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ia ; — ‘THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1991. How Soon Will Brooklyn ' Pass Manhattan In Population? > Had 700,000 Less in 1898— Only 150,000 Less Now— ! oe Fee ae Hea, AND ] KILLED HIM | Nie ae, WHAT'S THE COUNTING MY” EXCITEMENT > SILVER, WE HAD A BURGLAR IN THE HOUSE . Holds Fifth of Whole State’s Population Owns Tenth of State’s Automobiles Is America’s Third Largest City Could Populate Two Connecticuts Has 130 New Babies Every Twenty-Four Hours Borough of Brooklyn. = Daring cight hours of every working day in the year a building 48 completed in Brooklyn ready for occupancy every ten minutes. There is an automobile for every two families in the borough, and new Dabies arrived at the rate of over 120 cuch twenty-four hours during each of the days last yeur. Te-ay Brooklyn has a population almost if not quite equal to that of Manhattan, It has more families, more 1 s, more buildings, more éehools, more school children, more churches and many more Miles of Streets and public improvements than Manhattan. By Major Joseph Caccavajo, C. E., D. Copyright, vat, by the 1 (The New York rentne World.) NE in every pve p stuie of New York resides in ae Publishing ¢ the ons in the AFTER HE WENT Outside of NEW, York Gy itself, but = NES LOOTING To THE grey in ate Une artes excels | AD THE HOUSE BASEMENT ch . Which, though it has nearly . three times th ea of Brooklyn, will HAVE GROWN) POPULATION 41,800,000 POPULATION Miss PATHE Fe. $ FORME 155 BROOKLYN KNICKERBOCKER) BROOKS” FATHEIe KNICIKERBOCKERe \ AN GLAD TO KNOW HOME BREW Is GOD For SOHETHING The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Flapper Only Flapping In Grandma’s Own Footsteps! Just a New Set of Unconventionalities in a Modern Setting, Author Points Out. Grandma Was Handicapped by Dobbin, Who Couldn’t Travel as Far or as Long as an Auto- mobile—But Cards, Artificial Aids to Beauty and Eccentricities of Dress Were Outlet for Youthful Daring Then as Now. ~ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. 40) 1921, by the Prem Publlahiag Co Q. Why doca the,flapper flap? (Tee New York Bvening World) A. Because her grandma did! . anxious parents, J so simple and amusing is the latost answer to the riddle over wh »p” out of propriety. their way into literature; sometimes herrible examples. But sense of prop parents themselves, in now look at ‘em! “[ don't worry 4 bit about our young people,” one wise old lady in ‘These Young Rebels” sums up its comfort- ing philosophy. “Perhaps they are a little unconventional, according to our standards, but I can remember when I nearly drove my mother crazy by learning how to waltz I can remem- ber when round danc>s were consid- ered a scandal, My parents thought a girl who permitted a man to put his arm around her in # ballroom was a shameless hussy. The world has to move. It can’t stand still! [ don't pretend to understand all that goes on now, but I know that tt will work out all right. Our own generation seems to be the only one we ean really un- derstand, We can only v the one t went be for the one that comes after us don't you worry It won't do a bit of good.” But Uncle Arthur Galusha—who ts | What Would You cd Have Done? By Richard S. Uhrbrock. OHN HPNDBRSON was away J from home on Blectien Day and the ward boss sent him money with which to return, The boss be- lieved that Henderson would. vote the straight Ucket upon his arrival. Henderson did not have sutticient cash on hand to make the trip, but he did want to vote and to see the home folks. Howe he did not feel that he should vote the straight ticket. What would you have done? 1. Aceepted the money and voted as you pleased? . 2. Retur the money? s. Accepted the money and yoted the straight Ucket? World) darn, “He ¢ ‘Well, L see you are back aye me a nasty look.” Phen should be ashamed of himself, After all I have to put up With from that silly wife of his, Clara Midridge-Smith!” snapped Mrs, Jarr. “L should have mentione t to him, 1 supp id Mr "And how did you find the neighbors? Were they glad to you and the children buck” And what are the scandals of autumn of 21 that occurred in locality adjac during our ab on vacation sure | do not know and am not interested enough to inquir Mrs, Jarr declared, "I haven't spoken to a soul since I got back, for I've been too busy » this house ty go out, and the ne is dis connected till you 1 r bill, and 1 hope no one has t Did you stop at pany's offi en calling us up the telephone com and pay the bill? No, I can see you didn't, and we'll be dis graced! ‘IE gent them ck,” remarked Mr. Jarr. "An¢ ou had told me e bill hadn't been paid while we were away T would have sent the check sooner “Oh, de sighed Mrs. Jarr knew you'd blame me for it, 1s y you Won't get a raise of salary simply because business i4 bad and they gave you a vacation at Mr. Stryver—he has made a fortune F financier. Why don't we b stocks, as he is always advising you?’ That isn't the way to make mon buying stocks.” said Mr. Jarr. only way is to print them and them, like Stryver dq But do y want me to go into the Street or on the Curb? 1 don't ace money in the street or Mrs. Jarre. l'm are bad enough they are without ming & peddicr and selling mi TL onever saw one estrin, Hers have D custom L know 1 get all my shoe irings at the five and ten vent s where a dozen pairs tor 1 dime. Still, most of them wear a sigh “f Am Blind,’ and a tot ive them pennies, for what nnies these days ex fo pay war tax when you buy ndas for the children?” aking of Wall Street and arket,” Mr. Jarr explained. from what | hear the market nina bad wa 1, [am glad of it." Mrs. Jarr nterrupted. “IL makes one contented with one's lot to hear that other people are as bad off as you are. And I like to be Mianted: it's discontent that turns people into Anarchists and Bolshevists’ Have you got five dol- lars? Some things are coming how you could make yo the curb," replied ure things one can get cept lee cream at the present rate of increase soon the number of school children. Brook- have fewer residents than the Bor- oun 948 pupils meget an its ST COTTER Miicolian slic is, ts Compared with Man- ough of Homes and Chu jattan’s 278,727. Brooklyn has twen- It is now over twenty-three ye tY-ctght more public schools ti éince Miss Brooklyn was married to Mantattan and three move h Father Knickerbocker and th Is, One saraanes of the ice ut ty 7 Poe ie vee Lagan SACODKT Yn is developing at a tremen 2 tii refer tovhpriby her matd We is that while 10,000 children aumne, she is help nd has helped no ywt time in the Manhattaa Ler spouse to matecally increase 1 chook shlyn has 46,8tt wealth and importance in the world Pt time pupils, When the authori Sik \ ties pr the new schools needed to of to-day , th Brookiyn's home buiid The former Miss Bri NO ing t Silt have oa ‘ Jonger the undevelop: f 1893, but over Manhatta —— ee a big, strong, self- ant woman, whe, number hoe ike : eae 1,000 pupils in t ¢ 5 while justly y nue ee n ots in Brooklyn ' ° ' nections, is fully of the fuct e number in the Man- ° ° Going Down * of all denomination re oO! ” nee + does show Father Knickerbocker MO MER RE Clute te an By Betty Vincent Into this world without Master Bronx, his son by, a previous 1 cachers, both past Sonn, 4 anything and gp out in the union, as well ister Queens and 1 tre ranked with the reli = same manner, why should we be Pda di nti oes 0 ear een Te 1 f the word. Cowright, 1V21, by the Hees Publisning Co. (The New York Reeuing Wort) Atrala Gtlune veauathi te? Copyright, 101, by the Prem Publishing Co Se ANRENST EY ARUENE ane Mt churches the Roman ¢¢ EAR MISS VINCENT: | and although she appears at times = ee BLL, how did you find about property conducting fam 120, Lut D am eighteen years old to like me when she is away she Fatt ee eatin W everything down at the fairs nex taunt Episcopal, ie seldom writes and of course this life Is the fear of losing some- a Many Manhattanites are even yet Baptist, Congre- and | promised to write worries me a qreat deal. Recently thing. We fret when we lo: office eoked Mrs. Jarr, unaware of the remarkable growth of remed, and ol to a young man whom | recently she went away for two weeks and money, on think we are going to Did taey say you shouid have stayed See ae 9 eee aa ek et ulmost every known creed and met while in the country. Upon never wrote me a line, although lose It, We make every effort to % @Way longer? Was toat man Jenkina Brooklyn i S$ real portan 2¢ ivi ‘ iri she permits me to wear her ring. a your desk vol caw } the present and future we Phe ributing members of the 2¢riving at home and telling my Upon her return | went to see her keep it safely, and when we By PUD GRA SOL Ua abe 8 iol eee ALG Cf tate wari klyn churches other than Parents they forbade me doing and when | spoke of her not writ ome to priceless things are we you he wanted your gob, and he'y arent “ei ee Ror and Jewish nuinber this on account of his being mar- ing she only laughed. When | > careful? anything te get you discharged so While ieee ‘ EAL Y 60s Sumiay schools have ried. Should | write this young called her cousin, who ie also J vefer to friends. he could slip into your position PaO earn pabtes, Are sind the Cut cinurehes with him, or shall | let the mat: her family not to be there? nake no effort to keep them Meg Una ED: 38 Sd BRK RA) BO moving in rooklyn every day in jy ‘ The valu ten rest as it is? He has not “C,H. F.” WARS ALORGAA WOR suits him,’ Mr Jere replied. “He the year, Ina very few years Br ' yn is get my address, so he cannot t wor bout this girl not ‘0 wil friends, be of service $ wasa't at my desk, anyway.” lyn, which even now equals if not a- write to me. Please advise. Many young people have an $ to those whom you m “What did old Smith say? Was he ; Z early 400 theatres “GERRY.” ersion to writing anything more 3 keep friends, be of more A ” otes Manhattan, wi re Ls i 4 5 of mor ', giud to see you back and to “ a asad y OMby Reed ae pliees, ‘¢ Abide by your parents’ wish, ‘The tana postal or a few words of greet remembering that SERVICE is % Rl#d to see you back and to know that absolute politica! congro! of the and, § man Was most indiseret in Wishing ine. Certainly it was perfectly proper the highest form of human en hings would be rua night? 1 know of boroughs which make up the City ich and it8 you to write when he is a marr for this Youngs Woman to receive yor foeavor and it always brings its that man Johnsen and that man Jen- -of New York he ‘ ; ial a ent yea myn. Do not even drop him a line thout her fasnly ais day of the own rew dad if we are patient hing a a a tet oo eae work a With rn an 6.000 factories, «tal him of your parents” wishes chaperon is over and the family ar Yours truly vl think Mr. Smith appreciates Torday, lf Brooklyn be eensid= on ne 170,000 persons, tat simply ignore nine Y “ content to remain in. another ALPALEA SMITH Mra, Jarre went on ered alone, it would be the third + ' doby only two nor some other part of the house. © R gin daesalt aha. (hf Rrumbled Mk largest city in the United States, 01 | a NSE, pigDear Miss Vincent: | am a eee os and it has a population equal to n ind ub city ith $515,202, igh school girl, perhaps tco . 75 per cent. of the population of st We OF dhs mi is te Dan young to think seriously of boys). % > Chicago, which alone, outside of hr ; sky giianon.cn) but | know a boy about my own e ew York, outranks it. of Detroit and aver $280,000:000 age whom | like very much. Pee aba, waa een users a tie ee sy | How to Reduce Your Weight thirds that of the entire State of i ‘ tered 48,186 ipa friend, for he has taken me out A ew Jersey and twice that o: on mn y com and has been very kind to me. 7 i , Esnestione seh thn aecratary of Evare esr Witeh’ asheal Slate Diet Suggestions by Doris Doscher on, seventeen ent githtenn of tat ¢ 1 10 per cent. of we do not see each other the Gi v1 Pron Publishing © but when pr bing Liet for ree # e forty-ei tates have a © uvomobiles in the State of whole summer, By what means ithe New York Beenie Wor DUE SAR RReRer ne & ey Ash RAP . are + . greater population than the Bors x: wy would you advise me to meet i le ¥ juction this complicates the que REDUCING DIET pug, of Breaelyns ane re sey rh Slomn tat d.OnG Asponitie him, or shouldn't | see him at OT a day tion. So each one of you will have to BREAKFAST. Richmond, New Haven, Memphis, |) ie ahi gather eels Oe ea PUZZLED, passes DU! study your own needs and decide for $, One teaspoonful of bran in a San Antonio, Dallas, Dayton ; rye Naturally since he Is only a boy ip 1 receive sourseif and select which one of the 4 dish of prunes, Bridgeport, Houston, ' Hartford, rhe | habion wilcharrivedn clini se UT Bok NAVE (he siting TOvteTS fuod suguaations would beat At your ne ‘slise of Fwiehaak: Bann Grand Ratida: putes a wbighiarr) attitude as a young man in business. et y One cup black coffe Aeeeec Ar Wounaetawn iourkesniot 1 ¢ Iwenty-foar Hours You cannot expect him to call or ti ng for mor rticular neod. Lf your occupation One soft boiled egg. the leading fifty cities of the i Darduan grantor Sian ta tent Rot seek him direc ue at sus one, be sure to supply LUNCHEON country, is not equal to that of ji. 4 the five horoughs to-day, pak ee SMBE A good nthe mat- vourseif with eutticient nourishment; A lettuce salad with chipped Brooklyn. v ¢ ' ve f union me dict and 80 but this hot be of a fattening beef Brooklyn to-day has a eon | \ vooker and Mi “Dear Miss Vincent: At the rs t iealeliiee One glass of buttermilk. and assresed valuit 8 vet neficitl to all age of twenty | met a man eight Gasures: 1 PANE YOU ABMIOAY Ie wo slices of aluten bread equals to the combince . ned. and the subways, years older than myself. Later | d to more rapidly reduc: DINNER and Asse on nnels and by w have for. met a second man four years An intelligent i baat Louis and Paul, with “ d natural harrier of younger whe wanted to marry me, il wuluoe: willl chow Gre lean nreiledishap combined area ne h ne Mast River and bound the two but | told him | wanted to wait \ 4 } eit aked that of Brooklyn Vie pep : " teh thet i i , is sutticient. ‘Tt ne small baked potato. ha Hy hor are or the first young man whom | \ 1 onild A portion of string beans or dation (of theme Annee luis i ubout 4 IAGO exldae wi loved. Then I met a thind young nulural method of exercise combinud § oe, was 0 that of Broaklyn, Hrooklyn neluding the Jand on both man whom | rather liked. ‘Since very SAUDI With dict will bring about the best ult gelatin, hae 76,000 more children in its py Masi River in the City then the first and third young men oR Is VOSCHER ; BIVS seas $A fruit gelati 3 He schools. of New ¥ have died and the young man who veut and peepee Brpoklyn Gana: tal a are Se eed y City would not be is four years younger still wants ta t Y Me In general the followin cat all hinds + xceph ng eighty square miter, more than sey great nor diravh half xo to marry me. | am now twenty ne y sat ut thoae made of forbidden foo rs SEES TARR OF DIED) ARUN APR RSS. ne Ihe forecieht of thove whey eight, se do you think we could be ad on hu tw to avoid bread, bisenits, crackers, in slusive at tnars pn meadaw land. fy Hidation had not pre happy when he 1s but twenty Re hi " fact, anything inade of the flour. of s miles of stres } aunt 6K" 1 wheat, corn, tye, ber oats, & 201.5 mites of direct Waterirent, equal 4 that at the time e " ‘ 1) depends upon w ate i ‘ macarons, pita corn, dry fo 260.6 miles of waterfront if men tien 1 cape Aa hi Ge ola ba tai ing Tou ' n ' tinan beans and and eat in. the ured around piers init sire i f nd fe diic alanoaiiinn hal cara. nat VASA i cou ind place bran or gluten bread and plenty More than 104 miles of the wa tha ‘Sin Naw tan a eo ey ape PA eee MEbK a dolled poached Of green vegetahles, You may xee in front of Brooklyn is developed pet j Ponds : UE to ee “A : Y ne : las mmed milk 4 H eof the menus | kuggested foods The United States census for 1929 pels and bridges will carry more than NelUPalanced mindy nt fi \ wear your surplu prefer coffee or tea take it, from the forbidden list, It is because gave Manhattan 7 more r 4 m tunn are BOWE happl i daca f " b i down to bul with very tittle cream or suger I felt you nended a little more of the dents than Brooktyn, but Manhat proj ooklyn has grown more “Dear Miss Vincent: hk have, Meat may be eaten in small quanti- kind of nourishment you were used to, with {ts much larger alien pop lat than 100 per ! twenty-five been interested in a very refined i sail ties if prepared glain, roasted or as 1 do not wish 1 to reduce tor has fewer families thon Broo years, What will the population be girl for along time. She is quite One supreme thing about HUMARULY proved, 50 can most kinds of game fast, but rather to make the reduc Thie te demonstrated conclusively in twenty-five years hence? @ few years younger than | am ie | there are BO twe ple alike, and all Kinds of sea food. You may 4 tion permanent. ‘ co. Db” preachers and social their brains; the problem of the young rebels of philosophers are now puzzling day who are knocking For a year or moreahey have been breaking writing it, more often serving as {ts nowhere have they ,been analyzed with a clearer tion or a more humorous optimism than In “These Young Rebels,” Frances R. Sterrett’s new novel, nd guardians of the younger their own young days, She it is who cheers up all the generation by pointing out that they used to be just a8 naughty—and the Mr. Grundy of the book, utterly lisgusted with the doings of his jaz- zing, vote-pursuing, underdressing, vamping fieces and their boy play- mates—astill persists in worrying and fuming. So his women contempo- raries have to recall his and their young days. She needn't paint her face!” he exclaims indignantly, after viewing the ballroom toilet of Niece Sybil. “No, she needn't, but she does!" chuckles sixty-year-old Aunt Susanne She goes on calmly: “In my day we didn’t u xe, Albert. When I was Sybil's age we dampened the red petals of an artificial rose and rubbed the color over our cheeks until our fathers told us to stop it “And did you?” “Of course we didn’t,” cheerfully admits Aunt Susanne. “We just on more carefully. My never liked my new clothes; used to say that my bustle was and indecent. noon bridge rubbed it father He is Uncle Albert's rds for money," he luinents concerning Niece Kitty. “She told m f she won $7.50 at bridge yeste y afternoon, 1 don't approve of gambling for young girls. [tis bud enough for old And when | dared to speak Kitty, she just Lunghed and gutten the sked me if 1 had fore old days when [ “played cuchre for cut glass dishes and asi he receivers, difference wa Says unsymp asked me what the thetic Aunt Susanne: unds a there wasn't any.” » Albert bolls over once more. “You know it wasn’t the same, Sue!" he scolds. “It never was the same! And tearing around the country at all hours of the day and night in high-powered cars as they do. 1 don't approve of it! I'm about ready to think, Sue, that the automobi/. is the curse of the country, Driving forty miles to a dance and back again n on we didn't drive forty miles," blindly insinuates non- shockable Aunt isanne, “was be- cuuse ob old Dobbin wouldn't take us, You can’t have forgotten, Albert, that we used to drive to Mifflin to parties: And that was twelve miles!" Poor Unele Albert Grundy is coun- tered at every turn of his. crittci#m of “these young rebels." He in- veighs against an after - the - ball breakfast at a roadhouse—and Aunt Susanne remarks sweetly that It: re- minds her so much of tHe farmhouse where Uncle and she and thet: friends used to go for oyster stews after danc He is horrified because the daugh ter of an old friend wears hei brother's breeches. when she rides ramback or plays golf. And Aunt ne recalls the tine when Kitty's ndma “borrowed a set of your Albert's Breeches and went to call on a young lady your Uncle Al bert showing attention to! "T don't understand you, Sue, moans poor Uncle Albert, at length’ “Whenever one of them’ does any, thing outrageous you seem. deter mined to find something that we Jid when we were young whf@h way outrage too, But it isn’t the same, Not at all the same! But it is! Uncle Albert and Aun! Maria and Grandma Grundy must learn that youth's gay rebellion 1s eternal-only the methods of war- fare change. Also, that the only way for the oldsters to get even with the youngsters is to leave the job to th voungsers’ andehildren! ‘They'll hand out the shocks when their time comes “These Young Rebels” is published by D. Appleton & Co. [WHAT You? Know QUESTIONS. 1. What is the principal ri wholly within the State of Texas? 2. How many cubic inches of air the average adult inspire and exhale with each breath in the ordi> nary process of breathing? 3. What was the name of the com- mercial submarine that sailed from Bremen to America in 19167 4. In what city did the Russian and German Hpaates, moet cf 1917+ 10 negotiate the trea at between Germany and Russia? 5. What is the most important in- redient used in the manufacture ef ricks? 6. How many inches long is the or- dinary brick? 7, How many inches wide te the ordinary brick & What metal was used in struction of the first metal bri 9. What did the “G.” stand Mary Baker G. Eddy's name? 10. What ie considered the wealthi- ont town in the world for ite size? ANSWERS. 1, Brazos; 2, thirty: 8, Deutechiang 5, clay; 6 ecient: : & Glover; 4¢, er