Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-07-26

front dresser in her bed room. 1t
| may have been put there a full
year ago She goes over to call on
Mrs. Brown and finds that she has
just gotten new dresser and that it
has a swell front. Immediately Mrs
Jones imagines herself Disseminated
against, and she cuts her cali short to
go down to the department resolved
to know the reason why she hasn't
swell front dresser like the one Mrs.
Brown has. The explanation that
new order of dressers had come in and
that all the new ones are swell fronts
doesn't appease her wrath nor salts
fy her mind She is forever afterWard
the possessor of a grievance against
the canal commission in general and
the commissioner of labor, subsistence
and quarters in particular.
a woman at Empire wanted n mat
tress on a hurry-up order. The local
manager told her he had only one and
that this one was not very good but
he would have others in the next day.
She replied that she wanted one at
once and that the one in stock would
do. Next day she saw a neighbor get
new mattresses and in ten minutes
she was at headquarters demanding
that she get one like her neighbor
had In another case a lady gave a
little birthday party to her daughter.
She asked the commission electrician
to put in a few extra lights for the
occasion. He did so. Within thirty
hours he had twenty ladies asking
for a similar number of lights.
The average woman on the Isthmus
has little to do, and of course, idle
minds like idle hands are apt to find
mischief to do. The little fancied
wrongs that women have received
rankle in their bosoms and spread
about appearing worse as they go.
Seeing this, Secretary Taft planned
club organization work which was
done by Miss Helen Varick Boswell.
She succeeded in interesting nearly all
of the women of the canal zone. If
she had not, married quarters would
not have been in such great demand,
nor housewives so content to stay in
4 the zone This club work acts as a
sort of safety valve for the women
folk, and since it's establishment things
have been going along pretty smooth
ly.
The National Civic Federation sent
Miss Gertrude Beeks, secretary of
| their welfare department, to the 18th
mus some time ago to investigate liv-
ing conditions. one of her first criti-
cisms was that the people did not
have warm water to battle in The
temperature of the water is only about
seventy nine at its coolest and few
people could complain at that But
recently, whether by intention or in
advertence, the water at the shower
baths at Empire came in warm,
about ninetv-f five degrees. Now the
bachelors and not Miss Beeks are do
ing the kicking. They want their cold
showers back. In the morning the wa
ter has its normal temperature for
about five baths, and then the warm
water begins to flow. It proves bet
ter than an alarm clock in getting the
bachelors out of bed.
The bachelors quarters are arranged
SO as to insure the greatest comfort
They are two stories high, the lower
floor being well up off the ground. A
broad screened-in porch is on both
sides and there arc windows and doors
opposite, so that a breeze may always
be had. Then there is a shower bath
and the usual toilet and fixtures. Most