The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1922, Page 11

AS *- 90% of New York Women Want To Keep the Short. Skirt! "TEN INCHES HEIGHT MAJORITY APPROVES Result of Evening World Poll, } Based on Hundreds of Let- ters, Shows Long Skirt Ad- vocates in. Almost Negligi- ble Minority. » ‘By Margery Wells. G@opr right, 1022 (New York Evening World) by the Press ishing Comy HE New York girl is for the shor’ |.” gkirt... There isn’t the slightest doubt about that. Whi) ninety per cent. of the letters that have come in—and there have Uterally,, hundreds of them— we voted for short skirts, and no qualjfications allowed. 1 have had tq bunt with a night lantern to find the @dvocates of long-skirts. ‘And the chief reasons for this dotnand that they shall be short are these: 1, They are youthful. 2. ‘They aré comfortable. 8. They are practical. 4. They are becoming. © They take little material. . Now, pot every girl wants skirts up has been te her knees, That, too, proved by the letters, They wan’ them -moderately short because ‘they cap.step. out.in them, be. independént in thgm,-rhave a fecling of freedom, be unrestricted in their movements. ‘There is no feeling of wanting to dis- Play legs just because they are legs, But there is, every feeling that this grican girl will not consent to give jp her freedom. She likes the thing she has and she ts determined to hang on to it. What the American dressmakers ‘will think about this is another story 1 All votes Singly, and in groups and societies, they write in —but the girls stand pat. afe'for the short skirts. to reiterate this fact. ‘The American girl is a short-skirted girl. ,- Ten inches from the ground is the average length yoted for. ‘Some want it shorter, some wart it longer. But ten is the average to: which all the different lengths Mi figure’ up. After aJl, it is pretty much a ques- jon of individuality, and the girls are ‘eecing that all too plainly, for, as one “Why, for goodness of them raves: eake, don’t they let us wear our skirts @a‘loug us we please without making ail tis filds about it?” Bhe is right. sirlican never do for another, Bat, oh, if they would only all see this "| Mttle point! Then, here are the letters which ify tothe different opinions about the meagured.inches that skirts should hang from the ground: Dear Miss Wells: ‘The length of skirts depends upon the individual, All such things are relative. The length of the skirt must be proportioned to the height and the build of each woman: Nine inches from the floor je a good average. Of all thartistio things the weret is a ekirt which cuts inte the curve of @ woman's instep and leaves the Gent stigking out at a square angle. ‘Purely American women will mot be 80 foolish as to go back to “Wong ekirts on the street. Keep “wp you B.A.R Barner Dpar Miss Wells: * Hither of the lengths set forth fm your diagram is good, depeud- ing upon cholee and suitability. I will never willingly wear a Yong frock again—fashion or not, and I gast a very decided vote for the short skirt, Dear Miss Wells: Some fine day these girls who have written you and said they would not wear long skirts will be marching up the avenue with panelled dresses down to their an- Riles, which is where I {pink they whould be. And why? Because they will sge how much nicer their sisters look in‘ long skirts. As the saying goes, ‘They all fall geoner or later." In Fordham, where I live, you can just about gount on your hands the number @f girls with short skirts. ff I must say so myself, I think long ekirts are simply beautiful, z FORDHAM, Bear Miss W' am for the short skirt, and ten Some Would Compromise, Wearing Long Skirts in Evening but Keeping Short Skirts for Home, Street and Business Wear. admiration from them I would go without it, GL. F. — Dear Miss Wells: I never, never, never will wear Jong skirts even {f:I am the only one in New York or Brooklyn wearing short skirts. My reasons ‘Well, here they are: 4 1, My mother approves of the short skirt and does net like the long ones. 2. 1am tall and slim and @ short skirt logks better on me—about fitteen inches from the [heh a 8. They are better suited to my werk, 4,5, My lower extremities are teve very good re: 6. They are more sanitary. The above are my main rea- sons, and ther are several other reasons too numerous to mention. the length of the inottes from the Persop- ally, I ike mine three to five inehes below my knee. This length seems to suit me best. MISS NINETEENTH GREWNPOINT. Dear Miss Wells: I hava one of the new dresses that ia just about seven Inches; from the ground, ena do you know I like it very much? I think this ts @ good length for every one, If they would only see it that way and have courage to try a dress of that length. It 4s a half-way distance and really should suit most every one. M. H. women would like to keep—10 inches from the ground, inches from the ground is my ideal length. And | certainly have not pretty ankles either. But | am going to keep right on wearing short skirts, though ali New York- ers go bobbing along in long skirts and make themselves mis- erable. Yours for comfort, MRS, F. J. Dear Miss Wells: In reading your column I have become very much Interested ir Dear Miss Wells: In regard to the discussion go- ing on in The World in your col- umn, I would say that it all de- pends on what length the skirt is whether it is pretty or not. These skirts th sweep the ground are not pretty, but, the skirt, that is about six incheq from the ground is, in my mind, much prettier than the short skirt that shows the homely legs and ankles. Most of the men and girls nowadays that wear the short skirts are do- ing it im hopes of gaining admira- tion from the opposite sex, but if I had to wear short skirts to gain Ooserving the girls I meet upun the street, for I am not a girl at all, 1 am @ man who cannot, help but be interested in this ques- tion. 1 think a nice length must be about ten inches from the ground. That is as nearly ae | can judge without a cul However, .this seems to mo about right, and I wish the girls would stick to something Iike it without letting thelr skirts drop te the ground. No man ts ever going to like that. Yours, in- terestedly. Vv. D. What 1 good for one am a aaa Rare tN GET YOURS NOW Step Out of Working Classes Into High-Priced Zones By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1988 (New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Company. Any One That can Sign on the Dotted Line Can Snatch a Lower Berth’ to Wealth. OS K. MAN, your children are entitled te marble swimming pools. Don't be an unskilled laborer all your Ife, Oodies of $25,000-a-year jobs are yawning for the right parties, The marble swimming poo! dope is not the bunk. It is entirely posstble—for you and your kiddies. Also gold-plated dishes, white flannel pants, diamond-studded dice, tweed riding breeches and all the accessories of the rich. 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OF THAT STUFF MAKES ME THE DIRECTIONS ) ARE IN THE ta KITCHEN You DIDN'T \ DRINK IT J ULL FINISH TH JOB FoR f You Boos ! IT'S DYE For DYEING THE CURTAINS The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Company. S Mr, and Mrs, Jarr and the Misses Cackleberry were din- ing with Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, at the villa of the latter in Install- menta Park, that beautiful residence district of the fashionable suburban town of Hast the real estate ddvertising—a hideous din of a long, lowed by a short tootle of the same, roused Mr.-and Mrs. denly to their feet. Malaria—according to hoarse whistle, fol- Jenkins sud- “A steamboat sinking with hooch aboard?" asked .Mr. Jarr, also rs- ing and gaging out of the window at the swamps on the further side of Forest Crag Avenue. “This is an inland town,"’ ‘said Mr, Jenkins testily, ‘that’s the fire alarm,” “Thirty-six,” interjected = Mrs. Jenkins. “Thirty-five,” Jenkins corrected “I tell you they. meant it for thir- ty-six; they have not been sounding the alarms as distinefy as they might."” “Then it is net a perfect thirty- six,’ murmured Mr, Jarr, All the ladies gave him such a look, “for fire alarm signals are sacred things in the suburbs, they being the most stirring incidents in social life. - "That's our new fire alarm sys- tem,” Mr. Jenkins explained, as the raucous whistle kept hooting in long and short blasts again and again. “It's the big steam siren they have installed at the soap works on Belle- vue Avenue. “It is the only soap works In East Malaria," Jenkins continued. ‘After it ruined all the in tho property Going Down! EAR Wriend: Have you ever stopped to think what effect your talk and your actions have upon those with whom you come in con- tact? Everything you do—every- thing you say is either charged up against you or added to your credit. This is what the world calls “influence.’ May your influence be for good. Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH. | pee neighborhood, the Town Counell of East Mularia passed a zoning ordin- ance. This prevents the people owning residence property in the vicinity of the soap factory from ever building apartment houses or converting their own homes into stores-or the building of any more factories In the neigh- borhood."* “But the new zoning law di top the soap factory nuisance Jarr inquired, Certainly not!" said Mr, Jenkins. “The soap factory was there before the zoming ordinance was pussed. Bul people with residences nearby can't give thelr houses away, let alone sell them, but I should worry, it doesn’t burt my preperty and the soap fac- tory company {8 very popular and Strong tn politics, because it furnishes the city with the fire alarm system.” All, this while Mrs, Jenkins was rching the columns of the local newspaper, Paésing from the society news andthe printed Ist of judge ments seeured against various resi- dents, together with the mortgage foreclodures in the East Malaria Eve- ning Intelligence, Mra. Jenkins found the fire alarm schedule, in due time. “It it's thirty-six, it’s at the cor- ner of Forest Crag Avenue and Nep- tune Place,” said Mrs. Jenkins, “On the other side of Marshmere Park,” added Mr, Jenkins, pointing across the swamps. “Do they call It Neptune Place be- cause it is always under water?” asked Mr. Jarr, but Mr, Jenkins, who was pinning his Fire Commissioner's badge on the outside of his coat and getting his fire helmet off the hat rack, only answered, ‘Come on along!"’ as the factory whistle kept howling horribly, “A wonderful system,’’ he went on “A real modern fire alarm call, We have the town divided into street cor- ner number calls, and the people nearest the fire telephone the soap factory where the fire is, and the soap factory whistle sounds the number of that district, “Before this system was installed, all we had was an old locomotive tire hanging in front of the East Malaria Grand Hotel, and the landlord uged it as a dinner gong also, so fires at meal hours were not considered alarms, and !f a fire broke out at meal*hours the landlord would not let the fire- men beat the tire, as he said {t en- couraged his guests to eat too hearty. And in the old days, it was a great practical joke to sound the alarm and when the firemen turned out an found there was no fire, the last yol® unteers to show up in uniform had to treat at the bar, But come on to the fire,"’ “Lead on, MeDurti’’ ortea Mr, Jarr, The Song of a Sinner By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1022 (New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Company. HEY do me wrong, they who turn from me And cast me off with unforgiving mien, which days agone Struck me as with a sword and seared me Until I hated all mankind And hoped only for the day of revenge. For to me it seemed sweet indeed then ‘To give measure for measure For the anguish I endured at the hands Of those whom I called friends. Rebellion forever fought with reason within me, And the milk of human Kindness seured and curdied, And there was nothing of compassion left. Came the day when a stvanger, a fellow-sufferer, Who had been scourged even more than I, Came across my path, and I gave him succor. And in that moment, with his look of appreciation, . A new-born hope came and has since never died— That 1 could be of some use; I, the sinner. And I went about doing my bit of good here and there and every- where, And oft sacrificed much of comfort and even my needs To give, give, give of myself, And my recompense was that look of love and gratitude. And courage came, and with it strength, Until the deed that I had done of which man disapproved Seemed as naught in comparison to so many others of greater wrong, And I could look it all squarely in the face and smile. And no longer have I aught but pity For those who pass me by and know me not— ‘Those who once loved me and clasped my hand. And all their condemnation and all thetr cold contempt Gives me no sorrow but for them ‘That have not found what I have— ’ 'The joy of forgiving, constantly t@giving ‘The erring one and put him in the way he should go, And thus I have cleansed myself and paid ‘The precious, welcome price. And in my heart, where there was only a sigh, There is now but a song—the song of a sinner Who knows he has been redeemed By the one and only way— SERVICE TO MANKIND. For the Housewife’s Scrapbook — Copyright, 12k (New York Bvening World) by the Press Publishing Company. F YOU have chopped, cooked spins spun a thread she carefully removed | ach left over, cook noodles, then the peelings. The frosting was pro- put alternate layers of each into nounced delicious and each guest re- the baking dish, sprinkle with grated quested the reeipe. cheese und season to taste yur — over all a cupful of milk and bake. Wash floors and shelves with strong tea, hot alum water or borax Dip your fingers into salt when water and when dry sprinkle etrong cleaning fish, fowl or meat to prevent pepper along infested places to drive {t from slip away ants and roaches, When serving Jelly or jam do not ‘The filter papers, obtainable ¢t throw away the paraffin covers, drug stores, are excellent for strain- Wash them and keep them in a jar ing hot soups, Fold one inta quar- until next summer's preser time, ters and fit {t nto a funnel, then pour They « used repeatedly the soup through this, Hvery par- — Ucle of fat will adhere to the paper One he fe, finding her supply and you will have a clear soup, of extract exlausted and being at @ ee loss for a6 (ute In the cake frost. Use hot water to wash dates, This ing, tried pulling some apple peciiigs not oniy cioniaes them but somoves in the syrup, and when the sugar thoir stickiness, _ FABLES, For the" hee Widows—And Why They Get Away With It! Marguerite Mooers| Moral—A Little Witow Is a Mighty Hunter Before. thes - ted, 97.4 Copyright, 1922 (New York’ Meeotne World) bythe Press Publishing Company. NCH more—we salute the widow! It's a widow who hae caugtit} the former Kaiser. it be true that plenty of And thor us Ame Feel that she’s weleome to him-— ; it ts also true that plenty of highs ; wotshipped, graciously born young i irl Overseas ] Would change places instantly with i Princess Herminie yon Schoenaich- Carolath . If they could get away with Purope's , Sreatest ex-royal catch! > And these blond, blue-eyed German and Austrian fiappers Undoubtedly are asking themselves the age-old question of the pretty girl vanquished by the irresistitic widow be “How DID Herminie do itt’ It’s one of the oldest problema ‘tn love's logic, ‘And yet the eolution is 60 simple!” It may be summed up in 9 question and answer: ’ Q. When did the amateur ever win in competition with the trained a experienced professonal? A. Never, ft ay re The reason every widow always gets the man she sets her simple, wom- anly heart on— ‘Fo say. nothing of her .stmple,: wom- anly eyes, and her simple, womanly hanhds— Ig because after marrying even ONT husband She knows When, Why and How! It matters not at all whether she be a widow by the grace of God Or by the grace of the Supremy aq Court— aa Shé has learned the rules of the game, { She has plucked out the heart of the 7 mystery— SHE KNOWS WHEN, WHY AND HOW! She knows WHEN to be as sweetly comforting te ® man as a hot water bottle, When to be as thrilling as a new entree, When to be at home to him only, When to be so ‘‘dated up’’ that he can't even take her to the theatre till some time next week, When to fib, When to let him fb and get away with It, . When to let him fib and NOT get away with it, When to smile, when to sigh, when to Msten, when to talk (wheoh- ts sel- dom), when to ery (which ta never), ’ when to be on the job (whieh Is ALWAYS)! ‘ A widow knows WHY— Nothing bores a man so furtously as feminine illness of any sort, Why he cannot resist describing to her the other women who ‘‘liked me pretty well,” F Why he ts vainer of his very ordinaky Kknickerbockered legs than Frankie Batley ever was of hey claasic. ex- tremities, Why he won't wear soft col if he is over forty, or stiff ones If he ts under ft, . Why he sternly disapproves of im- modest dress—and therefore takes the woman who wears it out to din- i ner presumably to lecture her on Hy her depravity, : Why, when he condescends to drive a nail in the wobbly sofa, Somebody must always bring him the hammer—and somebody must put tt away for him, . Why he thinks he's dead when he Bas sick headache, , And not only dead but descended Into { hell when he has a toothache! She knows HOW to mix a cocktail, } How to listen appreciatively while he explains that the bess, without him, would have been bankrupt long ago, How to make him fee! like a-sophistt cated man of the world. If he's a boy-- How to make him feel like a boy, if he's ‘getting on,” 2 How to serve unto and, at least ap- parently, share his passionate in- a terest in food, M How to agree with his ideas about . keeping the windows shut— Thus tempering the wind to the bald head, How to applaud him, flatter him, ‘‘un- derstand” him How to keep him GUESSING a littlc of the time, And how to make him comfortable al! of the time— Any man, like any cat, would #0 much rather be eomfortable than thrilled, or imsptred, or stimulated, or uplifted. or adored! These are but a fow of the weapans against male indifference, malo elusiveness, whoh hang in the arm- ory of the widow, No wonder that a@ little widow {5 a mighty hunter before the Lord! And the only reason why any of the rest of us EVER have @ ehance Ix because some widows know thelr Py luck 7 And just don't WANT to marpy even the nie man of thelr aequaint- 9 ances And of ourst