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ME prettlest of all the Undo

TT HE prettiest OF all the indoor
garments which women wear,
the negligee. is in style again.
It has returned with peace-and what
can he more typical of n feminine
world Mt peace and restored to normal
life than these soft, trailing pale
gowns worn in the intimacy of home
and suggesting quiet and restfulness?
For a long time there have been only
a few women who have had leisure
enough to indulge in the luxury of
such things Now al! that is about To
lie changed. Women generally will
no longer have to keep the long and
crowded hours which have been theirs
since the war began.
Nothing more decidedly indicates
the changed tenor of the times than
the sort Of clothes women will in
dulge In from this time forward. Az
for tho negligees, the prettiest brought
out of late are really works of art,
for without being in the least like n
dress they suggest a perfectly fitting
morning robe and show none of the
loose non-ftting lines accorded the
old time negligee. while they are as
distinctly comfortable as a negiisee
should be.
OF Lace and GeorEette.
One good model is developed in flesh
ping georgette. The skirt has two
very deep tucks. one above the other.
There Is little fulness in the skirt,
yut enough 10 keep it from looking
! skinny. The waist is formed of two
straight pieces of the Georgette ar
ranged in a bertha effect. At the
waist line n thread OF narrow ribbon
| of several pastel shades goes around
and falls in long streaming ends quite
to the hem of the skirt. The sleeves
reach only to the elbow and are made
Of two pieces, not joined in seam
but caught together at intervals with
loops of the pastel toned ribbons, SC
that the arm is prettlly revealed.
4 charming arrangement ~ lace
and accordion pleated blue Georsettt
Is shown in another one of THESE
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70 woman should grow old

MO woman should grow old
~ before her time or permit the
appearance of coming age to
handicap her socially. Gray hair IS
the buebear of many woman and
should be aooided. Nothing ages
woman SO quickly as gray, streaked
with gray or faded hair, and if this
condition is making you look older
than you wish-do as many Others
have done and use La Creole.
LA CREOLE HAIR DRESSING
is the most popular Hair Color Re-
storer in use among society women
of America today. 1t is safe, de-
lightful preparation which uniformly
restores gray, streaked with gray or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
What Can Be Done. About This?

is there no way in viii. n one can stop ti
curious exhibition of patri, ,tism (God save "a
marx which can be seen daily at the TwsF
ty-third Street and Fifth Avenue corner q
Madison Square?
Standing on raised plat form is GIRL PEI
maps tour years of age, dr. essed sometimes $
a sailor sailor, sometimes as so kiier. sometimes IS
little girl. A woman, app .gently the motheI
is on the ground behind i ,e stand. On tht
front OF the stand is a man selling Thri'
stamps. When a stamp is sc I'd the child hsnd
IL out, and it is passed fro IN one person o
another until it reaches the buyer Occasar'
ally, however, the method is changed, and II.
cnild calls out, IF you will come up here
will kiss YOU"
Out from the heterogeneous crowd steps
man-any man-and the child throws her arr
around his neck and kisses hi IN So far IS
know, no one hitherto has obj .cted, but as u
mother of daughter myself hereby mes
strenuously do object. These k Uses. which nov
go so cheaply for 25 cents, M ~ be expens7s
m, the end, 1t seems to me, bot in physician
pllls and in other ways which to any thought
woman are self-evident
said at first that apparen Ely the child
Ihotner IS with her, but since wr ting the aoo"
l am inclined to think that she is an orpnsI.,
poor thing, as | am sure no mo ther would =
partner in such a proceeding
P. j. OhCONNElL
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the tive-toot space at her son. 1t is hard to
talk across spaces and through iron bars, with
a keeper who sits listening to all you say But
she began to tell him little simple things that
had happened at home. And Paul kept saying
awkwardly, "Well, mother, Pm glad you came
1 didn't expect you"
Every time she paused he repeated it: "Im
glad you came, mother. You were here last
Friday, too. Are you coming again next Fri
day? The fare is So now. 1t was fine that
you could come in Mr.. Woods car, wasn't it?"
Once he said in low tone: "Mother, don't
you worry too much about this. I've been
thinking it all over, and I figure it out this
way What's gotta be has gotta be; now,
hasn't it? And worrying won't help it. You
figure it out that way and it won't bother you
so much After all, you know, things might
be q achole lot a0orse."
| was trying to Figure out" how things
could be very much worse, and not succeeding
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in one tiny hand, whilcathe other dramaticsss
clutched the air. Hi : heart was probssd
pounding with exciteme ant, and his baby hls1
plcturlng such adventure as a heroic thing
:, 1t certainly is not exaggeration to 81
!nae this sort of game ist shocking to the thin,
ing observer If child ultivates this tendesr
as baby, how will it gr pw in later years! d
the twlg is bent, so is t. he tree inclined.
Are the children of tn Re unthinking to be Il
lowed to develop era wing to destroy lihl
what with the war-th pugh it is sad ss
terrible necessity to sto p cruel and scent.3
and heartless disregard of the rights Of ID
small and weaker nation Is (and their wors
and children)-it looks a if our own chia,1
were ,.sl. IN danger of being inoculated with ID
killing mania.
Cannot some of this b stopped at the r.
ginning by prohibiting thet manufacture Of TT
pistols for children?
AGNES SOIEIIA STEWART
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very WE'LL when they remembered me and I
was introduced to Paul Chapman.
That was when I showed that I am not
real newspaper woman. I had thought for
several years that I had some right to be
called one, but now l know l haven't. I don't
know what I am. All know is that could
more have talked to the boy in the cage
about murder and his own sudden death than
| could have talked of them to any other boy
Instead, / asked him whether it ANNOYED
him to be called "child" in the papers, He
is such a big boy.
II guess I feel like one," said Paul, soberly
More than used to- Since l came up here
it makes you feel pretty young to get into
we'll, you know, such a
"And then in another way it makes you
feel terribly old
"Mother," he suddenly interrupted himself,
"see, got my nails cut at last" He held out
his hands through the bars. They were un-
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naturally clean and smooth for boys. Cali
but one on my left hand" he went on, in
specting them carefully. "He must have
missed that one"
"Who must have missed it," asked
"The doctor. He comes around with shears
and cuts our nails. We aren't allowed to have
anything to do it with ourselves"
"Well, Paul." I exclaimed, "no wonder you
feel like child, with somebody cutting your
nails for you"
And the boy and the keepers in the death
house laughed.
"Do you get shaved too?" asked his mother
Mothers think of those things
eyes, about once in two weeks" said Paul
passing his hand face as smooth as a
baby's.
(Will the learned judges who seem to doubt
PauPs youth please take note Of the condition
Of his beard?)
We asked him how he kept track of the
days, and he said by the food that was served;
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Letters From Men and Women on
''What the Law All0ws''

as adults, all with the kidnapper and robber.
Society that does not raise its protest indi-
vldually against conditions which breed and
teach immortality nor protest against the legal
killing of its victims as an insensate means
of protecting itself, must be shaken awake by
the presentation Of such questions to be
answered.
Legal killing Of ctizen-child or adult
IS an unlntelligent and illogical method of in
tlmldatlon and suppression, which does not ac-
compllsh its aim of safeguarding society
Crime goes on and increases in the states
where punishment, according to the Mosaic
law of IAN eye for an eye," still remains on
the statute books, written there in the babv
hood of this country
Have we grown up only commercially and
intellectually and not morally? We do not
even provide "cities of refuge" where those
who menace society may flee and their physi-
cal bodies be allowed sanctuary. Have we.
who have learned the lessons thew are STUDY
ing and failing in, no more sense of our mu
tual responsibility than % drive their souls ont
or their bodles-kick them back to God as
unworthy OF our company and help in His
school here? " '
=, These are questions worth considering bv
the ethical and high minded, whose slogan
should be "Revise our antiduated and unmer-
ciful laws" O N'''''eA-
Moral training should be definitely included
IN the public school curriculum Physical and
mental training without the moral is menace
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
A Woman Lawyer Speaks for Paul

have spent many hours delving in the laws
relating to women and children, hence the con-
ference held by the Legislative League at the
Astor last week to protest the execution of
Paul Chapman would have been most inter
esting to me. Unfortunately, there were sew
eral matters which l could not sidetrack, and,
besides, | have promised to root out data and
facts for use in this same cause.
When women help to make the laws they
will bring their hearts to the aid of the heads,
and there will be no such remnant of old
English legislation as the general provision of
holding all persons, young and old, amenable
for capital offenses l have devoted a very
extensive section of my next book to this very
matter, i. e., the laws taken from and con-
strqed in conformity with the common laws
OF England, which declared all persons under
twenty-one years of age infants, but ex-
cused or mitigated their offenses against the
law only where there was shown want or de-
feet of will. There are records of the execu-
ton of Enthusiastically, one lad of ten years,
for murder.
But the subject is too big to gloss over
and too tragic. ROSE FALLS BRFS
Counsellor ct Loau
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we find this grave lack of parental authority.
We have cases of children from good families
who get into serious trouble because of the
absence of discipline in the home. l do not
advocate the curfew but my experience has
made me painfully realize the necessity of
parents knowing where their daughters are
and the company they are keeping
"The parents in congested districts. of
course, have the worst problems to contend
with, because in these districts it is impossible
to know even ones next door neighbor And
only constant care and supervision will do
away with such tragedies as come before me.
Another important cause for the downfall
of the very young girl is the economic one. If
girl works hard all day and receives Sc a
week. OF which the majo part is given to her
home, she naturally longs for the means to
purchase few good clothes and shoes-still
more, if the girl working beside her is the
happy possessor of them. The feeling of long
ing and envy grows, and she wonders how it is
possible to afford such luxures Condolences
follow, and she is made acquainted with the
method by which her friend helps out her
weekly salary. It doesn't take very long be-
tore she too, accepts the situation which makes
the acquisition of a little finery possible.
1T is the practical conditions of life that
will have to be changed for such girls. After
all, isn't it perfectly natural for a young and
attractive girl to long for few pretty clothes
and little amusement? The low wages paid
to women and girls without training are in
many cases the reason for their ultimate
tragic fate
II shall never forget the impression I made
on little girl who admired the dress had on.
asked her whether she knew how had got it
she knew we'll enough the price she had paid
for the pitiful, cheap finery she wore! And
told her that 1 had worked for mine and
earned it legitimately. And I offered to helm
her get work that would pay her decent wage
SO that she could do the same thing.
"Only woman knows that one cannot an
peal to girl victim such as this on moral
ground only One has to discuss logicallv and
IN busnessllke manner the fact that che
OBTAINS after all very little in worldly values
1or her degradation l almost inyariab]v fnd
that these girls will admit to me a sincere w;sS
lhat lney mad never started on a wrong path
ana they always promise to return to a
straight life. If | will help them"
1t seems that it does need the practical off
clent woman OF to-day, such as this newlv an
pointed Deputy Assistant District Attorney
TO realize that these are merely erring chit
dren, capable of reform, and not hardened
criminals, only to be condemned
Editors Note: Is there am reason ,yhv
special consideration should be extended onI,
10 girls acho come before the District Aftor,
ney! Why not to boys as ,UeL-uoun0 hons
acho also might be helped By a svoman's uuder.
standing Of child's mind?
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NEW CITIZENS POINT VIEW
Paul Chapman, Aged Sixteen, Condemned to [
viii the Women of Ne,
YORK. Co Ssdone the ELec
hocuHe'n of Children

And as we tai ked we could hear the ma.
the death house calling out to one spo.S
from their cellil. There were a numb, \
voices. The dea tn house is very full \
One of them hid: ats fae dav. i'm. j
It's the most be sutiful day we've had IN 49,
a while"
The others agreed with him. and -.
answered that the sun seemed unns,.s
bright.
"And then get the papers," Paul w.
on. eve alwa US read The Tribune. ~
call it Paul Cha pman's paper up here. Th,sJ
because-maybeI you remember one Suo1.
there was lot in it about me7'
did.
Then he tho1 Ight Of something that no;
him angry.
"Say, mother. in one of the papers ~
they said you wore a cheap blue drn
Don't you let II; bother you What do.,
man reporter know about women's clos 1
anyhow"
"Did you thin TX I looked shabby, Pant
asked Mrs. Chap1 nan.
Gee, mother! Did you think was think.
about your cloth es?"
When we came but the other prisoners IN.
side the death house were playing tennis !,
their yard. And upne of the keepers who h,
been there ten YEARS was telling me how \.
Figured it all out.
"When l first C ime up here" was the Va,
he put it, II had the same idea a lot of u.anl.
have-that there re some folks who are ma,
urally criminals al Id have to be kept in aI
But after I'd mix ed with burglars and mn
derers for a whilef found out that thev 4
much like other fl llks. Some are better al
some are worse. The difference betvssI
them and the folks soutside is that they've Il
been caught in mist pkes lot of us nigh. hs,|
made-and didn't.
And I tried to figure it out myself
thought of the chez .kers and the pinochle a..
the man in the dea tn house who called on. \
his mate chat it see med very fine day.
Paups distress aboltt his mothers clothes
The institution o., Sing Sing is not wsH
thing. There are igh stone walls up thrl
There are iron ba b and padded cells al
grinding locks and IA clank as of chains
had dreaded going. 1 had thought / shors
see horror and misery in the death house ar.
fear. 1t is not a p lace one would choose .
go for inspiration.
Yet l came away exhilarated. I've been
happier since about 'some things thanl yyer
was before.
You have to see human beings in a crul.
tight place to know how game human nan,
really is
That's the way figure it out"
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Against illegal Murder"

-. 6 ou question most pontedly in your article
on anf raul Ghapman's case called What the Law
eff the children go WRONG wbera doos
the fault lie? Is it original sin or are the
conditions with which we surround them such
as as to to make them unfit to cope with life? And
CT H before bv 50 bad d that they
contract or legally cast vote. should t f,s,,
or ,S S1{ciety bear the burden of what they do %
There is text enough for drastic Volume
on on, the s criminal schooling offered by thrilling
dav ov Scenes snowng for entertainment day by
IT. and the get away" with the svmpa sJu o of
the audience. hedgling girls and boys as well
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lhe Child and the Dangerous Tow

IS there TO way of stopping the use of TOW
pStols and percussion caps by boys of FIVE and
seven years? Playing at murder cultivatns
the killing instinct, the taking at a disadvan.
1age' the getting the better of another.
Parents who buy such toys for their vounv
sons in war time probably think it quite harm,
less under the circumstances-but how about
the psychology of the thing?
90 mere has Been case lately in Jersey City
enough gun and rushed to shoot his playmate.
VINO happened to have appropriated more than
ms ms share of marbles. This boy probably had
n ma toy gun from which he learned the use
have seen a baby boy initiate = motion
picture poster by stealing out of an apartment
door and creeping down the steps with pistol
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

they always know what they are scheduled to
get on a Tuesday or Thursday But there
are no clocks calendars for those whose
days are slowly marching toward the one they
know will be the last
When we got really started Paul talked
brightly about a number of things Ever since
that outbreak among the prisoners the night
that John Kushnieruck, the eighteen-year-
murderer, was dragged away through the little
door through which no one returns, the con-
demned men, who shrieked and yelled and
pounded on the bars in protest, had not been
out of their cells to take exercise, and had
been deprived of their chairs and their shoes
and their extra groceries. But he told US
how they play checkers and pinochle, each
sitting alone in his cell with board in front
of him, calling out his moves to his neighbor,
while referee keeps track of the game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
By ALISSA FRANC

by ALlSSA FRANC
C1X OR eight months ago Judge Harry E.
Lewis, District Attorney of Kings Coun-
ty, appointed as his deputy the first
woman to whom this position was given in
New York State, because" he said, "of the
very large number of cases that are brought
to the office by women and children complain
ants, and cases in which women and children
are chief witnesses" Judge Lewis maintains
that these are naturally reluctant to tell to
men the intimate details which it is often nee
essary to describe. He had found that through
modesty or embarrassment the true facts Of
many cases were never made known, and sue
cessful prosecution was often handicapped or
made impossible. He felt, therefore, that the
examination Of women and children could be
handled best by woman deputy-that she
would make it easier for women and children
to talk.
Miss Helen P. Mccormick was the young
woman chosen. At first it was feared that in
position Of this kind the sentimental attitude
which woman Is believed to maintain toward
social crimes might interfere with the perform
ance Of her duty in such position, but those
who know Miss Mccormick feel that she plays
not only a human part in the work Of her
Office. but a strictly practical one in the saving
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"Thou Shalt Not XIII"
Committee on Philanthroplc Labor
of the Society of Friends

Committee on Philanthroplc Labor
of the Society of Friends.
Dear Friend: Being in i'll health. I could
not manifest by my presence the interest feel
IN the meeting called by the Legislative League
10 consider the case of Paul Chapman AS a
member OF the Society of Friends l am in full
sympathy with the object of the meeting. and
fervently desire that your efforts will be- Sue.
cessful Any assistance l can render will be
given. | can also speak for the Society
Sincerely thy friend,
JOHN VIM. HUTCHINSON.
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Where Faiths Unite

Mr. M. w. Wood.
Dear Sir; herewith nclose the signed copv
oi tne resolutions which you sent to me some
Ilme since In the name of the association
| wish you success and trust you will be ab1o
70 Tree Paul Chapman. l follow with intense
interest the letters in The Tribune ''~'''0
Ill., g. M. A. ROSS.
ton, N. Y. s''aiii
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Il Glimpse BetiUeen the
Bars at a Boy in Sing
Sing Death House
By MARIE DE MONTALVO

eyes of the laac acithout legal counsel, arith-
cat the protection Of friend parent, last
County the story achich indicted hin, and sent
hi', to the death house techmicalty. Had
he been older he ,Uould haze kno1un enough to
ask for counsel before speaking.
Paul cues has conviction largely to his
youth and has frankness.
Outside the sun was shining. Paul Chap
mans mother, his attorney, Matthew Wood,
and had gone to the prison to see the six
teen-year-old boy who was condemned in
Kings County on technicaIty of the law to
die in the electric chair for a murder he did
not actually commit.
We talked little first to the warden
one Of those rare men who look straight at
you, listen intently to what you say and give
it careful reply. Then, led by relays Of
keepers, who each in turn vised our papers
turned grinding lock and passed us on to
the next one, we made the trip through the
Jail to the part reserved for the condemned
men-the death house.
Here there is little reception Office, where
Mrs. Chapman and 1 left our purses, and
we Ill signed Pauls visitors book Then
another iron barred door-another corridor
and the last door of all, made Of solid iron.
In this slide opened, two inches square,
and revealed an eye. Our attendant spoke to
the eye, which was apparently satisfied about
us, for the keeper who belonged to it promptly
turned the grating lock and opened the door
with a clang. Mr.. Wood was then thoroughly
searched-why are not women searched?-
and we went into the death house; not the sec
ton where the condemned men actually live
but a dsused part of it to which they are
brought to see their visitors.
boy stood in an iron cage, holding on to
the bars He looked out between them with
anxious brown eyes He seemed like 1.-the,
hungry young animal in menagerie, who
every time he hears step hopes it may be
some one come to set him free.
But the boy was better guarded than the
lions and tigers in the zoo. The bars seemed
closer and stronger, and outside the bars, five
feet away, protection of heavy wire inclosed
his cell. Between the wire and the bars sat
a keeper guard.
The mother Of the boy in the cage twisted
her fingers through the wire and smiled across