New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-20
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE
STARTS BUTTER BOYCOTT
None To Be Eaten for at Least
Thirty Days, 1t Is Asked,
Unless Price Falls.
COOK WITH BACON DRIPPlNGS
New York Women Working with
Those of Pittsburgh, Who
Led in Similar Move
ment in Meat.

We'll, I think that seems kinda
stingy."
Though they are too polite to express
II thus, Miss Emma Bossond, teacher OF
the. domestic science classes Mrs.
Julian Heath and some Of her co-reform-
ers set going some time ago in Leroy
street. declares TO be the real feeling Of
her tenement house pupils when she tries
u show them ways OF cconomizing in
that expensive luxury, butter.
To get people to boycott butter till
prices come down is the object Just now
of Mrs. Heath and the Housewives
League, OF which she is president, but
Miss Bossond says the boycott won't
come from the poor. for they will, use all
the butter they can get on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, even If they
have to go without anything then till
Saturday arrives with it's pay envelope.
The Housewives League is appealing
especially to the rich and the well-to-do
In this it's latest move against the rise in
the cost OF living. At a meeting Of the
central council on Thursday 1t was voted
to appeal TO every member Of tf3 league
and every woman in greater New York
to let no butter pass her lips for the
next thirty days-unless, Of course, the
dealers see the error of their ways and
put down the price.
But r1e no but-ter"-apologies to
Shakespeare-wi' be the motto of every
loyal Lacquer for the coming month. But.
terless mullins, dry toast, cake made
with bacon drippings instead of with the
output of the cow-it sounds hard. but
the leaguers think they can carry it
through.
This move is in line with that Of Mrs.
Enoch Rauh and other leaders in the
Congress OF Women's Clubs in Pitts
burgh. This organization, which started
the strike against the high prices Of
meat several years ago-a strike which
was effective for little while-is now
striking on the butter question. Mrs.
Rauh wants Pittsburgh to build, stands
along the Monongahela wharf so that
farmers could sell directly to consum-
ers
Mrs. Heath is revolving plans for
bringing the producer and the consumer
together and getting rid Of the middle
man. or at least clipping his profits
bit.
A representative of some Long Island
farmers called on her yesterday and de-
clared that these farmers were willing
to sell butter-the best-at 81 cents A
pound. To bring them into touch with
consumers win be the next work of the
league.
Printed appeals TO "eschew butter and
make the dealer come down off his high
priced perch Will be sent shortly to all
the leaguers. Meanwhile, Miss Bossond
is laboring hard to make Leroy street
save it's dripplngs and bacon fat, but
without much success she says
'Why, do you know" she told the
Tribune reporter yesterday, there is one
family living in tumbledown tenement
house over there, a family of nine per-
sons. which uses seven poupds of butter
week. When l talk to them about
cheap substitutes, about saving the |
grease from their meat, l can tell that
they are thinking, Well. that's rather
mean They wouldn't hurt my feelings
by saying such things, but that's the at
titude. People without much money are
the hardest ones 10 convince of the dig
nifty and necessity of economy"
Mrs. Emil Kuchling. Mrs. George A. |
Coe, Mrs. George Ayres and Mrs. NJ. S.
Meagher are members Of the leagues
council. which is circulating the mo-
butter" pledge.
The prices asked in the markets yes
terday were slightly lower than those IN !
effect few days ago. First class table |
butter YVES selling at so cents a pound |
against So cents on Tuesday. |
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