Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-23

er floors. This can then be covered with
| naoleum, which will make the best kind
u kitchen door. Have a quarter-round
| Hoiaihg cover the edge of the linoleum
! against the Dashboard. 50 as to prevent
"4tef from getting into the cracks.
! Don TAIL TO provide space for n re-
tftSefalor. The best arrangement is 10
lave Kitchen pantry adjoining the kitch-
ga entry, and small door, from the
Entry INTO built-in ice chest. so that
; luz zee may be delivered without carry
ing II into the kitchen.
ION cover the bathroom walls with
van paper. The best kind of wall cover
ing Tor the bathroom is paint on a harl-
! plaster finish. Have at least n hard
| PLASTER four-toot wainScotting. capped By
WOOD moiding. A very acceptable imi-
,dton q tile work may be easily made
oH eulVldlng up the hard-plastered wall
Sai1ace WIN a groOved line into rect
angles OF about 3X6 inches of course
| ne Nefucle joints will alternate.
Ion ! ran TO provide for all the neces-
safy electric wiring before the plaster
!lis i put on. This applies to the wiz
| ing Tor bells, as well as to that for cleo
| tflc nights. Dry batteries require no at
tention until worn out, so they are pref
J cradle.
Don't close up the house and leave all
Inc plumbing traps filed with water.
Ihis Is sure to evapOrate and allow the
sewer gas to permeate the house. The
pest thing to do is to fill the traps with
PRIMARY kerosene. which will not evapo-
rate quickly and will not freeze.
Don't have the waste pipe of your
refrigerator connected with any drain,
sou or waste pipe. The refrigerator pipe
should be properly trapped and led to
d dry We'll
Don't economic in building house
! by emitting an under floor. Use hemlock
or other cheap wood dressed on one
side. In frame houses this under floor
should extend out to the sheathing. in
order that 1t may act as a wind stop
ana hre stop. Lay the finished floor
boards at right angles to those under
meath.
Don't fail to provide space for flour
barrel IN the kitchen pantry. You can
buy pivot and holder which are made
10 enable the barrel TO be swung out
from under a shelf They cost about
30 cents.-Russell Fisher, Country Life.
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What Happened to a Girl
Seeking Shelter in New York.
What happened to 17-year-old Lucy
Green last winter when she arrived in
New York seeking work, without friends
or money, is the real story of a real girl,
told by the girl herself in October Wom-
ans Home Companion.
The first day she was directed to the
Margaret Louisa home, conducted by the
Young WOmen's Christian association.
After many waits-and delays she was
passed on to the chaplain of the institu-
ton. This is what took place with the
chaplain:
las gently as possible she broke the
news that the Margaret Louisa home
was not the boarding place for which |
was seeking. The rates were too nigh
for any one save a girl who was already
well fixed in business A single room
would cost me 60 cents a day, break
fast and luncheon % cents each and dim
ner 30 cents. | was probably looking
for a working-girls home. | apologized
for my mistake, saying that L had read
much of the Margaret Louisa home
and supposed it was a home for working
girls And then as gently as before
she explained that it was a transient
hotel for self-suppOrting women, not
for-eT--working girls. l saw the dis
tinction.
she then gave me the addresses of
real homes for working girls-Mrs. Hunt
ington's at 40 East Sixteenth street.
and The Cooperate 444 West Twenty
third street.
:. Can you suggest where l had best
"Work? Well this is very bad time
of the year to get into the stores. They
are letting girls out. Governesses, too
have all been engagedr
by this time she was standing up
She hoped l would enroll with the asso-
citation. 1t cost only 81 year, and
would enjoy the library. The Tuesday
night lecture for members was especially
interesting. She said goodbye, without
offering to shake hands-and my rela-
tons with the Young Women's Chris
tian association were closed.
Apparently the New York branch of
the Y. W. G. \. is for women who have
proven their ability to be self-support-
ing. 1t offers nothing to the girls start
ing on the road to self-support. The
Margaret Louisa home is not home
1t is an admirably conducted. reasonably
priced transient hotel for women who do
not care to patronize hotels where men
are admitted
$3.50
An Old English Law.
We came across a queer little item in
an exchange a few days ago. 1t was
an old English law passed during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. Parliament
solemnly enacted, that any woman who
from that date. would deceive or cajole
into matrimony any of the subjects of
her majesty by the use of false hair or
any other thing false in connection with
the body, or by the use of cosmetics,
would be punished as for fraud and de-
ceit. with intent to cause HARM
1t was said that this law was designed
for the protection in England of the per-
secuted male sex, and no man had ever
had the courage to revoke the law, and
it now stands on the statute books Of
England
1t is very well to try and protect poor,
prosecuted men, but the men in our
country don't need such a law, for they
marry with their eyes wide open, and
know almost every woman they meet
in fashionable society is made up"
and on the woman's part there is no
effnrt to deceive and she goes about her