New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-08

Flora Mcdonald Thompson suggests in the cur
rent number of "Harper's Bazaar" that American
clubwonen should organize for the reform Of
Paris and among other things that they should
tack,e the bread supply. They have never been
able. It true. to prevent the exposure OF food
in their country to dust and germs and all
uncIeanness but that perhaps has no bearing
on the subject. Speaking of Partisan porteuses
de pain, Mrs. Thompson says that they have alb
soluteiy no sense Of any difference between bread
and wood and coal, and she neglects to mention
that many handlers OF bread in this country
devoid Of the same sense. ut Is never wrapped
she proceeds, and in push carts made of Stats or
in great open work baskets II is heaped less care
fully than wood coal indeed. because bread
is easier to buy than wood or coal In Paris. The
carts or baskets pushed or carried by women
wearing stout blue aprons covering ttem from
neck to knee, which aprons. like the sheets on
French bed. are changed perhaps as Often as
once month. Arrived at house where bread
is to delivered. the open cart basket stacked
femnaes si de chambre all around to merry shake
down upon 1t anything they will while TIE woman
ration of petits pains bundled S up In her apron
of course, under each arm.
housekeeping Magazine tells OF a woman who
solved the servant problem by utilizing her five
boys houseworkers. Just few things which
these boys could do to wash clothes and iron
them, sweep carpets and wash windows and floors.
put In order and keep it so. although they
didn't always do And the way they waited on
table might well be JOY TO the heart of any
mistress" Each week the boys paid certain
sum for their work and they always had the same
privileges in the house that their mother had
They entertained their friends in the kitchen with
connections of their own make with the same free
they dismantled the dining table to play ping pong
set it again. And all the boys and their friends
thought this home was the jolliest place they
knew.
Among the sensible things which President and
Mrs Roosevelt have made the fashion through
setting personal example is sightseeing in Wash
ington. Heretofore Washington exclusives. it is
said have considered ignorance OF the city a mark
of distinction. Congressman from little towns in
Vermont Idaho might enjoy taking their wives
and daughters around to the Capitol and Smith
sonian. and up the Washington Monument Teach
and other tourists might exclam Mount
Vernon and the Congressional Library, and buy
gudebooks and gleefully snap their kodaks. but
all these things Washington society regarded super
ciliously, as a mark OF the bourseoise.
Just before leaving for Oyster Bay President and
Mrs. Roosevelt decided TO do the Congressional
Library. And do" ii they did from cellar to gar
ret, escorted by Mr. Putnam. the librarian. who
afterward had them to luncheon in an upper story
e h o bnd hnse
there, and they sauntered from hall hall. work
with ali the zest and enjoyment of down country
couple of on their honeymoon.
Fashionable things to do.
A class Of normal school girls IN Detroit were
asked pretend for day that they could read.
The idea 10 bring home the girls the i'm
portance OF reading in education, and they were
asked To make list of the things they would
have been prevented from doing during that day If
they had not known how to read. The Detroit
Tribune" which tells about the experiment, says
that the lists read the afternoon in class.
Some OF the girls very properly said that they
could not have learned their lessons for the next
day. could not have read the papers 10 find out
the hour for the musical the night before could not
have read the catalogue to find out what the pict-
ures at the art exhibition, etc But the eter-
nal feminine finally cropped out In list. which
concluded with. Il could not have read the sign
IN NJ & G.'s store saying they were holding a
bargain sale In shirtwaists and would have missed
buying a dandy at very low price.