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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
REFRESHING COMEDY MAY 4.

REFRESHING COMEDY MAY 4.
The dainty. refreshing and de-
lightfully pretty musical comedy,
"Oh Boy" the New York Princess
theater musical comedy success. I'M
der the management Of T. Ray
Comstock and William Elliott, will
be the attraction at the Oliver the
alter Saturday matinee and night and
Sunday night
"Oh Boy" is unquestionably the
brightest and smartest musical COM
edy New York has seen in many a
moon. The book and lyrics are by
Guy Bolton and p. G. Wodehouse
and the music is by Jerome Kern.
The story Of ooh Boy" is extremely
interesting and concerns George
Budd, a quiet young professor Of
chemistry in a college town. whose
friends surprise him on the eve Of
great polo victory and just when
he and his bride have returned from
being secretly married. The bride
goes 20 her home. but Budd hav-
ing received a telegram from his
old maid Quaker aunt. who con-
trolls his fortune, remains 20 well
come her. Meanwhile Jackie Samp-
son. a dashing actress who plays
"AIodesty" in Experience. rushes
into Budd's room after a row in .
restaurant and 20 save her from the
constable she remains there as the
lady OF the house.
The comedy and ludicrous situa-
tons are fast and furious and keep
the audience In constant laughter
The score in keeping with the
book. contains a number OF the
brightest and tinkliest musical hits
OF the season. and are:
Lets Make a Night Of It." you
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
SPRING TONES

For the complexion. At no time is
the complexion so apt 10 be in a
poor condition as towards the end
of winter when, war duties, severe
weather and artificial heat have
done their worst. Stringent meas
ures are necessary TO do away with
this condition. Miss Darr of the
Comfort shop suggests that you
come I'm and try one of their thor
ough facial messages followed by
a French pack which bleaches and
removes blackheads. Bell 637.
Home 6191. AdVt
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01

immortal stories have been writ
ten OF Cleopatra, the siren of the
Nile-the queen who. aided only. by
her personal charm and scheming
mind, conquered Caesar, 1.-The great
est Roman of them all" and who
brought Marc Antony bowling TO
her feet William Fox's version of
Cleopatra will present her as the
best authorities OF modern times
have come to know her. The Fox
screening of Cleopatra, with
Theda Bara in the title role, will
deal with the most dramatic periods
OF her life-the time when she was
fighting 10 retain her power and
her crown. The forthcoming pro-
duction, which will be seen at the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
THEAT Frs

Oliver theater all Of next week,
starting Monday afternoon, will be
a gorgeous spectacle, made magnifi-
cent by the beautiful detail of an
cient Egyptian settings with those
Of the Roman empire. the costum-
ing being sumptuous. The costumes
worn by Miss Bara az Cleopatra are
to a degree startling in many in
stances.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
LET ARCHIE DO Tr.

II your automobile needs trim
ming let Archie do II. He knows
how. He IL up on all branches Cf
trimming. Taking out dents in body
or tenders. Recovering tops. max
Ing new tops, hood covers. Placing
new lights in your automobile cur
tains. etc. Archie. The Auto Trim
mer Formerly with Colfax Mfg.
Co. Now at 217 South Main -
Bell phone 1904 -Advt
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
LOOK AT 1T.

1t is the handsomest motor car
In town. The King Eight is the mar
vel of the year in motor car con-
struction. A perfect motor. Lots Of
power. graceful lines. easy riding,
and the best car in the world for
the price. In fact il is truly named
''The car Of no regrets" Let US tell
you more about this line before you
choose. Main Garage. Phones
Home Z44O. Bell $40. Adv
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01

The Mabel Hawkins style shop
is showing some delightfully."- new
lingerie with the ever-refreshiny
note OF spring that brings gladness
and joy 10 every woman who buys
them. Won't you come in? sos
j. NJ S. Bldg. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
AT THE OLIVER.

Two more opportunities are offer
ed at the oliver theater 10 see Ny
Four Years in Germany" this after
noon at 2:3O and this evening at
Sis. The engagement will posi-
lively close tonight
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01

car ut Sc % popular Francis X ha md BvrIBa
NESS AND exceptionally fine Metro love showing
like by
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
COMEDY
AT THE 4,


A new screen star is shown at the
Lasalle in the person OF Mary Lind
who appears i'm a five reel comedy
drama. Nancy Comes Home" The
plot concerns a young school girl $
experiences trying TO have a good
time when her parents consider her
too young for big city entertain
ments. She starts out on her own
accord and gets into all sorts Of
trouble. The picture is amusing and
fairly interesting. Another one reel
comedy is also shown.
Thursdays picture, The Masked
Heart" features William Russell.
At THE CASTLE.
The motion picture fan" of to-
day demands thrills. adventure. love
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-01
GEO. ID. REROTH.

Lawyer is now located in suite 224-
226 Farmers Trust Bldg. Home
phone S517, Bell 753. Adv. 1881
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

cd and implored Well, you know what
happened Election Day-everybody does.
The East Side went overwhelmingly
BosheVism was left. The red flags were
torn down, and now everywhere-as far
as you can see-are the Stars and
Stripes. The reign of radicalsm is
over
1t nsav be that in the end the East
Side will become as conventional as
Central Park West. Personally, | hope
not 1t would be hard for New York to
get along without the slim, dark-eyed
girls with rings in their ears, the fat
babies III swaddling clothes, the young
mothers with all their bright-colored
shaWls: There isn't so much factory
work there any more; many Of the girls
are going in for stenography, and that
alone lends u different color to Social
problems. They still have the narrow.
winding streets and the tall tenements
with the clothes Tutoring from their
chlmneys, and it is safe to say that the
East Side will continue to be-as it has
always been-a centre of progress and
ldcallsm and initiative. The girls have
promised the boys their Jobs again when
they come back, and plans for recon-
struction work, south of Fourteenth
Street, are vast and complicated. The
East Side has seen SO many changes
that it may be able to weather few
more but at least it will no longer be
a hunting ground for followers of the
red flag.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
How East Side Women Voted

if you attempted to talk patriotism. The
Jews were afraid of the Gar in those
days, and any power that opposed the
Car was bound to be popular.
Then it was that the school children
began to assert their rights. The public
schools set about putting things right
in the children's minds Little Becky
and Rachel and Isador would come home
from school thrilled to the core over
boundaries and treaties and Americas
part in the great war. They would ex-
plain In their own tongue to their wor-
ried parents the real reason we declared
war. The meaning Of democracy began
to filter out through the school children
and through the school children to the
mothers. A school teacher is an idol
and a god to the East Side--whatever
she says goes, and her words are COM
mented on evenings in every crowded
tenement room by mother and father, as
well as all the children And in the
morning mothers lean from their win
dows to talk international ethics across
narrow courts where they hang the
clothes, and there are real fights in the
narrow streets over what they say Once
you get the East Side thinking there is
no limit to its power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER

THINK of it if you want to, or don't
think Of it if you don't want TO-
for, after all, it isn't a cheerful
thought, and no one goes in search of
gloomy ones. But still the fact remains!
Thousands of children Of school age are
untaught every day in New York City.
"Too bad" you may answer "What
has happened to the truant officers?"
But this is not the question to ask; in
stead you should query: "What has hap
pened to the teachers?"
There axe 400 vacancies in the city
schools. There are teachers leaving
daily because there are more attractive
offers elsewhere--and it's not solely for
attractive offers that they are leaving.
Here is case in point:
/ met friend Of mine the other day
She had been a school teacher. In fact,
/ thought she still was one. She had
always entertained me with stories of
her children.
SWELL" said, after had stopped
her, chow are the children?"
'I'm not teaching any more" she an
swered. Elm in another line of work
entirely. I'm filing! What do you think
of that"
"Fiiing" gasped. That's not espe-
cially human work! I thought you felt
you were born to be school teacher
Eyes," she said, ~ was, and l miss
those children terribly. I don't care to
live we'll or luxuriously or anything like
that, but still ] have to live, and
couldn't do it on my teachers salary. Oh,
please don't think" she continued, "that
want big pay. ! want living wage
and I couldn't live on what was get
ting"
A few days later / went to big city
school. There the principal was answer
ing many questions, holding conferences
with children. "Havc you busy after
noon ahead Of your" he asked Of one
small girl, who looked ridiculously young,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

The war soon became personal issue
there, like the price of FISH on pushcarts,
and whether one could afford new shoes
for the baby this winter. Thcl.t the boys
began to come home from the camps,
respondent in new uniforms, full of adj
miration for the way the government
ran things, thrilling with Importance
and ways military. The mothers and
sisters began to see that camp life was
really not bad thing for the boys.
They seemed to wear new manliness
and splendor. This, added to the under
standing of the war as interpreted by the
children, rather undermined the power
of the Bolshcvilli. They were still there
On the soapboXes and in the open streets,
haranguing, condemning the government,
eXhorting the women to appeal to the
President so that the war could not 90
on; but their popularity had begun to
Wanc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
The First Liberty
Loan Undersubscribed

When America declared war was, of
course, their golden opportunity. The
East side has sent $4,000 men to France,
and $4,000 men represent at least 10O,-
600 women Consider what this means
to people of different tongues, re-
ligions, customs and opinions-crowded
two and three thousand to a city block.
The first Liberty loan on the East
Side was badly undersubscribcd. Il
was unsafe, when the first loan went
through, to canvass for Liberty bonds in
the streets. You would, in all proba-
biity, receive tomato can in the head
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
The Englishwoman's House

directions for the housewife the 90.
mittee goes closely into the proyM
fitted-in furniture and other fixtures
there a suitable store place for ies
and is it ON the south side Of the n9lS
where the sun can get at it all day. q
on the cold north side, where 1t sA''a
be?
To insure that no new and good id
Of house efficiency escapes tlen' W.
section of the committee is going Io''.
the country visiting houses Of, all kl'1
to see in actual use IDEAS when '''
claimed as useful. Others are IN '%
sultation with architects, furniture H'r
ers, household appliance makers a.,
people Of all such trades, coIlSus'"'
new inventions and old that may D'.
a bearing on the great question OIL i've
labor and comfort.
The committees investigations ap' =
results when applied to the housing r
lem promise to have an important ~ :,
ing on the life of British women o. = =
working classes in the near future y
the past it has been virtually impOs.D !,
for a housewife to have any though
time for thought, outside her w0ia :,
the running Of her house. MOI ioDs :
it was believed that this and notis'D p.
were the sole function Of woman -:
experience in recent months anu ~ ..,;:
has shattered this idea. Women
in England during the war mas s''oS =:
ed, in fact, has proved, that wOnlS ~.
be mans full partner not IN Nv .n4sii
alone but in even the most W''~ II
and important phases Of WORK. na 1
all women suited to be mated nnosg'
they were, there are not mase' ,nust q
for all of them. Some at ieaS. 70 MOI
unmarried SO long as there O."
women than men. ..ts hsGs
Women's outlook and proslp,sseasno ers'
broadened immensely. Six nii lhS zoe
ish women have just received she only n
To have the interests, ana ovv'a,silipsl
often the intellect, Of ITS w arrsw an
bounded by the limits of a mad asdS tits
monotonous home life is no su"a ursl
for any nation. British wonl 'enIl,; sI
this war have shown great pe.e, 81 q
1t is the wish of the gosef''..,aa', ,se ibsl
nation to develop them ana "
to the full.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

to the old, deplorable methods of ''baby
farming" whereby women of doubtful
character were able to obtain children
to board for the asking and treat them
as they willed, being responsible to no
one in particular for their care.
All homes to which children are sent
at the present time are carefully IN
vestigated at regular intervals and are
required to possess health certificates
from their local health boards. Certain
specified requirements are also made re-
garding the character Of the homes, the
number of children allowed to each
family, etc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
Schools Without Teachers

with two straight pigtails hanging down
her back.
eyes, SIR" she answered, 81 have. I've
got classes under me all afternoon, right
to closing time"
s"What does she mean?" I asked.
"Does she intend to teach?'
"She's going to take the place of
teacher" he said "There are sixteen
teachers absent to-day. There arc forty
children in a Glasgow see how many
untaught children there are in conse-
quence. I've been able to get a few sub
stitutes, but in most of these cases chill
dren are keeping order, trying to do
what they can. The majority of the
teachers who are absent are assent for
good"
Just then youngster came in, a ser-
GUS frown on his face. excuse me, sir"
said the lad, "but do I take the class
above?"
"Well," said the principal, "you take it
for a while until some one comes to re-
lieve you. There is chance Of
teacher coming to that room later"
"a chance of a teachcr!" thought to
myself. And we talk of our future citi-
zens. We talk Of the young and that
they are to bear the problems which are
coming-and they are left untaught.
Problems, problems, problems, yes
the word is annoying. But the fact re-
mains. Four hundred teachers are out
of the SCHOOLS. Others arc not coming
forth to fsM their places. Others are not
going into training schools to make fut-
ure teachers. And why? Because they
are not receiving increases-evidcntly
teaching is not regarded as an industrial
work, for it is not keeping pace with
industrialism Of to-day.
And in the meantime children,
thousands Of them--each day--in city
schoolswithout teachers. It's not a.
cheerful problem, is it? OF course you
don't have to think of it if you don't
want to! But, somehow, it's thought
that sticks, and question seems to fol-
low til What's to be done aboNt~it?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

THE British government has de-
cided to promote the building after
the war Of some 100000 workers.
cottages as part of the scheme of ma
tional reconstruction. An important
part Of the planning for this great
scheme is being done by women. At the
Ministry of Reconstruction (the govern
ment department to which has been in
trusted the consideration of all postwar
problems is a committee composed en-
tirely of women, which is doing nothing
else but consider the question of housing,
not so much from the point of view of
the builder and the landlord and house
owner as from the point of view of the
woman who has to work in the house, the
housewife.
Building in the past has been done by
men. They chose the site and the ma.
terials, they made the plans, and when
all these things were settled they built
the house. Women had no say in the
matter at all. But when the house was
built men ceased to have anything more
to do with it. 1t was the housewife who
became responsible for it, and upon
her fell all the responsibility for making
good, by her management and labor,
defects which were really faults of the
designer and the builder.
The Womens Building Committee of
the Reconstruction Ministry is seeing
what can be done to assure that the
houses of the future are so built as to be
more in keeping with woman's idea
than with mans Of what a house
SHOULD be-
The outward planning Of the house
they feel they may leave safely to
the men architects, so far as aesthetic
beauty is concerned. Interiors are their
strong point. They consider such things
as the fireplace in relation to the coal
hole. What are the clothes washing
arrangements and the bathing arrange
ments? If there is no bath it means
that water has repeatedly TO be carried
to some room or other, making work for
the woman of the house.
With view to saving labor in other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

as a working principle, was not so very
practical after all. Street orators were
no longer received in the homes and in
vited to the tenements. Sometimes they
met with utter GOODNESS and Indifference.
SO the third Liberty Loan went
through.
Then came the children bubbling with
enthusiasm for America-and many
women wearing service pins; nearly all
the women on the East Side wear service
pins. And now they were the ones who
caught the spirit and in THEFT turn took
up the soapboXes. They realized that
the Bolsheviki, by their arguments for
pactism and against the government,
were threatening the welfare of the boys
in France. They didn't stop at soap
boxes, either; they went into the homes
and through the tenements talking to
every mother in her own language put
ting the danger llD to her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
The Problems of
Boarding Children

Some of the requirements OF the New
York Nursery and Child's Hospital are
set down here as typical Of the practices
of The best child-caring institutions en-
gagged in this work:
The problem is threefold: % to pro-
vide wet-nurses for our youngest in
fants, 60 foster mothers of experience
and Intelligence to attend to the feed
ing of bottle babies, and (3) the rela-
lively easy task of finding homes for
children from two to seven years of
age.
The aim of the Boarding Out Depart
ment is to provide normal family life
for each child in private home, with
as much preliminary care in the hos
pital as may be necessary for the cur
ing of illness, the remedying of phys
ical defects and the establishment of
the need of any course of treatment to
be carried on in the boarding home
for the betterment of the physical or
mental condition Of the child.
The nursing staff of the Boarding
Out Department consists of a super
visor and five other graduate nurses,
all of whom have had postgraduate
experience in children's work During
the summer months this number is III
creased to six. There is also an Italian
interpreter. One of the attending
physicians is the medical director of
this department, and to him are re-
ferred for decision all important mat
ters concerning the health of the chill
dren in the boarding homes.
Before being placed in private
home each child is given a complete
physical examination. When he is
found to be free from communicable
disease, from remediable defect, and
has been brought as near normal
health as the hospital can bring him,
he is turned over to the Boarding Out
Department, to be found home suited
to his needs.
These homes, self-respecting middle
class homes, many of them well-to-do
and none of them, with the possible
exception of few wet-nurse homes.
feeling the pinch Of poverty, are stu
ated within radius of twenty miles
of New York; extend from Plainfield,
n. j., to Roosevelt, L. l., and Mount
Vernon, N. Y. All these homes are
approved by their local boards of
health.
q No applicant is considered whose in
come is less than $40 week, or whose
husband or adult son is out of work.
The homes of widows are used only
III unusual cases, for their incomes
are usually small. We also desire our
children to be in well-balanced family
groups, not merely in charge of care
taker. We believe our children get
more of a mothers interest where she
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
God grant you may!" said Miss H.,
fervently, as the woman went out tri-
umphantly with her burden.
What Makes q Mother
Love or Housekeeping?

Reports Of Mrs. VS. housekeeping,
however, still continued unfavorable,
and after two or three weeks Miss II.
self.
Mrs. VS. home was on the third floor
Of tenement on the far West Side,
next door to q junk shop.
AS Miss H. toiled up the dark, rickety
stairs Of the tenement she could hear
Some one singing, gayly, joyously-a
sound that ceased when she knocked
at the door Of the apartment. The door
was opened in moment by Mrs. V.
herself, still holding in one hand big
wooden ladle with which she had been
stirring some savory smelling mixture
on the kitchen stove. She beamed with
pleasure at the sight Of her visitor,
and, snatching some odd bits Of clothing
from rickety chair with the bottom
falling out, urged her to have a seat.
She had been washing the baby's
clothes, she explained, indicating line
strung across the corner of the room on
which some tiny garments were drying,
and stopped just long enough to cook
her husbands dinner.
Never before in all her experience,
and it was wide, had Miss II. witnessed
such scene Of disorder-bits of broken
furniture, soiled, ragged clothes every
wherein the foor-on the tumbled
bed in the corner, mingled with the piles
of unwashed breakfast dishes on the
oilcloth-covered table in the centre Of
the room. The tubs in which the clothes
had been washed were standing still un-
emptied. A heavy, mud-caked shoe Oc-
cupied the middle of the floor, and its
mate was in momentary danger of be-
ing scorched by the red hot Goals that
fell occasionally from the stove. The
room was hot and stuffy, and the odor
Of the cooking mingling with the steam
of the soapsuds was almost unbearable.
In spite of it all, there was the
mistress of the home singing as gayly as
lark, apparently oblivious to the de-
plorable state of her household.
'But, Mrs. ", where is the baby?"
MISS IL. gaSpeo as SOON DIS she couId
find her voice.
ooh, she all right. Come, see," and
she led the way to the open window.
There on the fire escape, wrapped in
an old shawl, was the baby; but not the
same old-faced baby that had left the
hospital only three weeks before-a
baby with the glow Of health in its
cheeks and bright, round eyes, q baby
that laughed and crowed and kicked up
it's heels with delight at the sight of it's
foster mother.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
A Miracle in the
Midst of the Sordid

See, she know me-" exclaimed the
woman with delight, and she brought
the child in and displayed with pride
the healthy color Of its skin, the little
limbs rounding out with firm fat Each
morning, first thing, the baby had her
bath and was fed and then put out in
the warm sun.
cts miracle" murmured Miss H.,
glancing about the untidy room and
back again at the baby. "Mrs. ", you
may keep her"
In the great City of New York thou