The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 21

Short or Long Skirts— What Is the Ve dict Of New York Women 5 In the Majority, They U 3 By Margery Wells. ht, 1682 York Evening World) Preay Publishing Company. ¥ far the Big majority of letters from interested girls and women make strong pleas for the skirt that is short. They make one point unanimously. It is this It is American to have They (Ne B short skirts. 3. They are rail against P strong for ne. insist upon showing their pretty ankles. They are looking, above all, for ease and comfort. They want to step out vig orously and boldly into life room to do it, There isn't and haves too. letter that shows any humbileness of spirit Not one single American girl wishes to bow down and do what she is told. at least in this matter of fashion. She is going to have row this time, if she has never had it before, That. any rate, is the way her letters sound I wonder-——-I wonder—will she havo the temerity to stick to her poin 1 go around to the dressmakers and to the shops and I do see long skirts— only lon; rts. What, I want to ask the American girl, is she going to do about it w have to hem and hem and hem, that all there is to it It looks, however, as though she were prepared to HEM From Henderson, Kentucky, comes this “Let's ring the bell on the long skirt so staid, Vil have mine short though | am an old maid Yours for MADE IN AMERICA style: 's. Vu another willing And bemm this from want short, sensible skirts to n style, but intend to continue to wear them even if every other woman in the world follows Paris and goes ‘mud- @ragging.’ KW Then there is this criticism—harsh but to the point: “If they knew how old and sloppy they look, and could see themselves as others see believe me thi Bounds like a man One girl writes this: “1 would never wear the long skirt taking up all germs. Why must America copy Paris? What's the matter with our own ideas and our dressmakers? | love the reasonably short skirt. “Ee. B..” that And this one “If only women contd see them- selves in their long skir there would be very f¢ to the style. ‘As to being ridiculed have been —! But I, however. feel just as respectable in| my short skirt as I would in a long skirt 8. Ww." This plea from the bobbed on: With bobbed hair the short skirt looks prettier an makes all women look young in » Pile An actress comes along with her opinion and reason: “When I hear our American wome that they want to copy , it just makes me boil. T've been across and I wore my American clothes and I did not change my habits, and, being a Personal friend of some people of high standing, J met some of the dest, I am a character woman, and besides dressing to please my parts 1 dress as comfortably and as plainly as possible. I wish you luck in your series, and T hope the Am n women will show just how sensible they can be, M, E. P."" A stanch New Yorker says: “Why must we American girls follow the dictates of Paris? Have we no will power of, our ewn? The long skirt is most dis- rusting the eyes of men well as to any sensible girl. Instance, my gentleman and I were going the othe to For friend to the theatre night and we saw a lady, quite stout (no corsets on), and she looked just as though she had taken a piece of material @nd wrapped it skin tight around her body, becoming very long and @ight around thy ankles, with tuswels streaming on the ground, collecting all the filth’ and dirt in the New York v*reets. “What businets girl can afford these draperies when they have to travel in the hustle and bustle of the subways and get stepped en and pushed on? Perhaps, when a few of the foolish ones get their dr stepped on and torn they will realize the comfort of a short akirt. “Personally, [have very pretty Nmbs, but I am not thinking of that; I am thinking of the freo- @om and comfort of the short ekirt. MISS V. L. B.” Here's a positive somehody; “The long skirt is not popular with American women. It is only popular with those poor unfor- tunates who have funny ankles and burlesque le: with which i—It Is American to Have 2—Long Skirts are Germ-Catchers; Short Skirts Are the More Sensible. THE ‘‘SHORTS” HAVE THEIR SAY nite On Three Points— Short Skir the vast majority of American women are not afflicted. L. B.” And here are a few quotations picked at random from these short skirt letters “T detest the long skirt and as- sure you I shall never wear it again. MRS. N, R. T.” am so glad to get a chance to express myself where it really counts. I think for comfort and sanit reason there is nothing like short skirts. MRS, E.” “I like the short skirts and shall continue to wear them think the long skirt is hor ri rakes everybody look much. older, and why not look young lon Paris we can? or no Paris, I don't intend to sweep up the streets with my skirt: “MRS. A. What do you think ie the oroper height above the ground that a skirt should be? Write and tell me. Eight Years Old—A Real Poet— And—He Wears Dresses! Little Constantina S$ By Fay Stevenson. (New York Evening World) Publishing Company. years old and he wears Yes, and he dresses, wears hair and flips it around like the flapper of by-gone his bobbed s. BUT he writes beautiful poetry and pu come to know him you find out ac's a “regular fellow.” His name is Constantinas Harpen ding Payellas and Greece, but his mother is an Ameri- when he twenty-two nd talks of Greece and Rome, when he was born in can and was months old his father brought him to California. There the father estab- lished a Greek-American paper, where this little poet first contributed his poems at the age of three. This youthful genius also comes from Iit- erary people upon his mother's side, for his grandfather Asbury Harpending, fornia, who wrote of this section of that well known Diamond Hopes." No wonder, then, atantinas should ¢ thoughts even at when he comes from and was born the land of Helios, Phoebus, Apollo and Hellas! “Sure the fellows laugh at me when I wear dresses," admitted the youth- ful poet, when I met him at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Pappa George Pal- ladius, at No, 315 68th Street, Broo! lyn, where he is visiting, “but T don’t care. These things are and that's all there is to { When Constantinas referred “these things’ he meant the colored tunic, which is the flapper's dress of and has the same openwork effect upon the sleeve. Constantinas afso wears socks and low heeled sandals and his hair is bobbed and curly (whether he does it up in papers or not we did not ask him). But for all this girlish appearance our young poet has a masculine voice for a kiddie the renowned pioneer of Cali- the early history the country and book “The Great that young Con- ss his poetical early an age, a terary family in Greece to as short as last summer fcifht, and a big, broad brow wh is unmistakably maseu- line. The average boy would think twice before he sheuted “Stssy"? at Constantinas Dictating a New Poem to His Mother. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1922. MAXIMS By Maurice Ketten + - Of a Modern Maid By Marguerite Mooers Marshal’ ———__# Copyrignt 1922 (New York © WHAT DO You CHARG FOR YouR P = has each ening World) by Presa Publishing Just as few men have an individual taste in clothes, almost none an individual taste tn wor prefers to follow the cr In love is in haberdashery wd and to accept only a “popular model mean all the pretty things VEN when @ woman knows that a man doesn't he says to her, she cor y thinking ast mean some of them or ne wouldn't take the trouble any of them Priends ) girls often be us a de fensive alliance as one offensive to bot A woman can't her husband to mail her let- tews, ‘but neither could he trust her to mail his—without steaming them open first ‘This is the time of year when it is hardly tactful to Me ( NE HOW MANY THERE ARE | JUST THE PRICE .MAKE A di a <€e (F NO DIFEERENGE (Gy SANE PI uae DAS te VC? | —! /(IUCH FOR US TOHN! ae ia all Say WHE DAT FOR so werestimated t the pridle path for every FORTY — round for every grouch, the bench show for every vonity ry ~ De. Cee LLARS Fer Home is a v hobby, the exer in the family The pretty stenographer doesn't always ma wants more of his money—sometimes she y the boss just because she uso wants less of his society: Kissing is the one outdoor and indoor possible to overtrain. sport in which it is almost im- = N 2 Wrote First Poems When Only Three Years Old. THe EXPENSE O” oe ask last June's duates if they have cepted a po- Wak sition.” They may be stil hunting for a job. ; {8 s a} ate y - - Amar fica S. Love is the silver lining to the cloud of mutrimony Oo CAR. FOR TH S 7O0| | 140 ASK ANG rt IE NOM Wer) CNA Rae [GOT # S) ae SUplLe To SHARE THER his highness Constantinas Harpen ‘To-morrow I shail reap!’ ding Pavellas. The when do t write poetry? When ”” and does the mood take hold of me?" re- peated our scribe, sitting down in chair and kicking his legs in th same fashion the flapper employed when she was waiting for her choco- late nut sundae, “Why, I write poetry when Um excited. I write when I'm thinking of Greece or when Reaper comes reaps the | WELL LL ASK SOME eee is all the beautiful Grain? MORE .F WE HAVE : Gone! THREE COUPLES IT wile BE A THIRD. FouR J 7 COUPLES Vr / wit BE AY Now Where the Acropolis of Athens? Where is Thrace? Where is Smyrna? Gone—but SOMEDAY to come again.” At five the poet wrote: ty “Where docs the Sun risc— I see anything in the papers about 7, pees: } © morning Sun? And then T write when I'M iy rough the mist and the clouds! FOURTH b The'ctouds can't hold the Sunt What de eee. Oh, that thoughtful or punset."* Then Constantinas brought forth a hand-made scrapbook — containing many of his poems. The cover was sheepskin and had many designs ed‘ upon it-all Grecian, of e. Most these poems have uu mean by m-o-o-d- s when [ feel sad or when I see a beautiful The Sun breaks through? Who wants to catch and carry him down to earth? Jn the afternoon, when the Sun trails his great red robe around the world, I will yo to Greece, I will catch that great grand ball!”’ Constantinas's father is going to have all his poems published in Look of been put into typewriting and every det one is labelled ‘written at five-one- fO'm, and Mise Edith Thomas, the half,” “written at six’ or whatever NOted poetess, who is a great admirer thal cael say have bean of the boy, has written an introduc See A ae “I like this one best,’’ said the poet, on eee book. Her opening sen ¢ abn, ———~- —-— oer ei opening the scrapbook to: 5 vee ah rn P “Oh Greece, Thou Breath of Life? hon and.inen wwe Muse snas | Feed the Brute || Low Long Do You Th ‘ Oh Gr Thow rnal Life! : ie HareAlelaliA € arr al Y l1 of spring herself! And I have set | 7, ‘ ‘ . : A I come to thee? myself the agreeable task of writing | Favorite Recipes by Famous Say a kirt Oh Greece, Thow Dawn of the World, a few introductory words to such u Men. | be By Roy L. McCardell ere RECDIRICARTOR! || Should Be? Copyright 1022 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co Comedian, R. JARR, accompanying Mr. dry weather, and if he bought Nquids Roiled Beef and Horseradish | Jenkins to the latter's home in he preferred to buy them rather thee Sauce. Fast Malaria on the 5.15, con- ally as beverages than legally as ¢ LOVE boiled beet and horse. | feased to his office mate that he had estate in the shape of mud. “By the ] radish sauce--I love it better | nover been a commuter and did not way,’ Mr. Jarr added, “how is boot hoas any other dish in the know the suburbanites’ favorite form legging out here? word! Di Sytcdyseroee noucio! oaliiuaces || of smoking car sport, bid whist "Oh, fine!" replied Jenkins. “W And a good horseradish sauc | Whereupon Mr, Jenkins and two have some of the wealthiest booth made in this fashion: | other lost souls of Kast Malaria gers in the country residing in i M Nt a good sized lump of the | promptly elected that it should be an Malaria, Almost everybody along Ha pra aan ae rl ndividual game't--every man for waterfront has a motor boat and a Bix good sized. Add to this first removing from the fire, about | himself, rather than a partner game, pier of his own to land the stuff at two tablespoonfuls of flour. Stir | Mr. Jarr was a fair bridge player tt. And speaking of bootlegging re the flour and butter together untit | champion heavyweight pinochlist Minds me that the firemen of fist ne mixture is absolutely smooth | j Sol's Smoke Db * Malaria are clamoring for a paid de and then add cold milk, a trifle , of Sol’s Smoke Shop, but commuters’ Malaria are cle paid less thun half a pint smoking car bid whist was something partment, as the police ry to every Put over a slow fire in a sa new to him. None of the arbitrary fire and get at the cellars and side- bets or, for sufety’s sake, a donble signals or leads of the game, and he boards first. The police claim that Fea A rari eve knew fone of the secret signals, nor the firemen are trying to pull off fires sauce 1s of the desired conststenc nd then add your horseradis) did he know the value of the card quletly tn order to have first crack at If you lke the ice very add a lot of horseradis If y atc like {t moderate, a little fine radish. The best way is to b gin with a teaspoonful and ke: | ing and tasting until it’ : Salt und pepper to taste, of course other Thou Gorgeous-blossoming Kun-rise And, If yo age Thou Winged Bird that flies in the RAY IYO eit, AAs ery salt 1 result fifty cents three players, and he etbacks at twenty-five cents Mr playing commuters’ adage: ‘One peek » upponent’s hand is worth two Jarr lost five games me to each of the jad four n a open! total loss of eight dollars and fifty ; One acres pyright, 1922, by Bell Bynd ) Who has scen thy Core \ cents, almost all of it to Jenkins, be- But some day tke @ shadow jade aemren Tick ka hin ee Sak meek i mone. if 1 f It w aining when the train “E was eight whon I wrote that," He ps tor the Mother | pulled in to the dingy depot at Bust sald Constan bug I hardly like a cu, ee See to speak for some of the others. For OTHERS do not r« MAAR OEMS eta instance, hore’s one I composed at six M aa hae: until the three flivver taxteabs at the years of age: their onilaran. ti ae depot had heen engaged “Sometimes Autumn stands under the nterest in their school work and “It is just sprink emarh ehahas a ees #4. When the kindergartner cfr. Taniina we walk home With her apple-cyes and her sun me the gent ewn ca T want te 1 some lots. T! hatr, i 1 big hargatn in the Marsh While she shifts her white drops like I pleasint snow: balis er achteveinent is unless you want can aiecateh verses that were oT t the grades take waterfront fF You can gat With her pools of shining water! down in the round, laborious | figures und writing ¢ game good: waterfront villa altos, with boy of elght—that of u very-young proudly display, A ie fr Look at her yellow sunbeams ireck-American, Constantil Pave hen the me-=t cs in 1 n ' Cra Flowing front her Va These verses seem 1 # not inducement to produc we AY . 1 live She sways on the grass! only unusual in quality, conic 1 y i you have 7" Forest the very adolescent wut at marking the paper by gummed stars : oacKanl This vung Constantinas remarkable as a reversion in tt « in-color, according to merit , compore) the following of their pagan feeling for beaut F n nee ho t 5 h shows a in The Sower comes and sows the Aveda? CNittly beauty of Lig ¥ cabal . ar} : averac ae : The Waterer comes and watera the , Constantinas is very proud mith the ens of chi! Miate tates the, Boen out a before and Pees) introduction, and says he is “inspires out their sc at Wha y Pena sn erclannl HAW Abab BDReA ; to do better work" every ume ver their little wreblen c e aiagram he | The Builder comes and builds the t aaaatr in both wet reads it ov For, of « A can thuy wisely guide her sior é : spend my life writing 5 in the various phases; ital : he Plont is Graint , The P aii some sort of an artist,” he #ald s their attit Coward ha vaahe rine a a han A Harvest is rich with the nx chur. “And t “t un intelligent. ¢ c ; Gir ’ Dbrush art i achoul Kall ) ing & breakfast, and warm s The Reaper canes and looks “an & Inun Who writes a 4 great help to the I ehitd taly ntlal, vmpoctall t sg rain ee the world. That's it-a biter t hax Leen esti 1 the “ # a wad vchool ch us this promotes exsy The Grain is ripe,’ he soya, Sous!" ‘ of the lowe ty among condition where th plenty, which and rapid digestion the booze, Personally, | favor a paid fire department, because there is no real discipline in a volunteer depart ment, and when the boys do find a cellar {ull of good stuff they hog it all—1f the police don't nrst- and the Fire Commis even get a smell,” You should worry about the Fire Commissioner not getting any f water,” replied Mr Jart I uld ind din oad sense of the expressir Mr Jenkins feelingly, ‘Ll never i you or the othor Smart Alecks at the of fice, but Lam a big guy out hereon Bast ™ » Tama k s sione und he displu an ornat Kold badge, carefu en now, or fe nd r So the picking t e aren't s¢ 1 for the sioners jueriod M Not since i r n denkjns sadly “ uven't essful fire it Used by the and efor per and clean) al hygiene at ail dew ment. stores. the a and. 350" slnen, Pint