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Taxation and Marriage
Here and in England

- OPPOSE Anna A., woman
y lawyer =. whose income, above
her Office expenses, is 5000 a
month, or S2,400 a year, wishes to
marry William w, who earns $50
week-will the income taxes de
ter her from taking the step? On
81, 400 year she pays only nomi
nal tax; his tax en- S3,12O is not
nigh. But if they marry their COM
blncd incomes make over $500 a
year, or something over the $4,000
allowed for normal tax. Will thew.
n"rried, have to pay a surtax?
TDey did not have t. before.
And if they do have to paw the
surtax, might it not be cheaper not
to marry?
Americans have, however. bet
ter deal In this matter of "married"
taxes than have the British In
America a man and wife NAV mako
separate returns. That is. Annie A
after She married William W.
would pay taxes on her own little
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ashcans toward her studio, when one
might meet one of the Four Hundred
stumbling down.
Lola always received them in a
Tong, loose, batik kimono, which bore
design of dark gray nude ladies
being chased across a persimmon
field by ostriches. The refreshments
offered the guests were always the
samoa few Chinese nuts and a
little absinthe.
"How quaint" said the Four
Hundred, and Lola was great sue
cess. But she was Indifferent to it.
She said that it was really nothing
to what she could do if her life had
not been so cluttered up with medi-
OGRE people. And then there was
the shame of her family. That
cIuttered her, too. For she had. it
seemed, an old mother, who worked
IN factory in a nearby town, in
order to support "brat" named
Bertha, who, Ethink, must have been
Lola's sister, although she never
would acknowledge it. That such be-
ings, even though she never saw
them, could belong to her was a
great annoyance to Lola.
However, try to forget that
they exist" she said, with that
bravery and optimism peculiar to
great souls.
1t was through Lola t 3at had
the nlcas,1ra NJ r,oo+;r, ..o.L
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
"Why Don't They Say More About
the Nurses?' Ask the
Wounded Men

chance of a medal. of promotion
with pay and all that goes with be-
ing hero if you live to be one, was
our reward But what do the
nurses get out of it? The remnants
of us, The stencil and the strain of
riecing us together again, the uncer-
tainty Of possibly being blown to
atoms with hundreds of charges in
their care. a possibility that is
unceasing and heavy; all this on
what is it?-$15 a week Cod"
An attempt to obtain an account
of the achievements Of the nurses by
asking them is futile. 1t is only
lurking behind their stories of the
magnificence Of men where hospitals
were being evacuated four times
day, where linen was as scarce as
water and water was not, that one
clutches an idea of their magnificent
story.
"You can take a Tommy said
one of the Presbyterian Hospital
nurses. with the most horrible
dressing, tuck cigarette into MS
mouth, tell him: It's going to hurt
ike the devil now, and you may as
we'll shut up while do it, Never a
zip would you get from him. In the
American hospital where I was the
boys weren't allowed to smoke-fear
Of fire-and it made it harder on
them ana on us, you may believe,
when time for the dressings came. It
rather gets your nerve, going down
q line of cots, each man in, which
you know you're going to half kill
with pain before you leave him.
"Our American salary at Etretat
was SEQ she continued land the
English gave us a field allowance of
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saving up your vital force for a sue
cessful career it is fatal error to
waste time upon the middle classes.
1t impedes success. "Success," said
the elder of the mice. with some bit
terness, is the art of getting
enough to eat
was not alone in my ideals, for
| had, besides the aristocracy, one
ether friend. who was also genius.
Her name was Lola Wincapaw, and
she was descended, so she said,
from an old aristocracy who dwelt
en- the shores Of Bohemia.
1t was, therefore, right and natu-
lal for her to take up a Bohemian
life. Her garnet was larger than
mine and she had real rats, instead
of mice. Everything about Lola
was on the grand scale. She paint
ed large canvases on idealistic
themes and exhibited everywhere,
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ize them myself and spent several
weeks telephonlng and writing and
trying to form committees. But it
was no use; they didn't seem to
catch on. They would stare at me
and say, aren't you little nerv-
ous?"
Don't you want to be a SUGGEST"
l demanded one day of a woman who
had actually broken an appointment,
with multimilionaire. to 90 to the
circus. Il am success she had
replied, peacefully. and, getting on
the bus, she went to the circus.
Come, girls, let US now ask the in
evitable question which ] have been
working up to for the last three
hours, What is a successful woman?
All contributions should be ad-
dressed TO Anne L. Pierce. Direc-
tor Tribune Institute.
Editors Note. - Ne accept the
challenge. Mss Ward is almost os
deep rs she is fippant-u!5en pou
knoac her. What is successful
roman? Let us hear from you
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$4,000 year; William would paw
on his 1920. Their incomes would
not be pooled on the tax returns
and they would not be made to pay
the supertax.
In other words, it is as cheap, as
far as taxes are concerned, for
Annie and William to marry as to
stay single. Not so m England.
There, where a man and a woman
are about to marry, they can save
a substantial sum by refraining, if
both have incomes. Each does not
make a separate return. Their in
comes are pooled, and an apprecia-
bly, higher tax is imposed on them.
AS one member Of the House of
Commons remarked in April, when
the question of the great rise in
taxation came up for debate,
women who are earning or who
have independent property will
think twice before they marry un
der the present taxation laws" An
other member said he had heard it
roughly computed that, in the lower
and middle classes, where women
were earning in such large numbers
since the war, such a couple can, on
an average, save the rent" by
avoiding the formality of a wedding
ceremony. A premium is placed on
immortality. The workers may live
together without marrying and
evade the supertaxes.
Many years ago, in England, the
law declared that married wom-
ans income was her own separate
property and her husband had no
right to it. But by one Of those
strange rulings the British Inland
Revenue authorities have ignored
the Married Woman's Property Act.
They deem the husband possessor
OF his wife's income as well as Of
MS own, and count the incomes
jointly, taxing for the whole sum.
But if English girls do not give up
their financial success and thew
marry, the government will take
from them disproportionate share
Of their earnings.
Fortunately, the right to file
separate declarations obviates that
injustice among married people here.
...4 Mango Harte
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Red Tape
Was Eliminated

1.-The Germans had been out of
the city a week and the Americans
bad been in about two days. The
filth was indescribable The corps
men simply pitchforked it out of the
windows. Furniture lay in broken
lies, stuffing hung out of mat
tresses heavy with odors and dirt.
You'd open door and a pile of
debris would fall out on you. You
never shut the door; you couldn't.
1--WE had practically nothing to
work with, no sheets, no water for
washing or sterilizing, and there
was shortage of nurses. The men
lay there, accomplishing, marvel
lous! Evidently they had fought
like young gods. Certainly they
suffered like them.
THE water that had to be
brought some distance we kept pre-
cious for drinking and the most nee
essary purposes. Il say now that I
had "a bath once at Chateau
Thierry.O 1t was when the doctors
Of the gas hospital took pity and
loaned us the use of their bathing
equipment. 1t consisted of a room
with pipe running across the
ceiling with four jets, providing
four baths at time.
eve didn't even have enough
operating tables. The surgeons
operated on some Of the men on
their filters laid across sawhorses.
Into the wards the stretcher bear
ers would bring wounded, and, to
ease down a patient, would pull an
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q VERY brilliant and success
y ful man, a multimillionaire,
cnce did me the honor to
mediate with me. for q few mo-
ments, upon my future career-a
thing which at that time seemed to
me of the utmost Importance. He
said: You see, Miss Ward, the
trouble with most people is that
they never either succeed or fail"
/ am still breeding over the pro-
found sagacity of this remark.
Those were the days when | lived
in garnet and associated only with
the millionaire and the aristocracy.
The mice who shared the garrett
With NE used to come out at night
and complain that they were lonely.
Why didn't have folks in to tea,
SAID they, like other people, with
sugar and crumbs and things?
| explained that when YOU are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Metf!e of the Wounded Is tho
Burden of the Nurses
Tale

end of a bed out the more readily
to get him into it. Then they leave
the cot that way. Most of the beds
stood every whichway with the wall
Stained dressings lay in heaps
where they'd been stripped off;
basins stood about the floor. If
general came in to see patient he'd
step over whatever was in his way
and pick his path to the cot he was
looking for. Shades of my training
school days! 1t was wild. But any
thing went. Red tape at last had
become as scarce as linen. Life was
reduced to its most primitive and
brutal aspects, but it was being
saved. One thing we did have was
plenty of morphine. Our hypos got
as blunt as crowbars.'
1t is stated authoritatively that,
on the whole, the American nursing
situation is in a healthy condition.
During the war an army school of
nurses has been realized and, due
to the work Of the Department of
Nursing of the National Board of
Defence, assisted by the Red Cross,
a steady stream of aspirant nurses
is flowing into hospital training
schools, to be released each year into
the fields Of private and public
health work. The latter, as it is be-
ing outlined for home and foreign
appliance of skill and energy, indi-
Gates interesting possibilities.
The subject of rank for nurses is
a story in itself, following the re-
cent war, wherein American nurses
we're put to disadvantage over and
above wars hardships by finding
themselves unempowered by a mill
tary system of which they were a
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Human Interest Reasons for Rank for Nurses

$50 for laundry and incidental ex-
penses. Most of it we spent on iel-
lies, fruit and other delicacies for
the men. We were mighty glad of
the chance, they were so corking.
There was always somebody craving
a taste of marmalade, or some little
thing, before going west '"
"The men were wonderful" 1t
was a Canadian nurse who spoke.
She had seen the French during
their most pitiless gruelling, had
had her own countrymen returned
to her in Fragments 1t was not.
then, from a lack of comparative
experience, that she spoke of the
men Of the Rainbow Division.
This Canadian nurse, who had re-
ceived her training in an American
hospital, joined up in 1918, starting
work in a field hospital just as the
marines were "going into it, When
nearest the front, at that time, her
hospital was evacuated four times
a day, the nurses had no linen, were
short on drugs, and, because of pol
lutcd wells, there was scarcely wa
ter for washing or sterilizing. The
men did have water to drink.
"Evacuate Immediately when out
Of ether was the order en- cards
ever line upon line of inert forms
wrapped in blood soaked blankets.
There were beds without the order,
with men they dared not move.
"At one place near the front, -
said the Canadian, I'VE took over a
French civil hospital that was filthy.
The nurses set to work like char
women, while the mother superior
and three sisters did the cooking. We
were given twenty-four hours in
which to clean up, and in less than
twelve hours we were operating on
five tables. was in charge of the
operating room there and two nurses
kept up the supply. We couldn't
stop for meals, just worked through
from morning till night; took egg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
d. S. o.
BY LAURA SIMMONS

BY LAURA SIMMONS
ITO THi\K you got the, D.
). o.
The "Mafie" that we used
To know,
~ simply struck us in heap
me town oOuid scarcely eat or
steep;
But there was one who did not
shine
The wild excitement in the air.
Your Ma! Just qujcf-Hke she SAT.
and heard the loud huzzss for
"Maf."
WiN eyes tcar-dimmcd, hut all
aighf:
~5fs inst whaf rye expccfed-
qujfc,"
(Shc said) "Twas ike nv son
A fine, brave soidier's deed. !
knew;
I thought 'sw0uid come, most any
day"-----
Say, mint Maf Just mothers
Wayf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
IN NY GREYHOUND'S name
wi is Bella Donna. Why
don't ,ro,1 acl- Ctl>@

don't you ask her? She
is much more intelligent than
am parried one of the women of
the stage to-day when we asked
her: What Of the actress as a citi-
zen, and if not, why not?"
"In my present role in The
Crowded Hour I'm an undesirable
citizen, bad, bold jane" said
Miss Cowl, handing out tea and
other pleasantries. But, seriously
speaking, they say the vote is use
full to accomplish reforms. | know
OF a lovely reform which | should
like to see put through. and the
Lord is on my side.
1T concerns the day of rest.
which was established and settled
on the seventh day B. c., until
somebody invented the Sunday
night stand. This unfortunate in
stltutlon is taking the one day of
rest away from a number of ac
tresses who have done enough work
all the rest of the week.
"Out West the Sunday night per
Torrance is regular thing, and it
is lnsldlously creeping East. IF
some kind politician will incorpo-
rate bill for its permanent proven
ton into his platform III vote for
him, and so will every other actress
There is no political organiza-
ton among actresses to effect class
legislation to benefit their kind
but, if there were, the first thing
they'd take up would be the Sun
day night evil.
Concerts and movies are the
scabs responsible for this infringe
ment of the actresses rights. That's
how it started. Musicians who had
all the rest of the week to do moth
ing in began with the Sunday night
concerts. Then the movies opened
of Sunday night. and from seeing
the star on the screen grew the de-
mand to see her in the flesh.
but an actress is not q motion
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Successful Women | Have Known


and belonged to every art organiza-
ton there was. Commercial work
She could not descend to, but as the
American public was not sufficiently
educated to understand, or buy, her
work along idealistic lines, and as
even in this vulgar land one must
live, she lived by painting portraits
Of the children of the rich-the arts
tocratic rich.
We were sorry that Lola had to
demean herself thus, and yet there
was an element Of excitement in her
commercial success, as one never
knew, IN stumbling up among the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
BY WlNlFRED DUNCAN WARD

successful woman-Mrs. Spence
Gill Hooley. She was wonderful
of successful organizer.
Everything that Mrs. Gill; ooley
touched became organized at once,
as though by magic.
The entire back of her Fifth Ave
nue. residence had been turned into
a lecture hall and committee room
and office combined, and from this
place, year after year, there flowed,
upon stationery which would have
made the Gar Of Russia sit up, a
stream of circulars, invitations,
prcclamations, public letters and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
They Bring
Invisible Sheaves

The nurses. of whom about two
hundred arc believed to have been
lost in the service of their country
are now returning, bringing their
invisible sheaves. More and more of
them we see with one and two gold
service stripes. Some wear the
triple gold bars and star showing
they were with our FIRST hundred
thousand.S
In certain quarters there have
heen great rejoicings. as the units
of doctors and nurses return to the
great hospital centres all over the
country that sent them out In one Of
these gatherings recently | saw
woman who for years has been the
distinguished head of one of our
greatest training schools. 1t was
like stepping into community of
complete understanding, where with
every one-doctors and nurses-was
the knowledge of what had been
the struggle, the doing without
tools, the wild, nigh tension, The
training school director stood,
her stately head a white crown
above theirs, the children of her
teaching who'd gone and come back
and-like the rest-had not been
found wanting.
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She then capped the climax by 90
ing over with one Of their canteens
when she might have been com
iortably touring America and lect-
uring about them.
Its lucky thing,' Mrs. Gill;
Hooley used to say, that one men,
Der of our family inherited some
sense" Meaning, and quite rightly.
herself.
Then there was Miss Olga Mars
den. She was very successful
business woman.
She had an office, just like a man,
and an outer Office. You could get
into the outer office by. walking, but
to get into the inner you had to 90
home and write letter to the sec
rotary, stating your business.
The appointment, after one finally
got one. was very exciting. Miss
Olga Marsden was large and square
and sat barricaded behind huge
desk, with her bonnet on. The room
was full of the sound of typewriters.
AS soon as you got in and were lust
gathering steam for q pleasant con-
versation the telephone would invari
ably ring.
This was to give Miss Olga Mars
den time to size you up. She was
very clever woman, and this she
showed at once by pretending that
she does not know you are in the
room. After brief conversation
with her secretary she puts down
the telephone, and discovers YOU.
You have skunk into chair little
to the left, but she at once waves
you in another direction, sayin 2, in
q deep. bass voice: "Sit there
please"
You sit there, and find that by so
doing she is nearly hidden from
your view so that you have to twist
in your chair to talk with her. She
can see you with perfect ease, how
ever, which is all that is necessary.
She is now ready to hear what
you want, and, while you speak. the
words are frozen on your lips by the
cold, hard narrow and COMPOSED
stare with which Miss Olga Marsden
examines you. You begin to wither
and to apologize. although you do not
know what for, and this is evidently
what she wanted you to do. as a
chilly smile of triumph lights her
small features.
Come, now she says. when YOU
are terrified into speechlessness.
state your errand quite frankly.
There is plenty Of time"
Taking heart, you commence over
again; Miss Marsden listens for a
few moments and then looks at the
telephone. AS if in answer to her
thought it rings violently. She in
terrupts you to answer it.
Yes" she says, tell him he can
come in"
There really is no one out there.
but the secretary had instructions
to ring the bell after you had been
IN about five minutes. This is to
get you out, although this does not
dawn upon you until you have got
home and thought it over.
You leave, feeling, and rightly,
that you have been in the presence
of great woman, and SO strong is
the impression she has made on YOU
of your own inferiority that YOU
Sink about for several days finding
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while as many nurses as could be
crowded on the front seats. From
this position we could see, in the
back of the truck ahead, our boxes
of canned beef, desiccated potatoes,
beans and bread made in 1914
"lhe 26th lost heavily and were
moved out of the line The 42d was
thrown in. That's the Rainbow, you
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is necessary is to ask them.' And
for the purpose of asking she kept
going an organization which was a
credit to her and all her friends, as
the papers said, underneath her
Photograph, again, and again, and
again.
Like Lola, she had a grievance, in
the form Of a sister who also did
social work, but Of very different
kind from Mrs. Gilli-Hooley's
For this poor sister had no talent
for organizing. When there was a
piece Of work to be done she used to
go and do it herself. which. as Ms.
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field I described escaped through
the machine-gun nail with only his
arm I'M ured and minor wounds. But
the arm had to be amputated at the
shoulder at 10 o'clock of the night
he was brought in When | came
INTO the ward the next morning he
was sitting on his little cot shaving
himself with his uninjured arm,
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who's all right, sister? Me
eh?' he greeted, one eyebrow crooked
above the other, on his sassy, chal-
longing face. Now, you know you
simply cannot beat material like
that. Those men were so shot to
pieces that they hadn't a right to
live-and they lived
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part, and in which they had to give
orders which had to be obeyed if
the reason for their being there
that of life-saving-was to lie real.
lied. 1t is significant of the good
faith behind the Lewis-Raker bill
which provides for rank for nurses
that increased pay is not asked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
By EDITH DAY ROBINSON

"HE response of the American
trained nurse to the call of
her country is dramatic in its
showing in the United States War
Department. In May, 1915, only $50
women were enrolled on duty in
army service. IN May of the follow
ing year $50 were still enrolled. In
September, 1916, with the Mexican
border trouble, 352 had signed up
with the government. In April, 1917,
with Americas entrance into the
war in Europe, the figures stood 3S7.
In November 1918, at the time the
armistlce was signed, p, 1870 nurses
were wearing the government uni
form, the medical caduceus on their
collar.
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s1jtai tho Wounded

Men Say
Why dent they say more about
the nursez?' His tone was half ag-
grieved- l bad heard it before. |
stopped by his cot. regarding him
qucStioningly. They worked over
there he went on. Zone nurse to
sixty patients in a French clearing
hospital wasn't anything out O. the
ordinary. An, b'lieve me- excited
t. they never were quittersl I've
seen EN- stick an go on tahn' cut
wounded when the men ran to
cover"
For u. at least" was the remark
OF wounded captain of Irish
Lancers. the cheer-o of it, the
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rogs standing if somebody would
bring EN- to us.