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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
Art for All.

Every well regulated American family
has heirlooms-such as they are. And
there is this astonishing feature about
them: If they are the proud acquisitions
of your immediate ancestors, they are al
most certainly bad, very bad. On the
other hand, if they date from your Revou-
tionary great-grandparents they are things
of beauty and JOY forever. That may
not be universally true, but it is true
enough to set any fair-minded American
heir to scratching his head. Why did a
perfectly good family, with every mark OF
artistic taste, suddenly go color blind and
shape blind somewhere in the first half Of
the nineteenth century? Why was excel
lent mahogany furniture sent to the garnet
to be replaced by black walnut frightful-
ness? Why did gingerbread become an
architectural passion? Why, finally, was
the Queen Anne cottage set loose upon an
innocent and unprotected land?
The aristocratic view of taste is fond Of
ascribing this collapse to democracy. Per
haps the theory is correct. But 1t makes
one a little chary Of this short cut to rec
ollect that the same blindness seized upon
all Europe in the last century-revolutlon
or no revolution-and that similar lapses
have occurred in earlier times under the
best regulated empires. If anything worse
than the rocco eXtravagances OF the elgh-
tenth century could be invented, we should
like to see it. Even before that the great
est Louis of them all, with the Renais-
sance still fresh about him, succeeded in
messing his most ambitious architectural
endeavors. Extravaganza and decay are
apparently the termination of every arts
tic Towering. At Blois, that destination
Of all good Americans, stands the living
monument to such stupidity-a long Man
sart roof just not extinguishing the most
winged staircase of all time.
No. Taste has gone to seed before and
will again The great darkness of the
nineteenth century may or may not have
been due in part to democratic benighted-
ness. The problem for US of to-day is how
most soundly and rapidly we can get back
a sense of the beautiful. Popularizing art
is one name for the project, and as such it
has just been undergoing discussion in
Washington at the annual convention OF
the American Federation of Arts. Art
museums, of course, form the most obvious
school Of taste, but, unfortunately, a school
slow to educate, since it trains eyes in
termittently and occasionally, whereas q
hideous elevated railroad station or a
wicked dining room wallpaper gives con-
slant. daily counsel Of uginess. So we
are glad to see that the federation gave up
a whole day to the question of encouraging
artistic tendencies in industrial work.
That is the source whence must flow the
greatest advance in taste. And if modern
democracy has vastly enlarged the task Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
The Whole Truth.

No one will wish to pass judgment at
this time upon the truth or falsity Of the
grave charges which Mayor Mitchell has
brought against the enemies Of the chart
ties investigation. The machinery of the
criminal law will take its course, and this
community is willing to wait just as long
as there is no effort to use the machinery
to hide rather than to disclose.
But the opening of the whole extraor-
binary campaign to public inspection is an
admirable. wholly admirable, step. Ugly
reports and an unsavory aroma have hung
about the fight against Commissioners
Kingsbury for many months. Just how
constant and many-sided and thorough
going has been this antagonism was clear
upon the record before the Mayor made
his preliminary recital to the Thompson
committee.
There is now the opportunity and the
necessity for an unsparing pursuit of all
the facts. 1t is gratifying that the initial
effort of Senator Thompson to burke a
portion of the Mayors statement did not
survive reflection.
1t will be the will of the entire COM
munity that there follow Judicial investi-
CATION and determination of every item
in the field of accusation. Nothing less
than the whole truth can satisfy.
Meantime, on the face of such evidence
as is vet available the Mayor seems to
have done a difficult thing bravely and
performed a useful public service with a
rare but pleasing contempt for considera-
tions that so often silence public men. The
Tribune hopes his courage will endure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
British Mercantile Tonnage To-day.

The latest returns issued by Lloyds
Register of Shipping show that the total
war losses of the United Kingdom in 1915
exceeded the total new construction by
thirteen vessels and 35,912 tons, the actual
number lost being 451 Since the begin
ming of the war, according TO Lord Beres-
fords estimate, $50 vessels have been de-
stroyed in action or by mines or subma-
rnes, and of these 400 were in the carry
ing trade.
Great as these losses are, they account
only in part for the depletion of tonnage
which is at present a cause of so much
anxiety in Great Britain, the Admiralty
requirements, including transports, etc,
having caused very serious strain on the
mercantile marine.
Lord Curzon for the first time the other
day made public the figures relating to
the requisitioning Of ships. 1t appears
from his announcement in the House of
Lords that more than 43 per cent of Brit
ish shipping has been taken over by the
government for naval and military pur-
poses anu toStilllAA NANAA iANSto VI tiit
Allies, II per cent employed in carrying
foodstufrs and raw materials for the Allied
governments and the remaining 40 per
cent left to shc ship owners under state
regulation.
An important passage in his speech
dealt with the necessity Of supplying the
needs of the Allies. The demands, he said,
were wholly unprecedented and "unsus-
pectcd by and unknown TO all except few
PEOPLE in the Allied countries" More
than 500 ocean-going steamers have
lecn given over entirely to the service Of
France. Russia and Italy because of the
manifest inadeQuacy Of their own re-
sources. Such sacrifices are Of course
absolutely necessary in war Of this kind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
Old Age Creeping On.

The idea that man is as old as he feels
may have a good deal in it. But old age
has an unpleasant way of thrusting itself
upon ones attention regardless of feelings.
Let us assume a cheerful old codger Of
thirty-six winters, for example. Excel
lently preserved, we'll able to stagger about
a tennis court and still quite free with the
lobster salad, he considers himself in the
prime of life so far as signify muscles,
organs and intellectual parts. Then one
unfortunate day he chances upon an ad-
vertisement offering a job exactly fitting
his demands. He is reaching for his hat
to start in pursuit when the final words
catch his eve: "No one over thirty-fve
need apply" Back he slumps in his chair,
the merest shadow of his former self. 1t
is unbelievable, but true. He has crossed
the deadline into old age.
The further he investigates the more
the sad truth is borne in upon him. AS he
totters to work across City Hall Park the
figures "18 to 35" strike his eye. They
are on recruiting poster and are the
limits within which his country will &C
cept him as a soldier. Too late again!
Not that he wanted to enlist But the
innuendo, the hint, is none the less bitter.
Growing serer by the hour, he enters his
office to discuss the subject with his fell
low-veterans The Office statistician is all
too glib. Thirty-five? 1t seems that
thirty is the age limit in many large COM
panies. There is the real end of youth;
after that high point you are fighting
against time and fate.
Once you start worrying there is end
less food to gnaw at. All those mighty
projects that you have dreamed of tossing
off on the appointed day begin to recede and
fade. Your heart sinks at the little done
and the few hours left. Clutching around
for encouragement, you seem to recall
hearing of great people who like YOU
were a little slow in coming. But an
afternoons research with the dictionary
of names fails to yield much cheer. Ger
vantes published the first part OF Don
Ouixote" when he was fifty-elght years
old. De Morgan put forth Joseph Vance"
when he was sixty-six. There were
plenty of others who did big things in
their old age, but precious few who had
not begun to achieve long before. Frank
lin was seventy by the time of the Revo-
luton. but he had made a real name for
himself long before. Ibsen was in his
ffties when he wrote the prose dramas
on which his greatest fame rests; but
Brand" and "Peer Gynt" dated from
wears earlier. Defoe wrote Robinson
Crusoe," his first novel, when fifty-elght-
after distinguished life Of pamphleteer-
ing. Throwing in Joffre and all the other
elderly generals of the war on the side OF
the late-comers, you cannot make the list
a cheering one.
So there is nothing to do except resign
yourself to your fate and resume your
allotted way downhill. There is but one
Ioophole of consolation: Once you accept
the fact of your old age, there is nothing
to prevent your being just as young as
you please.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
Not Anti British.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Where YOU obtained your information
that descendants Of the Revolutionary fathers
were anti-Britisb you do not say. but from
the writer's contact with the members OF The
Sons Of the American Revolution all over the
country he is az a loss 10 understand how
YOU could have been so seriously misled. A
you have in your editorial invited those who
disagree with you TO express their views, |
have taken the opportunity TO do so.
JOHN II. BURROUGHS.
New York. MAJ %. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
Horses and Slippery Streets.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: About two weeks ago on Thrty-'ee'
ond Street, at , p. m. (about), between Fii'h
Avenue and Broadway, the street had been
lightly sprinkled and four teams OF trues
horses. drawing lumber, we're struggling for
4 foothold and falling every few feet
watched for ten minutes and then consulted
an officer. he said the property owsers in'
sisted upon the sprink!ing and the ;rucksteI
would not 90 one block around.
II is criminal abuse OF the animals, and
there should be a way 20 stop it Won't you
let US have one OF your articles with
punch on the subject?
HELEN COoMCAN.
New York. MAY Ia. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
Elastic Leadership,
tFrom The Detroit journal

Iron The Detroit JouTndIJ
President Wilson was elected on a Panama
tolls platform; he made a right-about-
face turn. He decred secret diplomacy;
he became a secret diplomat. He talked
against intervention in Mexico; he interviewed
twice. President Wilson was elected on a
single-term platform; he seeks another term.
He opposed tariff commission; he proposes
a tariff commission. He stood for free sugar
and free trade in general; he stands for tax
IN sugar and advocates protection from dump
ing after the war. lie decries preparedness
and says we are already we'll enough armed;
he stumps the country for a big armament
programme and calls for the greatest fleet in
the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25

Perhaps the COMMUNICATIONS are think
ing of Barbarossa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25

New York. May IL. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25

li.e-ei 20 o., Posio1ce New York as Second Glass
Mail Matter
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
coLoRFuL SPORTS oLorHEs.

VERY chic are the sweaters and Nor
 folk Jackets of jersey cloth, and nearly every smart woman has an en- tire suit of this fabric in her wardrobe.
 A Norfolk jacket of green velveteen has collar and cuffs of the plaid cloth, and a round green felt hat, gutltless of trimming. is worn pulled down over the eyes.
 Every variety and shape of sports hat is worn. but much favored are the Chinese straws which were all the rage at Palm Beach, and the cut out birds and flowers, appItqued on brim and crown or the hand painted effects are all popular, although some of the best dressed women affirm that a simple band of ribbon or leather is the only permissible trimming for a sports hat save perhaps g. tiny TyroIean feather.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
AN EDUCATOR SPEAKS

TR THOMAS D. wooDS Columbia
 uniyersity. in recent interview stated:
 sTo make the enormous emotional forces Of women dd constructive work Is the problem of the future, for it is woman who will have to be the leader in social parenthood. I concede that woman has the greater genius for parenthood, but men and women alike just outgroW the ideal Of tiger parent hood-the parents that fight for their own young at the expense of other young.
 .sWornen are developing tremen- dously as social parents The ideal of social parenthood, of universal mother and fatherhood. finds it's expression in the Big Brother and Big Sister move ment and in social settlements Men must learn from women, and women must learn from men. believe in wo- man suffrage. not because think it cause it will educate women
 Men in the trenches in Europe to- day get better care than the children of America Generally speaking. pigs and other live stock receive moref in teI1tgenr treatment than children. Yet children are the greatest investment of nation.
 seThe care of children Is not a lost art for the human race has never known how to care for it's young More human beings die annually from pre- ventable diseases and accidents than were killed ip any year of the civil war
 aChi1d preservation is an art we are
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

just finding. We have made mental education compulsory. Eventually we shah realize that the education of the body, the training of the instincts and emotions. is just as important as the cultivation of the mind
 "There are more than 20, o00. .000 school children in the United States today Dr. wood went on "Of these three quarters. or IS, 1000. 900, need med- icaI attention for physical defects which are partially or completely remediable.
 s f Among these defects are spinal cur vature, defective vision or hearing. Hat feet. enlarged tonsils and adenoids. At least 50 per cent, in some schools 9S per cent, have defective teeth, and at least quarter of the number suffer from malnutrition. These children are larly the wards of it's women.
 There should be some way of con- verting the tremendous emotional forces. of women into energies which will save the children
 -sBut you know women can't ration alize their emotions until they decom- merciaIize then.'' said the interviewer. tSos long as a woman's emotions are her stock in trade, the things by which she gets a living, she can't be rationala' a'
 -T think subscribe to that" Dr. Wood acknowledged, ''but enormous creative powers are wasted in the emo t1ons of women. do not think there is much in the theory that women fun darnentaIly lack creative ability. Women have spent their creative erer- gfes emotionaIly in forms not yet rec ognized as art; that's alI''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

VARIATIONS in temperature repre-
 sent one of natures best tonics- So worldwide an authority as Sir Lau- der Brunton believes tuberculous pa tfents will not get better in a climate that does not vary from 20 to 80 oe- grees every day. Many observers nave hinted that the practical value of alt1- tude treatment is attributable to the marked temperature variations of ele- more equable temperature average of lower regions.
 Most of the refreshing influence of fresh air. is simply that of cool air. This Is the day of efficiency We do not strive to keep good and warm, for the good die young. We endeavor to keep cool and well.
 When white men have to live and work in a tropical climate they de- generate physically. mentally and mofa.I1y, not so much from the erect of the high temperature as from the monotony of the unvarying climate the lack of the stimulation of a change of weather.
 Oyster Bay, Athens, Constantinop1e. Naples, Rome, Florence, Paris, Vienna, phia, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco. Tokyo, Picking, Jerusalem. Carthage, Sidon, Tyre, Memphis and Babylon, not to mention Binghamton and St. Paul in short, all the great centers of eff fciency-fal1 within ten degrees or so of the fortieth parallel of north longi- tude, which has been called the line of mans highest achievements. The weather around the fortieth is delight fully changeable. ChangeabIe is the only word for it. 1t is more change
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

HID you ever hear of q dress special
 ista There are beauty specialists who aim to improve complexion. hair. hands and all the pnysicaI attributes of womankind- There should also be costume specialists There are a few, and the work opens an interesting. if snan field to women Of taste--and tact
 There are lots of women who wish to dress well. but who really don't know how. They cannot choose clothes that bring out their best points. They don't know when hats are becom- ing. They haven't the fine sense that points out the differences between things that are smart and up to date and things that are too extreme to be fin good taste.
 It is sor women such as this that the clothes specialist can work And she ought. in community of reason able size. to be able to make a good income. One customer will recom- mend her to another. and her clientele may grow very large,
 She must know when she sees a yvo- man with a tiny head in a huge hat that D toaue would look smarter on that particular type. She must know tlaat the dunpy- little woman who
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
To Stake Plants

MOST tall plants in the garden will
 be needing sticks soon to keep them from falling over
 The important thing to stake plants in good time. for if once they are let go they bend over and never look well again. Or they may break off alto gether if the heads are too heavy.
 If a plant has only one main stem put one stake in firmly, either in the middle or at the back, but take care not to hurt the roots in doing this
 Tie a piece of twine to the stake first and then bring it round the plant and tie it again. neither too loosely nor too tight. but just so as to hold it up and, yet leave it. looking natural.
 If there are many branches take a thick piece of twine, tie it to the stake, and then split the twine into a number of strands and tie each branch sepa- rate1y.
 A plant which has many thick stems will need three or four sticks, only one should be careful to hide them as much as possible among the leaves
 Roses; dah1ias and big shrubs need stakes the size Of a small broomstick. The best plan is, of course, to put them in at the time of planting. Use tarred twine for tying these, as something stronger than twine is needed.
 Bamboos make the best stakes for ordinary sticks and can be used one year after another.
 Generally enough support is given to annual plants like peoples by sticking long twigs among them, and tying here and there is needfu1. This gives them just enough support, and the. sticks are hardly noticed among the flowers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
WHAT WELL DRESSED
 SALADS ARE WEARING

.TyHE dressing is the making of a
 saIad-just as it is of a woman. To begin with of course. there must be crisp, fresh greens. Then there must be delicious dressing
 French dressing is best made in this way: Beat a teaspoonfuI of salt with six tablespoonfuls of olive oil until thick. Then slowly beat in two table spoonfuls of vinegar, add red pepper and pour over the salad.
 Sardine dressing, for crisp lettuce is delicious Here is the recipe: Skin and bone two sardines and add the powdered yolk of two hard boiled eggs. Rub to a smooth paste. Add a tea spoonful of sugar, one of dry mustard. half teaspoonful of olive oil, a table spoonful of tarragon vinegar. half a teaspoonful of cream and salt and pep per. Add little lemon juice to thin to a creamy consistency.
 Golden salad dressing is good with fruit salads. Beat two eggs slightly. add a quarter cupful of fruit juice orange or pineapple-a quarter cupful of lemon juice and a quarter cupful Of sugar. Stir over hot water in dou-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

have slipped back to the days when women thought 1t artistic to employ several colors and materials in one cos tune. This sartoriai path should have a red lantern and 3. barricade put in front of it, for every step upon it is dangerous, and as it has been opened wide and made easysfor all wayfarers in fashion we must expect to see many atrocities committed in the name of fashion.
 Some of the prettiest Of the imported summer frocks, if not the most com plicated or pretenlous. are these sim pie models in thin, figured silk crapes. chiffon and foulard. the last mentioned masquerading under various namess but still the beloved practical fou1ard in it's very thin radium qualities. White grounds figured in dark blue have been chosen for some successful modes of this type in crape or chiffon. and lit tie dark blue taffeta is likely to be used as trimming.
 There are few women who will re- bel sufficiently against long sleeves to put them out of fashion It is passing strange that long sleeves will always come in with the advent of warm weather instead of cold but the mod
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

bIe boiler until it begins to thiclxen cool and use for fruit salads.
 This is a good boiled salad dressing Beat the yo1ks of two eggs until creamy. Mix with a teaspoonful oi mustard, the same Of salt. three table spoonfuls of sugar. two ta.blesP oonfulG of cream and one of butter. Over thia pour two-thirds of a cupfuI of hot vinegar and cook over hot water. stir ring until thick and smooth Cool and use with vegetable salads.
 Horserad1sh sauce is made by mix ing in a bowl a teaspoonfu1 Of nus tard teaspoonful of vinegar, half tea spoonful of salt and a little pepper Break on this mixture the yolks of two eggs and beat with an egg beater. Add olive oil until a thick sauce results and then add a tablespoonful of grated horseradish.
 This is a good and easily mads dressing to serve with celery or lettuce salad: Mix four tablespoonfula oi olive oil with the juice of two small lemons. the chopped yoIl< of a hard boiled egg. salt and pepper and a tea spoonful of chopped cherviL
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

and white. The skirt is trimmed with graduated rows of puhngs and the bodice is piped with rose satin A bolero is picked out with net lace and a double collar of white chiIon finishes the neck daintily. The surpHce front ties in a bow in the back.
 The lingerie sfrock is mostly of tiny net ruff1es over a net base and four embroidered panels of ba.tiste Inter esting sleeves arc ruf1ed below the elr bow, and batiste embroidery and crochet buttons trim the simple waist This makes a charming house or din- ner gown for hot summer nights
 For garden parties is the striking coat of figured silk, closed with three buttons and loops. made pajama fash ion, and girdIed with heavy silk cord and tassel. Square patch p6cketa match the square cuffs. This dashing garment is worn with Q double skirt of white net bordered with embroidery and a white straw hat br1mmed with huting of net a pink rose and . blacb velvet band.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

far the suggestion has not met with much success. What the future holds no daughter of a prophet would att tempt to say.
 Two of the gowns pictured may be easily copied by the clever woman who makes her own frocks. One is of printed voile. a blue and white polka dot, combined with navy jgeorgette crape and navy velvet ribbon quaintly bordering the skirt. A narrower size is used on the waist, and tiny velvet buttons front the bib. This gown may be put up in any two summer materials of good contrasts. The other design is developed in plaid voile, a spring green and white. The long sleeves are of georgette crape in a matching shade, and under the edge of the tucks on the waist and skirt is run a picot ribbon, also green. The Prernet neck is interesting, the wide, boxed effect being finished with a ron of daintily embroidered batiste.
 On this same attractive order is the thin frock of printed chiffon in rose