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appears that they can't get away from
the pictures. They're thousand times
more self-conscious than young folks
used to be. They have it in mind every
instant just how they're looking as re-
garded from certain angles. They re
wondering, l often think, whether they're
approaching or approximating the stand
ards of poses set by the illustrators.
Watch 'em carefully and you'll see.
Incidentally, word about their
courtships.
1.-The world has been overspread and
cluttered with such an enormous mass
Of material of the so-called love-Story
variety during the past few decades that
it seems to me that our young folks now
are falling in love. as the saying runs,
or trying to fall in love, in accordance
with the varieties and styles Of falling
in love set forth and elaborated upon in
these love stories.
Now, here's a proposition: Suppos-
ing there was not one love story in the
world, and never had been. so that none
of the young people had ever read a
love story. Do you imagine for an in
slant that they'd fizgig around in the
way they do and talk the way they do
and stand around on tippytoes waiting
to fall in love the way they do now?
Why. no. They'd know nothing whatever
about the established and prescribed
rules and regulations for this falling in
love business. Therefore, they'd be nat
ural. They'd do their selecting and their
mating along natural lines. There'd be
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them with diamond buttons, no Less out
of each others hands.
Lecring men of the cafes, searching tor
trophies to stick up in their smoking
rooms paved over the ken under
garments that had been worn by the all
but down-and-out actress whose dormant
genius was quickened into life under the
strenuous tutorship of David BelascO.
Robes de mutt that had swathed the lis
some figure of the once toasted woman
of the stage were wlIisked around and
fumbled by Tenderlon hucksterS III
lingerie whose patronage comes solely
from the MOTTO be-named class.
The sale of the Leslie Carter stuff was
not for the financial benefit of the actress.
The money realized went to her creditors.
1t plugged but a small lfoie in that
mighty pool of debt. The Leslie Garter
liabilities are something more than 500,
go. and the assets zero.
Why is il that folks who make whole
hatfuls of money don't put away few
dollars anyhow, while they're riding the
top crests? This is all Old fraZzled, fool
ISL question now, as probably II was an
outworn and purpoSeless query in the
DAYS of the Chaldcan shepherds. Stu
there ought to be some sort of an answer
TO ii. bromide as il sounds.
Mrs. Leslie Carter gained tor herself,
on the stage, a cool half a million dollars
big money always is cool isn't 1t!
Her stage career wasn't very long. either.
one wonders tperhapS in a penurious,
oVer-cautious spirit, but one wonders all
the same) If she couldn't have sailed
about half of this money, anyway, as Il
sort of bulWark "a pretty tidy bulwark.
nei. hhorsD against her old ag The de-
STABILITY, not TO say the necessity, 10
save something nigh have made an
especial appeal To this fiery, brilliant
woman. in view of the fact that she was
by no means as young as she might have
been when she was at the height of her
dramatic success, and. even in the ordi-
nary course of events, leaving aside al
together any consideration of a poor mar
riaSe and quarrel with her booster,
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dence given in the directory, for the
purpose of asking the Perkinses there
living if, by any chance, they happened
to know of another Dave Perkins in
Homestead
when l found that residence it wasn't
house at all. 1t was a kind of a
chateau, you know, with cornices and
gables and minarets ,and spires and
elaborate furbelows allo over 1T, and 1t
had six acres of noble grounds around
it.
said 1 to myself, It's kind of a
shame for me to intrude upon quality
folks like these to ask 'em If they know
rolling mill hand but all the same
l trudged up the gravel walk leading to
the swell main entrance to the chateau.
"A fine-looking man of fifty-five or So
with a clear-cut. ruddy countenance and
grayish w'hiskers, was standing on the
porch smoking a cigar and fooling with a
thoroughbred collie.
Sir l addressed him, pardon me
for intruding. but can you give me any in
formation with respect to a rolling mill
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feast. Beginning at $3.50 pm. when 1 go
out to purchase hosiery. Hum hum. 4
quarter pair will do No. Let me see
those siken ones. Beauties, aren't they ?
They alone shall cling to my feet as
stretch them meath the table. Oh yes.
One dollar is high, but then would 1t
do to have a ten-dollar dinner going in
at the mouth. to have liquid sunshine
glow within my veins. to have the
whispers of a fair debutante delghting
my ears. while a pair of quarter socks
does duty on the trotters?
Never! Ten thousand times never.
Great Scott, No white tie. Heavens.
/ forgot that. l wear a white tie but
once in generation and my old one
must have crumbled away. Come with
me, rush with me. fly and HE with me.
while ] select d dainty lawn thing that
would make aristocratic the most awful
looking jaw that ever worked on wad
of plug. And shave. and a haircut.
Oh, dimples, l need a haircut.
Yes you may massage muh: and ii
not too rough, shampoo muh. for moth
ing becomes a full-blood better than
close-cropped hair and a shaving on the
face. Am l not the eighty-horSepower
runabout. though with muffier open and
no-skid tires?
See those vulgar pants. now transformed
by pressing to trousers that will stand
alone And a love of a wesscut.
No. no. Wesscut. Me man taught me
10 say IL tiiat way no. "lldt codt,
such coat. Mercy! What coat?
And is 1t not fine to stroll of an even
ing showing much white linen and Silken
hose? But we don't walk. Hail yOn
passing taxi and chain it while / pur-
chase an English walking stick that 1
may properly stun 'em dead as L APP
proach.
Now we ride glide and chortle. But
there are other things to do. Things con-
nected with Joy and cherries. bottles and
white aprons. Set 'em up again. DO, for
tonight 1 save the price of meal.
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the pictures, or as near like the pictures
as they can make it. They've got the
pictorial models of lovely young males
in their minds at every hour of the
day, and I wouldn't be surprised IL they
donned their pajamas in conformity with
the pictured models and went to sleep
just like the pictures.
The college youngsters-we see plenty
of them in WaShingtOn-are almost slav-
ishly addicted to the pictorial models.
Their clothes, their models, their general
outward aspect, is like that men wear
ing uniform and conforming to written
tactics under the eye of administers.
And the young women, bless EN-.
They're carrying their patterning on the
Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Chand-
Ter Christy models to an all but ridicu-
lous point. They, too are so keen to
look just like the pictures of the illus
traitors that they have little or no time to
look like themselves They want to be
in vogue with the drawings. They've got
hold of the postures. the tricks of atti-
tudinzation. the lolling. the mincings. the
foolings around in general of the girls
who appear on the covers of the weeklies
and inside the pages of the magazines
tions of the newspapers.
"They build, base and pattern them
selves in short on influences from with
out, not upon suggestions from within.
The young women. it appears, no longer
strive to denote individuality, to sound
the chord of amiable self, to strike the
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But
Something tells me my reasoning is on
the paZZaZ. | spend one dollar for socks,
20 cents for tie. one dollar and more in
the BARRIERS. Two dollars for stick
one dollar for old taxi and the rest OF my
last bill setting EN- up.
All to save 20 cents that l would have
spent on my dinner
WIOODWORTH CLUM. who used to be
" a newspaper man and who now or
namentS the chamber of commerce of
Trenton, n. J., as secretary, is an owl
for wisdom when it comes to the pub
licity-the personal publicity-game. When
he lands in a strange town. no matter
whether he is we'll heeled or has only
four bits in his clothes. he throws such
a front that all the young reporters gallop
up to interview him on the financial out
look, and the papers call him Napoleon
of industry in their extra editions.
Mr.. Clum attended the recently ended
sessions of the inland waterways conven-
ton in Baltimore this week as delegate
from Trenton, with Representative Ira
Wood. also of that town, who was Sched-
uled to make an address. But Mr.. Wood
was called away just before his turn
came. and when Hampy Moore and the
other officers of the convention looked
around to pick out man to talk for the
hustling Jersey city their eyes lighted or
Mr.. Clum. who was standing around
looking like the real thing.
Did Mr.. Clum get up and turn loose a
line of pleasant and complimentary and
otherwise optimistic language. get mild
hand and sit down? Did he converse on
deep channels and automatic locks and
freight tariffs? Did he? He did not.
He started in and roasted the conven-
ton to a whisper. He told the delegates
they were a lot Of cheap skates with
SUI era bundant nerve and ought to be
back home feeding the chickens Instead
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Belasco, she might have prefgured that
not a great many years of Astounding sue
cess could remain to her on the stage.
But she not only raced through the
half a million, smackdab as it came to
her. but she got herself on the lee shore
of debt to the tune of nearly a quarter OF
a million more.
They used to try to tel Mrs. Leslie
Carter-"they' being intimate friends
who really had her future welfare at
heart-that she ought to buy herself an
annuity or something in order TO give
herself a chance when her day began to
dim. And she would snap her fingers
at they" and their advice. and plunge.
if only to shock them, into huger' and
more needless extravagances.
Put away money against my old age?
she would cry out on them Nonsense.
/ don't want to live until 1 am old. l
have no idea in the world OF living until
| am old"
Now she is very poor and well into
middle age, too.
Once | happened to be by when Pitts
burg Phil. the plunger. was trying to
make Tod Sloane, the jockey, see the
desirability, not to say the horse sense.
of sticking some of his great earnings
into an annuity. At that time Sloane
daily average expenditures. leaving out
the extras altogether were $500.
Beat the rainy day right now. SON.
said the plunger to the jockey, by In
vesting in an income that can't be
tempered with. You won't always be "a
race rider you know. You'll get the big
bump sooner or later. The sun won't
shine on both sides of the street all the
time for you Get out an Injunction
against hardship and hard luck by plant
ing n bundle right now.
Sloane. petulant under the advice
swollen with pigskin achievement, looked
he other way and muttered something
between mis- teeth. WhereupOn the
plunger. smiling in his saturnine way.
banished the subject.
Six months later Sloane had been ruled
of the turf Of Great Britain and France
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the present methods of rapid transit.
But what's the use? Anything in human
guise that doesn't consider these times of
airshps and open plumbing. just the best
old times that ever prevailed since the
world began. ought to go home and take
a large, glazed pill. His liver is on strike
::
IT is no wonder that members of the
1 House of Representatives dislike to be
detailed to the committee on the District
of Columbia. If they give their time and
efforts to the constituency which sends
them to- Congress they are unable to do
Justice to the District, and if they give
the District the best end of it their con-
stituency sets up loud howl
Take the case of Representative Thetus
Wilrette Sims Gsn't that grand name?)
of Tennessee, who is the senior demo-
cratic member of the House District COM
mittee and one of the hard working MEM
hers of that body. Mr.. Sims had consid-
cradle opposition this fall. Some of his
constituents had a crouch against him.
And what do you suppose was the main
argument against Mr.. Sims reelection
TO the House. as offered by his opponent?
Simply that he was too much interested
in and gave too much of his time and at
;ention to the District of Columbia.
Local residents, both democratic and re-
publican. who appreciate Mr.. Sims efforts
on behalf of the District and who realize
that he gives his duties on the Dis, riot
committee a great deal of his time and
attention, heard that he was having a
fight on his hands and bombarded his
constituents with newspaper clippings and
letters and the like For time it seemed
that these well meant efforts would do
more harm than good. Eventually. how
ever. the people of Mr.. Sims's district
proved that they had a whole lot of COM
mon sense lying around loose, too much,
in fact. to turn out their congressman be-
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you that they We're a bunch of young
woman first cousins for anybody to be
proud of. Their mother came out. too,
presently. and furnished an interesting
study OF a finished gentlewoman. 1t
was all like hop trance for me.
They wouldn't believe me when / told
them that I'd had breakfast down at the
station. but they took me into the break
fast rOom-get that. will you? Breakfast
room,-and put before me some samples
Of breakfast cookery that only served to
increase the intensity of my daze. They
made so much of me and were SO gen.
timely fine and cordial that l couldn't
believe l wasn't dreaming.
along toward II o'clock Uncle Dave.
whom I'd expected to find at a rolling
mill with a red flannel shirt on his back.
a short clay pipe in his mouth, and the
rest of those trimmings-Uncle Dave
apologized and said that he'd have to run
down to the mill for awhile. He was
dressed like a banker when he got into
his big automobile for the ride to the
mill He was only gone for about three
hours. When he returned he said that
he was through for the day. During
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be modelling themselves on certain pat
tern: that, in brief, they were losing the
individuality that young folks USED 10
possess.
Puzzled me a heap. too did this result
of my observations. But 1t doesn't puzzle
me now / think I've solved it. They re
all posing.
Let me elucidate:
'You know. of course, what tremendous
strides the pictorial art has made during
the past couple of decades or so. Wei,
that's the answer That's the cause OF
the enormous amount of posing ON the
part of the young folks, male and female,
of today.
take the young men. LOOK 'em over
as they swing by. Notice how much allke
they are? How Their exterior proclaims
the fact that they're doing their blamedest
to look like the pictures of the young
fellows who figure in the illustrations
of the novels and the illustrations of the
stories in the weekles? How, in fact.
they're even striving to look like the
pictures of the dead SWELL young boxes
who figure in the clothing advertisements
in the daily newspapers and in the rear
pages of the magazines? refer, as to
the latter, to those House of Splooken-
heimer ads. and SO on.
We'll. the young fellows are breaking
their necks to look like the pictures
That's their ambition. They are crazy
to look like the pictures. They attituden-
ize like the pictures. They sit. stand,
lounge, smoke, yawn, recline just like
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town by the name of David

hand in this town by the name of David
Perkins,
Il guess you mean me- said the ruddy
middle-aged man. smiling and advancing
toward me- My names David Perkins
and I'm rolling mill hand
But said I. kerflummoxed. it can
scarcely be that you are-er-well. the
David Perkins 1 am in search of has a
sister out in kansas-my mother-and
she wanted me to look him up, but
Come in. nephew, and make yourseif
at home,' said my gray-whiskered man
then. in a courteous, yes, courtly, kind OF
a way.
His greeting was that of a mighty
Well-bred man. He began to ask me all
about my mother-his favorte sister he
promptly told me. He'd never had much
time, he told me, to go back home and
dig up the folks, but he was always prom
Using himself that treat, nevertheless, he
said.
Then his three pretty daughters-my
first cousins. ma-an alive!-made their
appearance on the porch. all In mighty
tidy morning gowns, and for finish and
cleverness and beauty, l am a-telling
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draperies through a baby's finger ring
without polishing the inside of that Kind
of circlet.
I must not forget to say that Valeska
Surratt remember her? that snuous
serpentinish young woman who did the
Gibson girl in THE Belle of Mayfair
-Valeska. supported by the chap who
always plays with her in vaudeville, Is
doing what is billed as the "Three Weeks
dance at one of the vaudeville houses.
Ummmmmm- once more. Naleska
gets just as far out in the firing line
as she possibly can, too. and the way
this coarse populace does struggle for
tickets for the Valeska exhibition! (Why
our party had the most terrible time get
ting to the entrance, you know.
Now it is rumored that another one OF
those trig girls whose lines according
to the N'Yawk Sunday bug papers. con-
form to 1.-The measurements of the Venus
de Milo is said to give us some more OF
that artistic posturing stuff. She has
chosen. ii is said. the following subject
for the further sowing of the artistic
seed in this careless city: The Danish
ment of Eve from Paradise. La, la. We
shall see.
A CAREFUL and painstakins search
through all New York and the en-
.virons thereof fails to spring single
humans being who expresses himself or
herself as being sorry for Charles w.
Morse. the punctured ice king and eX-
ploded manipulation of national banks
who. under sentence of fifteen years in the
federal prison at Atlanta. now dribbles
away the dark hours in the Tombs All
of which leads to the conviction That,
Notwithstanding the croakers. there is a
good deal in this thing of being what Is
called good fellow" Morse never
made the least effort to be anything or
that sort. 1t is the simple fact that he
antagonized and bulied and broWbeat
virtually everybody with whom he came
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he knew the man addressing him perfectly
well. But he said:
Il don't know you and he put both
of his hands behind his back and con-
tinued his trudge up and down the deck
while the Maine gentleman repaired to
the smoking room, discounted by the
boorishness which had met his decent
overture.
a line on the Morse method these many
years past. Should there be any wonder
that now. when Morse is hobbled good
and plenty and with mighty slim pros
pect of ever being bailed out so as to
get his chance to beat 1t to Paris or
wherever else he might care to run
should the wonder be great that there is
hardly a soul in this neck of the woods
who doesn't really want Mr.. Morse to
get all that is coming to him and that
has been dished out to him?
MRS. OSBORN, the dressmaker for that
AVA outfit which is dubbed the 400. who
died under the knife last week left an
estate of 100000, all Of 1t earned by
maintaining and proving her theory that
the center of the worlds fashions for
women no longer is in Paris, but in New
York. Mrs. Osborn. mighty talented
woman in other respects than designing
clothes for women. was the pioneer In
making that contention. and particularly
in proving il. When Mrs. Osborn estab-
lished herself in the dressmaking bust
ness nine-tenths of the wealthy women of
New York had their gowns OF ceremony
made in Paris 1t is reliably stated that
not one-ten:h of them do so now. Mrs.
Osborn showed them that she could
make clothes for them that were not
only as beautiful and artistic as the
raiment fashioned by Worth and Felix of
Paris but more so. She reaped the re-
ward. and some dozens of other New
York dressmakers who took up her
slogan Not in Paris. but right here"
are still reaping their reward.
CLARENCE l. CULLEN
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his absence my cousins took me over the
house. Oh. kind of a poor house, yes
Nothing but old rose rooms and olive
rooms and white and gold houdoirs and
things like that, that's all-about twenty
five rooms in all: magnificent swimming
pool. splendid library, billiard room
smoking room. the hull works. The girls
played and sang for me in English
French, German and Italian, and their
mother played for ME on the harp. At
dinner that evening a butler and sec
ond man saw that were attended to
all right-and such dinner!
''All in ALL 1t was about as queer and
as agreeable a sell as ever I went up
against. The next day my Uncle Dave
took me over the works. All hands
among the employes-there were several
thousand of them-were on the qui vive
so to speak, while my Uncle Dave was
around. and l got different notion OF
what the word superintendent meant.
That's all-except that my mother out
in Kansas must have thought me insane
when she read the letter / wrote her
about her black sheep brother David
when got back here to Washington
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much employed by French writers. Baizac
dwelt rather cruelty upon the dispersal
of the cherished effects Of some of his
deserted and neglected tigurantes. lola
reveled in The theme. Daudct and DE
Maupassant, when they desired 10 por-
tray the end of all things for the woman
nf former hectic reputation and half
world splendor. used the scattering OF her
ornaments and raiment by the auctioneer
as their CrowIing Climact.C effect.
All of which is by way of getting to the
nub that there was something sOmber and
pathetic about the dispersal by auction
the other afternoon OF lot of remark
ably personal gear belonging to Mrs. Les
lie Carter Payne.
There WAS something grisly in the spec
tacle of greedy secondhand men all but
lighting wiki each other over their bids
on Vari-hued sleazy silk stockings that
rad been worn by this accomplished
woman. not only on the stage. but in her
private life.
II one were addicted to the fruitless
habit of moraliZing, he might have found
material for that sort of thing while
watching greedy. callous worhen thumbins
the Leslie Carter corSets and grabbing
the Leslie Carter slippers (some pairs OF
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know pure food from a peregrine pickle.
and how they knew his number and
would have him locked up for disorderly
conduct if he ever said thing to them.
Yes. they were a boaStful bunch.
But look Here come a hundred or
more millerS this week to show Secretary
Wilson what plain everyday lobster the
doctor is. They are going to show that
he has no more speed than a three-legged
beetle, and is a sleeper of the most SOM
nolent variety. They are going TO put
three hot ones over the plate and The
doctor will walk back TO the bench with
eight weeks pay locked from his salary.
They are going to show that whatever
else the government does, its one chief
duty is TO hand doc the rinky dink. make
him walk the plank and sink with his
hands tied.
But when they present their arguments
and the doctor listens for half an hour
without saying one solitary word, they be-
gin to get nervous. They don't under
stand this silent man who is listening
and having all sorts of fun to himself
They think he's kidding them and they
begin to get nervous. They shake with
the palsy and have a chill. For the doctor
says not word. He merely chewS a
kernel of corn and winks at the handsome
and accomplished young reporter spoken
of above.
But when he does speak. Gads. how
they tremble. He can express more in a
three word sentence than you or L can
in fortyeisht Russia-bound volumes
All of which goes to show that the
country is safe as long as Dr. Wiley and
the handsome reporter are on the job! So
long!
:: x
IJAH, An invitation to dine on Con-
! necticut avenue
For l have friends among the pluto
Gratis and sometimes through them l save
the price of a meal.
See me now, as l girt myself for the