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New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

indirectly by the roadside Of her chosen field
Of endeavor2
Or, in the event she is disappointed in her
hers is the job Of practising 'thc fine art OF
doing without happiness" instead of banking
or idealistic dreams, isn't she more apt to 60
out cunning for absorbing substitutes in out
side work play'
Any or all OF these alternatives may miss
the mark, but at least they seem more con-
sistent than Gabriella's risky attitude The
mere fact that she was determined to see
roses in all things in her life by no means
should have developed in her such utter
lack Of Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
philosophy. For her lonely evenings were
not spent in study or work or anything else
pertaining to her ambition 20 rise. (Yet that
she did rise until her head almost popped
above the printed page, from $1,000 sales
woman to the head OF the great Fifth Avenue
dressmaking house, Ellen Glasgow lets us
doubt not one nnute)
Again, in our humble opinion, she whose
philosophy is to hold her cup high and dry
rather than to stop 70 sip drop that chance
drops into il or that she herself can gather is
likely TO be left high and dry.
No, it seems 10 us that the business woman,
through being captain Of her soul by now
has learned, if she has learned anything at all,
that if her clouds are to have silver lining
she has got to sew it in herself
She has learned to be as business-like and
cold-blooded about happiness and what kind
of life would spell it to her as anything else
Granted that giving happiness to yourself
doesn't always pan out as anticipated and that
most Of US are forced to indulge in homro-
pathic doses without dreams OF ideals work
or play would be sorry things. Dreams alone
are dangerous things to bank upon. The
reaction from them is likely TO be dangerous
And the fact that Gabriea's panncd out so
beautifully, we still insist was due to Ellen
Glasgow rather than Gabriella. And most OF
US, alas, have Ellen Gasgows!
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton. Planning Socialized Apart
ments. Sounds Death Knen
for InstitutiOnalized
Girls Homes.

/ always chuck it, I don't want Old Bones's
charity. now, do II"
1T is very often the feeling that they are
being subsidized that worries girl In an in
stitutionalized home" explains Miss Packard
'Shc is earning her money. and She hates the
thought that it isn't paying for what she gets"
Only FIVE out of fifty-four homes in New York
are self-supporting, and it seems to be the
matrons' universal idea that the girls must be
reminded OF their favors and benefits at every
meal. Naturally this does not tend to make
the girls feel entirely comfortable Some OF
the homes we found more successful. In
one the girls are devoted TO the riauon, and
never fail to 60 to her room before bedtime
to kiss her good night. Quite different is the
home where dancing Is not allowed. but where
the matron .nnounced that every Saturday
night she played Virginia reel and allowed
the girls to skip for while!
How thrilling it must be to skip little
while each Saturday night!
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

The Y. W. c. A. has found In this investi
CATION that neither homes nor furnished rooms
are the solution for the working girls living
problems Every one hopes the sociaized
apartment will be the solution, for the work
ing girl is pretty important little cog in the
daily grind, and her problems, strange to say,
may affect her efficiency. But, moro than
that. she Is also pretty fine specimen, as this
wo-lds people go. in her brave bluhing OF
hard luck, in her penny-a-week fashions in her
sacrifices and struggles, her cheap amuse-
ments and is-cent lunches. And when one
thinks of what she might have Il She had
only been born on Fifth Avenue grudgc can
scarcely be harbored at the idea Of giving her
little apartment to herself, with place TO
cook when the working day is over
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
.. The Truth About the u. s. Navy -

and TO be able 10 put TO sea with the feet
The Schley, the first OF these I,5oo-ton boats.
was authorized in June, 1914, more than year
and half ago, and work on it has not yet
commenced. Two more of the same type
were authorized nearly year ago, and the
contracts have just been awarded.
MAY NOT BE PRACTICAL.
These are the largest submarines in the
world--about twice as large as those used by
Germany. It is estimated that they will have
q cruising radius practically equal to that OF
battleship. But they are only experimental,
and naval experts have not yet determined
what their use would be in case of war.
In comparing the American naval strength
with that of foreign nations 1t has been as
sumed that the units in the different navies
are, type for type of equal fighting force
This assumption, Of course, is not accurate
Ships OF the same general design differ IN
power In different navies and even in the same
navy.
In general way naval experts agree that
comparisons, in time OF peace, OF Skill and
effectiveness are futile. 1t is believed that
such differences exist between the gunnery,
for example, Of the American navy and that
of possible adversaries is negligible; Tor pur-
poses of comparison. In one respect as al
ready pointed out, American ships are at
disadvantage--the fact that they are under
ofhcered and undermanned.
The efficiency OF the American navy can be
gauged roughly In two ways-by reference to
target practice records and by the results of
war games and strategical manGuvres. The
Navy Department does not publish complete
reports Of either of these operations.
The report of Admiral Fletcher to Seore-
tary Daniels, however, may be taken as an in
dex to the efficiency OF the fleet Admiral
Fletcher is recognized as one OF the greatest
of the practical" officers in the navy, and mas
shown tireless interest in improving the ef
ficiency Of the navy and particularly Of his own
command, the Atlantic feet.
II is known that at the time OF the Spanish
American War the gunnery aboard American
ships had reached maximum OF accuracy.
After that it declined over a period OF many
years, according TO the best information OBJ
tainable. and it was not until recently that it
began to show an upward tendency.
Admiral Fletcher reported TO Secretary
Daniels on October IS last that the target
practice in 1915 had improved in accuracy
more than 80 per cent on the battleshps OF
the Atlantic feet All The operations of the
strategical manGuvres, he added, were sue
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

The things no lady talks about
AT least no lady should
May be exhaustively discussed
For everybody's good.
If you will thus begin your speech:
oh ladies, how greve
To dwell upon the shocking things
That suffragists believe.
Whereas might made comparatively tame meeting to
read articles on passed last December by the National
American Wonan's Suffrage Association:
That home is the foundation Of the state we
sanctity of the marriage relation and further
ballot will strengthen the power
o the home and sustain dignity sscredness marriage
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

yet down through the years
cometh nor signaleth notD
Of course, the antithesis OF
such aotion-if perohancc your
ambitions lie a la Gabriella-
is to grab it in this year of
1916 A. D. (N. B. Inez Mil
holland Boissevain and he
whom she argued into natri-
n1ony sat in front of us at The
Weavers" last week and ap-
pesred altogether happy apos-
ties OF this new method OF
weaving fates.)
But, joking aside, what is
more apt 10 be the average
professional woman's attitude
toward happiness, whatever her
individualistic Interpretation OF
it may be, granted that she
thinks about it at all?
Unlike Gsbriella, who stead
lastly closed her lips against
it in small doses, sitting like
Patience on a monument while
she stakes all on the future.
doesn't the modern woman learn
to grub along the roadside for
il, grateful for any stray nibblcs
which come her way'
Does she seif-consciously
strive for II as an ideal ever
before her or, deep III the 10y
of her job" doesn't happiness
often come 10 her as Jane Ad-
dams says our influence should
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

cessfully carried out with the exception of the
movements OF the submarines, and the results
reflect credit on the personnel and material OF
the fleet"
Apparently, then, the American navy is on
a par in efficiency. except in numbers of of
hcers and men, with other navies, except for
submarines, which have never been successful.
The war game last fall, in which an attack
ing fleet composed largely OF constructive"
or imaginary units succeeded in breaking
through the defending feet and making a con-
structive landing on the coast, has developed
a controversy in the navy over a question of
strategy Admiral Fletcher who commanded
the attacking force, Is inclined to believe that
if Admiral Knight, his adversary, had kept
his feet together instead of dividing it the
landing would have been more difficult, If not
actually impossible. Admiral knight asserts
the contrary ard maintains that ne did the best
he could with an insufficient force
But the navy is to be increased If Secre-
tary Daniels's programme is carried out we
will have, according to the estimates OF the
General Board, the following principal units
in 1925:
Dreadnoughts ........................ AZ
Battle-cruisers .......................
Pre-dreadnoughts Observation-Disclosures. IS
Scout cruisers Observation-Disclosures. I3
Fleet submarines. .......... IS
Coast submarines. ...................,... I5
If we had all those ships to-day the situa-
ton would be greatly changed. But is there
any ground for the belief that in 1895 we shall
have made an appreciable advance on our po-
tential enemies? 1t is not enough to buid
ships; it would be better to build none at all
than to build more slowly than those whom
we are aiming to excel,
Concident with embarkation on pro-
gramme that will leave US where we are now
at the end of nine years, this government IS
taking on its shoulders new responsibilities III
this hemisphere. The new Pan-Americanism
makes the United States not only the guardian
of its own interests, as intended by the Monroe
Doctrine, but also the protector OF the inter
ests OF every other American republic In
other words, the United States is entering into
defensive alliance with twenty other nations
and is furnishing alone the great bulk OF the
defensive strength.
For these reasons. as well as for the mere
defence of our soil and our shipping, it is
necessary that the United States have navy
capable of controlling the seas surrounding all
the Americas against the aggression OF any
probable combination OF enemies.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

Miss Esther Packard. investigator for the
Y. w. c. A.. has recommended this new con-
ception of the working girls home TO the
Metropolitan Board and with the money in
hand from the campaign Of 1914 plans are un-
der way. The socialized apartment house is
to have various kinds of suites, with and with
out htchcnettcs, perhaps a cafeteria, though
the operation of the house has not been dis
cusscd to any great degree.
There are those who grow weary of this
working girl stuff" who point triumphantly
20 the waowing East Side and its healthy,
dirty babies rolling around, and say COM
placently that if babies can thrive in any old
condition so can grown-up girls; that energy
spent in "uplift" is energy thrown to the
winds and finally that people left to them
selves are happier than any others in the
world. But the Y. w. c. A. proceeds on quite
different theories 1t takes into account, for
example. the familiar assumption that moral
and spiritual life can be swayed to tremen-
dous extent by physical well being, the same
text that Bernard Shaw expounds IN Andrew
Understands contention, when the stomach
is full the soul has time to hunger"
In fairness to the homes, however, it must
be said that they have failed not on the side
OF physical adequacy SO much as on their So
cia and cultural side Miss Packard insists
strongly on this. Miss Packard, by the way,
is rather much OF girl herself, and she takes
the quiet. humorous view that the protes
sona investigator is not always blessed with,
of many situations.
Even if the food is bad she says, 'the
Il Sor
better, and accept it more oheerfully than they
do other disadvantages. For example the 10
o'clock rules seem to be most CALLING, even
when girls are not in the habit of going out
in the evenings. Supposing l wanted to-
they exclaim. / remember one forlorn little
dressmaker who knew not human in the
city. She worked all day and lived in lonely
room by herself. Every night she went to her
room and sat, all by herself. l begged her TO
90 to an institutonalized home, where there
would be other women and girls for her 10
associate with. DO you think ! would be
penned up like thatP she asked me. where |
couldn't stay out after 10 if 1 wanted to'
This dreary little person possessing banker
ings to stay out after 10! Why, she was
sound asleep by 9:3O every night. But she
wanted TO know she could go, il ever the
chance turned up. So she just sits in her one
rocker every night, happy, after fashion, in
her freedom"
Miss Packard found several actual story
book instances of the two-in-one cruel en-
ployer ard the kindly benefactor, playing his
double role to the same girls. There was one
who paid his girls S. week for eight hours
Of their waking time and then smiled on them
from an oil painting on the wall as the
founder and chi, support, my dears, of this
lovely home for you"
whats the idea Kate asked one girl Of
her ohum "Old Bones is runnin this place
ior US, and payin' us starvin' wages, huh''
"Yes. n on Sat'dy nights it's his ice cream
we're eatin' as special treat Not fer me.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27

Ellen Glosoor's recipe IN her "Gdbri-
,Va." q modern lcomdn 7cith an old-fash-
ioned theory, IS "To Lore, and labor and
10 uait." Zona Gale says. ITS the JOY
Of the job" Is the joy Of the JOB 0i~ay'
sufficient unto the eril thereof? u. l..
Gcoroc, in his "The Strangers Wed-
dino" says the fne art Of life IS TO learn
hou to do scithogt happiness! That do
voa thinkF
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
A Critic Finds Flaws i'm the Recipe
PrOpOunded for Ellen GlasgOw's
Latest Heroine and Pro-
poses Some Up-tO-Date
Amendments.

Rather the inconsistent attitude Of the profes-
sona women. as depicted In Gabrielle, con
ccrning what constitutes happiness and how to
gain it.
Deserted, alone. Gabrielle drew strength to
stick by her guns from an inborn faith that
cheated out Of happiness temporarily by an
unfortunate marriage, happiness nevertheless
would be hers by divine right in the future.
Until then she pushed out of her life every
study friendship and interest, narrowed her
life down to her job and her children abso-
lutely, and for years lived so alone with her
youngsters and a spinster housekeeper that
she herself said that in seven years she hadn't
seen a man save on the street
Though intensely lonely and romantic. Ellen
Glasgow triumphantly tells us that her
happiness heroine preferred to dwell in the
dreams of love OF her teens--which to revive
was as much part OF her daily tasks doing
her hair-than to descend to the common
place happiness" of friendship with a man
she greatly admired (This in face OF the
fact gentle reader, that Arthur. the of
her dreams, whom she gleefully turned down
for her husband, slumbcrs at Richmond few
hours away. is unmarried, knows she is free,
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
II Are Women People?
By ALICE DUER MILLER
DEATH OF CHIVALRY GROSSLY
EXAGGERATED.

EXAGGERATED.
In commenting on the kept delega
waiting twenty minutes the cold The
Hutchson News" remarks editorialy
"A that that President Wilson and Secre
Tumuy treated the delegation they had been accustomed to
delegations of the East and delegations OF
accustomed to being treated"
PAPERS OF CALIFORNIA, ILLINOIS, ETC.,
PLEASE COPY.
Republican party said Mr.. Root the other evening and
speak ito is composed entirely of mem
Well ladies, shall we make it SOP
A BLOCKADE OF PEDESTALS.
legislatures told there states
Woman Suffrage the ground that must
remain their pedestals.
versy ground their would dfe those sacred
THE PROPER TIME
good Judgment moderation and tmnes 1--we think this
intended sarcasicalyl When trivial policies like prepared
ness the raising Of permitted
engoss OF the country this tool
E New York Times, Feb II, loi6)
When every nation is at peace
And every government is stable
When party dsagreements cease,
And statesmen all wise and able,
When the millennium is in sight,
Or seems at least, not too remote
Then only women might be right
20 ask the vote.
Imagine educated adult wanting consulted
such trivial policies epaedns
the raising Of settled for hir-or herl
The be that the important issues
before the country the less citizen should rant o
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
COURAGE OF A SORT.

Bishop Rowe THE Spirit of Missions for February describes
the founding within the Arctic Circle order to
gospel Kobuks and the Koyukuks AS begin
ming" says log cabins built Alake Miss C. M
accepted this forlorn OF duty had hoped
that the heroic missionary spirit OF the Church hear
plea for this place would have cried OUT Lo here
am l. send far AS witnesses the
willingness how far
and forddng call the Church and the silence OF
such calls but think Of Mrs. Brownngs lines:
"The worlds male chivalry has perished
are lnght-errans the last
And yet people like Mr.. Taft when called
ren only Of criminals explains
that women lack the physical courage break law
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-24
Teddy CaSsent Increases Business Inter-
estS in MiddIel0wn
Buys a Cafe. Expected TO Start Some
thing ia Base Ball

Teddy Cassent, former landlord of
City Hotel 'and manager of the Put.
nam base ball CLUB, has increased his
business interests in Middletown, n,
Y, where he went after leaving Put
nam To become proprietor of the Wall
kill House. Last week he bought the
Gale business at the Hamilton House,
the business and fixtures selling for
So 900. Mr.. Cassent will maintain
both places. He has already taken po-
session of his new purchase.
Speaking of base ball the Middle
town Times Leader says that 1t is UNI
derstood that Teddy is likely TO start
something in base ball, and 10 hopes
he will. Putnam fans can assure Mid
dletown fans that the hope will be
realized. Teddy can no more keep his
finger out of the base ball pie than did
Little Jack Homer, and he will pull
out plum too. If Teddy were TO be
cast away on Robinson Crusoe is
land he would soon have the monks,
the orangs and ehimpansees lined up
against each other batting triples,
doubles and singles all over the island.
Miodletown Is in for big noise In
base call this season rs IL will learn rs
soon as some signs of warm weather
become evident.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-24
Attempting to Get Buyer and Seller Of
BIOOded Stock Together

Leonard IL. Healey, secretary OF the
state board of agriculture, is getting In
touch with The breeders and owners OF
the four leading dairy breeds OF cattle
in the state for the purpose of periect-
ing information regarding these breeds
by obtaining statistics regarding the
number of head which each owns in
order TO compare the present numbers
with those for 1914 and 1915. Accom-.
panying circular letter Is IN blank
sheet to be filed in With the mum Der
OF cattle for sale. The letter states
that there are many inquiries from
those DESTROYS OF purchasing stock and
that it will be the aim OF the depart
ment to bring those having the stock
for sale in touch with the prospective
buyers. Concluding, the letter reads:
ave believe thut Connecticut stands
first as regards its full blood dairy
stock, both as TO quality and quantity,
when we compare its agricultural
lands with those OF other states. VIII
you help us to get the material with
which to prove .this2 We urge your
cooperation"
The return blank calls for the name
OF breed; cows, heifers, and years
old; bulls, |, 2, 3 and 4 years old, and
bull and heifer calves and the numoer
for sale.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-24
Pleasant Birthday Party

Gladys L. 5lratton entertained par
ty of fifteen friends at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ii. T.. Stratton,
Farrows street, last Saturday after.
noon, the occasion being her twelfth
birthday. The afternoon was spent in
playing games after which supper was
served. 1t was very enjoyable occa-
sion and the hostess received the best
wishes for many happy returns of the
day. Those present were; Edith
Pease, Marjorie Beard, Dorothy Lord,
Sarah Barber, Thara Ames, Dorothy
Bone, Ruth Shaw, .Odile Benoit, Ina
Aldrich, Jeanette Gilbert, Marion
Wilcox, Cora Seekins, Jerome And
rews, Walter Wilcox and Walter
Shaw. Everybody had lots OF fun.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-24
ANOTHER STEP
Legal Papers Served on l.. NJ. Ream
at Thompson
Summoned Into Court by Chorus Girl
Bride

Sundays New York World says:
Papers in motion to reopen the
proceedings which annuled the early
morning marriage of Louis Marshall
Ream, son of the late Norman d.
Ream, a millionaire, and Eleanor PEN
dlelon Davidson, once chorus girl,
were served on MIR. Ream at his home
in Thompson, Conn, Friday.
II is understood that, accompanying
the motion is an affidavit by the young
woman, asserting that she erred in
that part of her testimony in the an
nulment suit In which she said no IL
cense for the marriage had been pro-
cured. She now swears, 1t Is said,
that she and Mr.. Ream got license.
This was the point on which hinged
the decision that they had not been
married according to the full provi-
sions of the law.
The ceremony was performed In Hoo
boken, Sept, |, 1911. In the following
January the chorus girl instituted
suit to annul the marriage. On Jan.
Ii, 1912, the report OF referee reeom-
mending that the marriage he annnlled
was approved Unttl very recently.
as The World told exclusively last
Monday evening, that decision seemed
to be satisfactory and it is tanoted
that the reason for the new aclion,
with the same person rs plain,ili, Is
more or less connected with desire by
the former figure IN the tout ensemble
TO ag,du plunge into matrimony with
different partner, and fears the error
in testimony may have clouded the re-
cord.
+ While former State Senator Edgar
T. Bracket of Saratoga Springs is the
recorded attorney for the plaintiff, It's
understood she has been III frequent
consultation here With former law
yer. He was with her two hours FRI
day at her home, No. 30 West Fifty
there on the third floor. In the name
slot in the veslibule is n card bearing
| the before. and-after names, Mrs. Ream
and Miss Pendleton.
A World reporter who called there
yesterday was Informed by the young
womsnis servant, who said IL without
a smile, that the former chorus girl no
longer lived there.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-24
Auto Makes But Four Miles An Hour

l.. A. Bradford of DanieIson, who
has place of business In this city, is
a real automobile enthusiast and the
state of the roads has no terrors for
him. A short time ago he made trip
To Worcester with the snow up 10 the
radiator and last Thursday he made a
trip from Hartford To Willimnnlic,
twenty-eight miles, that took nine
hours. A man with him got out and
took the train rs he wanted TO reach
home that night. The snow and ice
WIS melting just enough IN the after
noon SO that the car would break
through the crust frequently and in
pieces the car went down nearly 10 the
tops Of the wneels. The car was pat
up at local garage over night and he
continued on his way home the next
day.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-24
Increase ia Rents

There has been q material increase
in the price OF rents in Putnam during
the past week. One large property
owner has notified his tenants that
hereafter they will have TO pay IS more
month Some are inclined TO think
that advantage Is being taken OF the
scarcity Of tenements IN the city. The
property owners however say that ow-
ing TO the cost Of upkeep, interest on
money Invested and the present tax
rate in town and city property has
snown scant net return on the IN.
yestDent. However IL may De IL still
remains that there Is glarins need OF
medium priced rents in Putnan and
they must DC forthcoming soon 10 meet
imperative demands IL the city Is TO
grow.