New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-23
Rv FrneSfine Evans.

THE moment the English blockade
-. Of the import of foodstuffs for the
\ ,;,sl population of Germany there be-
-. longest and most extraordinary bat
~ the war. Deutsche Hausfraucn ubcr
sEss.
.h,.efold. Size has had 70 meet scar
= =. has had to meet high prices and
- HFeul, and less obvious, she has had
...;,,ain variety in diet as defence
80, d,,,ession when the whole nation was
~, obliged to lower its standard OF living.
-. broad administration of the country's
.s,.n4s the mobilization of flour, the ini-
-, oi the bread card, the levelling Of
-, have been on the whole, the work Of
4. .,v magistrates of Germany. but no ad-
-.,.-s,;on has met this year without includ-
:. a, ifs board Of advisers the able women.
.,~,rv ifom the local headquarters of the
v,.osaler Frauendienst. concerned in the
~, relief OF the town In the city of Ber-
-. Mayors committees on meat. on but
=, 4, bread. or fruit. etc.-oommittees which
-, regularly at least once week-havo
..,.-sed for much Of their initiative and for
*, of the practical methods Of educating
!. housewife upon their women members.
Through il all Frau Hedwig Heyl. president
-. Hausfrau Verein, has been perhaps the
90. NOS, interesting figure. Frau Heyl is tho
.,u,b,er Of the founder of the North German
,syd and her talent for getting things done
~ 70 be wondered at. She is president of
p. Deutsches Lyceum Club, the clearing
.,rs. as il were, for all the activities of the
-.g.ctual women Of the empire. 1t was she
70 wears ago wrote the first cook book
r.i:h conscendously tried to educate the
,u..wiie and no, just teach her new ways
sa,ter her husbands stomach All thi.
| rs when she was managing factory that
y: part Of her heritage.
TIE Hausfrau Verein was started before
Z. war. Il is Frau Heyls theory that you
1.7.n everything at the point where you hap
| ~ TO be. and that there isn't half as much
an, In providing young girls with lectures
, weltpolitik directed TO young men as it is
Sc, abou, making the life of the woman at
ne intelligent; because she sees the con-
r;ton between the railroad systems Of East
russia and the price Of green peas in the
-is., and the kind Of dishrag she uses and the
:al,h Of her children. But before the war
Z, growth CT the league was slow. Life was
i Q: so many distractions.
Frau Heyls way OF describing the league
interesting.
'P.opl. don't think enough; really they
Int You ought never to do anything with
:; inquiring why You can't do anything
~ unless you have an intelligent under
z1ding Of the why's OF the old ways And
':=.n especially They do great numbers
things well, but mostly things they see and
II copy
Now we have a great vision. We know
z, Il the war is won by US il must most OF
De won because women adopt reasonable
-';iods Of housekeeping. If the man in the
I'd gets letter. It's not SO bad now at
ne the intellg ence goes to make good
'1s. And that is the business OF every
-'now-to work with high patriotism as the
rlapal spur"
That then, was her job-to so reorganize
= housekeeping Of the Feldgrau's wife that
s' should feel as little as possible the pinch
tie blockade The things that have since
IA done are legion.
Ny first visit 20 the central bureau on
-'aoBplatz was TO hear lecture on "Wer
aE Glacklicher, Grossmutter oder Wiz"
NO Were More Fortunate, Our Grand
.'1'is or We2) I have been to numbers
';tures since-lectures, for example, On