New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-21
MORE WOMEN'S CLUBS
JOIN BUTTER BOYCOTT
EAGER to Help the Housewives
League Deal Blow to
Unfair Prices.
OTHER TOWNS TO ABSTAIN
Mrs. Julian Heath, Leader OF the
Movement, Will Next Start
a Strike" in Port
Jervis.

Great talk In tho town OF ye Housewives
League. and now these danes propose tc
reduce the cost Of living by eating no but
ter for one-aud-thirty days
Mrs. Julian Heath. the president of the
Housewives League. was kept so busy al
dav Yesterday receiving callers and answer
ing telephone calls about her butter boycott
that she couldn't get out to buy her sun
day dinner. Like the lrishman in the story
however. who couldn't begin to fast Till
after he'd had good breakfast. the Heath
family is strong in courage because 1t stu
has some butter in the lardcr. There is
enough for Sunday breakfast and the
sternest of boycotters cannot refuse part
ing Pat to her family, inasmuch as no but
ter has been purchased since the boycott
was called.
other people have not Jared so We'll one
ciubwoman. with the courage Of her conyic-
tions, reported to headquarters yesterday
afternoon that because she would have no
butter on her Saturday wheatcakes, she
had been obliged 10 incur the additional
expense of two more thimoieiuls OF syrup
10 make them go down
Oiec Better, Anyway.
domestic science authority assured Mrs
Meath that oIeomargarine was much clean
or than butter, anyway, and Mrs. Nary j.
inco,n. author of the cookbook which
hears her name, assures tho public that
bacon fat really does make edible cooking
hutter ANYTHING which has a strong
havoring matter. like gingerbread, for ex-
ample, she said, is quite free from the tain'
Of bacon. and anything not so blessed IN
&c nat III.
"Racon is perfectly good" she SAID
,cYbat harm If it's flavor does linger?
"As for the boycott" she continued. i
doubt If II can be made very euecuVe III
,ftsels hut Il will be valuable in teaching
women what they can use as substitutes
Tor butter It's very good thlnS 10 give
then, this cxpertness in cooking as IL wiz
always be useful-at least until these othel
commodities soar to the price oil Dutter'
Mere man is more hopeful-mere man
who has to pay the butter bllls' Fctute
the faithful commuter travelling OUT "
Montclair of a dreary winter night WIN
sundays supply OF butter under MS arm
because the golden stuff has Deen 'aNeu
AT 80 cents in his home town and he must
needs buy il at a big market in the Guy
Now the picture changes. The Montciaii
man hears OF the boycott-and niue Tx
cares IL il be only womans oo'hs
either--he marches straight TO MS te'e'
phone, calls mp Mrs. Heath and pieuges
himself TO buy no more butter
Come out TO Montclair," he urged "and
fnsch the women there they'd butter boy
colt butter'-they'n be our butter half for
sure. then"
Mrs. Heath, having already been I'M
nortuned BY other reformers in the same
Njdeavake village. promises to go "imme'
diately. If not before" Meantime she has
bought her ticket TO Port Jervis' whert
tho faithful have been clamoring LOUD ano
long for her 10 come and help launch then
bark against the cost OF living.
THE worst of all this recent increase II
the cost Of butter" she told the reporter
lis that it seems to be unwarranted. There
was farmers wife from Connecticut VINO
talked to me this morning, saying she could
sell butter at 81 cents a pound, with IAN
margin Of profit. Now, IL an Individual
woman can do that surely the big whole
sale producers with all their equipment
could do ii, too"