The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1921, Page 15

he ¢ Anne * N. Y. Births 400 Every Da Deaths Only 205 Marriages 216 But Population Increase Rate Only Half That of 1913 Before the War City Was Growing 18,000 a Month, Double Present Ratio—With Adequate Housing Facilities Monthly Increase Now Would Be at Least 15,000. By Major Joseph Caccatajo. Consulting Enatneer and Expert on Po guailon ond Statistws o ‘ork Copyright, 1921, by wee Press Publishing ( PTOHERE is « birth every three minutes in every hour of each days of the year within the lim: every seven minutes, and last year there was a The ment show that there were nearly 140,000 births, close to 400 a day 938 marriages, of births over deaths and the requirements of the newlywed ndicate beyond a question of doubt the imperative need for housing facilities in a city with the immense population of New York. Neu i minutes and thirty-nine seconds and 7) deaths, 205 a day ‘The exces: the uy o (Tne New York Evening World f the seo of the City of New York; a death marriage every 1920 records of the Health Depart 75,000 six 16 each day. increased Death waits for no man, but there is no question about the effect of lack of habit tions upon the marriage proposition and to a considerable extent wpon the births. Just prior to the outbreak of the late war in Europe this city was in- ‘creasing in population at the rate of nearly 18,000 a month, ‘Te almos! complete cessation of immigration irom Europe for more than four years and the restricted immigration since siipping was resumed and even before the new governmental regula- tons went into effect, considerably reduced the growth in the population uf the city, but even with all this the population is increasing at the rate of ¥,000 or 10,000 a month, With ade- quate housins facilities the increase would be clese to 15,000 a month, wess than three hundred years ag: Jine first white settlers landed on Manhattan Island, and the record of ‘the City of New York since that time Jyas been one of the real wonders of the world. Look back and find that New York had a population of } 4960 it was about 1,000; by 1700 it had nrereased 400 per cent.; another fifty years and another 400 per cent. in- verease shown, and 1$0) found almost 40,000 people. or an increase of 500 per ‘cont. in fifty years. ‘Che next fifty years marked an increase of 700 per Gent. and between 1850 and 1900 an e of over 400 per cent. is shown handicap congequen: to in areres in spite of the the Civil War. In addition to with its 22 square miles prises the boroughs of square miles), Bronx (41 square m: (Queens (130 square miles) and R nd (Staten Island, 57 square miles), total of 327 square miles. The up- per ions of Manhattan the pveater portion of the Bronx have piveady been brought close to the im- portant business and_ financial tions of the eity by the constru «1 the subways and inerea: lies on qerstul construction nd the great eliminate forever at r which for y retar cd the proper development of the va areas in Brooklyn and Queens, taking into consideration that in addition te the wonderful systems of subways aud yapid transit lines now nearing com- pletion, there will undoubtedly 6 many new rapid transit facilities ex- tending to all parts of the city, even including the now practically iso tated Borongh of Richmond. Long be fore 1950 there will appear to be good ason to predict york will maintain its record an in- Manhattan Island the city com- srooklyn (77 Dy, sec and ton faci! suc Is ie A 1 the tun elevated lines; of th crease between 400 per cent. and 50) per cent. during the first fifty years of the present century From another standpoint, consider- in the growth of the several bor- vughs of the population per acre, an a even ninety or a Tundred persons to the acre is not im- probable within the next fifty years Within the lifetime of a majority ot now living, the greater portion e section of Manhattan below h Street w be devoted entirely to Manhattan will ‘wen have five thousand acces avai! sidential purposes, which onsiderable de occurs, will mean an average « 500 per- » bons to the acre. There are hundreds of acres in Man- hattan to-day with a population of more than & thousand people, and in some sections of the borough there are nearly two thousand to the aeré This congestion, but there are thousands of acres covered with the linest type of immense apartment uses where there are more than people living to the acre, be considered as con generally accepted sens mi At the time the first Mederal cen- Bus was taken in 1790, nearly two ndred years after the first Dutch settler arrived, there was within the esent city limits a population of 401, To-day the number of resi- dents exceeds the combined popula- tion of thirte he avo cannot ted in of the the cr Yundred thousand — Maine, New asampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Ari- mona and New Mexico the combined population of the Kangdoms of Denmark and Norway are not equal to that of New York and the city bas a population greater than the combined population of such capital cities of the Old Rome, Mad Copenhagen, holm, Chr ath burgh, with Geneva, Venice, &nd Dublin added for good measure. The combined population of Liver- Stock- pool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Bradford, Notting- ham, Portsmouth, Oldham, Croyden, Brighton, Norwich, Birkenhead and Viymouth, the fifteen largest English cities next to London, is less than that Sew Yo Manhattan and rank ahead of Paris, the ot that n States by three or four World as ‘iunich, Budapest, he Hague an EXiin- Havre the Bronx would third largest which lemonade or any sweet drink city in the world, and Brooklyn and Queens would be fifth in the list ahead of Tokio, Petrograd, Vienna and Ler lin, The twenty-two square miles Manhattan Island contain a greate population than States with a com- bined area of over 800,000 square miles Brooklyn outnumbers in population Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming and Nevadi combined. It has a population equal to 75 per cent. of that of Chicago. It Population is two-thirds that of New Jersey, and more than one and a bait times that of Connecticut, Few peo- ple realize that one in every five per- sons in the State of New York -eside n Brooklyn The Bronx takes rank between Bal 1ore and Boston and would eighth ‘in the list of jean citie: Queens Borough, w little known even New Y Nas a greate: population than Washington, D. C., on by some thirty or foriy thousand, and ot far behind Buffalo. Its area 8 great as the combined areas of Albany, Bridgepori, Columbus, Ho- hokey rsey City, Lawrence, Lowell, Rich Savannah, Camden, Pater. son, ‘Trenton and Syracuse. The 1 census showed than six pe: great borough, Richmond Borough, the smallest in population, has more than one and half times the population of the an average of | wa to the acre in this State of and would take ning with such citi s ‘Trenton, Nash- alt Lake City and Camden, {¢ y_by itseli When one considers that the City o New York has more people residin within its municipal limits than many important countries in Europe—a mil- Yon and a quarter greater than ail ireland and close to two million morc than Switzerland—some idea of the immensity and importance of the city in the affairs of the world can in \ measure be comprehended. With it al! the fact remains that for ry one thing the most critieal critic can find to condemn in the city there are a thousand things that war- rant commendation, ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1921. SHE WOoRKS + - IN HER GARDEN TOREDUCE , aa cane (Tee New York By Maurice Ketten by The ing 0 ie Word) polis ; \ WALKING IS } JHE Besr > EXERCISE LU FoR ( BUCINC ge RE ANE ) GoAND 1 (REST AUNTTE | ) ie WALKED NOUGH 4 SS ‘ / | | \N i ERRATA How to Reduce Your Weight — Right in Your Own Home The After-Bath Rub Moulds the Body Into More Shapely Lines By Doris Doscher. —_ Copyright. 102i, by tke Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World. ie the beginning of this course I gave you instructions how to arise from the bed. I followed with exercises for breathing, those that redu and make nimble each part of the body, and exercises with the pat towel, I shall now give you a system of exercising that requires but ai fe moments after the drying or towel exercises. The new movements! scientific gymnastics and combine a stroking and rubbing of the skin & beautifies and polishes it ‘ At first the stroking can be done PEM int very gently. But as your strength ses, the strokes will be more Vigorous, thereby massaging the :hou- sands of small muscles connected with the vessels that feed the akin There is no better method of nourish- ng these than the exercises that will LSEAAREE TER BoM eres bo given in this part of our reduc series, Stimulating the skin by massage is carer of such general benefit that it should hot be considered as applicable only © the stout person, Not only does massage free the skin from pimples, viotches, spots and other disfigure- ments, but also makes it healthy, beautiful, firm, elastic and its texture smooth as velvet. If etrict attention is paid to the position of the body dur- ing the exercises, the mssage will combine all of the movements already given in this sertes, fextend the right arm at height. Allow the left hand to the wrist. Gently but firmly «a sage the right arm with a rotati and upward stroke, thus mouldimi arm into shapeliness and at the sam time strengthening the hand thay deing the massaging. H Exerc to come wiil be in qur sequence that each portion of [th body will be stimulated property by As these exercises are taken when tubbing. In these hot days thtsoynl no clothing ts worn, you have the bing can be very so thing If talew yest opportunity for observing jast {% used in piace of a mi mn wher the body needs moulding mio Cream. It j# important to rentemb more shapely lines, just where the to Use a firm rotary stroke, 8 1 unsightly fat has accumulated, and really to stimulate the museles inn not merely smooth the ski ways to massage the toward the body. Mothers, do you realize what W and ¢ extgenyitir just where the hollows need massag- ing to All them out. Such defects can be determined by a glance if you will but open your eyes to your own de- fects, Two things are necessary, ac- ders can be wrought in the tft curate seales and a mirror, bodies under your charge? Be jo! By their use you can note system- servant of the slightest deviatir atically the progress you make while ollowing this course in ‘The Evening World. Yo start these rubbing exercises assume correct position, as in {lis tration, with the body well poised, Answers to Readers’ Questions Please tell me what to do to grow eyelashes and eyebrows and how | can get rid of the wrinkl in my neck. | had an operation some time ago and since then | have not been very active, there- fore | have grown too stout. | also feel very nervous and | have had trouble with my digestion. M. O. M. from the normal, anid remember tho just a few moments spent after't bath each day in massaging may i the means of moulding into perfe: tion some slight deformity in W ehild ' Dip the finger tips in a little oi oil and apply this to the eyelaihe and eyebrows at night before reti: ing. This will stimulate their grewt: The reason you are nervous is cause your tion is poor, ama you cigestion is poor because you bave not been taking as much exereied « you need. Try the exercised Tmt i xave in this paper, to be taken Tn bed LIFE’S THREE BIGGEST MOMENTS As New York City Experiences Them The Housewife’s Scrapbook Copyright, 1921, IN though windows and doors may be screened flies have a habit of finding an entrance They robably watch their chance when the doors are opened. In such eases they are usually of such small numbers that they can readily be hapdied by the swatter, If not, the fly papers on the market that must be soaked in sweetened wuter are quite satisfactory, However, this is often an objectionable sight rooms. Flies abhor the odor of der and will keep away from plac where sprigs of lavender are placed Oil of sassafras sprinkled along win- ind door sills will keep flies out dow Keep all foods in refrigerator, Never let fruit any food remain where files can feast on it. Anything eatable, like sugar &e., should be kept closely covered in the pantry, Glasses in or by the Press Publishing Co. ’ (Tae New York Evening World.) has been served should be washed immediately. Dishes with crumbs remnants of food must not be eft standing around, Keep garbage puil outside and covered. Nothing will breed flies more quickly than garbage Borax sprinkled the sarbage will effectually prevent the breeding of flies, over A housewife asks how to get rid of ants. Scattering camphor around shelves, &c,, is effectual, but for the ‘pantry where foods will absorb the odor this is not practicable. For these places try red pepper. It is, however advisable to destroy the nests. A good y to detect these is to place little mounds of coarse sugar around. Then watch the ants—each will take up a grain and carry it off to build a nest. When you discover the nest just drench it with kerosene or a strong solution of carbolic acid Copyri, 19: “Dear Miss Vincent: There is @ certain boy of eighteen that | am going to ask about. He is absolutely wonderful looking and from one of the best and wealthiest families in our town. About three years ago a certain girl came here to go to college and she was a great friend of thi boy's sister. Now, Miss Vincent, this girl is twenty-one and | am sixteen. Well, this boy always gets a terrible crush every time this girl comes to town and, al- though he likes me, the moment she arrives | am quite forgotte He told my friend that he didn’ know which one he liked better. Everyone tells me | am a goo to play “second fiddle,” but what shall | do, Miss Vincent? “HEART BROKEN.” Since the boy is only tne girl twenty-one you worry at all. You are teen" and have everything on yo side. Every bog falis in love with girl several years older than himsel but an infatuation of this sort rare lasts. Don't be jealous, just smiling Dear Miss Vincent: | am in love with a young woman of eighteen who comes from a very nice family, It seems that my love is not reciprocated to any extent. Th irl is a wonderful girl, but inclined to be fickle minded and swayed by her girl friends. She goes out with these Courtship and Marriage By Betty Vincent + by the Pres Publishing Co, eighteen and need not “sweet six- vr a if, ly keep friends, meets a number of boys, and then doesn’t know just whom she does care for, | have told her time and again that | cerely love her, but she maintains that all the boys tell her this. What can | do to change her fickleness? WARNER.” Wait 1 she i a little older You have not uted this young woman's age, but from what you say I know she must be young. “Dear Miss Vincent: 1! have net been on speaking terms with a young man | like very much for several weeks, He has been calling on me regularly two or three times a week and then sud dently he told me he was going out of town on business. He said he hated to miss seeing me, but | told him | would not stand in his way. Later | learned that he was calling upon anether young woman. Then | wrote him a note and told him what | thought of him. His friend asked me to go out with him and | gladly went, although | do not care for him. Later | receive letter from this first young man telling me he cared for me and wanting to know why ! wrote him such a (Tae New York Evening World.) terrible lette: PI some motherly advice. aive me sé HATS the matter now asked Mr. Jarr when he You were a lite hot peaced to came home the other even write a letter of that type, but on the ing and feund Mrs. Jarr in the lowest other hand T do not Minis the young. of spirits, ‘ou he wi + Folng ont of town, T would not put _ “WHY, You koow Gertrude went to mich faith jn a man who would do a %@® her married eister the day before thing like that yesterday, and now a postcard comes from her to-day saying the weather “Dear Mias Vincent: | am twenty years of age and keeping was so hot she was going to take a vacation, I don't bs she's com- steady company with a young girl one year my senior. | believe a ee that religion is our only barrier, "8 back at all Would you advise me to keep up “Oh, don’t worry, she’ be back,” the good work or shall | digcan: wid Mr. Jarr, soothingly tinue our friendship fai hid “inde ay eyes This is a matter for your parents inoeed: whe WH! inotl”” aparped and the heads of your churches to Mrs. Jarr, “I wouldn't take her decida back if she begred me on her Pees 2 Until the Doctcr Comes By Charlotte C. West, M.D. e » Copyright, 1931, Uy the Press Publishing Co, (Tee New York Brening World) POISONING FROM PTOMAINES prohibited, dealers showing their lve AND LEUCOMAINES. Wares 4n” sca water. Many dealers . sea- (9 Sea food here are now doing this 0 are passing through @ 82” because of the perishable character son tn which all lower forme of Ufe are unusually prolific Insects hitherto unknown to us as as the eve ron place well as everyday common cautions Should exercised in the varieties atwund in and use of dairy foods, which include ice devastating mumbers. cream, At the height of summer the Vvery one knows that insecls are conbination ot ea food, lobwter for instance, and ice cream or frozen disease carriers. Also that they con- meets s ae) and cause rapid de- Puddings often brings on a scrious LHS aRI terin! that presents #¢4@Ck Of poisoning, perhaps becnuse joration gf materin i the intestinal tract us not “up” to every appeqmnce of being sound and [int ens nd cd re den i ig the food as rapidly as is sweet, Suok food contains the deadly | USn0R, alkaluids of ptoimaine and leuco: - When ptomaine maine, subatances which velop in y wanda pipmaine | perfectly wholesome ristuffs as a ** i OMtUre is perfectly w with distre rapidity, such as result of Mmcterial invasion (carried il hy insects) whereby changes of a UAcontrollable — vomiting, |" griping putrefactive nature are set up pams, diarrhoea and profound pros- These ds possess intensely ‘ration, or the nervous system may toxie p and are present be chic tffected with symptoms of fore any reeognizable changes can be YeFtise, ‘diy mouth, subnormal tem rved in food, The 4 is not perature, collapse, Death may take matter, as many but before assistance arrives, so result of microscopic living mat no tin ter (flesh), when Trrigatic upon dairy entire ir 3 called leuce ntiediate ven nu tal enema poonful of of their stock, thus they are adding to the health of the community Leucomaines are not so deadly a plomaines, although the same pre- countless of a poisoning is By plomns m SUPPOSE, vin the ter upon anignal mé (wa. tinal t didieati tard wate ng out) of the ‘the first and for treatment one teaspoonful p of warm water yormuns, and high ut water, one tea the pint of hot use quarts, ‘The tem ature of t must be sus. ined with bot water bottles, and the action of the heart supported with a stimulant, one teaspoonful of aro- matic spirits of aminona im @ wine glass of water. 5 term! ducts, A ptom when | toxie su hat foods are not dest It is most unwise dishes unless that the fe ately at the moment of preparation: is no food more delicious than fresbly caught ood immediately cooked, It is more wholesome, too, than heavier meats at ths season. In France the sale ot dead fish ts nees levelop of oyed by bo to partake 1 8 entire! boiling, tistied Phere sea The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. ° in the morning, and also eat plenty of green vegetables and very litt!: meat Have read so many articles by you in The Evening World: an how to reduce, and have bean anxiously waiting to see an ae- ticle on how to gain, but am tao impatient so write asking you to McCardell (The New York Brening World.) knees—sneaking of this way. She Pele me. | am a mar ooo pade knew what she was up to, No. whe {hihysix years of age, & feng isn’t coming back, anyway. Servants pounds, am very thin, do of my own work (have two girls nine and fourteen years), am very nervous but otherw: never do these days.” ‘I thought it wus prizefighters and xtalewmen who never came back," re- marked Mr. Jarr, “Well, don’t you in. gegd worry. Now is a good time for us Ith, 1 do not think my food to take the children and go some- Soee mesa, DiScah Deed, although ere fo 2 Bol ks. Wil get ’ good, nourishing food. where for a couple of weeks. I'll ge sxe all a9 wiclan ln tee “How can I get the children and know you have helped others. myself reudy to go and fix things in G. Mods this flat lo stay away two weeks with- out a girl? asked Mrs. Jarr, “I've been doing all the work for Gertrude, any- way, and 1 haven't had time to go shopping to get things for myself and the children for a vacation anywhere Johnston, the cashier, was telling me 4 ‘bungalow colony. Ail the bungalows are furnished and are just the thing for light housekeeping; the families renting them for the summer don't have to bother with servants,” you have two daughters and Du own housework should not make fou hervous or cause you to be thin. T! housework is done properly you will find it improving your heal Bee For your age and height you shgulii weigh 1 pounds. The at at o not make a drudge of you am sure that your daughters are (oli cnough to give you substantial help ‘Take a nap in the afternoon and al low nothing to worry you ties remarked Mr, Jarr. time. Watch this column later /f: ‘Why didn't he tell you about it special suggestions on how to. afply this spring?" asked Mrs, Jarr. “The ny exercises to housework. Be sur summer is nearly over. You can't to eat plenty of vegetables and. t: rent a bungalow for only two weeks, drink plenty of milk you have to pay at least a month's ‘ WHAT “Well, Johnston said’ - Mr, Jarr mind hia own | Jarr interrupted “He's a selfish old bachelor, who can pack a bag and go when he likes and Do You: ? Know * stay a little while or a long while and cares if he never comes Copyrigt, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co ‘| don't know what I can do to Li QUESTIONS. World. help you, my dear,” murmured Mr tie Jarr. 1, What is the largest business en “Well, Ido!” said Mrs. Jarr. “You terprise in the world? ran take to-morrow off and go to 2 What metallic element is‘ used ertrude at her married sister's and as an alloy in the manufacture of say I'm sick and you'd lke her lo steel to increase its elasticity and ten come back and get me ready to go to sile strength? the country, Tell her we are going — 3, What is the largest city in Hol to a nice place where there'll be plenty of company for her and where there is a moving picture show every night land? 4. What famous structure in Venice fell in 1902 but h. ince been rebuilt” ye "7 or abo rs Tie kee ne ani nan wousins AbOUL 5 What Roman Emperor built the “Where is this place?” asked Mr, Colosseum? 6. Of what country was the weeping willow tree originally a native? Jarr. ‘I'm sare I don't know, and if she asks me I'll tell her we are going | 7. Since whose Administration was there later. But don't mention about Wilson the first Democratic President 1 bungalow colony.” to serve two consecutive terma? = * “Ul hardly do that, especially as g What lake, the largest in Eng- you say you don’t want to go tk ind, by the beauty of its scenem in bungalow colony, But suppose spired Southey, Wordsworth and Cole- trude doi mo back and you de- ridge? somewhere in the country ke ks, 9. From what metal wire made? 10. By what other common mame is the woodchuck known? ~~. ANSWERS. wy 1. United States Stee! Corportition vanadium; 3. Amsterdam; 4 Gan. 4 panile; 5. Vespasian; % China: An 'sodr Wi ndeggere 9% phetauu, 10. ground bog. ee the will and t th children t mountains is the finest ra erturde y not let Married sister w like whe did last summer before that!” Jarr, “Do you think vacation after th acted!" er go stay with Wwe are awa summer and said Mrs, 2 I'd give her citful way sh just the 4 f i pinata