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The Evening World’s | School of Matrimony | Suggested by Judge Harry Lewis of Chicago. |’ We Do Net Train Our You Greatest Contract on Earth Them io Matrimonial Hed Training of Lectures Arranged by The Evening World, —COURTSHIP PERIOD Discussed by Helen P. McCormick, Assistant Attorney of Kings County. i.—FIRST YEAR OF MARRIED LIFE Discussed by Magistrate Jean Norris. U1---PALSHIP AND COMRADESHIP— Discussed by Judge Freschi. 1V.—DIVERSION AND OUTSIDE INTERESTS — Discussed by Prof. Chas. Gray Shaw of University. V.—PARENTHOOD Discussed by Judge Franklin C. Hoyt of the Children’s Court. New York (Other subjects to be announced later. No. 1—Courtship Period Discussed by Helen P. McCormick. A SCHOOL OF MATRIMONY has been suggested by Judge le Harry Lewis of Chicago. Classes in matrimony to take the place of social intercourse ani dancing in schools are urged by this Chicago Judge, and in a letter to the Board of Education he writes “Out of 200 divorce suits I disposed of last year a large pro po:tion were children, Teachers are not permitted to train yoirg people for matrimony and mothers won't If we had a definite matrimonial course mapped out and let the school bell precede the wedding bell, could we lower our digraceful record of divorces’ The Evening Woeld has arranged a cour lectures which might be most helpMi to the young people of this city. To-day it tarts off with the “Courtship Period,” discussed by Miss Helen P MeCormick, Assistant District Attorney of Kings County By Fay Stevenson. Coprrignt, 1841. by the Press Pubtisbing Co. (The New York Brening Worid “cs HAT ie the first bit of advice you would give young people in lecture on the courtship period?” I asked Miss Helen 1 McCormick lute the other aiternoon in her office. Miss McCor mick lutens to the marital difficulties of over 2,000 couples a year, and recently wrote an article in a popular magazine upon this very a trainng school for marriage, so | felt that she would be heartily in sym- pathy vith the subject. Then, too, Miss McCormick ts young, a graduate of a coed. college and very much in touch with youth. subject o} Wht is the first bit of advice | @ would sive young people during the Gh 3 sourtshp period?” she asked, repeat Safety First’’ Rules ing my question, and then, with . Giese cetiatyscccll ona iiev ene For Courtship answeid: Al ‘be properly in- eee troducd To-lay the young } arc gratly handicapped in making friends and many young people have torme¢ the habit of picking up ac- quaintnces, I do not believe in friendihips of this sort. Courtships which begin from irregular cond t at dance hall pie in cities understand each other. Spend one evening each week at home. tions, from flirtation and jut pick-up affairs are very apt canted to en¢ in unhappy marriages 5 Make the engagement Bu, how are the girls and boys S' 5 to mat if they do not atiend chusen $10 longer than — six or sone social club?" I asked months. ‘Tint is a question which th woma's clubs and welfare workers Don’t marry to ‘re- must look afte declared Miss form’’—it can’t bedone. McCormick. “We need more com- munity centres, social clubs and . . block parties, There are many young $, Break theengagement peopl living just within a stone's $if you discover a fault throw of each other who could mect end enjoy each other's society, but there is no one to introduce them. en an opportunity to mect under conventional conditions, many happy marriages might be made. “Then, too, I believe in tie old~ ttashioned matchmaker,” continued Miss McCormick with a merry twin- le ia her eye. “Everbody laughed at ther so that she has quite disappeared, but ghe was a good, kind, trustwort! old cear, and she started many youn: fives along the right channels in life To-day the modern woman is afraid tto introduce Billy to Betty or (Pessy Always be introduced. Learn to know and you cannot condone. & other which they cannot tolerate it is better to break the engagement at once rather than to marry and think the little God of Love will. change things. ‘I do not mean that young people should expect each other to be per- fect,” laughed Miss MeCormick, “but I simply mean that if they do not love each other, faults and all, they had better not try any reform’ stuff, but break aw “What about long engagements “Iam not in favor of them at to Feter; she really does not like to Was the quick reply, “Of course out it ie the duty of ma- tere are cuses, usually financial baterfere; but ones, where young couples must wait, trons and middie-aged dames to im- jt} think six months of courtship, irodace as many young people as are the real old-fashioned kind of ‘come ay their circle, Let the match- early, sit close and stay late, is long enouzh for any young people to be- ymaker return and pertiape the divans come acquainted. ourts will have less work to do! "Nor do L believe that couples need “Now, then.” continued Miss Me- # creat amount of money lo wed * o uctions and Upon.” optimistically declared Miss Cormick, “after th introdin ‘ 1 es ft MeCornich me of the happiest first conventions are over, let mo and most ful men just lover to Quggest that during the courtship jyrag that they married on $1 $25 orted each young person learn to a weel day wages and eis the other. ‘There is a mystery have increased accordingly, and when two young people are strong and tend helo about the courtship period vex, much in love they will always which every wise and discerning plan and scheme and come out on ne te young man and woman will pierce fp “ 1en young people are on the through. The workings of the brain yini of matrimony or during this are quite as important as the color courtship period I would advise them of the eyes! to spend at least one evening at home, é es, carr) with Couples who spend every evenins to- T do not believe in ying Rainecar aianowta danse Grit uate the idea you can reform. It can't be have no idea of how gione. The moment a man or a girl haves under quiet home co: * @iso vers a quality or fault in the The man especially is benefited by these home calls because he has suct Hent opportunity of in her home. If she s an ex girl Hite brother and is impudent to her ., sother he n y get a fair inkling of The First Year (3 iw 'isposition. “rien, soot, wiven ‘i ig young couples are under excitement of Married Life } 32:.¢3: 12 the gare and whirl of lit they uo not have as n oppo nity of judging each other's acter or becoming acquainted. The Second Article in This Series Discussed by ete AOU es etn OE MAGISTRATE JEAN NORRIS fecormiek Cupid and lov Will be Published on This Page swe should pasi WEDNESDAY | mee tora oat See ro of love,” / pontine aamevoapenannnn omen ne neas) — HERE J A MOLE ( | / IS SPOILING THe V \ | \ a | ME JOHN , THERE IS A SNAKE IN THE GARAGE > STTOHN , THERE ISA LEAK IN THE CELLAR . JOHN CAN You GoTo THE VILLAGE > WE HAVE No SALT ONE DARN THING AFTER ANOTHER ! WHY Do You Live INTHE COUNTRY 2 \SAID JOHN / NEEDED » Until the Doctor Comes By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Copsright. 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. MUSHROOM POISONING. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell (Tae New York Evening World’ though habitual users of it establish Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Fvening World S JVERE illness and death from “ basa an poison. ft 66 ELL, I'm sure I don't know id Mrs. Jarr, coldly “Hut Since these fungi possess so little 4 what's the row now?” eating poisonous mushrooms is ,, ; what to do, so I have come 6 Ww No oe re rae ee at food valne and ar® so dangerous, chi!- Leu DU TOR RaeL poe “Well you know um—er,” the no means rare. The first dren should ve absolutely forbidden to fo you advice. Leaving visitor hesitated, “that I have u historic instance of mushroom pois- gather them, as children are far more the seaside and the grandest time in figure, well, | have a figure.” oning occurred in the Greek poet, Susceptible to the poison Man aduld one-piece bathing suit, and playing “Everybody knows you hav ripides, whc ; ¥ lowright reports the death of «1 4), ana vareee : t you have never been reticen ripides, who lost In one day wile, cnita of twelve from eating a tiny por- Pride and everything, my dear, jus "interjected Mrs. Jurt daughter and two sons tion of a small raw plant. ‘The symp- 1 See you!” Thus that opulent youns “say jusbund says if the censors o It is impossible for one who js not toms of nolecn ing from some wariuak matron, Clara Mudridge-Smith, called moving pictures cut out bath eivis m come on quickly, sometimes in fifteen in summer splendor, her motor car in one-piece bathing suits fium a an expert to distinguish between the ininutes, ‘with salivation, exce and all, on Mrs. Jarr, But of TeWS reel, that he is bound to obje edible and non-edible varieties of perspiration and flow of tears. There Ooi se ehe aid not ’: A tor 10 TY posing on the beach in thy mushrooms, and there are no single is nausea, retching, vomiting, pain in Course she did not bring her motor vime sort of apparel.” tests by which one can tell edible the andomen y olent movements with car upstairs with her ‘Well, he buys you enough tins 4 i discharges, Some persons act #5 “I'm sure that I can't say thut 1 clothes, you might yield to him on from the poisonous fungi; such as the though in a drunken stupor. feel honored,” began Mrs. Jarr with tl question of posing in a one-piccs taste, odor, the blackening of a silver Send for the doctor. Meanwhile in- |) uteal Z bathing suit.” Mrs. Jarr suggested spoon, &c., although one often hears duce vomiting with mustard water--a the frankness of petulamce. ou “If you had a@ one-piece sili b to the contrary. Even when the table leaping teaspoonful in a cup of warm newer come to share anything with euit, a chic French model, such as is serpueps peas 4 water, Repeat several times. me but your troubles, and Iam sure I the mode at Ostend, would you go Varietios Have “been ured, IN) effects, ‘Give rectal injection of a tablé- jue. elects auauah af iee seal in the water with it and perhaps spoil in fact death, may follow if the mush- spoonful of glycerin in a pint of warm it?” the visitor inquired. rooms have been kept too long, have soapy water. Put the patient to bed “Ob, no! You are not at a clash — «wel}, | can't decide on the matter not been cooked enough, have been 2nd apply friction of temperaments with your husband, till I get such a bathing suit,” said aes i : ; The ‘best antidote is strong coffe> as 1 am!” whimpered the visitor. Mrs. Jarr. “But then, you know, eaten in large quantities, or if one ang atropine (or belladonna) tae iveraencun e di he i Lae “I guess my temperament and Mr. “1% 3 ys happens to posses an “idiosynerasy If a physician is not procurable giv - a ‘Weil, I n't get any comfort from or an intolerance for them. a cup of strong coffee, after copious Jarr's are clashers too,” said Mrs yoy Pil pe in town for the day, wil bp; alse oC strong coffee Jarr. “But fa is can sugmest 0 p with e and have luncheon gh aemne) para or duamiactne peas: jay anee tue Aisle BURR) Oaffse dae) TEMS 0, JAY TR} SAD Ripe YO come will ros end aye iunehent ants prepare an intoxicating drink — Give from five to ten drops of tine Ciiehes as We wake ofours would but - have nothing to froin a poisonous variety which pro- ture of belladonna in a tabl sats ‘ Leven a one-piece buthins “My husband doesn't understand of water for a child, and te id Mrs, Jarr was whe ‘ On é S ininistered after the coffee and re “Ho probably understands you only them a¥ a result of this drink, al- peated in two hours. too well,” replied Mrs. Jarc grimly, i ies wae eeomiaiid Hand L often wonder at bis patience WHAT roridfst, 1921, by ho Do You 7 Know = your husband you would be offended,” said the visitor, regarding her lace handkerchief in surprise that it (The Now York Frening World) wasn't tear stained ie |The Housewife’s Scrapbook Copyetat “If C said 1 wonder et yours wit! 2 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, OU will have a nice salad if you and you will have bright cutlery with “T don't know that I would be, QUESTIONS. fill tomatoes with minced pine- little labor, Mrs. Jarr asserted. “But if youhave 45. what name is the trachea apple, celery and chopped nuts come here trom your lady-loafing at commonly known? s The careful housekeeper will save plumbers’ bills by thoroughly disin- fecting the sink once a week A simple way to do this is to pour into the sink one gallon boiling water to which has been added two tablespoons the seaside to unload your umbear- ble griefs on me, shoot! as Mr, Jarr says.” “You need not be so heartless. veil my sorrows from all but you, moaned the visitor. “You ca veil them mixed’ with mayonnaise, Serve on a bed of lettuce. When peeling and cutting tomatocs pass the knife frequently over the 2—Who was elected Vice President when Washington was elected Presi- dent? 3—Of what kind of stone is the Washington Monument constructed? 4--By what other name is whale- freshly cut surface of an onion, It will yoda and one teaspoon ammonia ‘ va from me 100, bone known? S whitefish belong? the pipes. to be delicious e I should stand the clash! ee cake mix 9 When you serve onions to the family yy Jor YAK RRB DRY AM a the Wilderness fought in the Civil Why ing 4 cake mi ve slices of lemon sprinkled with I must live my life my own way he iat ea urea’ acudll exannded them with the sugar it is wel! to on the table. One slice will re- urmured the lady « at the death of the testator? 8 tt Ghetp together times. ‘This 1 all onion od When a re at artist pk Suin what State is Lake Wiane will distrioute the spices evenly in the apne economical woman who depl dear Geraldine eA) bago? conomical wom o deplores jy, of manly oF, hat br : t pi TSP Aiba \—From what breed of sheep ia the the hole her diamond cuts in he actor-hi a facet Geel eeeaiae gs : we gloves can obviate this by pasting a a perfectly wedded rome: Aone? ataitea ava/mast commen Tf steel Knives are in 1 a your vit of adhesive plaster inside the glove what shafl I do, who also have ly used for jewels in watches household take a board at ten where the ring stone cuts, tie yeurnings, when Lam tled to a Weare nehes i vi is — ; un of affairs who only thinks ANSWERS. epi eee wip considerably in 1. windp'pe: 2, John Ad 4 tack a carpet room. Keep a p RG nk of h lo; 4 mea ' aod sprink After ind it will absor niy think of 7, Prehate Co 8 al 8 and impurities he makes by % merino; 10, garnets, h Washing rul the wei over 4 may w BrGl the kAWes Over tole —) How to i i Your Weight Right in Your Own Home ; AAR ARRAN AANA nnn Reduce Top Shoulder Rub, To-Day’s Exercise, Promotes Shapely Back and Neck. ' By Doris 1, by (he Press Publistin t easily a 1 contou remedy th ing this part of the body. Yet th seit beneficial Notice in to- night's illustration the position of the body and the reach of the hands. You will see that the hand is placed at such an angle that away at the the it can rub the lump of fat back 0! bove the neok shoulder blad There is nothing more beautiful than the way the human h ad iS set on the shoulders, not mar the gra ful line by an un- sightly lump of fat If it exists, it should treated not only by the rub ifter the bath but in the application of the wash cloth and th brush, imulation if wedo he «circulation of this portion of jaa tonic to the nerves a the body great J will often pr vent a nervous headache when we have a strenuous day ahead. The fact that the fat has formed at this part of the k indicates that the cirenlation here ix poor; therefore, it is urgent that you pay attention to the upply to this portion of the body after-bath rubs, especially as they When the scalp specialist begins to massage the scalp she sfarts at the portion of the body that is shown in lustration 1 This is done to stimu- lute the circulation and send it to the scalp. So by the application of mas- sage to this spot the growth of the hair should improve. Many of you have written to me and asked for a treatmemt for falling hair, and I as- sure you there is no better treatment for the scalp than to bring circula- tion to it, It is necessary to commence as low down as the hand reaches in linstration 1, because it is here these Answers to Rea , | am. twenty-seven years of age, five feet four inches in height and weigh 133 pounds. 1 have reduced by dieting from 190 pounds, but have been unable to reduce below 133 pounds though 1am still dieting. !8 this my cor rect weight? What can | do to reduce » few more pounds. B.C. A Your reducing 190 pounds to 158 pounds should be an ecouragement to all the r Jers of th You are now down to normal and [ do not dvi you reduce but pay attention to the 10 keep your weight evenly fron’ column to more any exercises so as stributed A. P.—Should weigh 35 pounds nd her friend who is forty-five yea old and is five feet three inc height should we 123 pou | would appreciate your telling me through The Evening World if | am too tall for my age. | am eighteen and five feet ten inches in height and weigh 110 pounds; also how can | gain weight ac cordingly? A CONSTANT READER. Av eighteen you have ght and jon you the r em tall condition is not so simple, because of the ditliculty Doscher (Tho New York Evening World lates the top part of the shoulde r of a shapely neck and back. r in reach hing to reach !t is in It fort of strete’ blood vessels and nerve centres th, travel up the spinal column and feed pare situated. In fact, theae ibs benefit not only the part men bh but have a nm | value in beau {ifving and improving your entire body. In i tration 2 the rev ed hand retahed up the back far as possible, At first this is almost im@ Possible, but afte several ays of effort yo can make the fingers the two hands meet in the centre the back, As the stout woman gr stouter she loses the controlling bility o the fat-bound muscles i effort to r h to parts of the body that are dificult to reach has a psyhologic effect upon her will power, jmpres: ing her mind with the impertance uf mastering the diflewity and. /T is extremely satisfying. 1 ions some of you have alre enced this joy of co’ nte own by the letters ydu © weitt me Whereas beauty is alw dex able in a man, in a woman it te an) absolute necessity. It ts oftew tho | foundation of success, beewuse 4. bo: (hat hos beeg made beauttent mrone systematic exereise is a body tht abounds with good alt! ders’ Question ause ave nor as yet aever- oped your’ fir nto mature Ines and also because you are so mi under weight, a 1 should tbout 150 pounds, ‘To inerea weight you must have plenty o und-a very liberal diet of milk, green vegetable your dd thoroughly and try a littl ore you eat and immediately exercises as mia times d x th you find tir opp soon as you become f. d will great] 1 in bui you ur Sipe 1 ' ble the open air and ety lute laughter ix one fattene Will you kindly advise me what to do to reduce my face? It is stout. | have entirely too much flesh underneath my chin so tha: {t almost have a sign of a doubi chin. 1am nineteen. yoars old and am four feet eleven inches tall and weigh 115 pounds. FLORENCE. ht you she Paint €. M You Maxims of a Modern Maid i! By Marguerite Mover. Marshall } A child pulls a toy to picees and then cries because it won’! go. A man pulls a woman's heart to pieces and ix aggrieved because it no longer beats for him VEEN the coldest and most presaie man tua. me inie emot 4 orupt A woman may doubt a man’s financial ability, his athletic prowes popularity with her own sex and live, but if she wishes ¢ ar low menacing growls let her point the finger of suspicion at his skill as « home brewer. Wb > man with a pint cup hea an ocean 0. © into it the situation The great divide among business women 1s between those their brains and those who we k the Every married man considers tt him in bis wife and which differentiat It will be time enough to admit nN, py, gray-haired th vy the same air of easy u he desk of displave ¢ han Aad labor saving inventi Ask “Just haw was it penment is middle aged woman can approach a rt meets a woman who wants to pos is embarrassing for both who work ir eyes, his first duty te snub, consrienttousty ‘5 6—In what State was the Battle of a: firmly, ali the piquant indiviaual characteristics which first attractea Je her from Jane Due the exi nee of sex equality when a nandsome e which her male prototype now the prettiest girl in the office wan ing the man whom you're too tired te t reai Sc a ne foresight and of mascu ee ee, Sd t ; } i } {