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HERE ARE SO MAN MEN IN THE C We Firugeie leaves them neighier time net) rengih to travel fowsrd Stile goal i "There are also in the oity of New York! great numbers of Young inen and women | who come here as 'strangers, With no to means of meeting uttractive yonag per-| | sobs 'of the ite sex ti a wire there is Been a un- d 300.000] i io New Most of these r| BD nervision. use we have chosen to, ser. | disregard the fact that to being these young persous together so thut they will) marry is of basic importance to the state "If we could 'get at the Inder workings of the mindé of some of our best young men we would find them misanthropes over present conditions, social and eco- nomic, which keep them from founding bappy homes for themselves, Many Young Women ales are depréssid and discouraged sit he' outlook Which offers 1o promise | Tor the Pulfiiment of (Noir nutoral desires. T do tof Say that the lack of opportunity | for social Intercourse between 'the soves Is the only reason why there are fewer Marriages. Other economic conditions are of course ati 'important feature in this problem. But 7 young wen aod women conld- meet more frequently under proper supervision It world @ mitch to promote tsrritige. The churches can searcely Nope to Serve this Need entirely, and therefore! T have made the suggestion that the city should provide gathering places where young persons can be properly introduced by responsible chaperons." tte] Miss Gertrudé Tobingon Smith, who is chairman of the Vacation Comurixtes, which is concerned not alope with summer vacations but is also engaged in helping the girls §f New York to some social pleasures through the winter, indorsed | Der. Van De Water's 'views on the neces! 30 strength to seek the socid) Je that will afford them opportunities af meotiig young wen aud so opportuni. thes to marry. In thelr hearts they fnow * that marriage. is the gosl to which they should look forward, but the economic A Word to Women Who Work. dreariied of a great career of her son. & ------ ee Os ®aW him #8 Some wise and world famous statesmbn of phrhaps the Presi dent of the United States, or &f any rate Sohleving fame aud Yorthi® whilhever " hose, «Por the girls of the family. she visioned y ahd sucoesstul marriages, thie roscope of BEV ITH lier Tormal entraiice SN inio society Miss Marie Almighito | Peary, daughter of Hoax} Admiral aud Mrs. Peat, of Washington, D.C. en-; "another phase of the expeti- | euces shown in the horescope cast for | ker by an astrologer and publistied at the! time of her bith. According to his; prophecy she is jo for a good time in this] bier first season, for her social qualities are of a high order. This was the testi mony of the heavenly bodies as interpreted | by the astrologer: NCE upon 4. time every mother "x oy this winte; advantages of happy wifehood Ord, metherhoot. . the boy there Was coilege or as 500d Bn education as his arene could man 58. No sacrifice Was too great to muke for his future, and oothing was withheld Which could-clear is Hath to success, But for the girl tere was only the "comm. petent governéss," who could teach a smattering of sa many things and niobh- Ang much of anything, 'Tien per! Feira boarding school, and she was "fini fated. er career Was a husband, end if he was not forthedmiug, then she was signed to the rather unenviabié role of maid sister and: auntie, and some- it 80 happened that she had to try 'earn her own living ungquipped for the e. To ¥ this Is all changed; girls are not be disposed of fa Buch summary fash. . The twentieth century maiden haw Meas and dreams of her own, and they are Mot always bounded by marriage. "Pos- sibly a husband." she will geil you, "but "and the fond mother Sons and daughters in of what {a to be done tor education and the future. : Now, what are we to Young souls who fasist upon carving out thelr own fortunes, upon perfecting them. . Belves in some litte of worl. and being seif- tung? i Y must be given every chance, every Possible advantage. Let them perfect mselves Mn anything for which they show an inclination, let tiem choose a Sareer, and help them toward it. Women and girls have to enter the labor market to-day, 50 16t them be well squipped. Thea i does come it will be the hap- plest kind of marriage, for the woman Will enter Into it, not 8s a means of uty Port of a mead of Justifying her ex.| She dstence to her family and friend cause she has met the man she is willing to give Up her career Possibly to Keep on with her w position of a wife. Of course, ths halcyon {of fortune, she had a very good start, so for women wili Ue as wet) paid as work! for men has not yet arrived, and only by| far as Ler worldly success was cofiderned. Miss Peary was horn September 12] 1865, in vorth lititude 77 degrees and 44; migutes and west lougitade 76 degrees, | That made it o 1it!ia difficult for the as-! trologer fo proguosticate her future, as the computations employed in astrology | { for placing'the bodige signs in their proper! places extended only to 56 degrees north! latitude. walle this infant was horn 21 degrees farther north. However, the Boroscope wus cast with all tie cunning | and accuracy possible and the resilt was! extremely interesting, and, what is still more significant, the prophecies have up to this" time for the most part come true. "This young Jady," ran the avords. of! the astrologer, was born with the last) degree of the zodige sign Pisces on the | cusp of the astendunt and. Aries rising is accordingly 'governed hy Fupiter va =| atid Mrs, 'and ws Jupiter Wis slowls for his, or coming up to the horizon at the time of SIE: but "| her bicthana was. in tie second, or house me when work | 40 With these suger determination and grim persistence have, Neptune was not far behind Japiter,-but| women opened certalti careers for them- | 5 : Selves, so the girl Who is resolved to enter | ail the other planets were setting. She into the struggle must have plenty of) vith! Ber ability ang | Will gfow to be rather tall, slender, with aB-gny chivaley becomss' brown hair, sanguine complexion, round routh and looks. $ : ak oY, ez -- _ hein tone training bril-| face and probably.gray or hazel eyes, She Hantly and finish with the highest 9€-| hax 0 i except that she has BUE 16 will BOK bs as ence for hey | M* D0 evil aspects excep . ef niche In. the world has coms through the sam How. | Mors governing her usceadant--and wilt take this to heart, that her or to-day than ft was whores ion js open to her, doetar is wh accepted face is easy he Temsmber when women "t go 0 "They Naa feet that a woman could know. nothing al t! her own sex ! New logic ls sounder, | to women, Also; ical womet her general disposition courteous. = d : "She. will: be careful of het heateh aud] her affairs 'and inclined to etudy snd! thoughtfultiess 'and the invedtization of nd there are por ub | subjects of a, scientific character beyond w houses can ger goud!Wost women, She will not Marry ver atrl tive tions. { 4 4 oll. al: nf tain To 8 toh Phat and ty sherthang | *4rly ute. but Siw wi weil. an 'there utblier of secretarial josts| it avi! a co nial wpian. er parents "open Det aon she is weltomed in jour. pe : nalism if she can write and has tact and a knowladze ot people and things. i faucr. at least not before wie is five years © Oandening is offering opportunit'?. for! womei. and they aro very successful at | ahd there ls a compotencs--il not a ROE- francs to. tole: disesmos, tune-to be secured in market-ghrdening--| 3 = with perhaps [ntensive poultry rearing health will Lo geod and she has overs Added. for two girly or more working to- | proauise of 4 Jong sad rospeiuus life. in dg t as for the | someting of the Murs temperament p ibave a tendency toward irvitability. Mot * will be kindly aed will dave little trouble with fer 36 ber jn ; Poll. and, 8 Mhouy she may have a sigur ¢ her gonersl Ses -- tu > Y UNMARRIED © ITY OF NEW YORK wy 8 ta edu, Pep ard womea, wenld Lace thet HDSELOIY te becuse [lends and per EADS th fytae th ewes Tor ehoh other, fo) the saumer time wien youn pefsons are tirova together in thls way fu the cong PY provided thets Ie proper henerioage, {8 vere pleakant opportunity is &ilorded far 1 2 in love, in any event. Tor) tral caliperion shin whieh both the. {girls and the men Gind pleasant, } [| "We very quickly rat.e to renlize that; "We ought to Wave's place in the city | {Where sirle colild 1 sot their meu: friends, | "whets there conid which listh mes and w oglris jas Eo a . .* i This Waut is now [being met Ju (his house, and 1 belleve ity {is the only .pldes In 'the United States; | Whicl is carried on [n exactly this way, | "We ligve 2 room bere for dancing and far other entertainments, und we give a) weekly dayce un addition to our large! anneal ball. We Lave aldo a room espe-| «cially provided so that girls Way meet, their wen friends, There are absolutely {Bo reles. « As long as the girls and theje, { friends are well Nebaved no one interfesen with them in any way, happen that a girl did not bebave properly ! she {irst would be asked to stop. what-| 'ever wan objectionat®™¥ and then if whe! ! persisied in violating thie laws of ordinary | { 200d Uehavior she wonld be asked to with-| draw: but she would not be subjected !to any more rigid code than is enforced! n any theatre or in the reception room of a hotel, Cousiderstiog of ent is in fact all that of hei Although I &m in aecord with-De, Van {De Water's views in the main, believe that it would be possibl city 10 provide this sort of meet for girls and their friends because I am| afraid too institutional en sir would per-| | vide places if they were supported and shpervised by the city. Girls will not! {#0 to a place which Bas an lustitutiona) | atmosphere, 'and although the city might! (be alle to malatain special centres which | {uve vo such fadlt it would he an ex-| I came to realize the ex- tremely difficult undertaking. The proper; of Dr. Van De Water's 350,000. atmosphere only 'ean be had in a place; meet young men socially utider thelTo s isfy the social needs of so great ai which belongs 10 the gitly themselves, for! I{ amounted to this, number it was ov ident that some niuch! which they are rexpobsitile, apd which es the girl of fine larger scheme must be rrovided than could! they support." i } ngs cold have no mem companions possibly be supplied except by a very, . Mrs. Arthur Mf. Dodge, whe ns 4 lead- aud well organized movement, w hich ing auti-sulfragist is wich interested In I reach all sorts of girls in all sorts all subjects which concern 'the lpuie, said ts. When the Vacation Committee that in ler opiviog the establishment of rk inlktarted its work one of the ideas 'hich it} social centres, where. girls can wect their the Feation wen friends'is verk desitidle, provided 4. a es eed titerested, but |cherisi as that -duri ha § orer atmos mers ee -------------- others pres world hé required le for the | lng Places, sity for the provision of suitable where yonng 1 and w under proper « lia peronage "The problem which Dr, Van De has placed before one of 'the nie day," said Mis think that poriapities is the ation, it is an It "When I first places | in the girls of New 'omen fan meet | ticed that they bad = to Water | proper chaperonage. I regard as that in many instan mportant of the present! fee "While I do not at ¢ proper social op Yerk I at once no-| after & while a few opportunities | isten the publi mith because the conditions under which | large she could have men companions were dis-/ shoul only factor situ; tasteful to her. 1 tried to do something! of ple wortant one, o remedy this in the settlement wo! €gan o take. an interest] whieh I was at that time Marie P } | the k of b he Miss hed w tic Expl eary, the Art Arc 's "Snow Baby" OW Baby" {Erary abilities. When she was ouly ten j Years old she wrofe a hook which was| | published under the title, "Childven of the Aral" When she was fiftéen years old, & pupil at the Georgetown Convent, { near Washington, she showed such de. | vided literary talent that | was prin que of ber poems ted in the convent asoual-an ; howor ordinarily acvorded qaly to almnnae od miembers of the senior class, In i hese verses she thas expressed her fealty to the Arctic land 'where she was horn :-- { "O Rplrit of Spring, { Golden sud fleet, | Thou comest to bring | Violets purple to tose at my feet: { This land of enchantment is wwo, I love thee and bow before thy throge. O Spirit of the North Reposiug 0 light 10 Abrora flushes { So cold apd white, . | Thou callest forth | The great white silence of Arctic wight. | On piosacied icebergs thy fogt doth rest-- Thou Qldst rock my c:adle: | lest all thine Wigs Peary as a Baby, love thee It was st tle old convent: here that {Miss Peary fulfilled that part of the | prophecy about | friends, "speciall * ber making many ly hose. of her own sex; [nf for that matter, ske bas always been | {the Eiod of girl Who bes bad hosts of] | [riduds wherever she has been, "She. will five ioug in one place, yet bei subject to sudden and anéxpected {movale." Marie Ahuighite Peary haw lived long in Washiogron and at their "lifland home in Maine, yet frequently she thas started suddenly on long and adven- { turons trips, three of these having Leen {10 the remote region of her birth. "She j will achieve success in life," was suother statement wade by the astrologer. She bas |certdinly made a Loo! surf, both in her nl career, toward Miss Marie Ahmighito Peary. -- Thoto Copyright by Harris & Ewing the eourse of which she is like ly (0 meet with much: variety of ice "She: will five long in one place, yet be suhjeet to sudden and mespected re movals. She will many warm s who wiil be of value to her and -- . Horoscope of Miss Marie Abmighita Peary, This fearlessness shows itself in every-| little 'Eskimos, (oo, that sometimes b {fiterary® atid in hed un thing that she does. She is an adept in a! mother could hardly tell which of the fit-| EB foal of Gnueesn kinds of sport on land and water and is{tle fur clad figures wns her child whea | Several i et ais always ready for an adventure, When, | sie went to call her. Her costume Jan | ted that Miss Pee {aga very little girl, she went north with identically the same as theirs, except that Be Married; but it wis pre | lier mother and 'the ship 'ran inte & VEEY (kbe wore a woollen union 'dndersoit 01% 'Derselt 20d her foth diction that have not come true are the severe storm, (he child "tobk it alt as a|stéaq of a bird skin shirt. {that bas so far run « commonpla "Neptuns was not far behind Jupiter" [effect that she will Bot narey yooug, Ble! ; icu-l% hat is whic s His to have 3 pleasant sud Bicersefal po-) ud stopped when 3 particu: and perhaps that is why she has such a} ; b { % ta : cial life first, bur she wil} INALYY aud} larly Leavy impact set things crashing] fouituess for the sea, Next ty her eleva), Polly "ever after in the, fostion of all about tiem. loves the. land off He he fulry thlés oud the vmod o of ies Sow Baby's 66 reads lie i great part of the your 8d Miss Peary does uot Bike ww be called! te companionship of the sen. © [the "Seow Waly? UY, were. nt ehi€) tot torte §as gies | ATIRTISEN prope wil ahivars think of y hn the baby boli witlin the Arctic cirele entific winttin, ga fpooe st of them will be will +f her own sex achieve success in life and + f wealth and lier closing f will doubtless be passbd amid con- in it was pe! ¥ wis enguged to Prowptly denied | er. "The prophecy | 0 trée is to the! genial surroundings aud complete inde- pendence." Almost the ouly parts of this fine nupleasant otic. The lng troubles sind Her mother tras reading! bility that were threaten 1 pos' her a story Hig uyerma ter Lave been stayed, perhaps by : . a ie influences of more! vuse go on with the far worth she story, mother," urged ler little danghter coast of Ma quite andistorhe ine wliere she lives with ber | planets. As was and well And whet they were pavers for Canny the ee frozen ap for fiffecn (njoys *and{ months she was gs hah iy playing wbout Miss Peary b i sho bad ix due to! with the vou vg 108 r us the ascendency t the time of wer | boon the niidst of Ameriean HON RAs sar in known fear. |com/erts, She looked 80 much like the wighi, bx 1 the rosenpe tuat she wesniig of Her birth (hat she Las never she bas. shown decided lit- | Abuigbite, IE it should Where yourg men "8elivol centre must 1 do uot are various settlements i { fectly two or three {The giving of a dinner les in w fuiry fe (di Se NO PLACE T0 SPOON EXCEPT ON KITCHEN RANGE. SaVs REV. GEO. R. VAN De WATER. "be proper snpérvision is a "I tegard the places as of thé greatest said. "I believe that sirable forded." of all snch po: " ale dt is extremely de were proper fewer anha 2: imports ly. chaperoned, it would mean PPY marriages, which is quits NL as that there sbould be Every young men and young girl. bot ready now to say that 1 think the city should provide socis} centres, gn | think it is a subject requiring prolonged cobsideration." Mrs. George Draper, urer of the Women's A nn Houge, who is the treas- uxiliary of Letiot a meighborhood settlement in Rast Seventy-second street, said that she was in accord with Dr. Van De Water's statement that there is a great teed entirely in New York ety for Places and women may west for social Purposes under proper enper- vision. might say that this work is being tried at the present time through school centres," 'said Mrs. Draper, "and uo doubt this partially fills the need of the various neighborhoods, but for rea- Sons difficult of explanation it seems 0 me that something 'in addition to. the be provided: for thess Young men and Women, many of whom do not seem to fing In the wchool centre exactly what they 'are seeking. There 0 the city which are offering to the young of the neighborhoods dust "The Lenox Hill settlement in Kast Seventy-second Street is tion in such a way as to of the residents of Freed 'from ali {n: hy it gives to these young'men and women a common meeting ground, and it ix only from lack of the proper facilities that it cannot cope with the entire situation jn that particuls rly crowded district. A pew building bas been planned with rods for social activities, a dance hall and & gym- uasivm. To show how truly the neigh- 0 the 'settlement they hyve themselves raised $3,500 toward a pew building. "1 believe if sufficient support could be given to these Settlement houses the problem could be met and solved." Puzzling Polis of. Etiquette. ---- nn - HE woman who has earned the repu- tation of being a successful Qloner hostess Tay be proud of the appeila- tion, for to give a Gianer successrally-re- quires real art. As very few women have mastered the Intricacies of this social prob. lem, perhaps a few words on the subject Way hot prove amiss, In the tiedf Dlace, unless you have large means at your command, do not attempt to give an elaborate dinner. Invite only as Many guests as you can comfortably en- tertain. It your dining room is small, the Capacity of your kitehen limited, or your then do uot tax many guests at one time, for if you ao your dinner is sure te be a failure, It ts better to entertain per. fuests than to proffer an indifferent dinner to a greater Somber, Take your accommodations into considera. Uou and then invite your guests acoord- ingly. This does not mean, however, that You must Ilmit your entértaintag. Phresor four simple dinners to which two or Tour Suests ure invited, will be very mudh more etijoyed by ali than an elaborate one badty given, The real secret of Success, perhaps, in gathering to- gether congenial guests. So pany dost. esses have the habit of inviting all sorts of men and women to partake of the same mea' | never. taking into consideration whether or not they may happen to be con- genial, snd then the hostess 15 at a less fo know why her entertainment was a fallure. She forgets that uniess (wo persons have a great deal In commen thdy find it @ bore to sit next to each other, €speclally if the dinner happens to be a small one. She falls to remember that Sworn enemies may find it unpleasant to Sit atthe same board, €Ven though they may be separated from "ach other by several pleasant persons In the rame way an ol@er 'msn 13" wpt ro have a stupid time If placed nest wn a debutante, and as for. the debutante, she will be very much more pleased If she finds & young man as ler dinnet companion Place together at your table only these who are apt to have congenial tadtes, the sgme outlook on life or 5 similar hobby Which they can discuss at lerigth. The question of guests sottied satie- factorally, 16t us turn next to the dinner braper. Do noi make the mistake of ar- tempting unusual features utiless you have Wealth at your command, and do pot, at the sane time, try to imitate the ways of a hostess whose worldly goods dre greater than yourown. Make your Sinker types: 9? Yourself and ft will ive more pleasure than a poor imMtation of Sosy other woman's entertainmunt, Your table will Ye pretty enough without Ly unusual features If you use your most attractive chins, if your sive iw and gleaming, the lpen niosly and a» few flowers are ranged. Dg flowers on to matty oth % (™ & UT roan. AR 10 the. ) dishes whieh PON make. 3 a Do JY ENE alfedticunts Term. Rod that fe the Which Are { " tte bedter piety Edklmo mile, well cool