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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
AFTER THE FLIES
Municipal League Joins Cru
SADIE against the Pest.

The Woman's Municipal League has
Joined In the crusade against the fly and
has mailed to all its members-wflo during
the summer will be scattered over the en-
tire continent, and will, therefore. have
many opportunities for carrying light to
those who SIT in darkness-the special bull
letin of the fly fighting committee of the
American Civic Association.
The folder contains some unpleasant but
useful information, which is not as familiar
as 1t might be. in spite of the publicity that
has been given TO this subject
The fly you see walking over the food
you are about to eat is covered with filth
and germs says the folder, and continues:
IF there is any dirt in your house or
about your premises. or those of your
neighbors', he has just come from it. It is
his home Watch him as he stands on the
lump OF sugar industriously wiping his feet.
He is wiping off the disease germs rub
bling them on the sugar that you are going
to eat, leaving the poison for you to swaI-
low. He wipes his feet on the food that
you eat, on the faces and on the lips of
your sleeping children. This does more to
spread typhoid fever and cholera infantum
and other intestinal diseases than any
other cause. Not only does the fly scatter
the seeds of disease from his body over
your food but before your fruit and vege-
tables are placed before you they have
been subjected to his filthy habits, either
in the kitchen or in the stores where he
flies from the horse dirt in the middle of
the street to the tubercular sputum on the
sidewalk, and then back to the foodstuffs
displayed for sale
The best way to get rid of flies, of course.
is to prevent their breeding, but as the
housekeeper cannot control her neighbors
she usually has to resort to other methods
Fortunately for her. the fly has a thirst
only equalled by his hunger and takes
kindly TO the various potions prepared for
him by careful housekeepers when they
cannot keep him at bay with screens and
cleanliness. The latest, best and cheapest
drink for him, says the bulletin is made
by dissolving a solution of formaIin or
formaldehyde IN water and adding
spoonful of this liquid to quarter of a
pint OF water. Flies may be stupefed by
burning pyrethrum powder, after which
they may be swept up and burned.
Still another weapon is the somewhat
unexpected one of sweet odors. This is the
only pleasant bit of reading in the bulletin.
While u fly loves the odor of filth and can
smell 1t miles away. he doesn't like sweet
odors, and the fragrance of flowers,
geraniums, nignonette, lavender or any
perfume will drive him away.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
PIAZZA DECORATIONS
Nature Lays Them at the Gates of the
Country Chatelaine

| Piazza decorations are of serious moment
to the woman who has not flower garden
IN full bloom al her doorstep. If she has to
buy her supply 1t means large hole In her
purse every few days. A few flowers. too.
look badly, and between seasons there ia
not much that will make q showing unless
the owner of the veranda realizes the
value of shrubbery or branches of foliage
that she collect on her rambIss and
arrange arttstically. With the wicker and
mission furniture usually chosen for thts
outdoor living room branches look lust as
well as bloom. and against cedar shingles
copper vase with copper beech twigs of
good length is most attractive GROWING
plants and baskets filled with ferns and
trailing vines are no trouble to take care OF
and do not fade like flowers and there are
fascinating earthenware boxes in which To
grow foliage plants or ferns. Geraniur1s
trimmed into branching bushes will grow
iuAurlantiy under cover. as on porch. and
soon resemble balls of pink white mr. .cor,a,
petals. so closely do the blossoms cover the
leaves Other charming piazza plants are
hydrangeas. and with some of thssa ara
geraniums wonderful effects can be main
tained. For the vases the wilderness ~, a.,
wayside can be source of supply. Acacia
both yellow and white, wild cherry ni,L o.
White Morse chestnut. and later wild laurel
azalea, rhododendron and that most bsautt
full plant the butterfly weed, In tones from,
maize TO burnt orange. will keep up anv
color scheme until goidenrod and asters
come 10 usher in the autumn leaves In
snort. the woman with country place may
MAKE ner piazza the most attractive mart
vi her' mouse oy the means OF decoration
that nature lays at her gates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

III her eyes need treatment we send her
to an oculist: we don't just send her to an
optican for glasses II her teeth need re-
pairs she is sent to a dentist. The bad
cases of foot weakness, spinal irregularities.
etc, we send to Teachers College twice a
week. where they have special gymnastic
exercises. If they can't spare the carfare
It is provided out OF a special fund we have.
Then there are gymnastics here, and If
the wrong sort of shoes, as they generally
are. we see that they get the right sort.
Then they dance for f1atfoot-dapce In
their stocking feet. They love to do this.
except when occasionally they pick up
tack or a PIN which isn't pleasant"
Not only is the impression of every girls
feet taken, but ner medical history is writ
ten down on a huge card. II there is sick
ness or II there have been deaths in her
family. these things are recorded.
so" said Miss Beegle, If girl has
three brothers dead with tuberculosis. for
instance. we can gently direct that girl
into some trade that can't hurt weak lungs,
and avoid the mistake OF allowing her to
choose one that would keep her at ma
chine all day"
Naturally. everybody interested in this
department Of the school is waiting TO see
what will happen now. DIR. Maxwell is
known to believe In a more thorough med
teal oversight of the children In the pub
lie schools than they have ever had yet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

man, and the sighting is done as In ordi-
nary cunning. but, instead Of the real tar
get being hit, the tally comes down in the
sub-target, which is a miniature edition of
the real target, to which IT is adjusted by
its own little telescope sight, SO that its
record reads the result OF the shot--not two
hundred yards away, but right at the end
of the rifle"
With the boys shooting four afternoons IN
the week and the girls only one. the latter,
naturally, got less practice, and yet in the
contest before Easter the girls won out.
There were five In the girls team and five
In the boys, and the final score showed 235
to 25l in the girls favor At the end of
the first contest, the girls being ahead, the
boys asked for another test The girls gay
" granted 1t. and won another victory, with
the above tally. Some os the girls have had
outside practice. Captain Crandall does
enthusiastic cunning with her boy cousins
in Vermont In the summer time And In
her team she has one member who has Just
broken a world record. although she was
not competing with any one; Miss Helen
Fancher has succeeded in making bulseye
hits 10 the count OF fifty without missing
once. and In straight succession. at two
hundred yards. Miss Esther Bates is
close second, with a record OF forty-nine
And now, with this record behind them and
the world before them. full of boys whom
they might defeat, comes this ruling. OF the
Board OF Education, crushing ell their
hopeA Small wonder they think It's hard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
CLOTHES
Rom pers and Sandals FIJI the
Bill for Little FOLKS.

II the little people OF the family are "a
enjoy the summer outing thoroughly and
get az much benefit from 81 as trey oughr
their mothers must give I'D the idea a.
keeping them continually on dress parade
The opportunity 70 enjoy the freedom and
fresh air of the country or seashOre ia
precious. and ought not 20 be. limited
Those who have country homes that thew
can flee to for week ends or longer perIods
during the year can afford to carry their
city habits to the country. IL they Choose
10 be so foolish, but TO the ma jority, WIN
go to modest suburban homes for part os
the year or to nearby watering places
the vacation days are very precious and
should be made the most Of Simple dress
ing OF the little people makes this easier
for both mother and child.
The romper fashion solves the dE~sz
problem for boys and girls under five or
SIX Put on before breakfast. with sandals,
and a big. comfortable straw hat. they an
the bill exactly. They are cool. because
there are no petticoats under them. and
they seem to keep clean much longer than
dresses or wash suits. II costs less to
launder them-an important consideration
IL one is away from homeland they do nor
kept for the one ceremoniOus meal OF tia
day or for Sunday afternoon. but for ths
rest of the time the rOnper5 are sufficient
The sandals are all the protection needed
for the feet, unless rubbers should be re-
quired early in the day. for the dew fingers
longer on the grass than ii does on the
city's flags. A nice warm REFER should ia
provided for the cool OF the evening and
the straw hat must be comfortable aad
light, else Ii will be cast aside. for now tina
experts say that too much .sunburn is bad.
1t makes the skin coarse and causes the
hair to grow profusely upon il. which ia
bad when the little miss blooms into young
wornanhood and desires TO have a good
complexion; for the boy 1t does not 90
much matter.
IL this independent plan is adopted by
one mother in a summer colony she viii %
surprised 10 see how many other mothers
will follow her good example, and what
comfort they will all reap from the expert
ment AT times IL quite pays TO be pio-
neer, for lots OF people would be quite
sensible il they just had little encourage
ment in the right direction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

Will the Manhattan Trade School LOT
Girls. now that it has been taken over o9
the Board of Education. do as much 1of
the physical development Of It's pupils as
Il has been doing In the past? That is
what a good many friends OF the scnoo
were wondering as they watched the dane
ing Of the girls at the May Festival given
81 rrerrace Garden last Thursday evening
by the Graduate Association and pupils Oh
the school.
ONLY the initiated knew it, but the grace
a., eyo,utions performed by the nymphs In
yelcon,ing Juno to earth in the Greek
fa,tasv nj the festival, and the ralnoo"
dance and all the rest Of II were just "hat
the girls are taught TO do at the school 1or
Aa+foot and other weaknesses OF the rect
when a cir, enters the school MISS Mary
Porter Beesle, the physical director, 1mme-
d,atelv has her examined from head TO foot
for evidences OF physical unsoundness, and
takes an Impression of her feet to see IL
there is anything the matter with the
arches.
Every girl who ever came to this schooi
has left her footprints here literally" said
Miss Beegle to Tribune reporter. L take
the impression on paper with solution OF
iron and tannic acid. About half the girls
examined have some weakness of the feet
Here is a pretty bad case of f1atfoot. and
she brought out card on which the whole
bottom of the foot showed. without any
arch at all.
MANY Of the girls have more or less
decided lateral curvature OF the spine,
which comes. Of course, from carrying
babies around when they are too small for
the weight. II there is anything the
trouble we find it ont, for the examination
is no cursory one. The girl is undressed,
her spine tested by the doctors fingers.
her heart listened to. her teeth, eyes and
throat looked into, and every test of her
oundness made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
Thew Dance for F1affoof
PHYSICAL Exercises Are Play at City's New
Trade School for Girls.

h,,t the Board of Health has this matter
In charge Some of the Manhattan Trade
School peoole say this is wronS-that the
Board of Education ought to look after the
children medically as well as mentally.
ut doesn't mean much" said one of the
instructors, when a Board of Health doc
tor passes down a line of children taking
hasty look at their tongues. Anyhow,
we feel that our girls need more. For
they come here for only one year, and from
here they go out to work In factories, most
of them. and it is very important that their
bodies should be built UP"
1t is possible, though, that IL the city
does not see it's way clear to keeping up
the physical department the board, which
has always looked after the Manhattan
Trade School, will do it. for the city has
only leased the building and equipment for
two years, and the board will still retain
some interest.
Shower baths will soon be part of the
equipment. That was what the girls danced
for the other night. Their dancing brought
$500, which completes the s2,100 needed to
put in nine shower baths and nine double
dressing rooms, which will permit patches
Of eighteen girls to go I'm at once. nine
bathing while the other nine are getting
ready.
The question of physical oversight is not
the only detail to be settled before the city
assumes charge of the Manhattan Trade
School next fall. For instance, what diplo-
mas will be required of the teachers? Must
they know all about the three RS" and
Latin and geometry in order to teach girls
how to make hats and run power machines?
1.-The best teacher of trade said Miss
Helen R. Hiidreth, lis a person who has
worked at that trade. And people who
work at trades can't get the same degree
of academic education In some of the
manual training schools, however, men
teachers are admitted without passing the
examination required for public school
teachers Some such arrangement may be
made here"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

IF Won women are taking hold of this,
remarked a grocer TO girl who is using
the scant hours of leisure she CLEANS from
ner work as district nurse to help the
striking bakers by urging grocers and keep
ers of deIicatessen shops to sell only union
bread. I'VE might as well fall in line right
away
Not ali the people who handle bread feel
that way as some OF the canvassers have
discovered but Mrs. Carrie ". Allen. gem
eYal-ir-chief of the movement 20 organize
women for a shop-to-shop and house-to-
house canvass. says that women can ''con-
ouer the bread trust IL they Will" And
some of them are working hard enough TO
dc IL. Not only bakers wives, 70 whom the
struggle comes home, but wives of other
workers-the members Of the Woman s
Auxiliary of Typographical Union No. 20.
for instance-all snatching what hours they
can from their children and their work TO
tramp about and tell people as well as they
can what this strike means to the bakers
and what the sanitary condition of bake
shops means so the health Of the city.
School teachers and professional women,
mainly those Of socialistic trend. are join
ing in.
I'VE have no means of knowing how
Mrs Allen, at the headquarters of the
movement. No. 2se East s4th street. We
have sent Out hundreds OF letters TO women
asking them 20 help. and have appealed to
them IN meetings, and a good many just
20 to work in their own neighborhoods.
ent, not having much time. don't come here
10 report. Others do. Twenty or thirty
bakers wives come here every DAY to get
literature before starting on their rounds"
Two came in just then. One was tall
and thin. with look in fer face which
would have made her a candidate for
rest cure If fate had placed her in a diff
ferent station Of society. The other was a,
little DOT OF a German woman. with deter
mined black eyes and two union buttons
pinned on her lawn waist. which was badly
faded, but very neatly laundered.
II: iss hard life bakers wife hass,"
she chirped. with unouenched cheerfulness.
Not much money, and cross man. I
don't blame my man for being cross. He
works so long, IL ISIS so hot we're he works,
dot ven he comes home dere ISIS no
strength IN him. If ! say to him some
eings about de home he says: Don't trouble
ne. haf trouble enough we're / work. My
ckildrens see dere fader shoost vunce
week. He goes TO work at tree, before dey
hat left school; in de mornings he ISIS
asleep. Work and a little sleep-dot iss
BAKERS life; so he struck
Then the two women took bundle of
the appeals they present to shopkeepers
and made ready for their rounds.
-Four grocerymen promised me yesterday
oey would sell only union breadt," said
the little German woman. Il talk to all
nicely. ] say: Would you please be SO kind
70 help the bakers? Dey work so long
hours; help dem to get a nine-hour day
and q little more wages Eun man gets
mad and says ven he vas young he worked
for 81 a week. But i say to him il costs
more to lif now. and bakers children want
q little schooling. And by and by he comes
sroundt nit me.
Ven We go TO houses TO tell ladies we're
dey can get union breadt some are cross
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
DIANAS HARD HIT
Board of Education Puts CHRIS
Rife Club an Mourning.

70 tears we're not so unmanly, Miss Helen
Russell Crandall and the other -FOUR metn-
hers of the Girls Rifle Club at the Curtis
Public School, in Staten Island, would SIT
down md cry For Of all the many girls
who are hard hit in the solar plexus OF
their ambition by the recent decision Oh
the Board of Education cutting down the
Girls athletic stunts and forbidding among
other things contests between boys ana
girls this quintet feels it worst. 10
know and to have proved that one can beat
the boys "all hollow" at shooting, and theh
to be forbidden to do it-Well, perhaps
those Staten Island girls aren't angry!
lust before the last Easter vacation the
girls and boys of the Curtis Public School
lad a rife contest, with five in each team.
The girls had had less practice than the
bows. for their club was formed more re-
Gently For a long time the boys mad
been practising in the target room at the
school on Mondays, Tuesdays. Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays, after lessons, and
had gained such proficiency that they won
several medals against boys in other
schools for craftsmanship. Then the prin-
cipal Harry F. Towle, who considers that
a girl has Just as much need of a steady
eve and q steady hand as a boy has, ar
ranged to have medal offered without
limitations of sex. The boys of the school
came I'D to the scratch" nobly by offering
to let the girls nave the target room on
Fridays, after lessons, for practice, and the
boys coach volunteered to teach the bud
ding Dianas how to shoot; and the sub
target gun bought for the boys being placed
ct the disposal Of the girls, they went to
work In good earnest.
THE sub-target gun is wonderful inven-
tion," Miss Crandan, captain of the girls
team, explained to Tribune reporter. 1t
enables the person behind 1t to aim at any
distance desired, without danger of injuring
any living creature crossing the range, be-
cause it has no ammunition And yet It's
Just as good practice. The real target is
placed two hundred yards from the rifle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
TEACHERS COLLEGE EXHIBITS

ieachers college is going To keen oman
mouse this week. The new buildins az IN.
schooi OF Household Arts will he onsr fo~
inspection tomorrow from To 10 o'cIoct
tuesday from 10 TO u. TO ) and 8 % N
and wednesday from to s. The rtor,ca
Mann and speyer schools will be onen 70
visitors at the same time. and there win
De ekh'oits OF students work. The denart-
ment of household administration an
nounees demonstration of laundry APP
paratus IN the laundry laboratory ON russ-
uay evening May 81. and In the afternoon
ot tne same day, at O'Clock. there win
De demonstration in carving In Room An,
An exhibition from the Royal College ~
Art south kensington. London. loaned ~
ieaehers college. is on exhibition in the
nhe arts department. fourth floor. Of m.
Macy Building VI '"o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
LATEST JAPANESE EFFECT.

The wistaria tree ia the latest Japanes1us
effect sought by expensive gardeners. To
train one into any kind OF shape takes
three years of patient pruning, but the re-
suit is we'll worth waiting for, 50 foreign
and artistic and unusual. The vine is first
allowed TO grow to a height OF four feet.
and then all tendrils are nipped at the top
and those at the sides made TO train cut
over stakes These are kept pruned as
they grow into branches When strong
enough they are permitted to bloom. and
clusters of pale violet flowers soon hang IN
profusion from the spreading, miniatuTs
trees
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

The debutante of the season will have no
difficulty in getting together the coveted
six boxes Of wedding cake. which means
that the seventh will be her own, for the
list of brides-to-be is long, and wedding
receptions are in plenty, accordingly. The
superstition holds that no box must be
opened. Each one must be tied to its prede-
cessors in order Of date, and each one
must be legitimately given to the owner as
an invited guest-no cards transferable, SO
In speak. This charm never fails, it is
said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

woman whose house parties are always
successful owns up to keeping a notebook
In which she inscrfbes the chief character
istic of each person she knows-man, wonn-
an and child. She has special departments
In which she lists them, and when making
her plans she has but to turn to a certain
page TO find thereon the persons who have
the same tastes and are likely to prove con-
genial Sometimes, she confesses, Just to
give herself moments of interest in watch
ing the byplay, sne has borrowed a guest
from another page. These experiments are
sometimes more amusing to the hostess
than they are TO the ill-assorted guest II
he is a man he gets on fairly well. for his
bank account prevails over other considera-
tons, and the points in which he differs
from the remainder of the company are
treated as amusing eccentricities. But to
the woman out Of her element little mercy
is shown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
D. A. r. OFFICERS INSTALLED.

The knickerbocker Chapter Of the Daugh-
tiers OF the American Revolution installed
the following officers at its last meeting of
the season, held on Friday. at the Waldorf
Astoria: Mrs. William r. Stewart. regent;
Mrs. Frederick Hasbrouck. honorary re-
gent Mrs. Simon Baruch and Mrs. L..
Curtis Bracket. vice-regents; Mrs John
Gelbaush. treasurer; Mrs. Samuel B. Hard
recording secretary; Miss Grace Osborne.
corresponding secretary; Miss Helen NJ
Fisher. registrar; Mrs. Frank Crowell. his
torian, and Mrs. j. NJ. Duncan, Mrs. j.
Sparks Kress. Mrs. Charles f. Terhune and
Mrs. n. Taylor Phillips and Miss Edith NJ
Glover, members of the executive board
The state regent. Mrs. Joseph s. Wood. was
representated by Mrs William Cumming
Story. honorary state regent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
PLANT WATERING SCHEME.

Persons engaged In rearing household
plants are often in quandary when IL Is
desired To leave the house temporarily
without neglecting the plants. An arrange
ment can be readily rugged up so that the
necessary water will be supplied to the soil
automatically. Take a bowl OF water, raise
il we'll above the level of the plant TO be
watered by means of a box or a pile or
books, Twist several strands of common
darninS wool together TO form lone
thread. and soak them In the water II
one end be hung over the bowl and the
other end left IN the water, n steady drip
drip will begin and continue until the bowl
Is empty.-Dundee Advertiser.