Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

cost. 1t gong to help lot when know the stand
ard of efficiency terms OF what eat. I've theory
that ones stomach instructions to ones brain
the basis of the breakfast coffee and the ghtness OF the
bread. l may be wrong but it a theory worth work
ing on
This was getting back to woman's domain of the cook
stove with vengeance; but cookstove that under
stood its place the universe enlightened cookstove
seeing itself object of sociological research and not
presided by reluctant drudge but by enthus
astc advocate who viewed 1t with the respect chemist
might give to his crucibles
\ worker from the Womans Trade Union League
looked up from a criticism of French art. What good
does do to teach people what to buy and how to cook
if they haven't anything to buy it With? she demanded
Listen what Florence Kelley Secretary of the Con-
suers League says, What the relation of wages to
tuberculosis, melanchola and vice? For want of this
knowledge provide reformatories for girls, when
should be building penitentaries for their employ
ers That's the idea! You 'phlanthropists' all used
to think that you could ignore the Labor Problem, and
five years ago when that thousand laundry girls struck
against reduction OF wages below the standard OF
decent living, there mighty few OF you ready to
help But when the thirty thousand shrtwast makers
struck last fall noticed that you hocked out of the
Settlements, the Charities the Consumers League the
Churches and the Prison Association to do picket duty
round the shops speak the street and defend
the girls in court. You social workers have round
to see that it's wages have got to be set right
Don't put it up to us SO violently protested 0ls-
trict Visitor. 1--WE the Importance of wages fast
enough" =,
Trade Union League Worker was asked to 60 to meet
ing of the Neckwear Makers Union. 1t was nine
o'clock of bisering August night and the meeting was
saloon down near the waterfront but the girl
put down her art criticism dashed some cold in
her face pinned her hat and out into the
ing, steaming streets of the Ghetto.
1T seems at first that there things you
simply can't do commented the District Visitor.
"Once used find it terrible thing to make mothers
who couldn't support their children put them nstitu
tons used to think of myself ogre tattenng on
human young. But, that | know they'll at least
be fed and clothed if they put away, stand 1t
to live and move and have my being at the Bureau OF
Dependent Children where they taken in charge.
7 hate tha b,1tId
my cases any more" The young Settlement Worker
stirred uneasy u don't like being little tin god
ST., who keep asking whether to marry their daugh
ter to an old wdower with four children young
Greek frutseller who isn't earning living She's Sin
teen and being Syrians they think it's disgrace that
she isn't married When suggested that they ask the
GIRL the mother threw up her hands and shrieked. How
should know what to do? And then there was Mrs.
Eraclito Sernolino yesterday asking If thought 1t
would help her sick baby to burn candle to the
Virgin or to buy cough drops with the money 1t gets
on my nerves.
Its what you are paid for, and you don't want
f Teacher " S' ~ ~
Hard Stand "Toting
EVERYBODY groaned; for toting is showing casual
u visitors about and gently, very gently, explaining
modern charity them. They told me story about
Hull House resident who was found packing her
things to go home I've toted eleven parties today.
she cried and the way they talk you'd think that il
the bilboards only plastered with Mona Lisa and
photographs of the Colosseum there wouldn't be any
hungry people in Chicago I've had to take their talk
about uplifting atmosphere and the moral force of good
manners and how sweet the kindergarten is and |
haven't answered back all day-and just can't stand
it! I'm going home!"
There diversion in the flat at this point cause;
by the Young Civics club of small boys, bursting in
to ask the young Settlement Worker if she would umpire
a basketball game between them and the Fenimore
Cooper Association the day. When they had been
satisfied elected and the place aired the White Slave
investigator began another pair of stockings an:
asked, grinning:
Peel you're getting into the sad heart of things?,'