The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1921, Page 17

KEEPS » YOUNG ey = Soy a —_ copyrient, 1981, by ATE CLAXTON, ACTRESS, REAL GIRL AT 71 BROODING LIVING IN PRESENT KEEPING BUSY LAUGHING DAILY j Algo Advises Living in the Heart of the City, Explain- ing “‘As Long as One Is in Life They Are a Part ; Of It, Able to Keep Up With the Times.’ By Fay Stevenson. the Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Wrening World.) ‘TRIM little figure tripped toward me down the corridor tnto the reception room of a large apartment house just west of Broadway and 45th Street. most girlishly. A tan tailored euit » KATE CLAXTON WHEN SHE WAS A u POPULAR STAGE FAVORITE ight lines of her back and a skirt just the right length to dis- play shapely silken-clad ankles and Krench-heeled pumps completed her outht sixteen,” thought I. Was wrong—all wrong. It as) Kate Claxton, that actress who was known as the most beautiful woman on the and also as “the fire “actress,” she was the \eroine of so many fires at the time statidfather w boy. And | } to ask her about the art of rrowing old gracefully! In-fact, jt is because Kate Claxton has reached the age of seventy-one nd still jooks as young photo- craph grandfath 1 these years that I sou out But how w speak of AC In the ence of this agile, sprightly woman, whose eyes have all the sparkle of youth and whose motions | in her teens? ea ose of a ho's Who” both in America and NewYork have registered Kate Clax- ton}‘who is known as Mrs. Charles A. St in private life, as born in 18} © noth would have of the age of this won- No, not even grand- convinced me derful wom fathér’ “$ told me, « those youth be interviewed," she long lashes fell over sar her ul brown eye modes! w a weet sixteen woula have'let them droop, “I haven't gives. anytt to the press I retired from the stage ten years ag “But there is 80 much for you to tell other women,” I persisted. | The art of growing old gracefully"— And then I bit my tongue, for I € p pected to see this girlish little w disappear down the corridor. immedi- Ltely, Instead, Kate Claxton tapped her lainty foot on the carpet and looked nost wistfsily out ie corner of hose reddish brown eyes And then I gleaned the following ix Pules of keeping young from her One has to say “gleaned,” for this dainty little weman does not say ‘I did this,’ or “{ did that.’ In fact, she begged me not to quote her ex- ensively But nevertheless I gathered this, If you wish to keep young: “Don't brood. “Live in the present. “Live in the heart of the city (she lives right in the centre of the theatre section). Keep bu: “Don't be selfish. “Laugh every day. Then as we talked, and perhaps be- old times and your face will show it “And every woman musi keep continued Miss Claxton, “Keep- ng busy helps one te forget one's Her nifty spring hat rolled back from her face with a coat which brought out the PRESENT EVERY DAY self, and selfishness is the first step townrd old age. She herself ts a member of the Professional Woman's League and an active worker for the Stage Chil- dren's Fund. And although Kate Claxton is too modest to tell ot her own activity, the girl at the switch- board in the apartment where she lives told me that she is the most ac- tive woman in the house. “She's ‘out and out’ just like a said this young lady. “Some- times she is out as early as 9 in the morning, and the other day she told me she overslept—she didn't get up until 6 in the morning.” “I dare say you never allow your- self to get bhu I shot as a parting word to Miss Claxton. “J put on my hat and run out when I feel the blues coming on,” laughed she, “but I haven't REALLY given have I? And please print my picture of by-gone nd then a recent one, masking ‘As she was’ and the other ‘As you an interview, don't on she But Kate Claxton needn't worry about that, for the caption under pictures would have to be “As abways is." Puzzle: Which ts which? THE FAMILY FOR INSTANCE IF I WANT THE CONTRACT MR PIFFLE SIGNED LAST WEEK AND LOOK FOR DESERTER. e BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB ° Copyright, 1921, by the Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evenlag World.) POOR grandmother advertised indeed, and if people would give him PN in.a paper in the hope of find- the cold shoulder wherever he goes, he would soon realize he has to take ing h six motherless er son who has deserted his children, This poor woman is frantic with the worry and care of the little ones whom she has ken to mother, She cannot possibly f and finance them well. She writes to ber son as lo “Here is the picture of children, which you left twenty-one montis ago, and who have not he from you since. I have done my for i‘em, and if you care anything for them, come back home to your | tle children. [ look for you every day, so don't make me worry about you any more. You my mind every minute day. Your Mother. I wish there was some law whereby this man could be found, if all the corners of the h had to Me ched. I wish he could be put to work and made to support those children and gave the suffering and soul agony of this poor old woman But as yet, the laws of the States are very mild in relation to the de serter of a family. 1 believe that a man who deserts his own flesh and blood shoul treated as the de serter of the army. He should either be court-martialed or made to work fort support of thos the hi for whom he st re sense , the interstate law make it difficult, if not impx to bring a man fback once he has the State h he forme G86 our names are both Stevenson, d, If the cannot adj Kate Claxton declared: this matter i “Phe woman who wishes to keep the of the Federal jinea'of her mouth with the upward are a few fundamental human ele. curves. must laugh—not once, but ments that, as yet, we have failed tc many times a day, It Isn't always Teoognize in our statutes: y. it wasn't for me. My life was A man is sane in one State and nattalway al Ti there were several insane in another. A man may be shocks from fires and m little un- married in one State and that mar leas cidents have had 8 iN no recognized in Pleasant Incident. night Thad to aie other. He may be divorced in up all night on the train travelling State and et avers wah a Sea OWA WO OWA ) aby 10 Human tionships should be Fl Sic tae ae eae cabaena. Aa er. And the family de Re i Sooneray a FOUNG! Wee’ pany 1 this category. hing | to keep your rom 58° should be 5 p to app i ving’ f soxton who @ One no matter whe! Por 1 Miss Claxton, who * Many, ‘many pitiful | t wad rown t and 's for me of men who have shirked Tear sne was civing an inter- tasks and jeft their families desti view tute, What happena? Thoy whecome “And you think a woman should charges on the comraunity ety live jn the heart of the city to keep must. pay. The child e the young and happy and brigh greatest sufferers. M aan “Yes, nthe whirl of thi regulations are badly needed to find came the enthusiastic “Aslong the runaway. It will enve the com ag gne is in life, she is part of it, munity ec erable sums of money b able to grasp conditions, able to keep in the end p with the times, The present is all As for the man himself, IT know of Ht counts. Look back, brood about no more despicable creature thin he novent children who forsakes little { who need ? ostracized sociates. tis help. e dear yen i und shunned by all his He is a very weak mortal his responsibility or else be put out- side the pale. Occasionally who flies off and deserts, Usua is because she is fas ated iby other man, and occasionally st« ereat idea of a wonderful career for If, But eventually, as a gener he woman comes back, Sh t long stay away from her lit The mother lo surpasses returns a wiser and more Pp woman. She ad for the clinging ns about her, and repents, at for the silly mistakes she has made in her haste. After all if the deserter could only too, we th thing, see himself as others see him, and as he will view himself later on, he would never take the first fight. How he must hate himself when he real izes what a weak, spineless creature h LS been 1 who dares stand side by side with real men must bear his own burden and not allow any one else to do it. He who faces the firing line of lite Iways the one who comes out because he has at least e that he has done his duty nothing more satisfying ‘The man who is not responsible for his own is no man at all. He is the worst kind of a parasite, because lv permits others to perform his tasks and sheulder t sponsib: 8 The dese 1 better think twice before he leaps once Copyright, 1921 Prow Pablisfing Oo, The New York ng Wart.) ELULE the well know woman and publicity who has been so frightfully ili last nineteen months, bas ved hersuf ® second Pollya through and through. For s months at one stretch Mi evell has been in St. Vincent's Hospital bound in a plas ter cast and taking most of her nour ishment ough glass tubes And yet Mi evell has found a to t 1” about ted ng ag plump lit ta and § had ev town pat hing, dearie uff to bunions, but I'v tiring to be taanitur fo This roofn has been a ‘melting-pot,' a place where many newspaper peo- ; rinse APLPPL PLP LASS By Maurice Ketten it, 1021. at Ts Wee otlinthng Oo, 0 New York Prening Work.) THE HOUSEWIFE SCRAPBOOK EVER iron brown stock- ings, If you havea man- gle just pass it through this. If not, smooth out the Stockings carefully with the hands as soon as taken from the line. A hot iron will spoil the they will acquire an undesirable yellow tint- color When the towels become dingy put them into a boiler of cold water to which has been added white soap shay ings and lemon Juice. Let it come to a boil slowly. Rinse in tepid water, then blue wa: Do not wring tightly out of last water. They should be hung out dripping and direct ly in the sunlight. els will then be a nice white. rr, Your tow- If the kerosene lamp has an unpleasunt odor just put a teaspoon of fine tab! It the lamp, Once a month wash out the salt Chamois skins are apt to get stiff, To keep them soft and Pliable wring the chamois out soapy water and do not ple t riusts and al onal people have collected 1 righ re in this tiny two-by four room many people who wer deadly have met and made up! It's been worth all my suffering just to have th old pals and fort fr ds reunited,” c inued Miss ell as her brown eyes shone with hay piness and sunbeam smiles piaye about her month le who woul “bly never have spoken to eac’ her i An ¢ this earth have m my bedside, spoken a few tender words to me and then, looking into each ther’ eyes, 6 ized that the oki hard feeling wasn't worth while. Their inds have met in renewed friendship und many have out togeth m-in-arm ug and talkin Isven the \orus ad f “Lam a 1am an editor, you has vanished in this room,” iaughed Neii i. Busy editors come in he nd chum with their cub reporters, in some cases not star, a cub reporte nN re: By ont ECOND ANY PAPER © IN MY OFFICE Q> ALL | HAVE To IS TO OPEN DRAWER C AND THEN YOu _DON T FIND IT COURTSHIP.” MARRIAGE, °* SY BEVTY VINCENT * Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) ANY letters have come to me other's view, and in » most ¢ M recently from young girls who th misunderstandings willbe say they have met a straightened out man who has called several Perhaps that is why it is said taken them to places of amusement “True love never run roth." them. ‘There and been most attentive to , the young man or young Then the girls complain that for some Woman who refuses to listen to an re: pn a tiff has arisen and despite apology or a desire to renew an old all thelr efforts to renew the friend- {rendship is not exactly the sort of nan or girl to make a happy wn ship the young man has refused to rade or hwlpmate. And the littte gitle do this, who have d themselves “Heart “How can I win him back? these broken” streased” better ap letters always ask and they are near- PIY Cupid's court plaster meee ly always signed ‘“Heart-Broken" or ireatly Distressed.” To all of these girls I would ke to say that the young man who will no to look things in the A Devoted Reader says “Dear Miss Vincent: | am six- teen and | like a certain young man very much. He is nineteen cop! apole t is the girl’ ppeaet On spel ie it ts the girl's and { believe he cares for me, ‘ault, or apologize himself, if he has ‘The last time | saw hime he acted n im the wrong, is not worth just the same as ever and prom- knowing. ised to phone me during the week Lovera! QUATreN™ are mors oplees (RUMAKO @) Gate, JMO laid) nakido this, and it has been about three of an accepted ‘thing among young weeks. | have heard that he has souples, ‘Two young people who have been to a few parties. What do been brought up under different en you think is the trouble?” vironments and conditions are very _ Probably vuth, A boy of nine ngle bound to follow. regulation But the young man who 1s broad Mas) Gh rile minded and and kind “Dear Miss Vincent: There is a will understand this, and #0 will the = young man in our crowd who sung woman. E will try to take Keeps telling the girls how he oppoaite side understand the !0ves and admires one girl. He has been doing this for over a year, and when he sees the girl he hardly speaks to her. Don't you think if he cared for her he would take her out and favor her with company? He is very t nd not a bit bashful. ‘pa Mead ince hink he is just tr papers, and the just trying quently goes out with a “i aie whorus girl telling her low cares to go ou the top and giving her unediately, be not ich a young man t n't been Bloomy,” t smile is patient new erwoman. ft “Actresses and actors have come in here and sung and ted to me, D. t wait a t her W. Griffith gave a private showing a hla ‘Way Down Hast’ in my room and 4, Al Jolson came all the way from “ved FY California to sing one sony for im Doar Miss Vingentt (Am ta “I might have wn love with two young ladies. One consluded Netlio Revel is intellectual and the other do- ean do Hapey oven the ta mestic. | myself have a college eae cartes sue haan tome education, but | believe | really Rte mer pals who have like the domestic girl better than heen reunited that I haven't hag the intellectual one. Could | be sine! happy with And then the plump little fist cam Yes, if you apt tte a good home ania mestic always pr 8. How I get out ever, if « books and veeilay discus current events than you foth my feet on the ts do for embroidery and custard pie th, Just to cast.” rein twice bef nd mys you pop the ques tion. N! By Copyright, HE war's over and the brown gers on, But don't let the all is well with the world, skin like carbuncles on a sulphur-and-molasses addict. prove it: WS of tre DAY NEAL R The War's All Over but the Taxes, but There’s Str” | Something to Worry About—To Prove It Here. Are Some Samples Snipped From the World’s Garment of Trouble. 1921, by the Prem Publlahing Co, verything’s over but the war taxes, and still the world stagnc. O"HARA + bt nfl te ree Te Now York Evening Wortd) : derby fits over the Kaiser's skoll, CINCINNATI, O.—Twelve thousand coal stokers struck to-day .o enforce their demands for prescription beer. bottles with two inches off for foam. Tkey demand eight-ouree WASHINGTON, D. C.—Texas Congressmen have been requestéd by Postmaster Hays to post their measurements for mai! order suits betore the rush hour every day to relieve the postal pressure, : YLPROIT, Mich.-When Ford's research department starts maktfig war map experteers kid you thatence Big news still busts ont on Mother Earth’wit™o 4 And we caw? ©‘ > 976 mechanical milk, Henry's got a machine for making milk shakes. Its, , a flivver. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The Waiters’ Union is protesting against shorter lunch hour. WAIKIKI BRHACH, Hawail—Failure of the 1 Legislators from the bathing suit 4is- clothing down a few more inches. tricts have forbidden the importation of lawn mowers. soared to prohibitive rates. CHICAGO, Iil.—Bverett Harding claims his Kinship with Warren. Gi grass crop has sefit Field glasses have was based on Einstein's theory of relativity COLD HARBOR, Labrador An unsuccessful season for local trap- pers has resulted in wholesale anguish here. output of summer furs and intense suffering in the United States, SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. charged with buying cigarettes with intent to inhale, by his five wives. WASHINGTON, D. C» ROQUEFORT, Germany. Ernest Tripple BIG NEWS STILL BUSTS OUT LIKE CARGUNCLES. Grover Cleveland was arrested to-day He was balled! out No new reforms were launched to-day, Bergdoll announced, he was christened during a Democratic Administration and got away during the same. Democrats. CHICAGO, Il plified speaking but “I seen my duty and families of Sheridan Road, better cla ATLANTA, Ga- Windy City savan' Not only are “It is me” and “I ain't” perfectly correct, I done it" “I dunno who shot me” is accepted in 'the $ gunmen zones and “T kilt him beca usage when spoken by a perfect lady “You-all done it” was put into nomizstion to-day as He will return to Philadelphia when the world is safe for th» ' ‘ report further progress in ¢im- is now uccepted by the use 1 loved him” is in good perfect English by the Board of Trade. Ark.School te DELIRIUM, the janitors «+t more hours, LOS ANG 8, Cal. living with his first wife. WALL STR Prominent New York Cigar coupons crashed chers here demanded mare wages than The School Committee has compromised and given ‘em movie actor has been discovered still to to-day International False Tooth rose 18 ;oints with the publication of the De- partment of Agriculture's report on the Ama severely and s DES MOINES, Ia. their tools, gamated Societies of Junk Merchants aff« nt rubles and marks lower than linen rags. ‘The Plumbers’ Union walke: out to-day and forgot New rates announced by ed foreign exchange pyorrhea. THE /ARR FAMILY” . By ROY L. MSCARDELL * leading | t It means restriction af, the | Copyright, 1991, by the Prem Publuting Co. (Tue Now York Breniug World } 66] MIGHT nave known you'd bring gallantly. “You were the only woman jj e ; Saile HOt mark. | ever loved, and 1 would have never jj | Huis WARE 29 ~ Joved unless T had met you, and t {Hf ed Mra. Jarr, as Mr. Jarr came (Ovo) Unleee o tou some day, ee semat : cotton affair ai home with a dingy old f i i with a broken rib protruding through — “Yes, but I might have met som» }jj ita side. “Now, if it had been one of Oe else,” Mrs, Jarr remarked. ould you. ‘have become \ my good umbrellas you would have genera? asked Mr, Jar. "Surely not left it somewhe! that!) You were destined to be my |i! “| yuppose it's rather because no- bride and we would have met and nody wa » sted old bom- loved and = married, anyway. ome body wanted to steal this old bom- loved and inartind an bazine, but if it had been a geod one eWaoil, you know how crazy tha it would have been swiped the first cnariey’ Billups was to marry. Te? place 1 brought it to,’ replied Mr, CUC™Oy DURES Wee the wudou ; thing was’ of umbrellas.” sald Mee ee etrtous thing was what™ nbrella is responsible [oF «119s the one who gave me the: silk ; umibrella on my birthday,” remapked Mr. Jar inquired: Mra, Jarr, “So, tf you hadn't opme |i i along baat ey Ik umbrella,” _ “In the rainstorm,” interjected. Mr ig uss nua & ‘at clentecn aarti ps Sg a ad just eighteen “at, might not have married Amy we Lt you were just vgton, and look what a fat’ old ¥ eh aan ~ g she is now, and serve he sixtoon,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “but go fhe Meet 8 le ateviteant Anant Phen it's thelr romance ot nglghteen: and F purned umbrella as well as shave gan reested Mr. Jarr. ngton, who was ., "It is pot!" Mrs POR eee urply. “Tt was 1 oh i eg GRY besides, that Amy Codlir uimbret And put it in fee te be romantic, me's ¢ the hall rack she dropped a lighted US rin dt and burned an awful hole “[ never knew Amy. [ met her, 1 IE? IAT EAITIORAO hit © was one of your brides NEW INVENTIONS Spt OO daly YMBINED with a houses ' uu he had pnt down, still how much of burn a window sill nearby, for deliver ia & 1 gw ©. ‘Then, nT wasn't Aah ol pking, Amy—4 know it must have oad par envious thing—dropped n my umbrella “Woll, how am | connected up with tis act of malicious mischief? Where's our romange concerned?” asked Mr tar ‘Why, i it recovered Ja And while it 3 iwing an old f rainy day, and a gust of it inside out and you can along and held your umbrella over me was just pouring and I had a new hat-and that’s how we first got ac quainied.” dh, we would have got acquainted anyway, I y sure,” said Mr. Jarr can be obtained on carrying @ tented a be 18 An Inventor has p ing back nest shed sy that can any to a to t Be8 comfort perso: ted at work for long peri a) A new at MPngiish invention is made of solid rubber with three deep air chambers cut tnto ft from the side which ts fitted against tne wheel rim, automobile free oent mane