Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-11
FLAT LIFE REFORMER
Noble Work Of Young Cleveland
Woman Worth Millions.
START MADE WITH CHILDREN
Miss Nellie Huntington Teaching Them
How to Live In Apartments Without
Fuss or Frietion-Eeonomy Keynote
of Lessons-serenity Basic PrineipIs.

BE economical" Strange words per-
haps from young woman. pretty, pos
sessing 100000 in her own right as
heiress Of a Standard OH magnate,
spoken to a score of little girls, moth
ers of the next generation. But Miss
Nellie Huntington. daughter of Colonel
j. T. Huntington, partner Of John ID.
Rockefeller, who died several years
ago, leaving to his daughter big for
tune, sees nothing out of the ordinary
in her devotion to the little girls who
make up her classes, taking instruc-
ton in tine Goodrich House social set
tlement In Cleveland, o., under the IT,
tie How to Be a Contented Flat
Dweller," says Cleveland special dis
patch to the New York World.
Miss Huntington has forsaken soci-
ETY. and the enjoyment Of her wealth
In the whirl of butterfly existence to
teach the children who some year viii
become mothers how to evade the DOM
nations of the janitor and bring forth
from a four room fiat all the comforts
and joys Of home at a cost far under
the sum necessary to maintain even
the smallest of individual residences.
at is necessary first of all to live"
says Miss Huntington, whose forte Is
cooking, but who dabbles in the sew
ing and general housekeeping in the
social settlement school in which Miss
Winifred Chapman, graduate Of the
College For Women of Western Re-
serve University. daughter Of Tole-
do capitalist, is instructor in house
keeping and Miss Callie Silver, daugh-
ter Of a Semitic family of wealth and
standing in Cleveland, has charge of
the sewing lessons.
"And to live In the next generation,
even in this generation, means the abil-
ity to make the most Of a fat" Miss
Huntington says. She is a Mount Hol-
yoke graduate; also she is regarded as
the Helen Gould of Ohio Her fortune
has been dedicated to making fiat
jewellers happy. She says:
1--WE must start with the children
Flat dwelling has not become so i'm
perative as 1t will be in a few years,
but we are preparing the next genera
tons mothers. We teach them ideas
their mothers never heard of. Serenity
is the basic principle of the whole art
of living and being contented in a fat
Don't fight with the janitor. Some
times l think he is a much abused
auto-I was going to say autocrat, of
course. / won't, though, for l don't
know what we would do without the
Janitor. He knows all about the range,
everything about the refrigerator and
the telephone wires and the milkman
and the iceman. Maybe he does get
free ice and milk for recommending
their product, but it doesn't pay to
wrangle with him.
What If he refuses to help move the
refrigerator or, in retaliation for some
fancied wrong, turns off the heat? Do
you justify the use of strong Ian
n guageT' Miss Huntington asked.
well, there may be unusual provo
cation, Of course, but teach the chill
dren to get around these things.
Housekeeping, whether In house or fat,
Is an art Housekeeping In a fat is
the chef d'ouvre, If you know what
that means. l don't. A woman with
placid temper is the queen of every
home she surveys. Serenity is the ba-
sic principle. No; If the janitor is
stubborn about the refrigerator have a
cold box on the window sill. The
children finished one recently. A cold
box? Don't you know what l mean?
A box set out on the window sill. It Is
to put your meat and milk, butter, eggs
and everything you want to keep cool
In. 1t saves ice charges, saves warfare
with the janitor. 1t is the one reQui-
site to the well ordered fat. You don't
need refrigerator, and. besides. re-
rrigerators take up space.
Space is money, and saving Of mon
ey means happiness to the fat dwelIer.
course-the teaching of the value of
space. In a Eat every inch should be
utilized. There must be no waste
space. Everything useful should have
Its place; the beautiful too. Then a
nat Is home. 1t Is more home in its
four, FIVE. six. perhaps eight. rooms
than the finest mansion in Euclid ave
nue. or In Fifth avenue, for every bit
OF space is utilized There is no waste.
In big house there is waste. But
you don't need the big house 1t
Is extravagant. The fat Is economy
You must be economical. The fat
owner win spend all your money IL he
can. Plan properly and 1t will be Inn
possible to be extravagant The fat
should be made to fit the pocketbook.
not the pocketbook the fat.
we have some new fat ideas too
In our little model fat the kitchen Is
80 arranged that you can cook, iron
and wash dishes with two steps. It's
saving space. Then in the sitting
room the library table. covered with
books and magazines. becomes a din
Ing room table at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
saving Of space.
But serenity Is the secret OF all.
One should never lower ones dignity