The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28

the practical theorist and every morning sometimes
d snd ns e aeS Of s ey ags m
an epidemic of typhoid BY the use of straightfor-
edge of the needs of the people the dangerous portions
Of Of the city were eeansed and the epidemic averted
Inns was only one opening wedge.
kitchen is the backbone Of the family she is much
housekeeping which shall lower the price of living for
each household which shall lower the price of living
began an agitation to secure the enactment of
law law a sn improve ROY the state Of the sums and after
Hull House. the famous settlement established by Miss
ties a4 e @ & of & of M
residents have satisfied themselves that they will be
nois. limiting the hours of work for women in fac.
tories and sweat shops to eight day. the direct
Hull House workers and the changes for the better
in the matter of child labor traccabe to the same
civic beterment for all peoples based upon Kip
1e have read, we have heard We have thought
Give answer-what ba' ye done1'
&" Ladies" said Mrs. A NJ Palmer president of
body BODY Of women known as the Rainy Day club,
their initial sally into world of short weights and
false measurements; ''every one of you is being
cheated cheated daily by some grocer, butcher vegetable
dealer deal The city Of New York; according to author
short. weighted package goods We going out this
s or IN Gee what es AMID
then we going to take vigorous steps that
every nouSekeePer gets good measure, pressed down
and maybe running for the future. If necessary
TO go to the state legislature [ will go; but we, as
housekeepers of the city, are going to make
certed effort for good weights and just balances.
When sd buy M pound Of butter want pound, and
keeper gets the same
Baskets with false bottoms, scales with the head of
a hatchet attached underneath to pull them down.
fruit boxes with the splns pushed up to make three
quarters of quart instead of quart, rubber bands
Inserted III counter scales and weights followed out
on the under surface and filled with or black
cork made Mrs Palmer and her club declare
felt as If they had attended performance in leger
demain. Women who dealt at these shops appeared
hopeless victims. They knew the evil What thev
did not know was how to combat it Mrs. Palmer
proposed mass meeting of the housekeepers Of New
York to explain the systems OF cheating and to dis
cuss the plans for their destruction.
Work of Mrs. Belais
The interested women appealed 10 Fritz Reichmann,
state superintendent of weights and measures and
nc told the housekeepers how they could help Each
woman who intends to fight the wrong agrees to have
kitchen test set which will be tested aud sealed BY
the official sealer of weights and measures Tue
tents of each package of goods will be checked OF
and supplies will be ordered in terms of weight
by the pail print, jar bottle, basket Aside
from these individual efforts the question of remedial
legislation is being vigorously pushed Mrs William
City Federation OF Women 3 clubs has taken up the
matter and cooperative methods OF attack being
brought into play.
stranger coming TO New York and observing the
large maps of Manhattan and Brooklyn hung in the