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New-York tribune., 1913-03-23

The Womans Forum will present q
unique entertainment for the benefit of
its educational and philanthropc fund at
the Berkeley Lyceum on the afternoon OF
Tuesday. April !. The afternoon will open
with "A Club Meeting and Rehearsal,
supposedly in the home of one OF us
members, in which will appear many
members Of the Forum in characters ia
miliar to the club world. Some interest
ing and amusing stunts" will be given
bv the Forum home talent, and in addi-
ton an excellent professional programme
Of music and dancing will be presented.
BY request, the afternoon will close with
the presentation OF the little skit called
The Incorriglblc." written especially
for the Woman's Forum. which made a
decided hit at its presentation last year.
The director Of music is Mrs. Robert l..
Mccain: floor manager, Miss b. l..
Clarke: chairman Of interest for Man
haitian. Mrs. William Riggs: vice-chalr-
chairman Mrs. Hiram Brown: vice-chair-
man, Mrs. j. NJ. Hazard for Richmond.
Mrs Henry Cossey.
The Post Parliament held its annual
meeting and election Of trustees last FRI
day al the Waldorf-Astoria, which re-
suited In the unanimous reelection OF
all officers The next meeting is sched-
uIed for Friday. March 2S a business
session will be held at IL o'clock. and
afterward there Will be discussion, IN
charge Of the current events committee
Mrs Mortimer NJ. Menken. chairman. VII
present the resolution. That legislation
proyiding for compulsory arbitration OF
disputed points is the proper remedy fol
the conflict between capital and labor"
The monthly social OF the Woman
! Henry George League viii he held on
Wednesday. March 26, at the Manhattan
Single Tax club, No. IL West I'D street
New-York tribune., 1913-03-23

In an up-to-datc New York apartment
with its hardwood floors. gas or eiectrlc
stove. etc. spring housecleaning is a task
hardly worthy of mention. II Is httle
more than the regular weekly cleaning
II Is only I'm the home that occupies
whole house from attic 10 cellar that an
annual overhauling-hous III 'ne
accepted meaning Of the term-is needeu'
And even here housekeeping in the twen-
tieth century is "A sinecure in comparison
with what it was once, before rugs tooN
the place of carpets and steam neat '"e
place Of coal stoves.
II is well to defer the work uhtil '"e
furnace i'm the cellar has been cleaned
But there are preliminaries which may
he attended 10 in the mean time. Inc
attic can he cleaned. for instance as i'
Is not likely that dust from the furnace
cleaning can reach as far upstairs a. 'he
attic unless doors are left open. just
now while # is still cool. is the pleasant
es, time of the year to get after the at'ic'
With cool breezes floating in through the
,irdovs rho work will be Accomplished
twice as easily and quickly as WIZ
LATER when the heat from the sunoaAeo
roof makes the attic atmosphere suili'5'
New-York tribune., 1913-03-23
SPRING HOUSECLEANING
Some Suggestions for Systematizing 1t and
Shortening the Long Drawn Out Agony
Of the House pset

, housewife can 20 down and examine
everything that has been stored there.
reject whatever she considers OF no valu" E
and dust such articles as she wishes 70,
keep and put them away into their proper
receptaclos 1t is we'll to do this work,
the day before the heater is cleaned, and'
have everything in the cellar IN periecl4
order. with nothing remaining 10 De doh'i /
but the furnace cleaning the brushhs'
of the walls and ceilings and the cieanins
OF the woodwork
Immediately after finishing the cellar,
attend to the kitchen, as the stove liz"
the furnace. must be cleaned, and II Is
good plan TO have the furnace man at
tend t. the kitchen stove as soon az he
finishes the furnace. The scrubwoman
can be sent TO the cellar Immediately
after he has left II 10 sweep the floor
and brush the ceiling and walls. She can
do this while he is cleaning the Kitchen
stove. and the next day she can brush
down the ceiling and walls of the kitchen,
while the housemaid or another woman
can be putting the finishing touches ON
the cellar
A word NAV he said here as 10 the ad-
visibility Of whltewashing the cellar but
man can be hired later hi the spring 70
do this work. when the excitement Or
! housecleanlng IS past and gone
RUGS MAKE CLEANING EASY.
Experience Of years has taught that
the next undertaking should be the bed
rooms. They are the easiest work or all
if rugs not carpets, cover the floors. The
halls must be done together, as they are
connected by the stairways. After the
halls are clean. do not replace the car
nets until the downstairs rooms are done:
/ The furnishings in these rooms must oe
moved into the hall, and with the clean
ers coming and going the hall carpet. II
tackled down, would soon lose it's look OF
freshness.
/ If the parlor. library and dining room
are separated by doors they can be doni
one at time but II they are separate"
only by curtains they must, Of course be
done together.
/ With these downstairs rooms now
/ cleaned. the hall carpet can be relald' Inc
renovated screens and porch chairs
brought down from the attic, and every
thing is ready for summer
/ H. closing. ii might be well to remind
the housewife that it is better TO hire
two women 20 assist than one as the
work will be accomplished IN jnst hai
the time and costs no more.
New-York tribune., 1913-03-23

The monthly social of the Woman's
Henry Geor:e League will be held on
Wednesday. March S at the Manhattan
Single Tax club No. IL West I'D street
New-York tribune., 1913-03-23
aEclN WITH THE ATTIC.

Peforo opening the trunks and PACKING
boxes in the attic 20 examine them nav
the Mace given a thorough sweepins'
using plenty Of damp tea leaves and other
duet LAYERS. After this is done examine
everything in the attic that moths nave "
fordnoss for and have the receptac'es
c,eaued that contained such goods
Remember that the hot weather-the
time i'm which moths hourish-is comihs'
and thore should be a. few things as pos
sible I'm the not attic to attract them.
The actual cleaning the ,crubblns WIN
hot water and soap powder-should oa
done after the examination for moths j.
over. for during it larve may fan iioIi
some Of the goods to the flooring.
When the attic is spotIessly Clean !,
Will be found convenient place In wh'-i
70 repaint piazza chairs. mend scree "'
and do similar useful bits of WORK tha'
are attendant upon the spring houseciean-
ing.
other preliminaries may be attended t'
before the furnace fire is put out Bur'a-
drawers. chests and closets should o'
looked over. and locks TO doors OF rooms
should be examined 10 see that they al
have KEYS. All such work is better done
before the doors are cleaned. II carpen'
ter work mas been neglected it should ais'
4.
New-York tribune., 1913-03-23

at D. m. a large attendance is desired
The regular business meeting OF the
league will be held at the same place on
Wednesday, April . Members are urged
TO attend
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

woman, at any rate, enters largely
therein As contrasts attract one
another, the strong man is drawn to-
ward the chld-woman or the WON
an slave And woman had the faults
and vices Of these. As all feeble
and oppressed beings she nearly al
ways sought refuge in lying OF ruses.
Her cat-like grace appeared to syn
thetize the mysteries Of her soul and
the direction of her life. The poets
who made her into a goddess never
ceased 10 see in her the force Of
lying and treason. The masculine
laws OF honor at all times appeared
strangers 20 her The celestial joys
which woman gave TO man have since
the first manifestations Of love been
poisoned by the lack Of honesty, a
so-Called male virtue. This at least
is the opinion OF man who has set
himself the task of transmitting to
posterity the virtues and shortcom-
ings Of the two sexes. But man be
came used 70 the falsehoods Of wom-
an. as we grow used TO the thorns as
the inseparable companions of the
rose.
As woman rose on the social lad
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
=: =: By Ebert Hubbard

exactly fitted for coarse food, 1t would
die. In truth, one calf out Of ten,
treated in this way, goes on a hun
ger strike and is starved to death.
All of this was in the line of
economies. Milk was too valuable to
feed to calves-thats the idea-and
a substitute was devised.
The idea spread throughout New
England and neighboring States and
all Of the districts known as The
Dairy Country" stretching toward the
Middle West, adopted the scheme Of
taking calves away from their moth
ers as soon as they were born,
The habit has grown, simply be-
cause the farmer figures it out that
milk is too valuable TO feed 20 calves.
The Hollanders and the jewellers
in the Isles Of Jersey and Guernsey
break even with the cali They do
business on a basis Of so and so, as
the theater managers say. It's a race
between you and the calf, and this
kind of treatment evolved what is
known as The Great Milk Breeds. "
Man has a wonderful brain, He is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

continually intent on getting the start
Of God Almighty but in this thing
Of raising cows for milk he has over
done it.
A newborn calf weighs 100 pounds
on an average. So, say, SO a hundred
against SIS a hundred is dog cheap
q trust l use the right world. And
while there are laws everywhere
against the sale of bob veal" yet
the law, being administered by men,
is sometimes valueless.
There are markets where improper
food is allowed to be sold-that is,
tubercular hogs, sickly cattle, bob
veal-everything goes, and the law
doesn't know anything about it.
The trouble is not with the Beef
Trust" it is with the farmers, the
calf buyers and the cannibals who
are willing 10 eat a newborn calf.
My plea is for the COW and calf.
II we're going TO raise a fine type
of mich cows In this country we have
got to encourage mother-love in the
COW and give the calf the food that
is naturally its due. Cows and calves
have a few rights, even If they are
not recognized in the Constitution.
Man has the power to Cypress, to
destroy, not only other men, but the
entire brute creation. Not only must
man be on good terms with his
neighbors, but he should be on good
terms with the entire animal crea-
ton. The fact that every animal
runs or flies on the approach of a
man is an indictment of the way
man has treated the brute creation
We are still eating animals, but let
us be as decent about It as we can
And the end of the argument is that
it is a wrong thing that the law al
lows the killing of 100000 veals a
year, with one natural result-the
continual ascending scale in the price
Of milk and beef products.
The Argentine is wiser than we. It
has law making it a felony to kill
any female Of the cattle species that
is under six years old. And the re-
suit is that in the Argentine there
is no cattle famine.
We are looking that way anxiously
and longingly for food supply. And
this will be so until we right-about-
face and do justice to the COW and
her calf
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

ton. In New England, about so
years ago foodstuffs being very much
in demand, a smart Yankee made
the discovery that, instead of let
ting the new born calf remain with
it's mother, he could take the calf
away Immediately after it was born,
carrying il off TO an adjoining barn,
where its mother could not hear IL
blcat and cry, and after going with
out food for "a hours this calf, in
it's ravenous hunger, would learn
TO drink milk instead of taking It in
the good old natural way, as babies
do
Then the Yankee, instead OF giving
the calf pure milk, such as Nature
provides, gave It skinned milk. This
was surely Yankee trick.
But a calf fed that way is never
sleek, round happy and fat, though
az may live.
Then the Yankee gradually dimin-
ished the amount of skinned milk
for skinned milk has a certain value
and he put in bran or meal The
Calls digestive apparatus not being
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
SOME cow TALK

Ia couple Of days old We got all
the COWS out, and the calves, too,
but this COW and her calf got sep
.arated, and she thinks her calf is in
the barn"
And SO the COW was just swal-
lowed up by the flames and smoke,
and that was the last we saw Of her.
Her own welfare was nothing when
the interests Of her baby were in
volved Mother-love was supreme,
and life was thing to fling away
for loves sake.
OF course, the COW never thought
il out that way. Cows do not rea-
son--they act. This COW just obeyed
the dictates Of her nature-the COW
nature
The COW is a mammal She gives
milk. aud this milk, so far as Ma
ture is concerned, has but one pur-
pose. and that is TO feed the calf.
But man appears on the scene, and
taking advantage Of the cows ma
ternal instinct banks on IL and APP
propriatcs the milk
Now, here comes a peculiar situa-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

ement House Department can do lit
tel with these old houses. When 1
lately reported one such building the
tenant said, with rather smiling sar-
casm: What do you think the in
spector can do? Tear down the walls
Of the building?'
I'm one tenement that we reported
for damp walls and floors, a girl of
II years lay I'll with bronchitis It
took much correspondence. many Wis
It's from health officers and inspec-
tors, to get anything done; but after
two months the house was over
hauled, the drainage improved. etc.
The girl, however, in the meantime
had been taken to a hospital and had
died.
Tn the homes where women sew
on pants or other clothing it often
happens that contagious disease ap-
pears. This is supposed to be report
ed by the doctor to the Health De-
partment whose inspector comes to
post the house, and orders the work
to cease. Sometimes the doctor fails
to report the case. May it be that
his sense of justice is outraged at
the thought of making one woman
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

with a fable written by that great
friend Of humanity. Pestalozzi: "A
child had little tree which his ia
Their had planted for him. It grew
as he grew, and he loved it as sis
ter. and cared for it as he did for
his pet rabbits and lambs. But the
tree grew sick Daily its leaves with
cred The good child lamented, and
daily plucked the withered leaves
from the branches and watered its
roots But one day the tree leaned
toward the child and said TO him:
The trouble lies in my roots. II you
can remove that, my leaves will be-
come green again, without any 9TH
CT remedy So the child dug at the
roots Of the tree and found a nest
Of mice there" To this Pestalozzi
adds:
THE fool who sees the suffering Of
humanity seeks to relieve it by re-
moving the outward symptoms Of
misery from the eyes Of the super
fetal observer. He who is wise will,
when he sees the misery Of human
ity, seek for the mice which gnaw
at the tender roots from which come
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

Of things and beings. There is some
thing touching i'm these approximations
which seem innate. one must calm
them instead of exciting them, Cor
one can not battle against the print
tive forces of nature.
Yes the eternal fcmini: about
to change in form and essence, and
woman who takes an interest in poll
tics and social problems Will un-
doubtedly be different from the do
nestle woman, just as paleolithic
man differs from the neolithiC, but
she will never cease 10 be woman.
She will never drop the qualities
which form her charm. for. as her
sexual life continues 20 exist, woman
must preserve and keep alive the
attractions which enable her to
triumph In love and which insure
the propagation Of the species. But
is not the unknown which we fear
already seated AT our side, I'm our
very midst
What is the eternal feminine
Which are its virtues and attrac-
tions2 A subtle fragrance exhales
from it-but this IS infinite. because
it is indehnable The weakness of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

III HE other night, about 2 o'clock,
a barn caught fire two miles
out north OF East Aurora, n.
T.. on the Buffalo turnpike. We
saw the smoke and the flames, and
q half dozen OF us just jumped into
an auto and hiked out TO see II we
could be Of help.
There wasn't anything we could do
however The fire had caught in
the haymow by the careless upturn-
ing OF a lantern. All we could do
was just to stand around and watch
the barn burn
And as we stood there a COW out
back OF us came bursting through
the line Of men and boys. She was
believing and in great distress. We
tried TO head her of. But it was
no use. She shot past us and
went straight into the door Of the
burning barn.
What's the matter with that ere
cow" said a fellow near me.
And the owner OF the COW. stand
ing By. answered: "She has a calf
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

the scapegoat for the sins of society?
So long as we sit snugly Indifferent
TO the economic conditions that make
sweated labor necessary and conta-
gious diseases inevitable, ought we
not as a community to bear the con-
sequences Why put still further
handicap on the woman who is al
ready the victim of a vicious sys-
tenn ?"
This is only the most agreeable ana
cheerful part Of the pamphlet. The
horrors and miseries this settlement
worker finds in our tenement dis
tricts are heartbreaklng to reacs, ana
must be nerve racking to observe
from a close standpoint.
Emma Dame is a single taXer, ana
she believes the only solution OF TINS
terrible problem Of awful and in
creasing poverty of the many and in
creasing opulence of the few lies
through the return Of the land TO the
people.
Those who wish to know what this
system of single tax reform means
can find out by writing to the Jo-
seph F'els Fund, Cincinnati, ono
II is well to inclose a copy Of this
article when writing to ask for In
formation. because this society mas 81
many departments and works through
so many channels that 1t might not
send the precise information desired
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
LIVING UP TO SOMETHING

apt to be a poorly nourished and sell
dom exercised soul organ. 1t may be
stunted. There are men who seem to
have been born without one as some
are born with a finger or ear missing.
But l never knew a man 80 low, and
I've talked with many of them
through the long and cross bars OF
prison cells who could not talk glibly
about his honor" The inconsistent
cy between his character and posi-
ton and that much meaning word
was explained when 1 found that to
him It meant what other people
think of him.
And he had been trying TO live up
to It. IL only by hypocrisy. That he
had been found out grieved him
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

IT HOSE who love and who arc
always praising the past
throw an alarming dark spot
on the radiant program of the ac-
tivity OF the woman Of the future.
What will woman be, deprived of
All the virtues which caused man
TO adore and love her? What has
been her charm has principally been
her aloofness from commonplace and
ordinary life and her freedom from
the pursuits which elevates or de-
bases her male companion once
having entered the arena will she
not lose the qualities which are char
acteristicaIly feminine? VIII her in
ressant transformation not doom her
TO fall irreparably from the heights
where man has placed her? Irwin
chile fatamOrgana of our senses,
Face to face with the visible effects
of a simple change, our fear Of the
future makes us suspect terrible
forces Of destruction.
The horror Of the new and un-
known has existed at all times
Man fears it everywhere and at all
times when facing transformation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

deeply, not because he could no long
er live on good terms with himself
so happy was his powers OF adjust
ment that he could-but because his
honor" was impaired.
Yes, we must all have something 70
live up to. II it is only a gown, that
is far better than nothing. 1 read a
whimsical little story about how Il
girls character was rebuilt on the
whirling foundation of a piano stool.
The girl was insolent and slovenly.
Her mother bought handsome piano
stool. The girl, looking at It, decided
that to be worthy OF that handsome
article Of furniture she must practice
her plano lessons thoroughly at regu-
lar hours. While doing this she no
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
LORD FAT PURSE.

TY Lord Fat Purse was a very
NJ good man.
He had houses and lands
galore;
And with each new day he had some
new plan
For aiding the needy and poor.
He gave to the churches; he gave to
the homes;
He gave to the tramp by the way.
Yet the terrible curse in the land
grew worse,
And the poor grew poorer each day.
My Lord Fat Purse was troubled and
sad
That his thought and toll seemed
vain
But l do what / can" said this very
good man,
TO ease the want and the pain.
'Tis the viii Of heaven that some
shall be rich
And many be poor | see
can do no more than give from the
store
That a just God gives to me"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

ticed for the first time that the piano
cover was soiled. Laboring with am
monia and other bottles of cleansing
stuffs, she removed the spots that ac-
corded so fl with the beautiful new
plano stool. In tine cracked mirror
that hung above the plano she saw
that the shirt waist she wore while
practicing was ripped and crumpled.
She mended ana ironed It into pre-
sentableness. The cracked mirror Of
Tending her, she saved her spending
money to buy new one. Thus, little
by little, the small, neglected drawing
room became thing Of neatness.
Gradually the metamorphosis reached
to the dining room and extended to
the kitchen. 1t penetrated the bed
room.
The girl herself ceased 10 wear run
down shoes and one would search in
vain for the accustomed rip in her
blouse or frayed braid on her skirt.
AS she became neat she became in
terested in life with interest in life
came cheerfulness and courage and
success, which always follow those
flags. It might have been a dining
room table or washstand. But the
girl reorganized her life by living Up
to a piano stool.
Scrape the apparently frivolous
surface OF the woman reformeTs
stataroeut and Wa And truth there a
big living truth, that we must have
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

monk Il is because in their home
there is an honest-eyed little woman,
who does not paint her cheeks nor
rouge her lips nor curl her hair, who
is not so light hearted as the chorus
girl who woos him to Just one sup
per" but who believes with every
throb Of her loyal heart MY John
Is the best man in the world"
Sometimes # is the sentiment Of a
community that lessons or conquers
temptation for a man. Man vaguely
describes this public sentiment as his
honor When a man talks Of his
honor, / have never found that It is
his conscience he considers He IS
not thinking Of being on good terms
with that mentor The conscience Is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

something to live up to, If 1t IS only
appearances, and the appearances our
own. A fear of what the neighbors
would think has kept many a man
honest; many a woman, too. Even
hypocrisy has its restraining use and
it's results are often amazing.
When we look our best We feel our
best. are liable to act and be our best.
There is a correspondence between
the outer and inner. Take a bath
and your spirits rise. Put on a clean
frock and your stock OF self-reSpect
goes up so per cent. Move from
dingy back room, where walls shut
out the sunlight, to the larger front
room, from whose cleaner windows
you can see happy neighbors, and
your eyes will brighten, you will feel
your spiritual muscles taking a new
grip upon life. Hang a new picture
in your room--a 10-cent print, IT may
be, of wide sea and sturdy sea-
going ship-and your nature will
broaden as the sea and your aspira-
tions will follow that ship
Beauty is an educator. Habits Of
neatness and order. once formed, rev
olutionise character. If woman's mir
ror reveals her, trim, symmetrical,
wholesome, she will endeavor to be-
come as she looks Yes, there is
something. a vital truth, in the con-
tention of the Womsn's Reformatory
Commission.