The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1922, Page 11

an Sere iFet Sos Short or Long Skirts— What Is the Verdict Of New York Women e THESE GIRLS WANT THEM LONG Long Skirt Advocates Are in the Minority. But-—-They Know What They Want! By Margery Wells. 1932 (New York Evening World) Press Publishing Company. ‘OW read what your sisters have to aay about the real advan tages of the long skirt—the real Qemg skirt, the one that covers your smkion. mem, Out you will certainly have to oem ama be ‘These girts atmpty ‘They are after some specific point @f Gesign and beauty, and they are to express their ideas by means the long skirts, Watch out for when you are walking on the tm your stort ones. ‘Lésten to the short woman tell whet @ does long ekirte will be to her: “Dear Mise Wells: Iam a short fe going te be possible for me to Rave come grace and to make my ‘Whale contour more pleasing to the ove. “White | wae weering those a@vtul sort skirts | hated to look @t myself in a mirror, for the Bpectaocle of my large ankles was more than | ceuld bear, Yet | eouldn’t ge around In ekirts to the ground when everybody elee wi dressed in kittishly short ones. Bo few women, and especially those of ue whe Inclined to be plump, oan wear short skirte suc- ‘resfully. “T am for long skir' = mresery- edly, and I hape they jvill come in" and otay “in.” “Tours hapetulty, a. M.” Now, the opposite figure of « ‘woman takes « stand for longer skirts Whe admits that she {s long and thin and she tells why the Icittenten short Gkirts did not fit her «tyle of peauty. “Miss Wells—Thanks for bring- tug up this subject. T have been Jonging to say my nay about this akirt business. "1 am tall and thin—one ef thoee exaggerated women reach Ing far above the heade ef any crowd, and | have always hated myeelf in ehort skirts, | put them up reluctantly and ther enly because | looked like # freal Im anything else. My Isngth of log alwaye just seemed to be dangling from an abbreviated hem. ‘At the first sign of the reay pearing long skirt 1 flew out and purchased one and now J feel so much more !n harmony with the rest of the world with # long skirt ooncealing some of my long youthful elimness (T am fust nine- teen) “I think from an esthetic point ef view that the points In favor ef the longer lines are simply tn mumerab!e Yours happily, “MRS, R. B." Now here is one wit! the heart In- terest, !f you will: “Dear Misa Weila—! am twen ty-five and | had begun to despair ef getting married. My sisters, with thin ankles, hed been teker long ago and |, with thick ones, remained. But |! give you my word that | had not had one of the new, longer skirts more than @ week before the man | had loved for a long time asked me to marry him. | swear it was be eause | had covered up my an- Klos. “Of course, liu didn't say It was for this reason and perhaps he didn't realize it, but {n my heart I believe that, ridiculous aa It may seem to you, that the longer wkirt had something to do wit! the case. “Then, just think, my wedding @ress can be long. Oh wallet! Yours asdiniringly oy, W There comes this letter trom a whe lives In the suburbs “Dear Miss Wells: This’ really trl ta a great question, and Fam very much {nserested in it. 1 think that the American woman will eventually adopt the long pte gresque styles that Paris has brought #0 much in vogue this season. The American woman will be in ‘style no matter | what thar styte may be. “L personally like the longer @irt and | think the ekirts of the newer fashion are very eoft and appealing in femininity. It makes one remember she is » woman and If It ie adopted will do away with the ‘flapper’ to A great extent, W not entirely. “The trouble with the Amert- ap women is that she fora to the very extreme when she does anything, Now take short skirts, for instanos, Some of the more hold carned tt to such an extent that !t made them coarse, brazen looking creatures, while the long skirt cannot do thts. “Yours truly, Ho” Then comes « letter from a ‘“fiap- per’ herwelf: “My dear Mian Welle—Theugh only seventeen I am offering my opinion as regards the length of the American girf's skirt. “! am thoroughly, whele- heartedly, In fact, raptureusly in favor of the long skirts. No, not the trailing germ collectors but those that reach moderately to the ankle, Theirs Is a oreation lending willowness and grace to the well groomed woman and girl, \f only the ourtain would be drawn ov #0 of women's styles where legs are the most outstanding feature of their ap- pearance! vou How Long Do You Say a Skirt Should Be? The above photograph shows # long mkirt that ends three Inches above the ground. The two scales inchos. the various lengthe betwean the two extremes that are being worn. Lay a card across the photograph and move it up end down until It registers on the aoale the length you oon- sider best. Then write and tell ue your deolaion | The show, in Copyright, 1923 ork Bvening World) by Prene Publiahing Company, HS. JARR and the Cnckleberry week-end guests of Mra, Jen- kine In the delightful suburban tewn of Bast Malarta Meanwhile Mr. Jarre was being broucht out on the 5.15 by Mr, Jen- king and had to discover curtous (ravel habtte and custome or the amoking car commuter, Me Jarr od that al thoueh comm toubtless born freo and equal the ation of thetr time on the train marks thetr soctal and business standing Thus the commut of Bast Mal- aria look down upon th mmuters from Mount M Luse Mount Misery im nearer tho big clty than East Malaria. fy the same token Dulldite comer S regard the res dente of Last Malar h scorn she ause D miles furthe than East M a 1 mehurst ten miles further from t ig city than Duliditeh, regar other commuting towne on the line as un Interesting cor of insect lite Lonesomehurat swanks because it erences Jarr Family SATURDAY, Can You Beat It! [WEHAVENOTHING J | SUT Stik 4 | WE ARE 9 | RICH, THE SUNSHINE IS Ou A rT VC her aes ees IS OURS MOS ROM ey wa ce" Crurdcs Koto | < THE GREEN GRASS | | | LUC ear ae Ui : SEPTEMBER E GLORIES OF ( ARE OURS > J | |S = | THE MOON BEAMS ) ! Coprrtant 1922 (Ne | H | person who has a AVE vou @ Nttle halo hunter tn your ? Ad home helo huoter tea positive gentus for making himnelt (or herself) un comfortable Hut not only that He = (ors she) maken every body eine feel the same way! Crape ts a halo hunter's only wear That, and a weet, uncom. plaintng, mute ly enduring ox pression, Ao @xpremion which turma all the other mem- ‘ bers of the family into human fire | crackers, aa @ reaction from such finnatural meekness let which merely deepens, with oach explosion of pent-up exasperation. There are ever so many ways of hunting halos at home— But all of them are equally annoy- Ing. | There is the woman who patiently pioks up everything everybody elao | drops, | And replaces it on the nail, or on the table, or two fights up in the boys’ | playroom, Straightening her dent shoulders, climbing the stairs, With an alr of angelic forbearance There is she who deprecatingly de- nine herself © tenderloin, the breast of ohicken, the heart of lettuce: And, when a courteous husband forces one of these tidbit, upon her, Gets even with him by transferring it surreptitiously to the plate of the | youngest ~ | -Thia type of maternal martyr | ern Veaeeritrn, ye nes WE HUST KEEP | ( OFF OF OUR. > Always refuses a second helping, on the ground that !t may deprive wome greedy child of « aixth, fhe ruins her eyesight embroidering | her small daughter's dresses; She spoils her hands doing laundry { work, | Bee the woman who comes to do the wash rebels at noipe white dreases for Gindys every week; Bho never makes am little journey, or Duys a new book, or takes concert { tlokets, Hecau “the dear children’? must the money, to be spent op r pleasures; fresh, vigorous, wholesomely neif-assertive mother Wouldn't do them more good than | unitmited and How Would You Like to See All the One-Night Stands in the Daytiine and Get Paid for It —Perhaps? 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RULE 4 © that your leading is motor ear painted with ellow and Iilac stripes or aome other gh-grade colors, (As a rule the “* okent may not concern himaelt h thin rule. ‘The actor usually rats him to tt) hoe RULE 6.-fSoubrettes are always ‘engaged to— (a) Harvard boys whem playing Boston vpor tale boys when playing New ‘ Princeton boys @urtng split we ‘Trenton der students when Don't forget to advertias sixteen weekm in ad ' ning after the open 1} means nothing exeapt pal agate | pay for. RUL The i of Walea tn ed to have heen engaged LEB nto let your ment when ' Portiand, asses when a; Cuckoo nta, Oa; nan play kh, Pa; night boat ex « when playing N.Y Portland cement en playing hoy DO. Have You Lived? : eS Ree) By Sophie Irene Loeh. Copyright 19% (New York Ryvening World) by Press Publishing Oe AVE you seen the lovelight in a woman's yes H And known there was none other like it in the work) And that It was all for you—pure, sweet, fine and big? Then you have Hved, Have yon sod on the firtng It end had come =, And life seamed dear indeed, but grim duty lay fo: Yet py oom strike the first blow and the die const, And you survived Then you hive Mwed. ‘When you bave worke! with 1 ‘3 main t At some one thing te find the truti « ? another, And ofttimes grew weary with the task on hand Booause it seemed fruttions, and then awakened os one day To find it and to realise you have stood the etrain? — Then you have ved. Have you laughed with ttle children Aud listened with sineerity to their ohtldish woes And have you dried the orphans tear And taken to heart the motheriess one And seen the giadsome, trustful look in baby eyes? — Then you have ved. Mave you dweit in the seething centre of auandal \nd heard the clamor of cruel tongues i About some erring one and tuned your back op them With ecorn that wan deserved Hecaune of the wrong they wrought on some one you knew? Than you have Nved When you have walked with men of money And knew the power of jt all too well, Yet envied not but compared the solace And the Joy of simpler things jen» greedily got, And satisfied yourself that glittering gold Indes In lustre when Hkened unto the diamond dew of natural things ~ Than you have lived. When you have dented ‘That some one you loved might have something You wanted for yourrelf, And you glorted In the ancrifioe — Then you have Hved And tn the end when that grim #ervitor of Myeriansting Mier) Stands in the door and you ean look him equarsly im the fac And aay ‘lam ready, “Kor Lbave left the wortd none the worse for my coming’’— THEN YOU HAVE LIVED! and known the ( ané st to help — — NN [ Bible Questions and Answers —— NSWERS. _ QUESTIONS, 1. How did Satan curse (or emite)| 1 Job? Job What speclal ein did Herod com- mit which gained the disapproval of John the Baptist? ing 3, What was Moses forced to do}! when the people learned that he had killed an Egyptian? 4. Who wap the tether Eath and likewise the Mordecai? 5. At the beginning of what season did Ruth and Naomi return to Bet lehem? 6. What people tanel holly te cover 2% approval Ke 1 the Great gained the dis » Haptiat by Herodins, nt tak Monen was f When tho people | of Queen] Killed of] 4. Abihall was t Esther and the 6. Ruth Bethlehem at the t harvest 4 The people Tareel were called Mieynt remd to leas t had arned Gnas Queen 4 t f barley ginnin the Kingdom vere called Samar! ma FABLES [2 FAIR HALO HUNTERS By Marguerite Mooers Marshall eset York Evening World) by Press Publishing Os MORAL: A Martyr’s Place Is NOT in the Home! eqtiality unitmited maternal martyr- dom} Aud, Anally, there ts the halo hunter Who allows the children to paw orer. at will, every article on her dress ing table, every garment ta har olonet—- And contents herself with @ weartly patient word when they break or tear what they never should have bean allowed to touch tm the first pinoe, Ask any aunt, any father, amy sha-p eyed maid. an opinion ea this s«peaially spineless home martyri But !t tent always the effidrea wi are victims of what rude ma! passion for self-sacrifics.”’ ‘We all know at least one wife Whose perfectly solvent tusband cannot persuade or bribe or bully her into Niring a maid; Who wears last years hat and your before last's coat, Not because such economy ts neces sary, and therefore praiseworthy But because she makes a virtue of " Upon whose thin, sweet lips forev« hover Suoh phrases as, “Tt dosen't matty about what goes on im this hous»,” “Whatever the rest want.” How “the rest’’ yearn te shake t)i: dear soul, to beg her om their know: to be a little more cheerful, a littir leas resigned to the worst! A polley of continuous tmmolation tr an awful thing to contemplate fron the close range of the home. Are there any men halo hunters? Who registers for a whole evenin that silent grief whioh speak louder than words, Because the cream @auce at dinne was too thin, Or they gave bim rice podding f desnert. ‘There ta the hale hunter who remin« his family at least once « week That all he gets out of tt te food an a place to sleep. There ts the one who says, resign edly: “If I can only live to eee you childre settled, That's all I awk for—t don't expec! anything else." Lite’s horizon shut down FLAT 0: the child whose father mak gesture of such humiliating saci: effacement! Selfishness doubtless ts responsi): for much domestic unhappiness; But nobody neema to have pointed out Tht too much UNSELFISHNESB |) equally disastrbust It curseth him (or her) that give: and them that receive, It's @ perpetual wet blanket, a mii- dew of martyrdom, A balo hunter makes every othe: member of the family feel ike a brut And feeling ike a brute ts almost ax bad as being one—or living with one, An ounce of cheerful aggressivenens In family Ife In worth a ton of meek humility, Noble is the army of martyrs Rut their place was in the arena, And IS NOT in the home! ___- ere Feed the Brute ] Favorite Recipes By Famous Men | By S. 8. MeCLURE, Publisher. Omelette and Pia. CAN give you « tip on how to pre- | pare, Ih the very best fashion, two artictes of food, ‘The firet Is omelette: The frying pan mhould be held at a want, with the lower part immediately over « moderate heat, and continually the volume of eggs that becomes cooked whould be scraped back and the Hquiil part allowed thus emptied, to flow over the pan and then when the omelette 1s, I should say, about two thirds cooked, {t should be removed from the fire and dished. It {8 Imposnlble to make an ome lette of the utmost symmetry and firmness and haveit good at the same time, If tt Is ati enough to main tain @ certain symmetry, then It ts too # to be good. one must tiave the butter and the best Use a pound of but- ery two pounds of flour. The st be rather firm and must with the flour with your To make pies, quality of ty of flour, ter te Phen when you have a sort of a mass of dough on the table, make « little hollow in the middie, pour to « te cold water, mix it to much a onsistency that it can be made into ps as thick as your wrist It will require about two inches to be {out thon for the crusts. Dust « little four im the dish that t iw to be baked in and put into the ven ats + temperatur ‘ uf an hot « naiderable choice of fruits. The top ” have Uttle apertures in it “a mit the steam to escape (Copyright, 19%, by Ball @yndiomte tee.) )