The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1921, Page 11

You } DANCE f ' WHAT REX BEACH FORESEES IN BLUEING AMERICA MOVEMENT OR PLAY CARDS HAVE SUNDAY MOVIES SMOKE IN PUBLIC BLOW PIPE ORGAN SUNDAY VISIT THE CEMETERY ‘Puritanism Will Bring Bolshevism.” —* An Educated and Sane Public Opinion.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. © you believe in dlue-ing America? Are you in favor of deleting the Declaration of Independence— of cutting from it “all men’s inalienable rights” to “liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? If you, as an American, answer these two questions in the negative— why, then, it's time you answer loud enough so that your verdict may be Heard and heeded, warns Rex Beach, author of “The Spotlers,” “The Winds of Chance,” and many another best- seller, President of the Authors’ League of America and popular writer for the moving pictures. I asked Mr. Beach for his candid opinion on this business of blue-ing America, not merely because he ap- peared at Albany the other day to pro- test against motion picture censorship im New York—the latest panacea of reform, but because, as a writer of cleay, vigorous stories, and a six-toot busky citizen who used to live in those Jands “where never a law of God or man runs north of fifty-three,” I felt that he would represent adequately the normal American man's reaction to the various attempts to put his ‘mind and morals in leading-strings. Speaking as that man to his fellow- men, Beach’s message may be com- pressed into two words: “Wake up!” “We are in the midst of a so-called reform movement," he told me ear- nestly, “which is in every way against athe epirit and tradition of the Ameri- can people, which is promoted by big- ote and fanatics and paid professional reformers, which—in so far as it tri- umphs—represents the government of the majority by a group of busy little “minorities, And if the majority wants to rule itself it had better wake up to what is being done! “The Declaration of Independence guarantees to ‘all men’ ‘certain in- allenable rights'—among them the rights to life, tiberty and the pursuit of happiness. But we are fast reach- ing the state where the reformers will permit us to live—and that’s about all “From the beginning, one of the principles on which this country was founded was the entire separation of church and state. Yet now certain celigious organizations are seeking ab solutely to dominate the country, to tell all of us how we shall eat, drink. play, think and carry on our work ‘Pake this matter of the consorship the pictures. A clerical leader of one fatth tells mo that he is going to see that all references to divorce are cut out of the movies. The clergy of an- other denomination desire to ban ail wention of dancing or card playing Juli another group are utterly op- Josed to moving pictures on Sunday; they would restrict our recreation on that particular day to blowing the pipe-organ and indulging in that king of outdoor sports—visiting the ceme tery. If all of these little minoriti of the righteous have their way, screen plays will consist exclusively of the picturization of ‘Alice in Wonder- land’ and the Rollo books” “But isn't such censorship only one feature in the general campaign of uplift?” 1 suggested to Mr. Bea 3h he assented with gloomy emphasis. “The next thins probably will be the censorship of te newspapers. Then there is that lively anti-tobacco campaign already being waged by the Women's Chri tian Temperance Union. In Utah— isnt it?—they have passed a law against emoking of any sori in any public place. In many States the cigarette is taboo. “Modern dancing is under fire; Tam told the New York Legislature has just passed a bill to censor dance halls. Card playing 1s of the devil. Even when I was a boy, it was generally asserted that the worst fate awaited youngsters who sinoked cigurettes and yead dime novels. My friends and I did both of these things; strange to say, we did not grow up to become members of the criminal classes. “The proposed blue Sunday laws are topics of discussion everywhere. And all these so-called reforms are not jokes; they can be put over by an or- ganized minority, just as that same minority killed off the demon rum: Maybe he needed killing; anyway, “Nat is done and over and past d's sussion. But if we do not want che fintolerant spirit to triumph in every direction, we, the American pecple, must wake up. “For the persons who believe in blue Sunday, in tabooing theatres, dancing, movies, smoking, all the simple joys of ordinary persons, are fighters for their beliefs. A fanatical dervish will dance for two hours on his toes, no ordinary person could do such 9 ching The fanatical reformers have his fire and sincerity; that's exactly why they are so dangerous.” “Don't you think,” I sugy sted, “that most social customs and forms of art can be controlled effectively by an educated and sane public pinion, such as we've always prided ourselves we had In this land of popular edu- cation?” “Most assuredly,” agreed Mr. Beach { “All this regulation and reform is an Vinsult to the popular intelligence, the ormal decency of the normal man simply a recrude: nce of the old car spirit, which believed that “That is all ever was pleasant wrong hey talk about the peril of [ol sm. I can tell you one thing: | know that labor leoders ayree <hever shall have Bolshevist ica unless we first have a Puri merica. The one state will be ly a reaction from the other And Jong before either obtains in this country the persons of intelligence, é , the producers in all the arts, will be driven out of it. “The reformers have a favorite Phrase,” concluded the novelist. “They are always saying, ‘We represent’ so and 80, this and that. But tho point about them is that they do NOT rep- resent. They do not represent us— American people. We must see to it that we are represented unless all the old American freedom ts to be owt." GOING DOWN! EAR LISTENER: Do you D ever feel as though you just must talk to some one? Why not talk to yourself? ‘The answers you get will at least be interesting and un- biased. A doctor may tell you to take pills. A shoemaker, you need shoes. A dentist, your teeth need fixing. A lawyer advises a suit and a friend may be bored, If you persist in talki to other people, ask them apout themselves, their families, their business. When you get to the condition I have described- DON'T TALK ABOUT YOUR- Always, ALFALFA SMITH {#-JARR TAMILY BY ROY L.MFcARDELL Copyright, 1921. by (Tae New’ Yor he Press Publishing Co. Evening World.) “cc OU must be in funds, and if so I trust you will share with me," remarked Mrs, Jarr, somewhat coldly, when Mr. Jarr came home the other evening “What evidence do 1 display ot ostentation nee?” Mr. Jarr in quired in surpris “Why, coming home in a taxical I heard it come up to the door.” “It wasn't bringing me home,” re marked Mr, Jarr, “and if you had been curious instead of suspicious and had looked out of the window a moment longer you would have seen that the taxicab in question had evi dently come on call, I might also fay that if you saw me speaking to the driver it was not while paying him, but simply that he called me to ask if Mrs. Kittingly lived at this dress, and then he got out and ran, bell in the hall.” “It must be nice to have alimony— that is, if one gets enough of it,” re- marked Mrs, Jarr. “That Mrs. Kit tingly never walks a etep, 1 do hb lieve, L think she calle a taxi if she's soing to cross the street. And she is always complaining she has no money," “A lot of our luxurious ladies have he taxi habit,” ventured Mr. Jarr, ‘Mrs. Kittingly is one of the worthy poor who can’t afford an automobile of their very own, so she has to ride in taxicabs. You know, you read about vhese dames in the newspapers every day, in items like this; ‘Wringing her Jewelled ‘hands and weeping bitterly, the handsomely sowned young woman declared she Was penniless and hadn't a friend in the world, Then calling a taxicab, she ordered the chauffeur to drive her to the Hotel St. Croesus, where her maid said later that her mistress would see no one, as she was packing to go to her cottage at New port.” “You must be interested in t sort of persons,” remarked Mrs coldly. “But that's just the way Mrs h Kittingly acts if her first husband is slow in sending her alimony and s has spent the alimony her second husband hag sent her—you know her third husband went to jail rather than pay any, and broke her heart. Weil, when she gets depressed be- cause her heart is broken by the per fidy of men, she calls a taxicab and rides for hours and hours in the park, wondering what she will do, being utterly without meas “And look at the women who come from Gopher 'Prairie and Pink Mink Ne. and other tank towns that hs not even a street car line,” Mr. Jarr remarked. “No sooner do they strike our fair city than they become ad- dicted to the taxicab habit, and would die of shame if compelled to travel in a. trolley car with the common rend,” “IL won't look at them; you dook at them—one in the family being in- terested in such creatures |e suf ficient!" said Mrs. Jarr coldly Mr. Jarr made no reply, and then Mrs, Jarr inquired what Mrs. Kit tingly was Wearing when she came down to get in the taxicab. “I passed her on the stairs, but I didn’t notice what she was weuring, said Mr, Jarr sullenly. “But, I tell you what, if women's gkirts get any shorter" Well, what then?” asked Mrs. Jari noting he halted “They'll be shorter, that’s all,” said Mr. Jarr weakly. Rut when they went out that eve- ning to the theatre he took good care to order a taxi to and from, Can You Beat It! \ CATCH HIN ! HE MusT HAVE A DRESS FOR NE young man whom | dearly love. His parents object to his marry. ing, and | cannot understand this, for they always seemed to like me. he has broken off the engagement indefinite! he swears he still think that if he really loved me, as he says, he would not hum ate me before my friends. like to give him up, and yet if he is not true I will. What do you ROBINETTA. you I should loves you, but is still young and under his parents’ would allow him to postpone the mar- fair lady chilly,” but at lea: she has a heart. DESIGNS MARY’S with Mr Courtship and Marriage By Betty Vincent EAR MISS VINCENT: About two months ago | tainly hold him to his engagement, and if he does not care to hold to this I sh uld refuse to see him “Dear Miss Vincent: In the past | have corresponded with a young lady regularly and visited her occasionally. Suddenly, for No reason at all (1 have an idea she wanted to see what I should do), she ceased writing. | waited a month, then wrote. She replied that she has been too lazy to write. In the fall, when | went for my vacation, | kept steady company with her and confessed my love for her. She said she cared ‘a bit for me.’ Now, what shall | do? Is it worth while to continue friendship with her? “SORE AS BLAZES.” int heart,” old man, “n I admit she Po ie: sleeves. take y er won “a bit she has admitted Remember that all girls don't wear them on_ their MOVIE “TOGS” RS. ADELE CRINLY (left) makes and designs all the at tractive frocks and costumes worn by Mary Pickford (right) in her production: hen Mary is booked for @ new picture she immediately confers Crinly, and the costumes appropriate for the special picture are planned. not haunt dance hal ning a great risk in chance acquaintances like that know it ts lonely for many @ girl in the city, but the sensible young lady does not seek out just me Meanwhile “Dear Miss Vincent: Won't you please advise me? | am nine teen and very often go to dance: While there | meet young men who frequently make appoint- ments with me. Sometimes they keep their appointments and very often | am left in the lurch. If they think enough of me to dance with me and take me home wh don't they keep their engage ments? | know you will say it i not proper for a girl to ‘pick up’ fellows that way, and there is another of my problems. Where can | meet desirable fellows Then again if these men do keep the appointments the first time it is usually the last time | see them, LONELY.” Of course these young men won't keep their appointments with for fine young men with honor waits until she meets the right man. You are but nineteen and = surely within the next few years you will et some sensible, fine man Ro manee will come to you as it comes to all girle—but it is better not to go dashing blindly after it. “Dear Miss Vincent: For two years I have been going with a young man four years my senior. not like me and insist that he is too young to think of marrying. young man is holding down a good position, and | am willing to wait for him, but still the family persist that we should not go about together, help mo. BRONX. Remember that “true love never runs smooth.” If the young man really loves you, he will find a way keep right on waiting for him and do not spoil your ¢ together by twitting him about the attitude of his family. “Dear Miss Vincent: | am eigh teen years of age and in my last year of high school. | have been going with a young lady who is a junior, and wish to marry her as soon ag | finish school aud ob- tain a suitable salary. Would it be advisable for me to ask thi girl to marry me or had | betcor wait until things are more settled? 8, C, M.” It would be much be 0 The yo indy is one yea you in school, and that ought to g you time to get out of senoo! anc least get on your foet. Why not pro pose then? You MUST HAVE A DRESS FOR FIRS JOHN 'BEAUTY “AND > HEALTH BY DR CHARLOTTE C.WwEesT by the Press Pubilaning Co ue New York Evening World.) Some Old Recipes. yurt chronicles of the days Antoinette are filled If you really care about her keep right on writing and when you ir vacation again this fall pop the question again. veauties of the French court the ex wad wes! known. Every night it was nen cloth and lowed to dry in and sunburn was well known; also that the fat in the milk laslies did not confine thelr ‘The neck, shoulders and ) subjected to its bleac You are run ing out with dazzling whiteness of the other simple remedies found inybody, but chronicles 18 « a stiff froth with repeated applicat » mask or on the His family do The fashioned out canton flannel nings thousands o1 Every One Works In Vienna his union card BY MARGUERITE MOOCERS MARSHALL + If a Man Doesn't Know How to Make Love toa Woman, the Cleverest Thing He Can Do Is to’ .* Assume an Attitude of Passive Resistance —and Thereby Tempt Her to Make Love to Him. Copyrtaht, 1921, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NCE poems actually were written to “the first kiss,” but nowadays no one remembers, well enough to write about it, that event of a prehistoric past. Fashion's combination of the ultrashort skirt and the extinguisher BILLY SUNDAY GETTIN HIS SPRING TRAINING FOR BOUTS WITH DEVIL HTS photograph shows Billy Sunday at his spring training, and rounding into top form for his bouts with the Devil. Worked up to a high pitch of vim and pep he here has his satonic enemy by the throat and is practising stamping him into mud of defeat and oblivion. hat indicates we are on the way to an Occidental acceptance of the Ort- ental conception of modesty—-which hides the face and shows almost any- thing else, ‘The man or woman who marrtes more than once is simply a glutton for punishment. In most of us spring fever takes the form of a mean, green envy,,of anybody who drives a_ delivery wagon, runs the roller over a tennis court or can chuck his Job for ne solid week 8 What the cynic knows: that in the whole world there are just two softs of people—the frankly selfish and the hypocrites. 5 A woman counts her new hats be- fore they are paid for; her husband counts his money afterward—and it doesn’t take him long! Add unnecessary Hes: Telling any modern girl that she is the only one you ever really loved. For, even if she believes you, she shrugs and says, “What of it?” The same woman may be one man’s mate and another man’s poison. The most fashionable and expen- sive thing in spring suits—divoree suits. ate And Fringe Is Her Latest Mode of Invasion. UITE contrary to the gay spirit Q of spring these delightfal, warm days, with tmdding trees, singing birds and bright sun- shine expressing happiness, is the spirit of Mme, la Mode, who ex- presses herself in terms of sombre black and white. ‘This is her newest und latest capri which, though quite absurd, has received from many followerg favorable attention, I dare say, however, that the sole reason for it is the flattering effect of the white, which 1s always placed near the face to accentuate the white of the eye Frocks of black and white for day- time and street wear are more in one dark blue. But they evidence saapicuous, the introduction of white being conservative. One sinart frock had side seams that were ‘apped, and were dripping along the ianee with white wooden beads, A black serge suit, gayly lined, had nar row White kid cuffs and collar. Have Vou noticed the dominant attitude of fringe recently? It has invaded al- most every part of our costumery, from hats and veils, to frocks and petticoats, But I'm hte id ite power emporary, because it is to Tes le ‘eave any lingering overwhelming to le trails. One of the prettiest fringe frocks I have sven wax of Georgette, the entire skirt covered with rows of inch-wide fringe, set @ half inch apart, revealing Just enough of the transparent buckground, ie lower portion of the waist and éleeves also exploited this trimming, I saw an odd trimming on & aerke frock the other day, which some of you who have discarded serge frocks sht find effective in the process of rejuvenation Black patent leather or, to be exact, black otleloth—cut 'n motifs resembling a rose was up- pliqued with jade green yarn in a buttonhole stiteh over the surface of the skirt. ‘The neck and eleeves were bound with the black leather, whic was half covered with a buttonholing of the green Another frook featur ing the applique trimming was worn by a matron at a cent bal The foundation was silver tissue over hung with black net on which say phire blue satin flowers were ap pliqued. Their stems were em broidered in blue in lines starting from the lower ede, forming a de lightfal elaboration attire, I must vel but engas matron achieved he was blond Speaking of ever tell you of a most ings effect a young the other night haired, of statuesque build, gowned in black, and over her ears, eithe aattac as earjings would be pinned in the hatr, were large black ostrich puffs centred with Jet bead ly the way, | saw another matro who had the heels of her black slippers embroidered with jet be Wo have long stopped b awed at the caprices of ribbon 1 new one to me was exploited in a chiffon afternoon frock whic tassels made of loops of very narrow ribbon placed in the 4 1 ner diamond shapes that wer marked off with hemstitet Answers to Questions. Doar Miss Lodewick: 1am puzzled about the follow ing questions: What color stock inga are worn with silver cloth slippers if the gown is apricot silk and white lace, and if another gown is cerise? What would be an appropriate trimming for a cerise gown? What material, color and di sign would you suggest for an ! MY DEAR:—Black and White Is the. ++ + Newest Caprice of Dame Fashion rf evening wrap for a young girl of eighteen y 4 rather Naborate pne to serve all purposes. Is cream lace better than silver. or gold to use with apricot silk? What colors should | wéar, being olive skinned, brown curly hair and dark eyes? What color fan should | carry with the twe frocks mentioned Miss M. S. Fe It is very smart to have your stock- ings match your frock, but very pale «ray stockings that match the sliver would do for both frocks. Padded roses of the cerise 6ilig with lighter and darker silk petals, could crush about the waistline and trail down one side. Silver ribbon binding for tiny sleeves and full skirt. Sapphire blue chiffon velvet lined with white for an evening wrap. ‘The lace to use with your apricot silk is a matter of choice, the cream lace being more youthful and sum- mery at least, A silver lace fan would correspond with your silver slippers. , Dear Miss Lodewick: 1 am making myself a black satin coat, and. would like your advice about the lining. Would pray, be too old for me with the lack combination? | am twenty years of ag MISS E. C. Gre being a popular color, is not too old. Cartridge silk, which is a loose-woven, rough-surfaced texture, would be an excellent Hning; practi- cal, yet dressy and reasonable. Dear Miss Lodewick: 1 notice that many dark frocks have light-colored sash Ai these appropriate for th; Would a tangerine Georgette sash be all right on a dark blue serge dress? MISS D. K. M. Yes, Nght sashes are worn on street frocks, ‘Tangerine is all right, but T am not sure you will want to change off with a tack satin one, Dear Miss Lodewick: What would you suggest for a lining to a brown Canton crepa dress which has openwork eyelet embroidery? MRS. J. N. Orange satin or crepe de chine would frective, If any of my readers be in doubt as to proper or more becoming trim ming, design, material or finishing de~ tails of their costuming, 1 would be vlad to aid them with suggestions should they care to write, and will print my replies in’ the following week's letter MILDRED LODEWICK, - pease 7 SCIENCE NOTES. N alochol that can be used medicines is being made on a con le in New Jersey from the gases fron the cracking processes in refining crude petrole According to an English soién- tist, candles and oil and gas \inps transform only 2 per cent, of energy into light, incandes- cent electric lamps 8 per cent., arc lights 10 per cent, and the magnesium light 15 per cent About twenty different sole leather substitutes have been brought out in Sweden, most of them made of wood treated in various ways, , mercial se