The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 17

’T was a Queer, Queer World Grand-Dad Learned About In His “Geography” 4% At Least, So It Would Seem to Us, , For, Oh, How It Has Moved Since! “Then “Injuns” C’ased Buffaloes Over the Plains, There Were buf 24 States in the U. S., the Map .~ ‘of Europe Was Less Scrambled, and Foreign Cities Had Now Unfamiliar Names. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘Copyright, 1921, by the Pross Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World. UBER facts Dad and Gran'dad learned in the geax to study in the little red schoo! house. No other subject, of course Jag geography. Much of it aplies they used cy of current events 8 so at the me as we ail ky has been rewritten by the World War and the Versailles Peace Treaty vertheless, we becor a istomed #9 quickly to the new that we have a feeling of amused incredulity when we read to-day what was t ’ erdny; when we look c the brown-stained pages of pre-ivil War se es, ir 1 is explained that there are twenty-four States in the United States, that Italy is a col- INDIAN MODE OF TAKING BUFFALOES. lection of odd duchies, kingdoms, Ausyrian provinces and Papal states, and tat the population of New York City is 203,000. Two of these old-time geographi — hoy en furnished to The Eyeni i the eecond town in the State In Jord by Louis “M. Dil ore population, wealth and commerce, 18 World by Louis M. Dillman, E cdvantageously sittacal on the Hud dent of the American Rook Company. son, near the nead nop navigu- The earliest was copyrighted in 1831 tion: and by uns of navigable and published in Boston by Uffhard, Waters and canals it has an easy ae eat communication with a vast extent of Gray & Co. I was called “Elements coiutry, ‘of Geography, Ancient and Moder w York, situated on Manhattan and the ‘aut was J. E. Worcester, or New York Island, at the entrance ‘ i tieeuueae § Hudson in w York Bay, is E t populous city in America tem,” by ‘ ip the an excellent harbor; is admir- other of t! worn yolumes aated both for internal and The copyri one is 1840 mmr an] is the t commerce the fi elty in America, and on in the world. It contai vificent edifices, among end it was published n Harifond by Jobn Paine a One of the first interesting state City Hall is the most dis- ments in both volum: in relation tsuished; and it has 16 houses of to America. “Tle Indians,” both nine years later, our other geographers observe, “still possess the Mr. Smith, declares: greater part of the continent.” In wpasies each of te . yee ar (etaia in population, wealt 1881. there were twenty-four States, AatipER PO eater otk and only two more nine years later— canals, in resources arising both from Michigan and Arkansas, The agriculture and commerce, and in po- were divided into the New England litical importance, Aa eluate at? group, the Middle States—New York, poypire State. . ‘i and Dela Maryland Now Jersey, Penn ware; the Southern 8 Virginia, North Caroline line, Georgia, Alabam Louisiana, and the We @p 1831, compris: Apoet and eity, is the pulous, wealthy and in America, and it the most commer rid ates: South Caro e we mmereial town cept Londe ity in the Mississipp!, w has numerous public buildings, many of te It States, which beautiful spect- architecture, as the Clty chante’ Exchange, new ¢ New York University Tenneases, Ken ducky, Ohi: inois and Missouri. devoted to them is headed, in Worcester's work, by a spirited woodcut of Indians hunting buffalo, just as the chapter devoted to Massachusetts ihus- trated by a scene of whale-catching, and the lesson on Spain is enlivened by a picture of a pull-tight The rest of the United States vas d@ivided by Mr. Worcester into six Hall, tom As Ind Me: Hous or &e. ‘On the emorable night of De: 16, 1835, there raged tn this city the most destructive fire that ever oe curred tn the United States, or ever in America, haying destroyed no less than hous and property to amount of more than seventeen millions of dollars So what ca: we if Boston was ften called the Literary Emporium ection is of America’—as Mr Smith says it territor! Florida, Michigan, Huron was? or Northwest Arkansas, Missouri, Here are some other interesting Gregor, In 1840 Roswell C. Smith “facts” we learn trom these old-time geographies:, “Newark, on the Passate, nine miles fiom New York, is a very pleas«nt and handsome town, the largest in the State, and is distinguished for its manufactures, particularly of shoes, and for the excellent cider made in its vicinity.” “Germany is no longer an ompire. The country of Germany now com- prises about one-third of the Empire of Austria; the greater part of the Kingdom of Prussia; Holstein and Lauenburg, belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark; Luxemburg, which be- longed to the late Kingdom of the Netherlands, but which is now lists the territories of the United @tates as Florida, Wisconsin, Towa, Missouri, Indian and Oregon. Mr. Smith, by the way, believed in beginning the study of geography at the beginning. Here is one of the first questions in his book, with the enewer: 4@. What was the earliest employ- meat of our first parents? “Cultivating the garden in which hey were placed, which is called hor wtouiture; after thelr banishment from Maden, tilling the ground, which is ¢ aimed by Belgium; the Kingdoms of felled agriculture.” savaria, Saxony, Hanover and Wurt- j published to-day, New York ““Tialy has not, for a long time, been was the largest city im the country, ‘New York State the most populous united under one Government. [t now forms a part of the Empire of Austria, git independent states.” of the Atates. In 1880 the city popu y in Europe is commonly con- lation was 203,000; the State popula- gijered as com 4 of the following kion, 1,914,000; forty-six slaves being divisions, namely, Moldavia, Walls- included in that number. At the Chia, Bulgaria bia and Bosnia, in r sey the ort Roumania, Macedonia, l- mame time our neighbor New Jersey jn. ipirus and Thessaly, in’ the ‘had 2,246 slaves! middle and formerly Livadia or Here are, some of the ngs that Greeee, with the Morea in th uth," Mr, Worcester has to say about the Mina h is what Mr, Wore writing in 1881, has 9 say about Jap- nd ALL he has to say rhe Emptre of Japan ts composed eral islands which Ile to the east of Asia, the largest of which 1s Niphon Wow York of 1881: “Now York is distinguished as the most wealthy and powerful State in the Union, surpassing all the others ; . of ‘The islands Ximo and Xicoco form a in population, in the advantages of 71% of the empire, and Jesso is de- witustion, in great canals, and In re- Pendent upon it weurces, both from agriculture and “These islands have a divergificd epmmerce. surface and a yarinble cilmate, and “Bducation has been Mberally pa- "every rich in mineral productions prontsed by this State, which has a int they are highiy cultivated and Mterary fund amounting to abow The Japanese id $8,000,000, the imome of which {e erable advanceme eppropristed jo the encouragement ot learning “Boe Erie Canal, wdich forms & 1 Japan, ts sitn @ommunication between the Hudson oted on a b ne gland of Niphon and {8 one of the most populous and and Erig, extending from Al- BA Saad ai tatee hs ne moss magnificent cities of Asia magmificent work of the kind in “Meaco, the ecclesiastical capital, 9 Am and is much longer than noted for manufactures: ' N rok, ‘ony cahal in Europe is the only port ta whieh foreigners * » he seat wf government yy admitted” a es ll ls \ . You Beat It! sx TOM! Oo | LOVE My DEAR LITTLE WHAT Big BRIGHT EYes My DEAR Tom oi \ WHAT A AS ! SF "AS. NICE LITTLE \ MOUSTACHE [AY LITTLE | TOM H aA. } ] | AKattor— DEAR UTTLE CAT | GOT TODAY D9 ay « Why Not Look Your Best? e By Doris Doscher. t, 1BB1, by the Pree Puptisning On (te New’ Yors ivening World.) ARHAPS it has often surprised you that a girl who has regular features ani a beautiful face and many other charms hus often been crowded into the background while some other girl, lacking regularity of feat- ures, has yet that & subtle “some- thing” which makes her stand out as a central ee figure in any Bias rornee STOUD Or gather- ng. You may have a beautiful gown, but if you do not know how to wear it you lose halt of ite beauty of line, You may have youth and regular fea- tures, but if you have not learned to give your body, especially the fa the daily attention that is required to give that well-groomed appearance you will never be pronounced a beau tiful woman. So you see, my dears, that it Ip necessary for you to spend a little time in considering Just what is necessary to help nature express your individuality in the best way The chief attraction of a beautiful woman {s a clea complexion, deli- cately possess this tinted, and means cleanjiness within and without, You who have been following the diet suggestions have seen what @ marked improvement the well-balanced diet has made in your complexion It is impossible to have a clear skin unless you have a clean stomach, and this simply means that the first thing to do in acquiring this clear camplex- ion is to see to it that there is no surplus waste nuiated in the sys- tem, but that the digestive organa ure In perfect working order. Dink ing plenty of good, clear water ts also an excellent ald, and then, after you acquired this good Algestion, it oy you to take care of the skin, re again the firgt essen jial is cleanliness Do not retire {ot me su } single til ly cleansed the tow ai) the dum night t 4 and impurities during the day The best way to do this 18 to apply a good cold cream, thoroughly rub- that have gathered dtfferent certain vlexton, the treatments, fundamental rui be strictly adhered to if we eMerve charm bing it over the entire surface of ( many And next in importance but that of a bea wish What to Do Every Evening to Improve Your Complexion there are ult face and neck, paying as much atten \ condition of abso- tion to the back of the neck ay to the juts 1 nd that the front, as this ig equally {inportant. nightly ‘ Then thoroughly wipe this off with a previous to + © of old linen or cheesecloth. the drawn, pinched aypedu next step is to apply hot tigue or mental fretfulness and Ki a pure soap. After drying in its place a genezal feeling of placid the face apply a good massage am calm w irons out the taut lool er skin food, thoroughly covering and keeps the face reposeful in lis ex every inch of the face, with the finger- pression all during night. This tips, working out the Ines and does much toward preserving the first i to ward off time's finger- flush of youth -day's lesson app or the eve nere ard 80 Many questions that ning treatment only, and in my next enter into the discussion of the lesson 1 will tell you what to do jn proper care of the complexion, and the morning to give you that then ai skins vary so, that it is rosy glow that no daub of rou, ssary to change these ever Imitate Maxims of a Modern Maid By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyrtaps, 1921 by u Pres Publishing Co (The New York ening When a woman gets her first divorce it may be a mishap, her second is a mistake and if she gets any more she’s simply got the habit. ‘ ‘Meo éays W. L. on which women write Perhaps the basic difference between the love affairs of joned and of the belleving the lies she wants to be true The cave man, in a domestic crisis wife. So does the man of to-da is soothed A really clever couple can avoid accepting almost every st resorted George's “Ursula Trent, their Hv shortage these days is Something Terrific s.” But modern woman 4s that the latter cannot quite y in like emergency the Ur white ula, the the old club to sooth paper fo ed in he bis but it's himself that tion simply by keeping their alibis in each other's name upid invita A few women may “fal! in love, but most hurl themselves into \t, and as for men, they don't “fall,” they roped, shanghaled Does the sentimentaiis( Or,’ it not mixed? doga be ney Hither a mau doesn't marry the gir) he wants or he does marry her, whieh is loves The perfect kisser is born but pot ma’ are, pushed pulled wouders the cynic, muke 4 his withered rosebuds, locks of hair, love card ca notes and other romantic r wi slowl and bis yanked, hauled, mental souvenir Comrttent, 1921. by the Press Publiening Cu, 1 STRYVER had lingered among the lingerie at the front counters of the big de- partment store, and Mra. Jarr, who had been shopping with ler obese and had walked out to stryver’s waiting town she, Mrs, Jarr, W in the limousin: aware of a taxieab dash n which—she caught it all in Mr Mr Smit! about ve. Just bout he by flash Jarr and with him, her head 5 sat Jarr's sho Mud- on ider, ¢ There could be no mis- lake "Oh!" moaned Mrs. Jarr, and tottered into Mrs. Stryver's L Mra, Stryver store, gabbling car beside Mrs ari ridge it from thi away, and got in her J You look pale, do you feel faint?!t shed Mra, Stryver “DT have had such a tu red “1 What ked her whim “Hom want to K do you good friend wer, Sv do me What need is a br nt where the wor night Hut dy gust Every 1 Mudridge-sin Bhe Mr e-Bmith, the Jarr, would wd order tha f he way had been mand ktalis. ff tha usband ant » decetyed in, tov, ¢ uld wet t nen Mra Ja ad Mr ver came into the wicked place Mure Jarre was both comfort al die omnted Lo Kote that nelther her nus d nor the woman he had beeu im passidg Lixioab with were thera ken. or that t nd her whole uti ¢ aetonisht M i) Just have « cup Suppose the Gow The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell of School and En- tering Business, Would You Have Chosen the Husband She Did? If You Were.Pretty Peggy Dayton, Out An instalment of this absorbing story will be pub- lished on this page every day. ¢ By Caroline Crawford. : Copreiaht, 1991, by the Press PubUshias Ce. (be New York Brening Word | 4 HER FIRST ROSES. EGGY DAYTON stood before an There was @ litle mist in just that way when she looks P Her first! Every girl f¢e open box of roses her deep blue eyes. at her first flowers. But in an ic inomdnt a inischievous smile played about her lips and she gave her ly, brown bobbed hair an impetuous toss, ; Peggy bad just been graduated from business school; it was he teenth birthday, and the eighteen American Beauties over which she hpv- “ ered were from Harrison Townley. “From Harrison Townley, of all men," whispered Peggy to herself as joked at the card for the fifteenth ume. “Mien he dues care. | had sup- posed he was mother's and father's riend, though he did hold my hand a little longer than I thought nece sary when he said good night and he has often fooked at me with a certain light in his eyes. But he is tweniy: eight, ten years my sentor, and what would Billy think?" At the thought of Billy Bracton Pogsy'’s face flushed, ‘Then she thought of the travelling salesman she met during the summer vacation and eral other young men she ‘half liked.’ Hut foremost stuod Billy. Hilly Bracton was looking for a po- sition and so was she. They had been 1s for the last two years in business school and to-night they were going to the last “class dance.” Would she enjoy this dance, now that she had Hurrison Townley's roses, now that she knew a full fledged man cared something for her? Did she care for Townley? Harrison Townley was tall and dark. He was an established man in business. Billy Bracton was tall, tuo, but, after all, he was only a boy of nineteen and he had an unforgivable way of blushing every time you looked at him unexpectedly. But how Milly could dance! Peggy's reveries were interrupted by her mother’s presence, Mrs. Day~ ton smiled sweetly as she brought t . filled with water, purse you will write a note Mr. Townle beautiful ros to and thank him for these she 6aid as she lifted them from their box and arranged them. : “Oh, yes, indecdy,” laughed Peggy, us she noted how her mother "mis- tered” the man whom the family for- meriy called "Harry Townley,” “You don't seem to take these roses seriously, Peggy, dear,” complained Mrs. Dayton, “if you could get a man ike Mr. Townley you would not have to go to business at all, 1 didn’t know he cared for you.” “| did.” chirped Peaxy boastfully “rye known It for a long time, But Tam not at all certain that f should care to be ‘Mra. Townley.’ It might be a whole lot more interesting to Ko to-business and have a career.” “Would you rather earn $20'q week pounding a typewrltes than’ fo hava @ (The New York Evening World’) uld raid the placa ernment agents,» while we ure her “Nousense!” snapped Mra, Stryver. hey serve cocktails in) teacups here.” But Mrs. Jarr insisted on a real cup of tea fidgeted and looked so badly that Mrs. Stryver finally got worried and took her bome. And there was Mr. Jarr! And he actually smiled at her and attempted to kiss her. “LT brought the boss's wifg home in a tuxi!" he said, ‘She came down to the office and had an awful row with th old man because she had seen him in another taxi with @ woman He tried to_explan it way a friend's wtfe, but Mrs. Smith had hysteries and d him, and #0 I brought her “How foolish of her!" said) Mrs, Jart, kissing him and laughing. “Why, if T had seen her and you in the taxi you were bringing her home in T would have known there was no harm in it" “Why, sure,” | think she had bee tatis!" “Tan't it dreadful!” gurmled Mr Jarr, and hugged him again said Mr, Jarr. “And drinking cock- 192), ty the Pree Putitighing Oo. 1 New York Eveatng World.) QUESTIONS. 1, What fee must accompany an application for.a patent? 2. What additional fee must be paid when a patant is ? What State produces the great- est number of peaches 4. Where do the most valuable pearls come from? 5. With what other substance is graphite mixed in the manufacture of pencils to give varying degrees of hardness? 6. How many English pénnies are there in a shilling? 7. What is the largest’ river in Maine? 8. What ie the partial shadow cast during an eclipse called? 9, What other name is sometimes given to the persimmon 10, What valuable drug os con tained in Peruvian bark ANSWERS Re. S §. Califora Pencbse venuinvra, % de plum, 16, qainine, h- nice little apartment right near ogre on Washington Heights, or perhe@p: a home in the suburbs?" asked Nra Dayton. “Aren't you going ahead of tht time, mother, dear? After afl, whit do eighteen little rosebude mean?"s “They mean a great deal from hii, my dear.” H Just then the telephone gave Peggy a chance to dash out of the room o tw hear Harrison Townley's well mod. uulated voice at the other end of the wire. nd “T have just called up your fathir and gained his permission to take you, to a show to-night,” he sald, “M sister is giving * box party and I dy so hope you wil! allow me to take you." Peggy stood transformed by the rich, full notes of his voice. Ther: was an indefinable charm and per- suasiveness which made him seem Nke a new man to her. There was her little orange crefw de chine with Its broad sash lying of the bed waiting for her. Bhould she wear It to the dance with Billy 0 to the box party with Harrison Town. lny? , THE TURN IN THE ROAD. | GGY stood before the telephone absofutely tongue-tied. She wanted to go to the box-party with Harrison Townley and she wanted to go to the dance with Buly Bracton, But she could not go to both places and she must choose now—at once! Wor the first time in her life sf almost detested Billy, It wasn't the ‘class dance” which was wortyims her, but simply her promise to Billy und what it would mean to him % she were to disappoint him at the last moment. “Of cours f you have an engage- ment,” came Townley’s passant voigt from’ the other end of the wire, “don't break it. I know 1 should have given you more time, but my sister Just phoned me a few moments ago, and it was rather a hasty alfair.” . “I--1 huve ap engagement,” stam- mered Peggy. “It’s the class danc- I'm frightiully sorry, L should baye been delighted otherwise.” hen we'll make it for some other evening,” came the clear reply and rather gorrowtul but culmposed "se by ; That might at the dinner table Peggy avoided her parents’ eyes, She knew ber fused chevis and lack of appetite displayed ber emotions, by! she rejoiced that they probably saved her from a reprimand, Nrither he father nor her mother refecrad to M Townley or to the forthcoming dance, sc She excused hursel! just after dost sert and hurried to her room ta dress AS a final touch she fastened three of Townley's roses to her girdie, but when Billy called and proudly pres sented her with a dainty bunch of violets she blushed and promptly ree placed the roses in their vase. “That's right, Peg. better wear the optimistically volunteers ides they blend in better gown. Orange, gray and with your violet, some becoming colors I'll ay’ By the way. what old bird sent thos roses?" un Peggy resented Billy's “old bird’ language, but she coquettishly an- swered, “A friend of mine.” accom panied by a little arch of her eye: brows which rather silenced him on tha subject They took the subway (Billy was not a tax! boy) and tn a short time were dazglingly happy amidst theli co-graduates, the fragrance of flow- ers and the inspiring jazz played by lally full brass band oment Peggy stepped out on the dance floor with Billy she re joiced that she had not gone with Harrison Townley and was not at this very moment sitting up ip theatre box amidst a crowd of much older people watching others per. form. ‘Tt was so much better to bf in life Instead of watching othera! * Still, as she and Billy glided alone her thoughts kept turning to Towns ley. She wondered if he knew the latest dance steps. Could he dandé the Alligator Glide or do the Camel Watk just the way Billy did? z As Peguy lay in bed and heard the clock in the living mom chime two she suddenly regretted the fact that she had not gone with Townely, The dance was splendid, Billy was the same old Billy, but now that she was away from the glare of the lights the soft perfumo of the flowers and that all-inspiring Jazz things looked different to her To-morrow she must start ot am her business career. There wer three places she had ia mind whic? she was going to investigate. Should she give up Billy and all this dance business now that she wus going to earn her own livin was @ good companion, a first pal, but she had never thought of him as a future husband. Had she arrived a the, age when girls should think marria e and “settling down?! Townler’e voice vas so quieting, so kind; yas handsome, catutes lis i in Most arly t heartily agryry tate mm nee ¢ Why had ‘4nv thoughe of o times #h vening? D really eas Z a “mn