Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 118, 29 March 1920 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1920.

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CHINESE GIRLS OF NEW YORK TAKE UP WORK OF WAITRESS

NEW YORK American! zed daughters of Pell street Chinamen have tossed away the age-old bindings that benumbed their feet and now are gathering calluses in uptown restaurants, where as waitresses they smilingly and quietly serve hungry multitudes. Their modernized brothers dare the wrath of distinguished ancestors by playing fan tan to the tune of canned music. Modernity has broken down the customs of New York's Chinatown, says the Evening Sun. "Seclusion for women has been the rule of China for centuries," says Lee To, Baptist missionary at the Morning Star mission, 13 Doyers street. "Many a Chinese woman of the old time has been known to hire a carriage to pay a visit to a friend just across the street, and under no condition would she leave her home to do her marketing or venture a ride in a street car for a holiday excursion." Ah Hoo Paved the Way. Not long ago the first little Chinese girl from the quarter went uptown to

serve as waitress in the Chinese room

of one of the biggest hotels. China

town held its breath in horror at this

defiance of the conventions of centur

ies. But the little girl. Ah Hoo, was

more than pretty in the chrysanthem

um-embroidered costume she wore, and when her earnings during the first week, including tips, ran up to 25, 1 there was a small sized revolution in Pell street. Lee Chin, who kept a laundry on the corner, heard of it and the next day his little daughter went with Ah Hoo. Today many of the girls of high school age are working uptown. Some of them are employed In hotels, others are ushering in theatres and motion picture houses. One of the best proofs of the new Chinatown is the formation of a boys' brass band in connection with the Morning Star mission, which, with America jazz and martial airs, is rapidly crowding out the booming music of the bull fiddle and the melancholy notes of the Chinese flute, both favorites of old China. Today 25 instruments are represented in the band and the idea is rapidly growing in popularity. The Chinese have shown themselves to hav a fine sense of rhythm, Lee To says, and the band is much in demand. In one of the Liberty loan parades the boys in uniform marched up Fifth avenue amid the plaudits of a large part of the quarter and more recently the band was one of the chief attractions of Chinatown's welcome home parade to the 150 servico men who rnturned from overseas. Community Center Needed. Because big city temptation threatens the coming generation of Chinese young men and women a modern Chinese community center, with dining hall, clubrooms, library, gymnasium and all that sort of thing will be erected in New York to interpret America to the Chinaman and serve as a common meeting: ground for east and west. "The building will be built by the new world movement of Northern Baptists. Lee To, who, together with representatives of the Methodist denomination, has been preaching and working for years to break down the barriers of oriental tradition, says that unless vigorous social and welfare work are carried on Chinatown's young people are apt to find the new America freedom a dangerous privilege.

Thirty years ago, he recalls, the Chinaman mislit be distinguished by his wide-sleeved coat and flapping straw slippers. Todav young men in American business suits elevate leather shod feet to table tops and tell each other they are made-over people. The Chinese boy who has attended the public schools can not understand the life his father has led.

EVEN BLASE GOTHAM IS STIRRED BY NEW KNEE LENGTH SKIRT

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What's in a Name (Copyright) '

MAY.

The youthful name of May Is pe-l

cullarly difficult to discuss. There are two explanations of Its existence. Some etymologists claim that It Is the final contraction and endearment of Margaret, and translate It to mean

"a pearl."

But though Mayjs undoubtedly one

of the innumerable forms of Margaret,

coming through the Scotch by stages of evolution from Maisie and Maidie, it is so much simpler and more logical to believe that May is really one of the calendar names bestowed in honor of the fifth month in the year. It is the name of springtime and blossoms and nesting birds and as such, has a place of distinction all Its own. It has no antecedents, under this theory, and cannot be contracted more than it already is.

The fad for naming babies by the name of the month In which they were born probably brought the name May into vogue. The sudden spring to fame of April a3 a feminine name

is another instance and August is so

honored by Augusta.

It is a curious fact that no other

language has an equivalent for May,

whether she is a derivative of Margaret, or a separate entity. Only the Scotch, -which evolved her by the

former theory, possess her, even England had to accept her as a new name

in the language. Because of her possible dual origin, May is the lucky possessor of two tal-

ismanic gems. Either the pearl of purity or the emerald of prophecy will nrove a lucky stone for her. The

former gives her charms and friends

the latter intelligence and phophetic vision. Sunday is her lucky day and

5 her lucky number.

America welcomed her who'e-hearted-'

ly, ana sue nourishes nere today, ooui actually and in fiction. , '

Belinda's gem Is the cat's eye. It Is

a talisman against evil ana disease, and has a mysterious magnetic power

which renders Its wearer irreslstable to those whom she wishes, to contract.

Friday is her lucky day and 7 her

lucky number. ,

Traffic was halted on Fifth avenue recently when this Parisian kneelength skirt made its debut in New York. When one gets over the shock of the diminutive skirt it may be noticed that the costume comprises an eton coat suit of blue poiret twill trimmed with three rows of white silk braid. The short sleeves match the shortness of the skirt.

The Revolt of a Housewife BY ROY K. MOULTON

Bachelor Girl Sayings By Helen Rowland

(Copyright, 1920. by The Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.) Tho most interesting spring announcement "I love you!" Krom the hase with which the modern divorcee rushes from the court straight to the marriage biJreau, apparently a woman will do anything twice! Clothes and the Woman. They Have cut out our sieves and our backs! They have shortened our skirts ad lib. They are charging three prices and tax, . For a gown just the size of a bib. Youth That rainbow-tinted period, when a man can't decide whether a kiss Is an amusement, an adventure, a risk, a sin, a luxury, or a sacrement. "Age That terrible moment, when hedecldes hat a kiss, after all, is just a kiss! If scientific salesmanship is selling a suit of clothes to a man who comes in, intending to buy a collar, what is making a man give you a wedding ring, when he only intended to give you a kiss?

It doesn't do a flapper any good to see a stage vampire suffer for her j sins, when the star wears a, gown j

that any girl would be glad to suffer and die for! Don't fancy you husband's love Is dead, merely because he sneaks in by the back door with his shoes in his

hand; wait until he comes boldly to the front door ,at 2 a. ni., without bothering to deceive you. The portrait of an old bachelor's heart would probably resemble a bowl of cracked ice.

BELINDA. The quaint and charming name of Belinda is derived from the Italian. Though most frequently applied in modern fiction to the sweetest of the sex, and pretty coquettes, Belinda means a serpent. So beware, young men, of the baby doll who answers to the cunning, old-fashioned name!

I How Belinda came to be evolved is jnot clear to etymologists. She simply appeared in Italy, and is believed to

have had her origin in the lasniqnaDie craze for names ending In "a" which swept Europe in Queen Anne's Augustan age. The first Belinda recorded in history was the wife of Orlando, a debut sufficiently prominent to spread the name far and wide. But greater vogue was to be hers, and when Pope chose Belinda for his heroine of "The Rape of the Lock", her permanence was assured. In those days, it needed only a famous author to immortalize a feminine name by putting her in a book and all the fashionable maids of the country adopted her for their own, just as today screen favorite's coiffure end costumes are copied by adoring flappers. . Belinda flourished in England and Italy, but her popularity was negligible in France, and Germany refused her completely. Spain took her from Italy but. despite the vowel ending, she was a bit too harsh for Spanish ears.

EVELINA. 1 The feminine names beginning with Eve" are legion, yet each, curiously

is a separate name and possesses a

different meaning. Eva. for instance,

signifies life, while Evelyn means

hazelnut, and Evelina of Eveline, is

translated "pleasant." Eveline made its appeaarnce among the Normans before the marriage of the Earl of Pembroke. -Aveline, said to be its equivalent, was the name of the sister of Gunnar, the great grandmother of William the Conqueror. The Lady of the Garde Douloureuse in the "Betrothed" was called Eveline. Avellne seems to have been more popular than Its equivalent in early

times, since old chronicles record more instances of the former name than the latter. The wife of the last Earl of Lancaster was called Avellna de Longo Campo. Her daughter, Eveline, was heiress to the great county of Lancaster. Before Miss Burney's popular novel presenting Evelina a name which she form of Eveline was published, Eveline had almost disappeared in England, but there was an immediate revival of the name. The new fashion of ading a final "a" was followed, of course, and Evelina was established in popularity for many years. Unfortunately for Evelina, the tendency was to confuse her with Evelyn, especially when the craze for names containing "y" made its appearance. Evelina's talisman gen is the.-agate. It promises her courage, guards her from danger and cures insomnia, H is

said. Thursday is her lucky day and six her lucky number. The wild rose is her flower.

Salvation Army Wants Old Paper; Aids Pablishers

by Saving 850,000 Tons

Dont build fires with newspapers! Instead, save all old papers and send them to the SalvRtion Army headquarters on South Fifth street, thereby aiding in the good work of the "Doughnut Lassies" and also alleviating the paper shortage. In an effort to save from destruction and eend back to the paper mills the thousands of tons of paper now destroyed in America each year and thus relieve the acute paper shortage, the Salvation Army yesterday sent out a nation-wide appeal for old newspapers and magazines. The Salvation Army, through its industrial homes, is salvaging and for-warding-to paper mills, approximately 50,000 tons of waste paper annually. But there are still thousands of tons of paper going to waste, officers say, because the public's aid in paper conservation has not been solicited. During the past ten years the army's waste paper "harvesters" in the United States turned back into paper mills more than 850,000 tons of paper for re-manufacturing, which otherwise would have become a total loss.

(Copyright, 1915, ny The Wheeler . Syndicate. Inc.) I am a Kitchen-Bolshevist! I WILL be free! Too long, have I suppressed my individualism my egotistic need! Too long, have I bowed meekly be

fore that Autocratic Symbol of Industrial Oppression the Cook! This very morning, I shall ko down

into the Kitchen, and cast the guilty monarch from the seats of the haughty. Why shall the one rule over the many as she rules over me and mine? True "Radicalism" should begin at home! Suffering waffles! Is my whole life to be mapped out according to a cook-book an effete

chemical system, imposed by a "dominant few"? Why, for Instance, must flour AL

WAYS be mixed with water, in order to make bread? Do a cook-book and a muffin-ring constitute a soul-marriage between these two-? My soul cries "NO "! I shall mix my flour with tomato catsup, and my corn-meal with tobascosauce! I shall bake my bread in a cold oven scorning such piffling vulgar things as Japanese matches! Why must bacon and eggs always be mated? And turkey and cranberry sauce forever boond together perhaps against their personal wishes? Again, my Soul protests! Food-mating should me FREE! I shall serve the eggs with lemon meringue, with whipped cream, with chocolate fudge, with something anything DIFFERENT! I shall cover the turkey with a nutsundae, and stuff it with grape-fruit and sweet, young sardines. The turkey poor down-troden victim of society, does not realize its personal rights, its Individualism! I shall call for gravy with my pie! I shall demand tartar sauce upon my. charlotte russe, and maple syrup on my mutton-chop! No longer shall I weakly accept the cnventionalized standards of "Mother's cooking" and the norms or chemistry. They make me peevish!

Respectability and all its institu

tions, such as forks and napkins I leave them for tho bourgeoisie!

I will serve pink turkish towels for

napkins, and fishhooks for forks. I will snub my cook as though I were her EQUAL!

Cooks may leave me. and chamber

maids may fly from me as from the

Influenza but my Soul, my glorious immortal Ego will go soaring on, untrammeled. Nothing but a REVOLUTION can free this world from, the tyranny of its cooks AND cook-books! Nthing but Revolt can make us happy! I will be free! Isn't it wonderful to be a "Rad

ical." i S. (One Jhour, later ,Te H acvi been, deported from the-kitchen! Belinda the Bourgeois has shooed . me out with a mop! ) ; . , - Between 30,000 and 40,000 black la borers In the South African, gold mine fields have suspended work until they are granted better working conditions and increased wages.

BIG LUMP OF GRAPHITE. The larjrest known deposit of high prade graphite on this continent was uncovered not long ago. It is in the vicinity of Black Mountain, between Lake George and Lake Champlain. The veins crop out for nearly a mile with a depth of fifty feet.

WANT DRY ACT REPEALED NEW ORLEANS, La., March 29. Five of the city's leading business and professional men have petitioned President Wilson to use his influence In having the Volstead enforcement act amended so as to allow the sale of beer and light wines.

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