New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-10
SCRAPPLE OR BOOT SOUP.
Rad Lawmakers to Wall or It's
Back to Siege Diet.
SAYS LADY SPELLBINDER
washington Market Women
Rreathless While Mrs. Metcalfe
Exnounds on Prices Panacea.

,cr,r the time come when the Daush-
- the American Revolution VIII nave
- boil their husbands boots 10 ihsAe
soup2" ,a,orca into
The question sent the audience INV
A,,s,srics. but the woman In the green
dress plunged on.
,rTs the time comes-and mind you'
x,.,o,vives of New York, II looks as II IL
r,srs coming soon to US as 1t did IN the
.,eee of Calais-when the time comes
.oy .hereu be another American Kew
.,,+ion and we'n all be daughters OF IT,
.H,eontime. I don't care who Is elected
,uas,6ent in this campaign, but tell you
,his there will be more roasting OF poh-
tir,ans and a cutting off OF more heaos
,ban those of Thanksgiving turkeys IN
November. Men who make DUCKS ana
brakes of the laws concerning women anu
children should be swept out OF Washing
con and put where they'll be thankful for
scrapple for supper"
The crowd edged in closer.
Land sakesl Amt she terror the
woman with the market basket gaspeo
neushteoly to the woman with the twine
bag.
II certainly was an event that Grafton
nv the woman in the green dress. ASK
env one Of the delighted hundreds who
had penetrated Washington Market
YESTERDAY morning for the purpose OF see
Inc whether the Housewives League
,,,srnbers we're as beautifully gowned"
"a the press agent said. The housewives
were there. to be sure, but the woman In
green made the hit with the market
clans" She wasn't on the programme
and she didn't tell her name, but she said
che was a newspaper woman, and could
make better cake than any that any OF
their mothers used to make. She had
few ideas about markets, too
Everything but Radical.
81 am president of the Economics and
Politics Club of Staten Island" she said,
'but l wouldn't let my members boycott
their local dealers and spend a whole
morning TO come over here to market
No, said /. Your local man is all right
He isn't responsible for higher prices.
Don't you go back on him. He wouldn't
dare charge you an unfair price, because
ne KNOWS II It u4N gDu VI HC'SA 30 boNh ~
him, i. ad any sense at all
mo, sll. you can't blame the poor little
grocer and butcher. It's the men higher
UP who are responsible for this canker Of
uneasness and poverty in our country to-
day. Go to the legislatures and get laws
passed 10 protect you.
"A million immigrants were o. KID at
Ellis Island last May. They were let in
free, but why didn't Uncle Sam let them
bring along free wool, free butter, free
cheese. and give them cheaper coal to
cook with? Is it fair to ask other coun-
tries to let us take away their poor peo-
pie. and when we get them here, to have
food prices so high that anarchy, riot and
rebellion break out, that women who can
not speak English 90 about smashing our
butcher shops?'
When the woman in green waved
quick "goodby" to the crowd and disap-
peared behind the speakers box, most Of
her hearers were still breathless, but the
newspaper folk pursued in a body and
brought down their quarry in a little cor
her between a cheese counter and a sau-
sage booth She was, she said, Mrs. Mary
Lawton Metcalfe, a Daughter of the
American Revolution, president of the
Economics and Politics Club Of Staten
Island, a suffragette (of course) and vari-
Gus other things
Diana of the Markets.
Mrs. Julian Heath. president Of the
Housewives League. was the chief speak
er Of the occasion-not counting the spell
binder N green. who wasn't on the pro-
gran",.o, remember She outlined the