The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24

less than hall > cent apiece. You can use
as beautiful a service plate as YOU want
itself can be put on these paper plates.
FIRST though. place on the plate
layer OF this specially prepared white
paper. get II in sheets and cut it To
Mt II Is nonabsorbent gives no taste OF
paper 10 the food and you can cut with n
sharp steel knife the things that arc on.
~ and Yet not cut Through the paper.
When they arc taken from the table they
can be put right in the fire or in the
garbage consumer and burned.
What we want Is a paper plate that
Shall nave the same qualities this sheet
paper has. II must not absorb mois-
turc OF grease. IL must be cheap and,
I'm addition, IT must be artistic We
want something with "A delicate border
II may be gilt or silver. or IL color. And
when we get it-wel, you will see the
noses descending that arc turned up now
at the mere mention of paper plates"
by this time YOU feel as II there must
bo "A ngger In tho woodpilc'' some
whore or all women would simply be
turning electric switches, popping ice
earret. playing bridge with one hand and
doing a weeks washing with tho other
| 50 YOU ask Mrs. Paitlson what is the
most frequent argument made by women
strated at this experiment station. The
answer comes In one word Cost, That
electric washing machine costs $50, but
| ~ costs only two cents an hour 10 run
alcohol, however costs but 50, an amount
which an ordinary family pays out in
| laundry bills in few weeks. The gar
| baEe consumer comes at $50 and the
electric firclcSs cooker the ono tha I
works while YOU sleep is SIS. The cost
! OF vacuum cleaners varies widely. But
with the one she owns Mrs. Pattson
! keeps her big house beautifully clean.
| II Is full Of Oriental rugs, upstairs and
down, Yet she can 80 over all the rugs
| In the house in two hours and then they
! Ia.H Il. f.-,4
Your face and not trouble you, The
! vacuum cleaner pays for itself faster
| than snythinG else, unless II is the fire
| less cooker.
I, sounds rather terrible to the aver
age housekeeper. At least she thinks it
VIII sound terrible to her husband, And
! so II will unless she can prove that It
| VIII be economical Ina the long run. Mrs.
| pattison hasn't any doubt that any wom,
| an eau save In an astonishtngy short
period the price OF all the labor-ssvns
devices which arc necessary in her home
! n she will rum them herself The wages
Of just ono servant amount TO from 5000
10 $3.50 a. year. add 10 this the servant s
board and what she wastes. for no hired
! cook ig as economical as the mistress
herself would be. and the saving amounts
! To from $500 at tho very least 10 $500 or
more. When there are two or more
servants the saving would be proper
And this is for only one year The
outlay goes on and on without lmprov-
Ing the value Of the housekeeping plant.
| Much Of the service received is door
there is q continual atmosphere Of un
rest and worry Mrs Pattison thinks
The solution Of the difficulty lies in three
things. size describes them as domestic
independence, domestic engineering and
stsudardizing the home
| The interest women have taken in the
experiment station IS decidedly encour-
aging. 1t was opened last june. The
first day 700 women came from all parts
OF the state. All through the summer
they arrived in a constant stream. Be.
ginning early in September dates were
set for visits OF delegations OF women
| FROM siTty-siN New Jersey cities, Two
! or three times a week these delegations
have been coming. Several hundred wom-
on have visited tho little house every
week. Altogether thousands OF them
have come from all over New Jersey and
from other states, Letters have been
received by tho busheL Some OF these
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