL - \HE IS VERY ] REUGIOUS, HE’LLBEA GREAT MINISTER WHY Do You WANT HER To FoR MOTHER TO GET THIN AGAIN To His Hom Though Paul G. McIntire Was Only a $3 a Week Clerk and Had Been One Year in College He Now Plans to Make His Native Village “the Athens of Dixie.’’ Copyrigit, 1021, by the Pewe Py Now York Evening tau Vorld,) ae AUL GOODLOE M'INTIRE, 1 tired New York broker, lias returned to the home town of his youth to make his boyhood dreams come true Once @ three-dollar-a-week clerk in the Charlottesville, Va, freight office, who was able to get’ but one year of instruction in the University of Virginia, then many years later a millionaire, a patron of the fine arts and throughout his career an ideal- ist, Paul Goodloe Melntire has gone back to Charlottesville to help make that little Virginia town “the Athens of Dixie.” He is sixty now, but that was the dream he had as a boy when he rested from his labors moving cases of Alt le pipping in the freight omfice and gaged toward Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and founder of the University, whose dream also was that Charlottesville would some time become a centre of art, learning and culture. Jefferson's dream inspired the boy to dream likewise, and to-day he is back in Charlottesville helping with RANDOM FACTS NB of the least mountain- (OlRR in Switzerland, the Canton of Vaud, obtains ull its electricity for lighting and power from waterfalls, As an experiment the Rrit- Government will estab- an American automatio ish lish telephone exchange in London, Much of Paris's fire appa- is equipped with radio telephones for communication with headquarters, ratus New York Broker Returns Town to Make Boyhouu Dreams Come True GooDLnNe Mo INTYRE, his money and hw to make them both come true, a result the town and the University are richer by three-quarters of a million dollars ‘ucational and art endowments rks, liraries, wt chol arshipa, statuary and comprise his gifts. Statues of Stor wall Jackson and Robert 1. Le which cost $35,000 each, will be erect ed this spring. He has given $165 energy seh public schools 000 for the founding of a school of fine arts, $85,000 for a Greek amphitheatre, $100,000 for anoth Mbrary, nearly $100,000 for thr other statues, and to the city he has given Belmont Park He has pre- sented alwo to Albemarle County thir. teen new school buildings, and plans to increase this number to forty, 80 that his home county will be rated the first in the State in public school educational fapilities Mr. Mofntire, his friends say, has been a broker, but never a wildcat speculator. “My secret of success, "he once aid, “is knowing when to take a logs and never to hang on to a losing Proposition.” Also he still has fond memories of Wall Street, where he is said never to have made a “short" sale in his cay y shouldn't I like Wall Street?” he asked recently, “It gave me power fe do good.” LYRIC TREATMENT BY ROY L.M¢ScARDELL OF LOVE’S PHASES Copyright, 1921, by Ge Prva Pablishing Oo, —_—_——- Tue New York Evening Ward.) were @peaking about the Both Drama and Verses Appear ldren’s future the other Under Pen Name “ Michael day,” said Mrs, Jarr, “and 5 ” you thought they might be great au Strange” — Poet Seems to thors because they mutilated your Look Into the Future With books go.” Ha, , Hopeful Eyes. “I don't know that I said it exactly Pee pi pisdlal ils that way,” replied Mr, Jarr. “I think I remarked that they might be mod By Marguerite Mooers ern fiction writers, in due course Marshall. time, because they had colored the — Gopyright, 1021, by tm Pree Uy pictures in my set of Scott, That's 6 Now York Brening ¥ What most of the modern authors are 111 first year of the matrimonial doing—coloring the old stuff so highly and artistic partnership | of that it is quite spoiled for what it Blanche Oe8clrichs Barrymore, really is, SMH, if the children mu- Social leader, poet and called by Paul Helleu “America beautiful woman," with John Barrymore, mpst distinguished of the younger gencra~ tion of American actors and an artist tilate books, maybe they are only in- ‘8 most dicating a critical attitude, They may be book reviewers when they grow ubcaag slash all current as well, has produced two interosting results. “Well, I'm giad you see that both ixhibit No. 1 is Mrs, Barrymore's and may newest volume of poems,"Resurrect~ artists, or poets, Life,” written under her pseuco- publica our children are very bright be great audhors, or a, whe aay G “Michael Strange,” and just or critios, when they grow up. Chil Uibiisned by Alfred A. Knopf. ‘The dren have great advantawes these notable events of the spring dra days, giris especially,” ventured Mrs. Jerr rood job is better able to support don’t: know that girl children him in the style he hopes for than have any special advantages these the old-fashioned stay-at-home girl dave. mali jeer Reni , would,” sugested Mr, Jarr an id Mr Jarr; “but grown-up “swell, if a girl loves & young man bays They can be doctors, xng they share their mutual COMES, awye merehant wh should sneer?” asked Mrs. Jarr “Or go in the moving pictures," Mrs, “If you had an income would you share r inquired rr interrupted. “Clarn Mudridge. Share It with me?” Mr. Jarr inquire 0 eee cinac ‘{ should @ay not!” replied, Mrs. Hmith's cousin, Lizzie Mudridxe, Ok jarr “Pd gut a bt of things |! need the name of ‘Lilith Lestrange’ and if 1 had an income of my own.” went into moving pictures and played king about girls “But you were 8} the roles of beautiful adventuresses. with incomes marrying these days She got $300 a week In New Jersey 48d sharing their Incomes with thelr sixties, and then they sont for ner “ROM ant stra Jar admitted to come to California, where she got “And that is all right for the modern $1,000 a week playing the same .har- young married couples, But T am sra on the acrecn—heartiess, mer- Old fashioned, and aa the only In comé 1 have is what I I'd be in a bad way if I shared it with you, No, you share your in- come with me and IW share mine with myself.” “But len't that what you've always been doing?” asked Mr. Jarr. ntiful that wreck get froin you yes, $1,000 a wouk when » went to California” tward th its wa; women course of vam- murmured So it's just as I say,” said Mrs. “Certainly, as [ told you before, r, not heeding. “And I have I'm an old fashioned woman," re- noticed, too, that girls out in the plied Mra, Jarr “What's yours is world, in business or with a profes- mine and what's mine is my own!” sion, get ‘better chances to marry — But, just the same, she let Mr, Jarr than the old-fashioned stay-at-home have ter of his own money kind of girls do Justrated by Joha Barry- Majhe that's because the modern young man feels that = girl with « ' Wxbibit No. 2 one of the most By Maurice Kette HE IS VERY (Good | HE IRST FAM Le oe we. NEAL, Re. CHARA Don’t Arch Your Eyebrows at the Uncouth Classes— Maybe Your Grandfather Once Ate Tripe With His LIES Forefingers—-Many Family Trees Look Flossy Only Because They Are Slippery Elms. Copyright A display of elevated nostrils. done tablectoths. 1921, by The Prews Puldishing Co LOT of folks that think the Golden Rule is only eleven inches to the foot bave a gnarled idea about other things. their ancestors were among the first settlers to t out of their land they've got a right to view us common birds with a grand But they have guessed wrong once again. ; Tt ts never safe to lay on the swank because of what your forbears have Because many genealogy tables are covered with spotty linen for ; (The New York Broning World.) i i They figure that if im the Indians A lot of first families are so called because they were first to die cover that the Indians were suckers for glass beads, arliost settlers also hopped on to the fact that the redskins would trade a square mile of Manhattan for a swig of hooch, The only thing that can be said for the ancient flimilammers is that they gave a nippler brand of stagger water than is obtainable now. Some of the If your ancestors grabbed off the choicest sites for a couple of strings of red beads you are very lucky, but not necessarily distinguished. Do not arch your eyebrows at the uncouth classes, Maybe your grandfather 5 once ate tripe with his forefingers, And always remember that those ancient oll paintings flattered the old folks in all four directions ; There are plenty of hones in every family, and twenty bones make H a family skeleton, Another natty item to remember is that many ‘ THE DEAR! HE LOVES He Gao j SOME OF THE SETTLERS FOUND THAT THE REDSKINS WOULD TRADE A SQUARE MILE OF MANHATTAN FOR A SWIG OF HOOCH. family trees look flossy only because they are slippery elms, Also, i that Mayflower passenger list might not have been such a wondertal wang if there'd been immigration inspectors waiting for ‘em. } ‘A lot of people that now live in glass houses used to inhabit a flat. And don't let ‘em kid you that they've always been used to transparent clapboards, It's a long lane that has no kink in it, And it’s a grand family that:never had a demure daughter elope with the chauffeur. There's a bunch of authentic dope worth knowing. For instance, many guys with holeproof reputations have porosknit records on St Peter's ledger. And because your wife plays bridge on Fifth Avenue ie { no sign your collegiate son has never spent the night in the D. T, ward. Of course a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of i men. It ts helpful to bear in mind that a guy of impeccable character can still make a lot of slips that can’t be covered by accident insurance. We get that straight from # number of reliable police blotters. { Some guys can’t be perfect for two weeks in succession without | loping up to the Legislature with a batch of moral laws. Which looks f very upliftish on the surface. But if we waited for the blmbos with * untarnished repatations to cast the first stone, we'd have no more use for crushed boulders than a dame that knits linen doilies, ‘Phere is no moral pinned to this tale except this: A bunch of our most venerable millionaires played tag with the draft in the Civil War. i ‘Also, many a fortune of 1921 was known as the swag in the early 90% q ‘And the monkey wrench in our social system t that three butlers and a } governess often make a fret famity. matic seagon—Mrs, Barrymore's play, dren After iny retreating steps— “Claire de Lune” (also signed In dark wind-#wept rooms.” And aa the dim soind of hands Disb “Michael Strange”), in which John ee lesaly falling apart— Barrymore and Wthel Barrymore will yjore is part of another interesting Exhausted from pleading—toward mg appear in New York during the week poum without a titl ‘averted eyes. of April 16 The play is a dramatte iyo, pace —so be But on the whole the poet seems Version of a part of one of the talos of {YOUN [ACt atl iy to look imto the future with happy, Mee Od ae ee reach of Hising--humming throughout me: peful eyes. For she sings: role is that of a deformed youth Of Anaiike some inint of harping wigels “T eo a splendid life opening ous 7 Upon regarding you fore us ; The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore was last summer's most ful O elected mate ever poignant forma, talked-of romance along Fifth Ave- Your limbs—so beautiful . ss nue and Broadway. The muscular polling of # snake O J ere @ splendid fife opening aut Mra. Barrymore's present volume oa ve before us- of vorse is the third from her pen in Despite that out glass upon the bese five years, and, like the others, is a Your hands so curiously marvellous foot of sudden anger— lyri’ treatment of the Joya, pains, They are languid--brutal Despite those creeping melanchoty, shadows, fears, regrets and anticipas Yet tentative with wonder—with fingers of sustained misunderstand~ tions of love. Some time ago she wan worship: ing i wled as “Society's Poetess of Pas- As the hands of a young ohild (With their tashes drooping over / While timidly parting back Ghose smouldering nes, ' are glowing invocations to rainbow eurtains With their staccato wrenchings awagt love and the lover in “Resurrecting Between himself and fairyland.” wpon the pillow); Life,” such, for example, as the fol And again despite that abrupt rex lowing aimee Many a woman, who herself hat” versed scartet scraw! of jealousy “O our love is & mo ce gleam. Known an intoxteating passion wall Blurring my wifely hymn book.” ye love is @ moist, white gleaM- Hii) as whe reads thie descréption by As the limbs of fountainal figures Michael Stran That are laved iby the intermingling “O your touch wpon my band was of moonlight and water— subtle with ent ty You bent over, running your mouth “O our love has a foaming stem of Throughout my hair | wan, effulgent perfume Your kisses wove around my head a That ia like those heavy wet stalks of web marsh-grown orchid Entangling—crushing -Dlurring: away | from me “O our love spreading a deadly cool. ‘The transparent’ beckoning of my ness along ip ne Just perfume from Ube stamen of i @ certain uid Again she writes of kisses Reminding warning the traveller nd suddenty O jet our conclusive j he is ina place of death Lat we tides of an O our vas ha ike a whower of | LL e i coins \ “ volcanic st frown ‘ Heels the wind follow the wir j And a fac v inning [nto pelting at the 8 or anti! the purple shield i terrible exhaustion ‘Since now d on joy Muttening down upon us’ j Now trailing into that astien yawn of es Be | } dissolution | ‘ z 4 Now brightening under the glazo of Here is a part of the tenth puem, in ARY, Mary, sweet i reas) ance th aection of the book entitled a i Benediction tong sought motional’: a and airy, i And again our love those Why are your cheeks | elucching hands of forgotten “1 w you well wish you well pega ] the ewn myself apart from you -y get that way *cause ; Wounding you unto death where you | Your Chances Good} 1! OEE UA, Ree { i" eae pat We PA “T eat so much Bond Bread! b In Elevators t you canne k how blasted m ' N eaoh of the 813 week dayaQ From burling the spear i ( ) a SS the calla i4 Nor how blinded my eyes ' i sievatore carried 0,000,006 From tearing Dack the curtain be i passengers through the 10,000 a a8 . { les of elevator shafts, a tal of © once th erte was killed it will haunt me forever f kyWard Uuip And as a child moaning oat in the | anew eee an ntti tein Han 2 . i . aon er stilgnpilaiibhda se | |