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children are put in boarding school at
six or seven years of age, or, if they
remain at home, they start to school at
z o'clock in the morning, returning at
at night This is every day of the
school year, except Thursdays and
Sundays, when they go to school only
half day If they have been good dur
ing the week. And the French school
year is nearly eleven months of the
whole year. So is eliminated quite, the
element of child life for which the
American home makes complete and
extensive provision. The father and
mother eat at home when they do not
eat out, but absolutely no informal So
c1al intercourse invades the apartment,
which is more than anything else a
factory in which is produced whatever
the family needs for life outside
vast amount of sewing is done here.
French girls of even wealthy parents,
after they finish school, attend courses
OF dressmaking and millinery, and to a
great extent the industry which turns
out the French woman as a model of
good dressing, to be followed by the
world, Is carried on by the women of
the family in what would be the home
II the French knew the meaning of the
word. A reception day is vigorously
kept, and there is much formal enter
tanning, but dropping in is unheard
of. and for six days in the week the
French woman may run her sewing
machine in the middle of her salon If
she likes or hang her best gown from
the chandelier, secure from interrupt
ton. The Paris fiat accomplishes the
business rather than the joy of family
life, and of comfort in the American
sense of the word it has none
Overseas, a Guild of Simplicity" is
being discussed as the only salvation
of the overweight state of so-called
society" and a necessary reaction
from the rampant vulgarity, self-in-
dulgence and soulless competition of
this disconnected generation Now
everyone tries. to go one better than
her neighbour the war of hospitality
Is waged on the numerical basis, and
the most "successfuP' dinners are
those that can f1aunt the greatest num-
Der OF guests and the longest list of
lions. On every hand there is la
mentation as to the lack of reverence
and general unruliness of young peo-
pie, the decadence of men, the cam
righteousness of women and the uni
Versal restlessness of all sorts and
conditions. The guild suggested, if 1t
is carried out as its dreamers hope,
would by no means impose aScetic re-
qu1rements upon its members. Its aim
is only to set forth in the person of its
ueNOleeS the feSIIul commences, the
refreshing beauty, of ''the simple life
Such movement could not be started
with flourish of trumpets, flutter of
badges and flaunt of reform" If it is
to do good and permanent work, saylits
advocates, work worthy of its name,
that will eventually leaven the lump
and give a healthier national tone, 1t
must do it in a spirit of humility and
sincerity, and without ostentation.
In North Dakota the women are TAX
ing up the pure food question. The
state federation will discuss it at its
fall session. Commissioner Ladd of
the pure food commission, has prepar-
ed bulletin armed with which wom-
en- do their marketing. If the canned
goods, condensed milk, catsup, which
are offered to them are not found on
his pure food lists, they refuse to take
them and go elsewhere where unadul-s
terated articles can be found.
Mrs. Almon Hensley, the editor of
a health magazine, is to be speaker
at the state assembly convention of
mothers clubs in Syracuse next month
She will speak on 'The Ideal Home"
Other New Workers who will speak are
Mary Pratt Chadwick, of Brooklyn
and William butcher, secretary of the
Audubon society, of New York Mr.
butchers topic will be 1.-THE Human
Mother and the Bird Mother"