The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1921, Page 15

IS THE RIGHT TO ROMANCE A WOMAN'S RIGHT? Noted Author Would Prove It Is Question May Be Next Objective in Great Modern Drive of Feminism—Argument Is ‘‘For One. Woman Who Wanted a Vote, There Are Ten Who Want Romance.” By Marguerite Dean. Copyright, 1971, ty the Prem Publishing Co., (The New York Brening WertG) dhe right to romance one of woman's rights? ‘Will the right to eomance be the next objective in the great modern @rtve of feminism? ‘These interesting questions are raised by a man—the Enetiah author, B®. Temple Thurston—in his fust pudlished novel, “The Green Bough," which Mary Austin and other leaders bf the woman movement consider a thost significant and sympathetic pre- sentation of ¢he woman's point of view toward certain problems of love and Ife. ‘We have heard a great deal about woman's right to vote, her right to a job, her right to use her own namo after marriage. But to the author of “The Green Bough"—which is pub- lshed by D. Appleton & Co.—the right %% romance secms more important than any of those, particularly when & woman has reached the age of twenty-nine. Mr. Thurston, incident- ally, gives her three more years of grace than D. H. Lawrence accords, Th his most recently published novel, ho dees the woman of twenty-six Ir retrievaliy destined for old-maiddom. If, when she is on the Verge of her third decade, romance has not sought * woman, then woman has the right to seek romance—that would seem to be Mr. Thurston's philosophy. “Mary was twenty-nine,” we learn of his heroine on, an carly page of Zhe Green Bough.” “That is a sig- fficant age and, to any more versed im experience than she, must bring deep consideration with it. By then @ ‘woman knows the transitoriness of youth; she realizes how short Is the span of time in which a woman can dontrol her destiny, “ “She sees in the eyes of others that itfe is slipping by her; she discovers How those who were children aout her in her youth are gliding intp the age of attractivencas, claiming dient tion that is not so readily hers as it was or she imagines perhaps it might anyve been. “In such a state of mind must many a, woman pause," declares Mr. Thurs- ton. “Tt is as though for one instant she had power to arrest the traffic of time that she might take this cross- ing in the streets of life with un- hampered deliberation, For here of- t@n she will choose her direction in the full consciousness of thought Jonger dare phe leave her destiny ihe hazard of chan come, not the Romance that wen upon her in th expected suddenness but 4he Romance she must find, eager in ker searching, «wift in her choloe lest iife all go by and the traffic of time waveep over her. “This choice she must make or work must save her, for life has be- veme as vital to women as it ip to Peron. At twenty-nine is many a ’s dilemma.” brought home to Mary through » contemplation of the liv e unmarried sister i @nd Hannah, all ol unmarried and unlike Mary realized that they escaped trom life,” accord ‘Vourston. “Not in one vhere been the g to Mr. them hed fultt moment’ of their being. ‘They were women, but it was not as women they he lived. One by one the purpose of Mfe was running slower in their veins. She with the rest of them. Her turn would s would become a l waiting. That ¢: hunger would come into her cy ternating a9 events cume and passed her by with those dull, dead shadows of fatigue, Hope she would cling to a8 a blind man to the string that is Knotted to the collar of his dog. “Hope becoming fainter and weaker yéar by year, would lead her until ag with Jane, bitter and seared and dry of heart, she sought its serviccs more, Still like the blind man en she would peat with her stick ‘up aud down the unchanging pave- ments of her life till at lust with Hannah she found a numbed cose tentment in her lot. “Something was wrong. she sensed It was the w: On reflection Mary Vaguely te of Ife.” cides that of the old-fashioned conceptions modesty and self-respect are simply conveniences to keep women from— Yet us say—proposing to men; to make romance for women Wait upon men's convenience. Her own ro mance she, therefore, seeks on what Ophetia called “the primrose path of dalliance.” ; Jane, one of the other spinster sis- ters phrases the case against old- fashioned modesty a bit more pung- ently, “| believe Mary’s a bit of a foe she mentions, with true sisterly can- dor, “If she really wanted to marry, she'd play tennis or sit on the beach af bathing time, That girl Hyland got married last year throwing peb- bles at an old bottle We all thought marriage was a Serious busl- rought Ness. That was the way they ug up, That's what been wrong With us, Tt isn’t the one who fusses wbout and chooses for herself, You've got to be able to throw pebbles at glass bottles now. Crochet hooks @ren't any good.” “Pep,” in short, !s more effective than purling in the business of catching a husband. American girls jearned this long ago, and thourh they clicked their knitting .needles during the war I doubt if one of them ‘aver looks a crochet hook tn the face mowndays. “Romance for women”—perhaps that is to be the next slogan of the woman movement, Certainly, for one woman who wanted a vote, there ave /mgen who WANT romance! And who every year may be Leap Year, by MOTHER'S HELPS HE new mother will be giad to know there is @ bras- siere now on the market which ts designed especially to meet her needs—that ia, if she i nursing her baby, There is something mew in teething beads for the baby. ‘The strings are 20 inches long and the beads are unbreakable. ‘There is an antmal pendant of the same material, so while baby cuts his teeth on the beads he can amuse himself with the dangling animal. If you have no porch where baby can take his daily nap, dress him warmly and push the crib or perambulator to the open window. On stormy days dress the children as for going out of doors, Open all the windows in the room and let them play in the fresh air, In both cases the benefit will be quite as satis- factory as actually being out of doors, T#-JARR FAMILY BY Roy L.M¢&cCARDELL Copgright, 1021, by the Pres Publishing Oo, (Tue New York Evening World.) ‘ec ERTRUDE tells me that she ts G thinking about getting mar- ried,” said Mrs, Jarr, “and that's always the way! Your girl gets married and leaves you after you get her broken im.” “And she gets everything broken up,” volunteered Mr. Jarr. “Oh, Gertrude is very careful now,” said Mrs, Jarr. “When I bought that new set of dishes and the new glass- ware I said to hor, ‘Now, Gertrude, I'm going to charge you with half the cost of everything you break.’ “It appears to me that there area lot of glasses missing.” said Mr. Jarr, squinting over at the china closet. “Oh, they are all around some- where,” said Mrs. Jarr, “There's one in the bathroom, and there's one in the children's room and the reat are in the kitchen, I suppose.” “I saw some broken glasses going down the dumbwaiter the other morning,” said Mr. Jarr. “They were hid in some newspapers.” ‘ “What were you doing looking through things on the dumbwaiter?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “Oh, for that news- paper that had an article in it you hadn't seen? Weil, maybe the broken been put on the-dumnb- waiter by the people upstairs. I'm not going to accuse Gertrude of everything.” “If you've made a rule she's to pay halt for what she breaks, why don’t you see If she has proken anything?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Because if I do, she'll get mad and leave. Of course, if, she breaks. anyth ng while I'm around I'll say to her, ‘Gertrude, the next time you do anything like that, don’t forget, you'll have to pay half!" “It must be ®& great protection against breakage,” said Mr. Jarr, “but didn’t I hear a cragh of broken dishes last night?” ertrude said the cat knocked them down,” replied Mrs. Jarr. pan't blame the gl for what the cat does. And then the children break things, too." “You don't seem to care what Ger- trude breaks,” ventured Mr, Jarr. “But how about her leaving us to get_ married?” “I'd be the last person in the world to stand in the way of the poor giri's happiness in life,” 8 “Anyway I do not know how to ad- vise her.” here is no advice to be given,” said Mr. Jarr, solemnly, “except the advice to keep single.” ‘Then they had a quarrel, although glass Mr, Jarr ‘insisted he only meant if Gertrude kept single she'd still keup her place. RANDOM FACTS. NILY about 6 per cent, of the lower animals are defective at birth, a much lower ratio than among human beings. About one person in every fifty more than elghty years of age is blind Japanese are making @ paper chiefly used for cigarettes from seaweed, Frequently shut off from the rest of the world for months at a time, the miners of Spitaber- ken are furnished news twice daily by wireless, The term mythemania has been applied to @ mental all- ment which makes persons tell lies unintentionally, Sn aoe te pute THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921. \ SRIDDED GETTING IN THE BATH TUB AnD BROKE MY NOSE YES, IT'S DANGEROUS But You CAN'T STOP. BATHING More Health Stunts i Jan If You Have Rounded Shoulders, Hollow Chest, Slouchy Posture, Here Are the Remedies: | II.-Corrective Exercises | Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘Copreight, 1921, by the Press Publishing Ca (The New York Bveniog World) you are Jane Smith of Wall Street, if you go to be efamined at the Health Centre, No. 42 East 22d Street, If you find out that you have rounded shoulders, a hollowed chest, a slouchy posture—what are you going to doabout It? How are you going to promote yourself to be— well, if not a Venus, at least in the Venus class? Miss Estelle K. Bertine, physical educator of the Health Centre, knows the answers to these questions. Not that Miss Bertine mysteriously makes anybody over; that is the in- dividual’s own job, The aim of the Health Centre, you remember, Is “to create in, women a sense of responsi- bility for THER OWN health” But Miss Bertine prescribes the practical methods by which each woman or girl can live up to her conception of health responsibility, There are exercises—Miss Rertine telis Jane Smith what they are and how to do them—which as definitely correct a rounded spine or a weak- ness of the abdominal muscles as doses of medicine correct actual dis- ease, Gome of these exercises—fust a few of them—are pletured with this article in ‘The Evening World, “Almost every girl who worka tn an office and sits all day at a desk or typewriter needs special exercises for the abdominal muscles," says Mise Bertine. “They become relaxed during the practise of sedentary oc- cupation, particularly when corsets are worn,” One of the exercises for these muscles consists in lying flat on the back on a floor mat, the arma out- stretched at right angles to the body, and then drawing up first one knee, then the other, until the upper part of the leg is at right angles to the body, aa in Fig. 1 ‘The position in musclen, With the hands and toes menis, The corrective oxerciges to ft 1 EXERCISES LEGS ana ABDOMEN. INDUCES. RELAXATION of BODY. Fig. 3. EXERCISES HIPS, TRUNK which this exercise ts taken also tn- duces relaxation of the body. In a similar exercise for the abdominal muscles (Fig. 2), the arms are ex- tended at full length behind the hedd, and the legs are lifted alternately, without (bending at the knee, After sufficient practice, it ahould be pos- sible to hold the whole leg at right angles with the body, A vigorous exercise for the bipas, trunk and back is shown tn Fig 3, in which the ody is bent back almost from the shoulders, the legs extending over the head, Tho reversed position also Improves the circulation, In Fig. 4 {8 shown one position of a vigorous exercise for the trunk IGOROUS EXERCISE for TRUNK MUSELES = ACCELERATOR, :. for HEART, Tu BROADWAY * BY NEAL R.CHARA - There’s More Beneath the Surface of Broadway Than the Subway—There’s a Broken Heart for Every Light and a Busted Romance for Every Ring Hocked There—It’s a Mixtureot Modern Babylon and Ancient Bunk. Coprrigmt, 1971, by the Prone Publishing ROADWAY! Co, (The New York Rrening Wort@) Broadway that runs from the Battery, at the tip of Manhattan, to the outfield out in Harlem. Broadway that runs from the 66-cent seat in the gallery spot where fools rush and angels put always something doing. Broadway, where nighthood t fn flower. Broadway, the pot of gilt paint at the end of the scene paint- er’s rainbow. Whero fame Is transi- tory and fortune promissory. Where many are called and most of ‘em are taken fn. \ Broadway, where cafes are lighted wp and where the customers used to ba Broadway, that mixture of mod- ern Babylon and ancient bank! Broadway, the hubbub of the uni- verse, the colossus of roads! What Iibels are uttered tn tts namet Broadway, the biggest sucker in the world—and here’s why: If your ledger Is speckled by phony entries, why blame it on the little blonde miltiner in Bo- hunk? The formula in this case fs ensy. Simply take all the dough that’s been left in the safe, Jump the first train that’s headed for New York, hire a flonsy room in Times Square and the local authorities you are ready to give yourself up. Then blame it all on Broad- way. Jroadway Is a big street. Tt ean take a lot of abuse. If your home life ts dull, don’t consult a lawyer, Go to any con- venient stage, door, cop one of the frillies as théy exit and let Cupid take his course. When your wife tells the story to the Judge, plead “nolo contendere” (“That sattsfles me”), and blame it all on Broadway. The Judge will understand and ar- range the alimony «t the usual Broadway scale of prices. If the pontes you play your bank- roll on refuse to run on schedule time, do not be discouraged. There are always fresh nags to bet on to- morrow. Simply carve deep Into your firm's sinking fund, doctor the shortage with @ poultice of ink erasers and hop to the steeplechase grounds once more. Accost the dookles with frequent plunges untfl you are wiped out as clean as a lily. ‘Then notify the detectives who are on your trail and wait two days for them to catch up with you. Furnish a West 46th Street address and promptly blame it on Broadway. The Judge will stake you to a sen- to $8.80 for a chair in Row A. ‘Phe on shows, Office hours, 12 to 12, #nd GO TO ANY CONVENIENT STAGE DOOR AND LET CUPID TAKE HIS COURSE, tence and the solitary confinement will be = change from the white lights, a i There fs no end of tricks 4 ean play on old Broadway, the Nation's playground and’ proving groand, too, You prove anything on Broadway but Not Guilty. There's a broken heart for every light on Broad- way. There’s a busted romance for every ring hocked on Broad- way. Yes, there’s more beneath the sarface of Broadway than the Kroadway subway. New York's main street is something more than a string of incandescents and shirt shops. There is plenty of stuff you can pin on Broadway. The defense and the plaintiff both admit that. But don’t blame it ALL on Broadway. Broadway admits {t's a long lane, tut ft has a turning. Te alsa admits {t's a poor worm, but a worm has a turning, téo. SOM amendments ean be fractured. SOME command- ments can be broken forty-five min- utes, forty-five miles or forty-five hours from Broadway! And that's all that Broadway wants to prove. rig4 resting on the floor, first one leg, then the other, is brought forward us il- lustrated. This exerciae, besides its effect on the muscles, ts an accelora- wor for the heart. “The Crab” (Fig. 5), one of the most difMcult “stunt” exercines dono at the Health Centre, gives flexibility to the spine and shows that the ex erciser has achieved good eo-ardina- tion of all parte of the body, Like medicine, these and similar ex- ercises cannot be recommended in the form of blanket prescriptions, Some of them perhaps are not needed by little Jane Smith; some of them might even harm her, until she is prepared for them by simpler move- *STUNT* | *The CRAB" ) EXERCISE e Smith of Wall Street MUSCLES - GIVES GREAT FLEA " her individual case are prescribed for her at the Health Centre, and she does them for at least one hour every week in the Centre's own gymnasium, which 1s open every night at No, 43 East ‘Twenty-second Street, under the direction of Miss Ketelle Bertine. There, wearing one-piece bathing suits to hamper movement aa little 48 possible, standing tn frant of mir- rors which show each performer ex- actly what is doing, the Health Centre girls take the curves out of their spines and shoulders, the ho!ows out of their chests, tho sag out of thelr abdominal muscles, They also practise thelr presenibed exercises at home for at least ten minutes dally a longer period tf possible, At the end of ten lessens, they begin to feel better, and by faithful practice many of them have corrected defects of posture and of muscular development, ‘The next article will tell of “Reero- ation for Health,” as fostered by the Howlth Centre, ' she panera a E. of MABEL OE HERIDAN * BY SOPHIE Copyright, 1921, by the Prem Publishing GAD story is told of Mabel Sheridan, who died last week of pneumonia, brought on by etarvation. he wus about to fll a pauper’s grave when the recollection of her smile saved her from it; and it ts possible that a suitable headetone will also commemorate her smile. It 4s a great, human, throbbing gory. What this young woman doubtless went through to ward off the pamss of hunger, “no one oan know, but the dozen pawn tickets in her bag somewhat attest to that stroggle. Despite her hunger and her poverty and her misery, when this girl passed by a newestand to purchase a paper, she always smiled, It was the newsstand owner whe geoured the funds to bury her be- canve he had remembered her as “the young woman who pleasantly spid SGood morning,’ when she went to get her morming paper.” It seeme incredible that In a great, rich city ke D should happen—that a young woman should actually starve to death—yet there are 90 many fine souls who rather than seek charity would sut- fer anything, even death, as in this Thies ts a thing that ought to be obviated, some way, somehow, It is a travesty on all the brother hood of man imp! that such an ocourrence should be chronicled But there 1s another beautiful side to the whole story—the smile of this irl. we Despite everythins, she did not for- get it. What an example for the grumblers of eve ryday who £0 through | finding fault with every thing and everybody, and who do not know how to smile! What a lesson for those who have so much eive so little! forgotten. Her smile will not be ‘The ttle gravestone will bear her name, and she can look down on it and say with Omar “And when like her, oh Saki, thon shalt pass among the’ guests star-scattered on gross, and in ur joyous err reach the spot where I made One turn down an empty glass.” Yes, she made One, a dig While her smile in the end only Drought her a grave and a tomb: stone, yet it Is something, and it ts certainly a big something to reflect upon | wonder how many people realize what a smile can do, It saves many rrible moment, It softens the rain of struggle. It brings sun- shine into the hovel of the pauper It dries the tears of a little child. It makes hope beat high in the heart If one could only @ smile gives to others, to say noth- tm of the real return to one's ’ One: New York such athing § imagine what ¢! ene elt, hast Bute dhe, IRENE LOEB * Co, (The New York venting Wortt) We would indeed have more 5: I know a woman who never ea. I\doubt if she knows how, she tace owls, kno A been shrouded in of her children are They act queerly. y t how to play with other children, re countenance has always met them in their home and it is reflected in them. . Stern duty is tho chief asset of this famjly, It has now become a lia- bility ‘ I,do_ not know how she got that way, I think she just schooled her- self against happiness and her face became hardened and old long before its time. hat Is what happens to faces when they do not smile often. Already these children are becom- ing little misers, hoarding up things in their rooms. They do not know how to part with any of their trinkets since they have never even learned to part with a smile. They will grow up and doubtless co into business. They will make close ‘They will think in terms of y rather than hun Smiles, after all, cost so litt lve #0 much. Up tn my log house tn the woods, on my hearthetc e is a motto whieh I wish ehold would adopt. Tt is Leave behind vour grout Doubtless this motto was the view of Mabel ridan —— GOING DOWN! Conia, 10931, by Be Pree Publishing Co i (The New York Warkd), 5 R City Dweller: Life in cities is becoming con- gested, Thoughts are be- coming centralized. In the elty you become a part of the hurrying, scurrying, wor- rying thoughts of others. In the quiet of the woods you get away from THOUGHTS, for one thing.” You aro ALONE Greatness ia developed in SOL- rrevpl st is why great men have always sought the quiet stillness of the woods. Get out he woads or the parks and collect your random thoughts, You will think all the better for it, Yours tru! ALFALFA SMITH. " SUPERFLUOUS HAIR the paintess | PERMANENTLY. by or pile Ge jeals or ¢ tweifth narasting b er, in plain aeated Da, ta let sent elope upon rs ASEM, 107 Bi | i ' wn ae