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ActreMes wbo piny In thf Liberty Theater at Camp DIx, N. J., find a tondi
of home in the Flayer*' House which the housing epmnrittee of the Yeung
Woinmi*8 Christian, Anociatlon, of which Mrs. John D. KoclcefeUer, Jr.. Is
dwlrman, operates for Oiem. Because of the distance from any town where
they might stay, It was necessary to provide some sort of living accommoda
tions for the actresses. The T. W. C. A. huilt the house, supplying it with ail
eonveniences such as sewing machines, washtubs and ironing boards. Camp
.Upton, U 1.. has a similar hous^
Y. W. G. A. UNIFOIIMS
TO CUTinTUDEllTS
Suits Worn by War Workers Will
Be Given to Penniless Stu
dents in Switzerland.
Official uniforms of the Young Wo
men’s Christian Association minus
the Blue Triangle, tk# Association in
signia, will be worn next winter by
women students wiio have been strand
ed in Switzerland during the w.*)r and
who, because of lack of funds, Inabili
ty to re-enter their native country, a-
dealre to flnish their university courses
or i>ecause they have no family to
whicli to return, wjll remain there next
year.
Eiiznbeth M. Ciaric, who has been in
Switzerland for ten years under the
WorJti Student Christian federation,
has oppealed to the National Student
•Committee of t^e Y. W. C. A. for cloth
ing for the 300 foreign women stu
dents in Switzerland. The scarcity of
clothing last year iimo'ng these almost
refugee students made it necessary for
two girli^ to share one coat so that
only one could go to classes or go out
of doors ot a time. -
Pour large packing-cases of all
kinds of used clothing, save bats,
which Is in good condition, have been
collected hastily from ^omen college
students In the New England States,
Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Delaware by the Stu
dent Committee of the National Y. W.
C. A. to be sent over in response to
Miss Clark’s appeal. This clothing will
be dyed, cleaned and made over in
Switzerland.
In addition to the clothing collected
from students in colleges nearest New
York a case of uniforms, which have
been turned in by Y. W. C. A. secreta
ries who did war work, and the official
gray uniform ulsters is being sent. As
uniforms are being turned In by war
workers they will be claimed by the
Student Committee, w^hlch will remove
the insignia and prepare the uniforms
so that they may be worn by these
women who have been forced by world
events to remain in Switzerland for
several years.
QUEEN MARIE INVITES
Y. W. C. A. TO RUMANIA
Exter.ds Invitation to Overseas Work
ers in Paris.
Paris, April 21.—Queen Marie of
{tumania, following a conference with
a representative committee of the
American Y. W. C. A., held at the Ritz
Hotel, Paris, has Invited the American
Young Women’s Christian Association
to come to Rumania and open work
under her patronage.
Among the representatives of the Y.
W. C. A. present at the conference
were: Miss Harriett Taylor, head of
th« American Y. W. C. A. work over
seas; Miss Mary Anderson of Hudson.
WIs.; Miss Mary Dlngman, head of
the T. W. C. A. industrial work in
France; Mrs. Margaret B. Fowler of
Pasadena, Cal., and Miss Charlotte
Niven, head of the Y. W. C. A. work
In Italy. A notable guest at the meet
ing was Madame CatarJI, wife of the
secretary of the Rumanian legation in
Paris.
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Y. W. C. A. WORKER
IS DECORATI
PROHIBITION TO
COMMUNITY
BRING
PLAYHOUSE
Hazel IMacKaye Advises Using Build*
ings as Centers for Drama, Com*
munity Sings and Enter*
tainments.
Why not turn the comer saloon Into
a community playhouse when the law
efTects tiie closing of these gathering
places, asks Miss Hqzei MacKaye, dl»
rector of tiie Department of Pageantry
and Dninia <»f the rational Young Wo
men’s (^brlstlan As,sociation?
“I went over on tlie West Side of
New York one nljrlit recently to attend
a community rlrania meeting,” MIsm
Mnclvnyt* says In explain!ng her theo
ry, “a»nd as I was riding along I noticed
hQW man.v saloons there were—one on
every corner and another in the mid
dle of the block. It seemed, all just
bia::[ng with lights. Those lights ought
not to go' out with prohibition. They
ou^^ht to shine for something worth
whflp to ail of the people, and what
better than community drama and
sings?”
Miss MacKaye feels that the war
has given a great impetus to popular
Interest In drama and that through
pageantry and drama a great deal in
the way of Americanization can be ef-
fected-
Through the communit.v center. If It
be In a district populated largely of
one foreign nationality, these people
could present pageants of the life in
their mother countries, translating
them into English, so that Americans
and also the younger English speaking
members of their household could un-
’derstand and appreciate their tradi
tions. American art would be greatly
enriched thus through the drama of
ail of the nations whose peoples have
settled in this country. On the other
hand American ideals, American his
tory and American festivals, even law#
such as child labor and minimum wage,
could be interpreted to these people
by means of pageantry.
“People have been learning not only
to work together, but to play togeth
er,” Miss MacKaye says, “partieularly
since the war, when the people stood
together in drives and large patriotic
community entertainments. The op
portunity to build up a |:reat commu
nity organization is now at hand, and
the time is ripe for it. Why not utilize
the comer saloon?”
Mow It Happened to Entertain,
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DEPARTMENT ADVISES ON
PLUMBING AND CURTAINS
New Bureau Opens in Y. W. C.
A. Overseas Office.
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Miss Marlon Porter of
York City was decorat
other day In the name
Chaplain''General of the
can army with the Chu:
Cross.
Her citation was for h
and spiritual cnntributl
wor.
For more than a
Porter has been at
cCTter In Vittel, Fi
representatlva of th<
Iq charge of a tiu
A new department of finance has
been organized by the Y. W. C. A. for
its work'in France. Miss Constai^e
Clark Pasadena, Cal., Is the exenx-
tive. Mlss Clark before J'er recent
coming to France was director of the
big Y. W, C. A. Hostess House at Camp
Lewis, Washington.
All contracts, leases and rentals for
new buildings will be handled by
Miss E'iith Austin of New York Cit.v,
an (xpeilenced architect and builder,
wh«> wil! work through this newly cre-
at.'vi section.
Plan^ for remodeling and decorat*
ing roonis, ^labs wd hostess houses
W. C. A, will be
!iss Mary Buchanan,
itor, who comes orig-
ind, bat who has been
ice for the American
fee the beginning of its
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tlie department is com-
;estions and general
for all th% buying of
in France, including
lldlBC equipment from
• to <plumblng sup-
rt will have a place
it.to act as general ad-
nt and cafeteria proj*
lation throughout
taken over
ill the hai
an interic
Inaiiy frtj
workinf
Y. W.
department Is to be
, alone. It is to I)e a
advlmry department
for all other de*
French assoclatloii—
dolhira. will bf
ipd BoediL
By QRACE tfOUkOKII. ’
(WHh the American Y. W. A. Ov#
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Ooblens, Qennany,
BfarcbiS <By IfalL)
, K happened ris^t here In C^ens.
▲fblis corporal came Into, tiie Y. W.
O. A. Hostess House and aak'ed for tiie
Ulrectqr, Miss Rnth Woodsmall, who
tcomes from Oolorado itfiringa, Colo.
**Could nqr mother, stay here?**, he
began at onM. trying his beat^to cover
his escltcment.
**-Yonr mother!** gaqped Mias Wood-
smtiU. **How did your mother ever get
beret”
* **WeU, she lan’t here yet, but If ^e
liOQies will you keep her?”
“Of pourse I will, but—**
She didn’t finish, for the boy had
smashed* his cap back on his head and
ivaM out of the door on a mn.
The corporaI*s visit remained a mys*
^ery for two days. Then one evenin/
fust at dusk a little white halr^ wo*
man dressed exquisitely In black ap*
pea red in the sitting room of the .Host*
^s House, and the corporal was lipver-
'ng behind her, trying to be beside her
tnd back of her and In front of her
all at once. He was carrying her
coat—a big fur one. With them were
three doughboys, pals of the corporal.
Ih^y tried to keep in the background,
out their eyes were glued on her face.
Everyone in the sitting room, sat at
attention. There are no English
speaking men or women out of uni
form in the Third Army area. Yet
here was a woman In civilian clothes.
Mothers are unheard of with the army.
ISut tbl^i was a mother, everyone knew.
After awhile someone found out
about this mother.
Had Been Interned During War.
She and her husband, who were
bcm in Germany, but had been nat-
nralized, lived In San Francisco. Be
fore the war they left for Weisbaden,
Germany, that their invalid daughter
might have treatment at this famous
Qcalth resort
T^hey brought their other children
with them. One was Walter, a small
boy, and the other was Ralph, now
Corporal Stepp of the American Army.
When the war was declared the,v
sent Ralph back to America, because
he was of military age, and they did
not want him to fight for the kaiser.
Then America entered the war.
Mrs. Stepp—Mrs. Anna Stepp she Is
—told this part of the story:
“Until a month ago I hadn’t heard
from Ralph for two years and a half—
even before America got in the war
mail was held up. I didn’t know
whether he was In the army or not—
bt]t I was sure he was, because—weg.
because .he Is an American.” Here
she stopped 3 minute to smile np at
him.
“After awhile we heard from some
friends that he was in the army—and
that he had come over here. That was
ail I ever knew. It’s nearly ^ve years
since I have seen him I
“Of course It was awfully hard—^I
couldn’t get word to him and' he
couldn’t to i^e. My husband used to
tell me It wouldn’t help Ralph any for
me to cry. I tried not to—before the
rest of them anjrway. My daughter
got worse steadily—she is no better.
We couldn’t get the proper food for
i, her after awhile. And she hated to
see me worried about Ralph, so I used
to try to keep up before them.
"Last January my husband came to
Coblenz about his citizen papers. An
American soldier In Ralph’s company
who was in the office heard his name
and asked him if he was any relation
to Ralph. He didn’t tell him Ralph
was In Coblenz, but went after Ralph.
He didn’t tell Ralph his father was
here. When they met they couldn’t
believe their eyes.
“Ever since then I have been trying
to see Ralph. He couldn’t come to
W’eisbaden because it wos out of the
American area, and I couldn’t get
through until today—more than two
months.” ^
They asked her If her Ralph' had
changed much In ^|lll that time.
“Oh, yes—^very much. But do you
’know, I think it Is because all that
long time when I didn’t know where
he was or how he was—I got in the
habit of thinking of him as Ke was
hen he was a baby—I kept seeing
him as a baby r.nd remembering the
way he felt when he was little. Isn’t
that queer? And now look at him I"
And the corporal tried not to see the
adorsition In heif eyes.
•♦Five years is a long time to wait
to see your boy,” she taurmured, and
kept her e.Te$ OK him. Again she had
forgotten the people around her.
The porpora) cleaned his throat.
“This Is why l afSl- d yon if you could
keep my mother. Miss Woo4l»muil. I
dt«ln*!f Want her, to Aime unless she
had a good ^lace to stay. Ah, e-e-r—
thanks awfully.” ^
And that Is' the «tory of how the
Hostess '4ovtae haiq;>ened to entertain
the only imoim A. B. P. who
has visited 'Anny of Occuiiariou.'
Not Boma, bni Tc^lcni, M4t llMl
pla<M In 'Jonmallsm. blitory. From
Ike latter'^ dty we gtt aaoai'of ihl
oomendatnve of fhf'iiiodani
per. says a writer in the QulU. Hera
news wa«ti«Ulcl7 poMed lus In Xtoe.
tAt to leaa lit coat, if la ii^d, a small
eottti a gasetta. Mot o&ly in Latin
conhtriM, but > avail Ijb America, Qar>
aette lias been a &vorlte name for a
oewapaper. In tbe case of the 18
original coloitfea, times out of
ten the first jgttiwiMMtper l^ Aiy oae of
them WM a C^iMtte. Often flM price
paid for^a newq>aper has furnished
the nalne. £xampl«b may be found
la the Cent of Phl|adelphla>-iKMslbly
th6, first penny paper In AmeriCia—and
tbe^IMcayune of New Orieans. Skeat
In ^Is, “Etymological Dlatipnary of the
English Language” gives under the
Word “Gazette,’! *^n abstfact of news
lamed at Veai^ ; tiit original sense
la'aithw (IX a masa;)l«, from Italian
“gazetta,” whence It may have meant
tittle-tattle; or (8) a' very imall coin
perhaps paid for the privilege of read
ing the news, from Italian “gaaetta,** a
coin less than a farthing. The read*
er may choose. Since the distin
guished professor of ' Anglo-Saxon at
the University of Cambridge was not
quite sure about the derivation and
offered a choice to his readers. It is
barely possible that the two uses of
the Italian “gazetta” gave the Latin
news sheets their name.
WRONG IN THEIR PREDICTION
Arctic Expiorera Long Ago Held
lief That Eskimos Would Ba
Wiped From the Earth.
One hundred years ago Sir John
Ro^ navigated his slilp through Mel
ville bay and arrived at the edge of
the Ice field attached te the shores. To
his amazement black dots were seen
rapidly approaching over the vast ex
panse of ice. What could they be?
Eskimos and their dog teams! ^The
most northern people in the world.
Eagerly they examined the big ship
and in detail everything connected
with It.
Donald B. MacMillan, arctic explor
er, in recalling this bit of meager his
tory concerning the far North, relates
that through an Interpreter the Eski
mos asked Sir John where he came
from.
“From the south,” he tbid them.
“That is impossible,” they said. “No
one coufd live down there. All our ice
goes off in that direction. It must ba
now filled up with ice.”
Doctor Kane In 1853, and Doctor
Hayes, In 1861, found but a small pop
ulation, and stated that in a few years
lindoubtedly the race would vanish.
There are more there today than there
were then, and they are Increasing
rapidly. * In 1909 the total population
of these northern shores numbered
218; in 1917, 261.
Brick Piers Show Strength.
The National Brick Manufacturers’
association and the United States
government have co-operated In some
very interesting experiments to dem
onstrate the strength of brick piers.
Tests were made on forty-six piers 30
inches by 30 inches by 10 feet high,
and four supplementary piers of the
same cross-sectional dimensions by
five feet high. Transverse, compres
sion and absorption tests were made
on each lot of bricks used. The bricks
used were representatives of four dis
tricts east of the Mississippi river,
two or more grades of brick being
obtained from each district. Three
kinds of mortar were used In the be-
i^nning and three grades of bond and
workmanship employed throughout the
investigation. This report, under title,
“The Strength of Brick Piers,” is now
ready for distribution,' and those in
terested may obtain a copy by ad
dressing a request to the bureau ot
standards.
TAWT
That Absorbing Queetion.
Desmond had been markedly at*
tentlve the day before, so when Flos
sie FJatfeet saw him coming up “the
drive” she was all in a flutter.
She opened the door herself and led
the way Into the drawing room.
“Er—Miss Flossie,” began! the
young man. “I—^I—it’s rather diflB^
cult to ask sudi a thing. I meant to
ask you as I was leaving yesterday,
but—^but Do you ?”
“Yes?” breathed Flossie.
“Do you know,” continued the young
man, “whether I left my matches h»e
last night?**
liking Out for HImaelf.
Pat 'was one day driving cattle
through a country town, accompanied
by a collie. . The dog, > unknown to
him, bolted into a butcher’s shop and
ran off with a leg of mutton. Where
upon the butcher Issued forth, de
manding of Pat'if that was his dog.
“No,” replied Pat, slyly eyeing the
erring dog, ‘ which’ ^by this time was
almost out of sight, “he was once
mine, but he seems to be doing for
himself now.**
BAKER’S ART GAIXERY
licaMlm^vUle^' N«
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Uplift Thrown Down.
George Cohan told at the Players*
club n story about eleratlng' the stage.
^*AQ actor in a fur coat,” he begap
“said to me t^e othw day j .
**^For uidlft, George, 1 once played
lien’s iiaater Builder to the Bullfrog
mbiera.*
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YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS, AND THEY
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< MOST COMPLfe^TE STOCK OF
DRUGS, TOILET AltTICLES, IN FACT
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Slop in some day and let us jan a Columbia GnfonQl«f
You will be allowed to play as' many records of your ovm
selection as you wish^ on dmerent Columtna Gnfonoh models.
Yoii may ^1 free to ask as many qnestiMis'dxmt phono|;n^dis as
yon Triffih r thf more yon ask the b^er we will like it.
Yoo aie tp te ^ judge and t]ie jury. We will be to
send a Columbia Grsfenc^ to your home on trisL
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world, la direct o»q>ariaott it always qspeait at its best. A
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