Life — June 24, 1915 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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“EF E * “SHADOWED COVES ON A SUNNY SHORE” —Tennyson. Eugenia the Fatherless 'HE recent adventures of Eugenia Kelly, as related at so much length, and with illustrations, in the newspapers, constitute a tribute to fathers, Fathers were never more disparaged than they have been in this twen- tieth century. But they are some good. To raise a boy without one and make a good job is a rare exploit. And even for growing girls, especially in these fetched-loose times, they are useful, If Eugenia had had even a half-way efficient and dutiful father she would never have become a newspaper sensa- tion—at least not until she had been married and was ready for a divorce. A fairly good father, more indulgent and sympathetic in some ways than her mother, and in other ways more formidable, would have kept her straight. A father would have made short work of the dance-hall chappies who beguiled Eugenia, An active, night-going father in a taxicab could make Broadway either quite untenable to a daughter or quite safe. Just now the hold of mothers on their daughters is a good deal broken, Out-of-the-home employments, college education, social service and all such enlarging adventures have helped to break it. The girls want about as much freedom as the boys do, and mothers find very much the same sort of difficulty in controlling daughters that they have always had in controlling sons, But a father usually deals with a son with less friction and more control than a mother does. The same paternal gift is needed nowa- days for daughters. German Neutrality O*XE of the orders recently issued in Berlin for the purpose of preventing the populace from finding out the truth about themselves and their government is that “neutral newspapers not friendly to Germany shall not be allowed in restaurants”. It is hard to find this kind of neutrality. but we might send over some of war German-American newspapers which are more German than American, Confidential Guide to Motor Cars HE SPEEDWELL: Fifty miles an hour on the level and passes away on every hill. Brakes squeak like a Connecticut sawmill. Tue Bounper: Two thousand dollars’ worth of varnish and cast iron. Weighs less and costs more per mile than any other living car. Tue THANK-you-MARM: A seven-passenger exercis- ing machine that devours tires, lubricating oil and gasolinz as if it never had a square meal before. Upon entering, strap yourself down and save your life. Tue Home Buttet: Reduced from $1,650 to $1,243.87. Has three speeds forward, each one worse than the other. Sliding seats, cylinder and carburetor. Built for comfort and missed its vocation. Tue Bancer: Six hundred and fifty dollars, including top, bottom and sides. Mostly underneath drive. Engine in front—often. Every wheel base. Guaranteed to go twenty miles without injury. —- . ‘R EALLY, Isabel, I just hate to pay war prices on these imported delicacies.” “Still; dear, would it not seem cowardly to shirk our share of the suffering?” L 3AM WHY WE CALLED THE POLICE comicbooks.com ,