New-York tribune., 1912-01-28
But the Housewives League
Firmly Believes 1t Can
Lower the Price of the
Slippery Product.

that is what we are objecting 10. Then
you know, the butter rides around from
| commission man 10 grocer before It gets To
US, and every trip it makes few cents
are added for travelling expenses We pay
! that, too
Mrs. Heath intimated that the best per.
manent solution for the problem would be
TO keep a COW, but since the exacting law,
Of the city would not allow that the house.
wife, metaphorically, should get as close 10
the COW as possible-buy from the farmer.
Here's a letter." she said. showing Il.
that I got this morning from wealthy
woman in Atlantic City. She comments
the boycott, and tells how she and her
! friends are getting the best grades Of but.
| ter for 3S cents a pound. They formed a
sort Of club, which is supplied by group
| OF farmers upstate. They sell the butter
for 3S cents and pay the express, which Is
often four cents a pound.
Here's another, from a man or woman.
signed Emile. It is postmarked Inwood.
on Hudson. II points out that great bulk
! Of the produce shipped into New York
/ City comes down the Hudson River. either
/ by boat or rail. But when IL reaches Man
haitian Island il is taken on down nearly
| 10 the Battery instead Of there being a
, place for II 10 stop out In the residence
| section Of the city We have 10 pay the
extra freight for carrying II down there to
! the Battery. and the cost Of hauling 4
back uptown within reach. That's one Of
the things that I have always complained
I Of and which the league is going 10 fight
! What we need are public market places;
/ they don't have to be costly houses, just a
square in charge Of some one to keep
/ things straight, where the poor cid con-
sumner can buy real food from the wagon
: Of the man who raises It,"
! But they closed the old Fulton Market.
and the Mayor SAYS ia.
Il know The Mayor says that We
women don't patronize public markets OF
/ course we don't patronize markets that Il
/ takes half a day TO get 10. The markets
are far downtown. where tha city was IN
1.-THE days Of our grandparents The shift
ing residence districts have moved miles
away from the old markets. What We need
are several market squares out where We
/ i've. \ NOiltH VIII ~ a ANsA- 'Ns
( her ba asket to market but she can't afford
: TO 60 from Harlem TO the Greenwich VII
/ lage district Here's the leagues idea OF
/ the way 10 reduce the much-discussed higa
tariff on living: Go to market
/ Furthermore. the beef bacols and the
egg magnates had better be careful as 70
! how they laugh into their silk lined sleeves
over the predicament OF the butter meF'
chant The league is bv no means to coz
/ fine its activities 10 guarding against ths
: yellow peril of high butter pr,ceS.
! II eggs start any Cunny price stunts 'nv
will reduce that market TO submission w"
boycott on eggs II pork becomes ur
! gracefully high in too short time tne7
will ouit eating it. If the price Of clothlls
rets-no. no. that's wrong, The league
/ cnIy taking care of the food situation
Meanwhile the ranks Of the butter ~
stairers are growing by the hundreds a
cn,b AT summit, y. j.. recently icined VIZ
oso members. Port JeryiS has called NA
Heath. and she is going there To start ~
other branch boycott. Mortclair' ~
p,lbam Greenwich and Stamford. Copb'
ore waiting I'm line until she has time 70 &
ths same with them She has the WORD d
tho ssnorate members that they VIII no. : 4
much as sneak to a piece Of butter X 'no
,,oot Il in the street and ii tips It's hs'
trem. .,,..r,
Io,,irg rho strenuous league IL praeticaf 8
-. irIass-with the exception cs panss ~
tendant upon the foregoing OF butter
Won have to do is 10 send in your nai'e' ~
0ve cents Zone nickel in dues 'or ''~
ga vou are member. You receive
u,ro blue circled button with the leds'
raue on II as credential that eau
dashed on any one who questions your ',ss
% bovcott butter. The price of fnemy .
srir was marked down TO the eAu.'s
minimum. So that any one coulo s1Sys s1S~s
Join. hoolng
Tbnugh the boycott has heen ov ',,.,t
along for a week and half, the n''A
housew,ves have heard no oficiai 80
n,a,rte from the class that the w.
nrIcas are really hitting hardest-'n.
,a,,rart gunner No matter how hsA
aoes he has to furnish his diners As ,y.
es ,hov ask for. without getuns "a,
.,,nc evtra for IT, All the csN
can do is to instruct his walters :, crs &
sparing as possible and MAKE ,Io,u,sv
asL for that second cube that Is aDsSs sA..,,s
necessary for plate OF mornihe ,yhss
-, course there are certain places ..a
~, saoa,oSs nature of the dinners
~ VIZ a rise in the price OF cocktaf 80
I,iaNe " aato. .,a catastrophe TO the nanss
,,ent than a double jump ID ,pe
butter. hsre peopA
Ask the owner of place whsie arss.
eat regularly and the conVehee",, .s,,, ard
,or the waiter is 10 cents. ana he
syar Won with resigned shrus' ,,..orh.|
"u,hot can | do?" he asks pnivSs p~ssp<
w JIG" nrat n little less myself, pe'n's
oan'' .,oro q bit off the amount es.
a"N ,,,ohar-e,er so little, you e unae' '' s,a.1
,,'e ,ron,t hear OF any restaurants -
fou ~o" tovcott AS to those to'a' :,
stainars-none OF them e'et III. Of 10 3
nloce Oh. yes, have seen ie Says . b
nuhllcitv butter is getting tneso
acts like this; ,sr ~ i
",m, ,,,or nrops his evening papa ~
me a,n ,,ater hottie and sees On .sta
against 'n grst column, headips .,sk
iron' paes asa all over II In tan 10
,vne II Immediately susses rrelin's
h,s mind and he begins eaths waits dr
VI, with the bread while nc :, -
na .,oat 70 cook. Butter, hpttei sv ~
ms o' osd IN the papers day amer !, ,mccb {
,ne ,,ds M him 10 eat about t~ios
IL rehlinuo o,anrant as he did forniers, !. "a
at the res. . nnlv wiring his helpless = - 7
"One can ,ho cows will wake " -