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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-22

present Mrs Asquith may have
caused poet TO name her ''tho
woman with the serpents tongue"
but It also must have kept her from
taking men too seriously. al
When Sir william Miller, q friend
OF the family, said to her, Marcy,
would you rather marry mo or break
your leg?'--she answered, Break
both, Sir william"
A German officer followed hsr
when she was walking home alone
from an evening performance at the
Dresden Opera House. He asked II
he might accompany her home, and
she Rssented readily After convar-
sation. during which he also asked
her 70 take supper with him in. a
private room, she said, I'm afraid
we must part now"
But you said 1 might take you
romel" protested the officer.
'MnrgOt with n slow smile)sg 7
know l did, but this is my home.'"
II was--and che looked diBappoipt-
ed and surprised. but taking my hand
he kissed It, then stepping back salut-
ed and said: 'PGrdOnneE- moi, made
mOtsCile.'"
Her most serious love AFFAIR was
with one Peter Flower. brother OF the
late Lord Battersea, n good looking
and magnetic young man with a huge
crop Of debts and no occupation or
serious interests. The reasons for her
final dismissal Of him, when she was
twenty-seven, she sums up In words
every woman in love with a waster
should read:
"To live for ever with a man who
was incapable OF loving anyone but
himself and me, who was without any
kind OF moral ambition and chronic
ally Indifferent 10 politics and relig-
ION, was nightmare His lack Of
moral indignation and purpose, his
intractabilty in all that was serious
and his incapacity 10 improve had
been cutting a deep though uncOn-
scious division between us for years;
and | determined at whatever cost
that / would say Eoodby to him"
OF that compelling person" whom
she married she writes simply: when
Henry told me he cared for me that
justified inner voice which we all OF
us hear more or less indistinctiy told
me | would be untrue to myself and
quite unworthy Of life II. when such
a man came knocking at the door, ]
did not fling II wide open"
one matrimonial epigram IN the book
Is so cool il must be repeated. But
there are two versions. According ia
the author, when somebody said to
Arthur Balfour Il hear you are going
20 marry Margot Tenant" he re-
piled: mo, that Is not so I rather
think OF having career OF my own %
According to an account current IN
London, what he answered was: mo;
| already have a profession"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-22

to perfect themselves in the many df-
hcult and delicate Scout tests-difn-
cult even for normal girls with tho
full use OF all their senses.
These blind Girl Scouts meet every
Monday night at the Federation Set
tlement, No 24O East 1O6th Street, to
practise one Of the three great divi-
sions Of Scout work Accommodating
Tho other two divisions are health
getting and citizenship. A. o'clock
the blind Scouts gather In the base
meu kitchen, tie on their big aprons
and proceed 10 cook their own dinner
as deftly and brizkly as II they could
sec what they were doing. handling
heavy pots and kettles and never
burning themselves on the big stove.
They cut bread, cook sphagetti
measure cocoa set the table. They
taste and feel and smell and listen, to
"see" II the soup Is boiling, N tho po-
tatOCs are cooked through, If the but
ter will 80 round, They laugh and
tease and Joke as they work. II takes
careful observation on the part OF tho
visitor 10 convince one that the happy
young cooks do not look AZ their work,
that they are slghtlcss.
The dining room IS a pleasant place
of shining brass and simple rurnrtur.
The table ls set correctly with pup"r
plates and napkins there is AWAY
"a rontCTpIrCc, 10 only single BpTig
Of fern IN % dun green howl Service
is quick, food i5 good and hot and the
cooks, turned guests, thoroughly en-
10y themsaivsa- Eaoh RoSk one a Ehe
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TIE ARR FAMILY No Tests Will Stump Blind Girl Scouts
Copyright


IT HIS morning Mr.. Jar, staying
home with a sore throat, was
observing the processes by
which the children were got Off to
school.
Where are your books2 what did
you do with them?" asked Mrs. Jar,
buttoning the little boys overcoat.
Emma had them. She's always
taking my books" whined the little
boy.
II did not I did mott" cried the
little girl. But he tore my reader.
He tore the little dogs picture OUT"
"l didn't! 1 didn't touch her
bo0ks!" replied the little boy
This leaving the matter of the torn
book a question Of veracity Mrs. Jarr
wisely dropped it.
Look at your hands, Willie Jarr!"
she cried. "Oh, dear! Were you go
Ing to school with such hands? Sup
pose the teacher sends you home and
disgraces us?"
Lazy Slav1nsky always has dirty
hands and he amt sent home" said
the boy. "Ho's only sent TO the
washroom."
We'll, you wash your hands home,
and wash them clean! And brush
your hairl" cried Mrs. Jarr. 'Do you
think I've nothing else to do but look
after a big boy like you?"
So saying, she dragged him TO the
bathroom and cleansed him hur-
riedly, while he howIed vain protests
After an inspection Of the little
girls dress, which had to be changed
and a self selected red hair ribbon
was pronounced to be unsightly and
for which a blue ribbon, not so much
to the little girls liking, was sub
stituted the children were got of To
school with many verbal commands
Is to conduct warnings as to cross
ing streets and avoidance Of certain
other children Of unsecmly depOrt-
mcnt, and 50 on
Mrs. Jarr and Gertrude the maid
now dOnned fearsome dust ers"-
that is they wrapped their hair up
turban- wise, in remnants Of Old
aprons of blue and brown checks
and savaEely attacked the Dust
Demon.
Whenever Mr.. Jarr went 10 resi-
his sore throat on the lounge he was
followed by his wife and gerving maiC
furously moving furniture, opeuinl
windows and raising great clouds
OF dust by loom and brush,
He had retreated i'm good ordcI
TO the kitchen, but here ne only had Z
few minutes respite, for the Anna.
IONS Of cleanliness charged upon him
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New York life seems artificial to me.
It's most interesting, but-but"--
There's no place like the West" I
came to the rescue.
mo. 1 won't exactly say that"
modestly corrected Miss Trickey. As
we both rose from the tea table with
the same thought on our lips:
"Oh, East is East and West Is
West and never the twain shall
meet"
II you were born in the West your
fate is bound to be a cowboy while
Eastern lasses are content with the
chaps who roll about in fiivvers in
stead of dashing about on a ripping,
snorting, busting broncho.
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showing him out of the way, the while
they scraped cooking utensils and
scrubbed shelves and dishes.
He was called upon to move all
heavy articles Of furniture, take the
Interior mechanism out of the gas
range and hang the newly laundered
curtains.
"a man might as well work as be
sick" gTumbled Mr.. Jarr.
well, a sore throat won't pre-
vent you giving us a hand" replied
Mrs Jarr And now you see what has
to be done in house, while You men
have it easy at your Offices"
Just then, the worst of the house,
cleaning being over, the dOorbell rang
and Gertrude answered the call, only
10 beckon significantly to Mrs. Jarr
as though some mystery were on the
threshold
"Have you got four ninety eight p"
asked Mrs. Jarr OF her good man
Mr.. Jarr produced five dollars
whats II for?" he asked.
"Oh, never mind! It's nothing that
concerns YOU" was the reply.
And then the door closed and the
girl took the package that had ar
rived and put 1t in Mrs. Jarrs room.
Again the bell rang a few minutes
later and Mrs. Jarr, who was nearest,
answered il.
Have you got three dollars and
Bixty-four cents" she asked, return
ing with another package.
mo, ! haven't" snorted Mr.. Jarr.
"I'm home as an invalid not as a phil
anthropist,"
But in the end he had to yield, for,
while her health and his money held
out Mrs. Jarr was doing her Christ
mas shopping carly-C. o. d.
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,,Wyo, this year. Outclassed
tWenty-six women in bronco
busting, trick riding and
Roman racing and with 1t all
she is still too young to vote,
just a trifle over five feet in
height and weighs well under
= hundred pounds.
Now. Miss Lorena Trickey
(and that is an excellent name
FOR one who rides broncos) is
here in New York to receive
the AcAlpln Trophy presented
by l.. NJ. Boomer and enjoy
her first squirt of the city.
And Miss Trlckey has her
own opinions about cowboys,
our Horse Show an every
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man who can support her in the style
70 which she Is not accustomed,
Alimony, unlike lightning, often
strikes twice in the same place.
II any girl believed the advice ten
dered by the womcn's magazines, she
would marry convinced that blue rib
bons on her underwear and beaten
biscuit on the supper table are al that
are necessary 10 keep any mans love.
The modern young man who tells a
woman that he wants her 10 lunch
with him on a fifty-tifty basis Is usU-
ally so modern that he borrows
enough from her 10 pay for HIS lunch
the second time they go out together.
The tragI-CDmoly Of love ls written
in FIVE acts, Temptation; H.. Flirt-
alton, H.. Adorationi w. Agsrava-
ton; v, Migration
No man has TO be bug conductor
this season TO decide that "legs 10 NC
AnoAA 70 me- .I--4--t ..--, - 81. -----.-----4
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THIS is story about what is
probably tho stranGcst, the
bravest and the cheerfulost
girls club in New York. Twenty blind
girls in Harlem, girls who cannot, for
the most part, tell the difference be
tween day and night, have banded to-
gcther in a Girl Scout Troop, and plan
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-22

TOOTH pulling and marrying are
tragic experiences, and some Of
us prefer to endure the one
without gas and the other without
fuss.
Business success used to he a sort
Of BOBBY prize for the woman not
clever enough TO marry, but nowadays
many a wife considers that she is the
BOBBY in lifc's competition
Fashion note for the little girl: She
must wear her hair and her stockings
long II she doesn't want To 'bc taken
for her mother or her older sister.
An optimist in low, is person who
believes that his future wife never
will b. unreasOuably angry or that
her future husband never will have a
CROUCH before breakfast.
Th8 modern girl wantO to marry a
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-22
Mrs. Asquith: Her Latchkey
And Her Admirers
She Relates Some of Her Zippy
Experiences as a Deb-and Later
BIZ Marnnerffe Dean

@. N Enn
vice from old o man
be
"a
u your decision before
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Are New York Men Less REAL
Than Western Cowboys?
Pretty COWgirI Says "YeS"-and
Our Women "TOO Proud of
y Their Ankles and Threats"
By Fay Stevenson.
ocrgTisit. 1890. by The Press Pr5lishing o.
CTbo New York Dvnning WORLDLY

GJID Is known rs the champion
woman rider OF the world. has
captured tho gold trophy ut the
Frontier Day roundup at Cheyenne,
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ZIG AACAlpln trophy DTGNenleu
! by l.. NJ. Boomer and enjoy
her first squirt of the city. ~
And Miss Trickey has her
own opinions about cowboys,
our Horse Show an every
thing.
''Of course the horses at the Show
are beautiful" admitted Miss Trick
ey as we slipped tea at the McAlpin
and talked OF her first Impressions
OF New York, but I'm afraid Wyom-
sng wouldn't be much impressed by
them. They looked so useless COM
pared to our Western horses. Imagine
enc holding one of our big horned
steers"
The dainty little equestrienne
shrugged her shoulders, evincing her
disdain of our fancy breeds, so 1
quickly changed the subject from
horses to clothes.
Did you approve of the way the
New York society woman IS gowned
TVhen she attends the Horse Show2"
I ASKED and here again he little
shoulders assumed an attitude OF dis
approval.
81 think the New York woman is
Just a tri1e too proud OF her ankles
and throat" laughed Miss Trlckey
. "I'n admit l saw some of the pref
hiest and best dressed women | have
ever set eyes upon, but to go to
Z horse shOw-well. I would rather see
them in tailor made or, If they ride,
leather clothes and chaps
There was a slight pause and then
I asked this young woman whose
clean, fresh skin and sparkling brown
eyes tell of her life in the open,
whether she would rather marry a
cowboy Zone OF her big pals whom she
had grown up with) and live on a
ranch, or one Of our New York
r clerks or Office workers and live in
three rooms right in the heart Of the
, city.
Miss Trlckey did not hesitate in
her reply.
"of course I'd rather wed a cow
a boy!"
''But why?" ! persisted.
because they are REALv
"But so are many of our New
York men," ! responded. "Thoy may
seem light and frothy and many OF
70. them given to silk shirts, spats, yell
low gloves and canes, which, perhaps,
seem bit foolish 10 a Western girl;
but back of it all these young men
are Just as real as real can be-"
= "Oh, don't object to the way they
dress and I love tho way they roll
their rs" laughed Miss Tricky, but
when l say the cowboy Is real / mean
he eats real food (steaks, not salads
and pretend food, he wears warm
clothes and says what he thinks
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

The English Compania Explora-
dora de Minas is opening up the an
cient silver mine there known to
Montezuma and tunneled by Cortes.
1t is building road to the railroad.
Three thousand laborers have come
in from adjoining states. Taxco has
work.
M Crowder, The gerente Of the
company, told me Of former revolu-
cionario generals and "colonels"
and majors, Zapatistas all, noted for
their destructiveness, now content
to work at road building for rs cents
a day.
Something Of culture, too, is be-
ginning to come home again in Mex
ico, showing itself first in the the
alers. Adolfo de la Hucrta, the Pro-
visional President, is an artist, a
musician. He has tried, among the
many more demanding urgencies
upon his time, to give what stimulus
he could TO music.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
NO AMOUNT of acor and
disorder can impair the
natural beauty Of MEXICO,
such, for instance. as the
Mountain Of Istaccihuatt. the
Sleeping Woman

And no provision made for exchang-
ing the one product with something
desperately needed from the next
town.
What of modernity has centered in
the capital seems never to have been
strong enough to permeate to the
provinces. One can travel far in
Mexico and keep unbroken the I'M
preston of purely primitive civili-
zation. went for days on horse
back through the State Of Guerrero,
which is one Of the naturally richest
states in Mexico. In It's bigness.
beauty and fertility, | was thinking
constantly of California in the
spring. Yet the road from its capt.
tai, Chilpancingo, to its biggest sea-
port, Acapulco Zone Of the finest nat
ural harbors in the world, is an al
most impossible trail over the noun
talns. SO rough only burros can take
freight over, so narrow in many
places only one burro can pass at
a time.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Native Love of Music

A clever company OF comedy and
burlcsque players has lately come
from Madrid A brilliant writer and
director Of light opera, Senor Pc
nella, has brought company from
Spain. The theatcrs are crowded
And an original production of
Maestro Penella's "El Cato Monies"
has met with enthusiastic response.
OF course, the native general
widespread love Of music in Mexico
has been commented upon to the
point Of being tircsome. confess
| expected more from the wild native
gu!tarigt than ne was able to deliver.
But | always enjoyed that moment
in thc cincmas when the orchestra
happened TO 20 into an unpopular
piece, in the midst Of the stars big
scene And the entire audience,
oblivious of the drama unfolding be-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
On the Art Of Reading

ing an anthology Of such wild flowers
Of wayside speech. He would have
included in it some far-travcled say
ings. such as that Of the freighter
in the alkaline districts Of Alberta,
who said, pointing with his whip to
an intensely blue lake on the hori-
zon, Bitter as a dying mans sweat
is that same water" and the perfect
definition Of ghost implied in the
words of Newfoundland fisherman,
There I sees 'em warming their
selves in the moonlight
Perhaps some Of our readers can
send us other specimens of these ut
terances of metaphorical power and
large simplicity of homely. unlet-
tered folk
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

fact that girls show more resistance
in fighting nalnutrition than BOYS.
Physicians have found that girl
can go longer on less food with less
serious results than a boy of the
same age. Contrary to the general
belief, babies are not the worst suf-
ferexs in Austria. l found that the
children most affected by starvation
were the boys and girls between six
and fourteen years Of age"
Mr.. Panzer made frequent inspec-
ton of ;ne food stations, accompanied
by Professor Clemel.s Pirquet and
Or. andre Nobel. who are assisting
Lieutenant Gilchrist Baker Stockton,
the American Relief Administration
representative, in feeding the chill
dren of Austria.
Herbert Hoover is again cham
pioning the cause Ct destitute and
orphaned children of Austria,
Czecho- Slovakia, Poland and the
Baltic states. After the investisa-
ton made following the 1920 har-
vests 1t was found that America
must send mere food this winter IL
two and a half million boys and
girls were not to starve. Mr.. Hoover
estimates that 100000 will keen
these children alive until August,
1901
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
ANOTHER delightful fea-
ture Of Merlco City is
her fountains and beautiful
foacers

No amount of pressure has so far
been able to make de Ia Huerta de-
liver over any foreigner in Mexico,
even an American, not wanted for
an actual extraditable offense.
The President, and he viii be SO
only few weeks longer, is 4 truly
remarkable man. AS | understand
it, Ad0lfo de la Huerta comes from
very humble origin, an origin seem
ingly incapable of causing or even
explaining his distinction. And when
/ said distinction had not come back
to Mexico I remembered her women.
+ forgot her President.
Adolfo de la Huerta mas very true
Cistinction-not strikingly Of person,
perhaps, but of mind and of heart.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

is the number of undernourished
children that those registering a
normal condition must be dropped.
An occasional visitor passing
through Vienna would not notice
the misery that exists just below the
surface Of things" said Mr.. Panzer.
"Of course, the crowds are gone.
Vienna, to those who knew the city
in the old days, is like cemetery
strangely quiet and unreal The
restaurants are open and you can
get good food for what seems a
small sum in American money. but
he average American does not take
into consideration that these prices
represent enormous sums in the
currency Of the country.
at is only after getting out into
the residential sections of the city.
visiting the schools and the food
kitchens, that you can understand
the appalling situation was
amazed, on questioning the children
about their ages, at the effect these
years Of hunger had on their growth
and development. One small boy
thought was six was really thirteen
years old. Yet, without American
food these children, dwarfed and
stunted as they are physically and
mentally, would be dead now.
"A surprisiuo thsrv to mo ~r,u +ha
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Zapata's Home

Guerrero was one Of the states
where the famed and feared Zapata
worked and lived. must havA
passed in those FAR, inaccessible
mountains many Mexicans who but
yesterday were Zapatista bandits. =
saw p,enty who looked the part
travelling along with their very de
pressing looking machetes, yet
everywhere nothing but courtesy.
helpfulness and smiling good humor.
Over the mountains, in Acapulco,
l found some Of my countrymen, who
had stuck through the revolution.
still not entirely convinced that peace
had come. In fact, the rancher had
his best mules hidden out in the
brush, and the merchant had most Of
his merchandise buoyed out in the
open sea on a lighter. But it was
not bandits they feared, but author
lty.
The military authority, the CHIEF
Of arms, the general. the jefe, has
always, unfortunately for Mexico,
been a great personal believer in
special privilege and the right OF
might.
The Sonorans. de Ia Huerta, Obre
gon, Gales, announce they are put
ting an end to this. But their arm
isn't long enough to reach TO the
furthest cuartels. and the jefe de
las armas still prospers.
However, during Carranza's term
many citizens stabbed their favorite
and most valuable stock in the par
lors Of their homes.
1t shows 4 certain hopeful increase
in confidence when a good mule is
allowed outdoors, even hidden in the
brush.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Royal Palaces of Vienna Now Soup Kitchens

ing 100 900 boys and girls in the
Austrian capital.
The children. that fiji the palace
halls are not all ragged, dirty little
beggars, but many are the younger
generation Of the middle and profes-
sional classes. The other day ia
nous general, whose name would be
familiar to Americans who Kept in
touch with the operations on the
Italian front, appeared at the Bel
Vedere with his small daughter. He
ccurteously asked for a bowl of
lice with condensed milk and waited
while the little girl ate it.
Sons and daughters Of artists,
writer's, musicians and professors
are the children who are bearing
the brunt of postwar conditions,
according to Ienatz Panzer, of the
New York Produce Exchange, who
has just returned from Austria.
Mr. Fanzer said that the Ameri-
can food, designed only as a supple
mentary meal, had become the chief
and only meal of very large num-
ber Of Vienna children. A few will
get chicory without milk or sugar
with small slice of bread for
breakfast. The only other food
they receive during the day is at
the Hoover station.
Here is an averape menu served
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Conditions Are Better

Yes. something Of real hope has
come back to Mexico, and with it a
better physical standard Of living
generally-morc food, better clothes,
an improved standard just as no.
ticea5le in the country as in the city :;
mines being opened, roads built, little
pueblos, almost swept out by the
revolucionarios, suddenly springing
into activity; work, money. the mar
ket place crowded.
was lately travelling into distant
states in Mexico. The completeness
Of destruction, the prostration
everywhere, is amazing; only to be
compared with the suddenness of the
rev awakening.
] remember particularly the little
town Of Taxco, in Guerrero, twice
swept over by the Zapatistas, all
its Inhabitants fleeing to the further
mountain or trying to reach the city,
its houses stabbed in for weeks by
cavalry, It's old converts blown up
in a dime novel hope Of buried
treasure. And then its people grad
Tally drifting back to face ruins
and abject poverty. without work or
any prospect of work.