Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12
Club Woman Who Found
Great Deal to Do at Home

4teHutIS OUT from inc DICK Sneu. WIllGn
when covered with morning glory
would Insure shade and comfort on hot
days.
1t needed some persuas sion to make
Mary, the maid, agree to take down
the clothes line, after each wash day,
and for soma time she openly rebcl!ed,
but by and by MS the order and beauty
of the place increased even she saw
what their absence would mean, and 80
each week as soon as the last article
OF clothing was down from the lilies
she began ut the furthest corner of the
yard and wound and wound until not
an inch OF the lines remained
Harold had helped to plant the new
flowers and to SOW the grass seed, and
1t was to him that they We're to look
for water and care, responsibility ne
was eager to assume. He considered !.
funUto be Interested In something with
his mother. Heretofore he had stond
rather in awe OF her. This was probably
due to the fact that he saw so little OF
her. OF course lie knew that she loved
him, but she had always been so busy.
The house was either full of strange
people or she was writing letters anJ
could not be disturbed. or else she Wa
away somewhere: but now. with the
garden to watch and plan and care for.
n new comradeship had sprung up that
meant untold things to the boy.
After her own yard was finally set
tied to her complete satisfaction and
left for Nature to finish, Mrs. Russell
went calling on all the ladies whose
back yards came near her own. Her
efforts had not gone on sInnotired.
Some Of the neighbors had praised. 9TH
ers had shifted at her work, and the
welcomes accorded her We're in keeping
with the praises and shifts. To one
and all she was courteous, using the
tact she had acquired in what had
seemed to her her years of useless SER
vice, and before long her neighbors'
yards We'd with her own in beauty
some even going beyond 1t.
A PLAN THAT WORKED.
While this Transformation was taking
place. she turned her attention to a
huge sign which. advertising WELL
known brand Of breakfast food, COW
cred the entire side of a building which
extended back from the side street and
ran along counter to the ends of the
Yards. How could any garden be pref
stytwith this huge sign staring 1t In the
face? So Mrs Russell again called
upon her neighbors, and With two of
them, forming with herself commits
tee of three. waited on the groceryman
whose building held the hated sign
The grocery man listened to them po-
Eliteiy. II should like to accommodate
YOU, ladies' he replied, "hut the com
pany that puts up that breakfast food
pays me 5000 year for that space.
You see.'' he added with wave of
his hand. as If closing the argument,
Its impossible
.'A1r. smith," Mrs. Russell replied,
.eight out of the ten people in our row
deal with you. My bill averages $50 a
month"; and l presume the others, who
In some cases have larger families, aver
age more. Anyway. taking them at
twenty, that makes $3.50 a month, or
$3.50 year. Are you going to sacri-
flee this for what the breakfast-food
company pays you?'
Mr.. Smith concluded he wouldn't. and
the sign was painted over:
There still lay the alley between the
yards and MIR. Smiths building. an al
ley whose condition was an offense to
the whole neighborhood Numerous
complaints had been sent to the health
Office the street cleaning bureau and
to other administrative offices. but no
result had followed. Graft reigned SUI
preme in the city bureaus and all work
possible was shrked. A third call did
Mrs. Russell make upon her neighbors,
They looked upon her now as a woman
who did things. one who brought about
results, and SO they We're willing to
meet her halfway 1t was decided
that, until q change of administration
should occur each house should look
after it's own alley. Then followed
such a cleaning and securing that Mrs.
Russell from her post Of observation
was reminded Of the cleansing OF the
Augean stables. and like the third la
T ~. $N,af, fnN,to n in
was accomplished in one day. The
yards We're now a matter of pride. and
so also became the alley. and it was not
very long before the row had the name
OF having the cleanest alley in the
whole city, all the credit of which each
householder took unto herself.
FOUND SOMETHING INSIDE.
From the exterior of her home Mrs,
Russell turned to the interior. and here,
greatly to her surprise, she found much
TO be DONE She had been trying 10
have laws passed to make conditions
easier for other people, and yet here III
her own home were things which made
maids work doubly hard. For in
stance. there was the coal. The bins
were placed at one end of the cellar
and the furnace at the other and every
shovel of coal that was put into the
heater had to be carried the length uf
the cellar This Mrs. Russell discovered
quite accidentally one day when Mary
was out and the growing GOODNESS Of
the house gave notice that the fire was
low. These bins she had promptly
changed.to a place nearer the furnace
BY this move the filing of them wsis
made little harder. but as Mrs. Rus
sell argued, the coal HEAVIER coult
stand it better than could Mary.
! Then followed the refrigerator This
according to q long established custom
stood in the cellar, and up and dowr
the cellar stairs trotted Mary every
time an article was needed. To remedy
| this a niche was made for 1t /.