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longer to prepare than others, the walt
reSS returns to the patron with those
things more easily prepared, or, per-
haps, to another patron to take an Or
der. If the food called for is arranged
while she is absent from the kitchen
it is placed, if hot, upon 4 metal coun-
ter, heated by steam coils. In this way
it is kept warm until her return. Dishes
to be used for the serving of ices are
stored in a refrigerated box so the
ices may not be melted upon contact
with them.
That the work of serving the public
quickly and without confusion speaks
highly for the efficiency of the modern
eating house may be recognized when
one considers that from fifty to seventy
persons are employed in a large house.
This small army is subdivided into
such as chef and head waiter, and com
ing under the general supervision of a
general manager.
When one considers the great quanti-
ties of food and the great number of
dishes handled daily. he can "eadily
understand that the serving of food as
a commercial enterprise must be done
in systematic, efficient manner. The
magnitude of the work, when it is con-
Sidered a unit, is difficult to COM
prehend. 1t seems a simple task for a
waitress to place ten or q dozen plates
in front of a diner. Yet, if only one
half an inch is allowed for the thick
ness of those plates, and If the aver
age be lowered to only one plate per
person-to allow for the large num-
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mountain women of French Lorraine.
and when I grew up I paid for it in
the great stores of America. l have
seen nightgown sell for $3.50. and
certain firm. at their New York open
ing, exhibited niShtSoWn when
afterward sold for $500. 1t was the
most expensive on record"
She had always determined to go,
some day. to where they make them.
Il want to buy the finest" she said,
land hunt up those mountain girls in
an automobile. Now, I'm here upon the
spot, I'll do it,
But the war;" we said
The war won't stop me-" she replied.
"The war doesn't stop them from en-
bordering, does it? I shall take their
work, and they'll be glad to see me-"
Can you beat it?
When a woman gets an ideal
So she started for Valenciennes, and
they stopped her at Senls. The whole
war is on beyond. Valenciennes is SOC
cupied" by Germans. They have car
ried off the hand and power looms, both,
to Germany. Il hope they'll choke
them," she said. She heard that new
looms had been set up at Tarar. near
Lyon, and she went there. Nobody
was making nightgowns, but she
stayed month and made acQua1nt-
ances. When she returned. there was
a serene light on her features.
Il shall go to Nancy" she said. Il
have friends there
Now, to blunder into Nancy, at this
moment, you require eleven documents
besides your passport. with your photo
graph on each, or words to that effect.
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woven linen worth 50 per yard-such
work and material intrusted to an
eleven year-old child.''
This was the time met Paul BARRON.
What astonishes me- said the great
man, 'is that the COW did not swallow
such fine linen. 1t would not have made
a mouthful. You have heard tales of
chemises pulled through a finger ring? ]
half of Tarar linen, which is yard wide,
remember. l could pull it through a
plain gold wedding ring with ease. 1t
would have made the COW sick, all the
same, it is so indigestible, incredibly
strong and tough.
The fair pilgrim spoke up.
X
1T looks cobwebby.' she said, but l
know an example of its strength from
Nancy In a chateau, on beyond there. in
the first days of the war, the Germans
caught the Count de v and held
him prisoner in little empty room at
the top of the north tower, which his
wife loved for the view. There was abb
solutely nothing in it but her filmy linen
window curtains, sweetly embroidered.
hanging at one window, for the Germans
had begun the moving. The Count de
v, however. knew his linen. In
the night he tore the f1imsy tissue into
strips, tied them into rope and let MINI
self down fifty-two feet to the ground, and
got away
l meditated on the cow and weeping
girl child.
Half a yard of such linen, worth 81.
worked into corset cover selling for
SIS. represents exquisite embroidery, even
after deducting the cost of the real lace, "
| said. Aren't the Nosges village girls
exploited? Do they know the price their
work is sold att?
BARRON replied gravely.
''NCne earn less than 40 cents per day,
he said land many make double and
more. and yet it is not all day work, as
in "a factory, but home work done in their
leisure. Here's the blessing of it in our
way of thinkng-it encourages the home
life sweet prosperity of the old farm and
picturesque village, among children and
neighbors. without rush or anxiety.
Mother drops the embroidery to wash the
baby. Sister drops the embroidery to
help little brother with his lessons. With
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the neighbors, they sit. gossiping, en-
broidering. the afternoon
Such embroidery. he says. could not be
done with factory discipline.
X
The eyes would not stand continuous
application, for one thing" he says.
land it would make them nervous in
valids. for another. On the other hand,
the personal distinction of the work
would become standardized and Its true
elegance would disappear. Done at
home, it is a profitable pastime. 1t is
refined and artistic. 1t makes a whole
region prosperous in time of peace"
"All the same ! said, 1.-THE selling
prices
Tut, tut" answered the protector of
the ouvriors. You are dreaming of
the hundred dollar nightgowns.
You forget the simpler ones. entirely
hand-em brodered under just the same
conditions, which are sent out to Amer
lea and sold as low as so cents. and
objects of real beauty from 81 to 50.
Combinations and underskirts. from
81 to Sc; corset covers, from SO cents to
50. and SO on. All have to be given
mountain roads. Noble women direct
the Neufchateau and Nancy ouvriors.
Were there only one-hundred-dollar
nightgowns, there would be less work
to give out"
I looked at the pilgrim.
"You must have a fine collection" !
said.
She squirmed.
Exquisite lingerie" I said. you've
gone through war and death to get it."
She blushed.
II am going back to Nancy she
said.
Barton spoke up.
Taking back more packing cases
full of shoes and jackets?" he teased,
with respectful banter. And the gen.
eral commanding makes no more OBJ
jection?"
She blushed redder.
Whats the joker" 1 asked, although
/ knew IT.
BARRON answered in a tone of benedic-
ton:
Hundred dollar nightgowns," he said,
81 think we may say 5000 nightgowns
Lorraine won't forget it,
STERLING HELLO.
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for its own use. The dry -Stordge room
is big improvement over its prede-
ness being one of the quick spoilers of
food.
Preparation of food must be SO timed
that the articles which cook slowly
and those which cook quickly are all
ready for eating at a given time.
house would hardly prove successful if
it's patrons were informed that The
soup is not quite done" or You'll have
to wait a few minutes for your coffee"
With three regular" meals a day to
serve, preparation is practically con-
slant From clean dishes to clean
dishes" forms one great circle, in which
the employees of the house must labor
continuously while on duty. The daily
program might read thus:
Prepare for breakfast; serve break
fast; clean up. Prepare for lunch;
serve lunch; clean up. Prepare for din
ner; serve dinner: clean up.
Certain articles of food are on every
menu, such as coffee and rolls. Other
according to the season and in order to
give the necessary variety. Clean linen
must be ready before each meal In
the large eating house this constitutes
entire department., under the direc-
ton of one employe, whose sole duty
ready, and to make necessary repairs
and additions to the supply.
Before the entrance of the first pa
iron all is in readiness, or supposed to
be in readiness, for the rush. Although
eating. formerly stated, is more
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for fine lingerie from the days of
Martha Washington and Dolly Madi-
son., she says. when every shi- from
France brought as many pieces of
could pick up. The correspondence of
prominent Americans in France. like
jefferson. Adams. Morris and Pinckney,
is full of commissions from their fami
linen which French court ladies had
habituated their farmers wives and
daughters to make for them on hand
looms. The embroidery was done by
fair fingers. So we got the taste for
fine lingerie, homewoven, home-e
broidered-the only kind there was,
then--in all good old American fami-
lies"
Home looms she says, were all over
America
There came a time. alas, when Amer
lea grew too rich and hurried to weave
fine linen at home, or even do the right
kind of embroideries. At that moment
fine lingerie became expensive.
1t was the same in France, where Ger
tain localities, in time, developed spe-
cialties-in the north, around Valen-
ciennes. for linen, both hand woven on
a commercial scale and power woven
in factories: while the Vosges devel-
Oped nanSouk, as we call 1t, lawn or
cambria, cotton-linen, always made on
power looms. What was luckier for
the district was its skill in hand en-
broidery. Instead of forgetting their
fine needlework, the female population
of the Nosges kept it up and perfect
ed it.
Ever since 1 was a child says the
elegant widow, II heard about the
handembroidered lingerie made by the
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vi HEAL bS&t.
hand woven linen of the old sort was
added, imitation lace and real lace in
the same types of old ia shioned home
work.
* x
Here's the beauty of it, says the
handmade, homemade lingerie of Martha
Washington and Dolly Madison 1t
cannot be systematized in factories.
The cutting is done by professionals,
mostly in Nancy and Paris The sew
ing is done in ouvroirs, managed by
cha rita BILE ladies or good sisters, in the
larger towns, like Neufchateau. But
the embroidery is bound to be given out
III farms and village households, as at
the beginning"
Each village has it's style. Certain
kinds of embroidery, made beautifully
around Epnal. are made less well in
the vicinity of Plombieres; while Plom-
bieres is famous for other kinds, not so
we'll done at Rambervillers.
Lorraine women have been embroider-
ing since the days of Jeanne d Arc she
says I've seen them work on the loose
linen, without even a square of stlffenlng
paper. know grandmother of seventy
four who sat doing beautiful raised
plumetis while the Germans bombarded
the Schlucht and a shell blew up her bee
hives. Yet there was no sign of per-
turbation in the nightgo Once our
automobile met a little girl of eleven
weeping on the highway. What's the
natter ! asked. Tears rolled down her
cheeks. The COW, she answered, tried
to eat my corset cover, and it's ruined y
l looked at the chewed-up corset cover.
1t was finest f1owery embroidery, done
point by point with the needle, on hand
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bushel: one house holds a record of
having used twenty-four bushels of
mashed potatoes in a single day. With
out a machine this would seem an al
most impossible task. With a masher,
which is run by turning a crank and
which holds about peck of potatoes
at time, the task is not a great one.
Sizing bread by hand may, be all
right for A small family. too, but
when thousands of slices must be cut,
it is easier to do it by machinery. The
machine used for this work has an
added merritt cuts every slice the
same thickness.
Meat grinding and cutting by ma
chinery is not a new idea, but the ma
chine used by one of the largest house,
seems worthy of a brief description.
1t sets in an iron bowl and chops, as
used to be done by hand. the beef for
hamburger steak AS sharp knives
cut downward through the meat the
bowl revolves, thereby bringing each
part of the meat successfully under
the choppers This method is claimed
to be better than merely grinding the
steak.
So it may be seen that machinery is
efficient service, but in some cases can
be claimed to increase food values.
Obviously il is cleaner.
One of the places where machinery
plays important part from the
viewpoint of cleanliness is in the
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less of continuous performance. there
are certain recognized hours Iuring
which large percentage of persons
take their meals. By the time the first
of these patrons begin hurrying into
the eating places it is necessary that
1.-THE decks be clear for action" The
tables must be provided with clean
liAen, all available dishes must be clean
and in proper order, all foods on the
menu must be ready to be served and
all employees must be ready to serve
them.
Then the rush starts. Behind the
scenes" of which the public can get
only momentary glimpses as the doors
swing open and shut. all is action. AS
order lists are taken from customers
and carried into the kitchen to be
filled, a line of walters. or Mattresses,
as the case may be, streams steadily
between dining room and kitchen. Each
knows the route over which to travel
for certain articles and the method of
procedure necessarily different in diff
ferent houses, of course), as well as a
vehiclist Is supposed to know the traf-
fic rules and regulations. A wrong
path or an indiscriminate. hasty turn
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may mean an overturned bowl of soup
or an even worse disaster.
System proves it's efficiency during the
rush hours Without place for every
thing, without well defined traffic"
rules and methods of procedure, and
without clear understanding of each
individuals duties and responsibilities
by the individual, mishaps would be
numerous. many would double" in
their work, many lost motions would
be made. and both the public and the
house proprietor would lose-the first,
time, and the second. his patrons.
When the rush starts each one is at
his or her post. even as sailors on ship
board in time of battle. One man serves
bread and coffee, two others stand
ready to fry steaks and chops. others
dish out soup. slice roasts. arrange
dishes of vegetables and serve salads.
The butchers are ready to cut chops
and steaks, while other employees near
by are ready to serve ice cream and
other ices. AS order lists are taken
the great wheel begins to move stead
lily, without hurry, without confusion,
and yet rapidly and efficiently.
Every moment Is accounted for, not
one is lost. If some of the dishes take
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and clear statement as to why you
want to go there.
"Evidently, | could not say night
gowns" she said.
So she Joined the Marquis de B,
whose town house, at Nancy, is used as
an ouvrior for refugee girls and women,
too much bomba rded on the new Lor
raine frontier.
So 1t happened when the captain :
joint of the general commanding asked:
What preteXt has this American Wom-
an for an automobile permit in the
south rear?" the good Able "
(whose church is smashed and parish
scattered) buZZed into his ear rail-
road invoice list of nineteen packing
cases and their contents. The two men
looked In each others eyes and smiled
a good smile. "Shoes of all sizes,
wooden stockings, skirts, blouses and
Jackets, and lot of overcoats for
growing boys" the able whispered. all
brand-new. I have not seen the other
packing cases.
Now the story is all over Nancy, of
the beautiful American woman who is
roads moving troops recognize her, and
in villages they spread a white cloth
for her with plum cordial, cake and
honey.
You understand, this is Nancy, almost
the edge of the former German from
tier. Nancy was the one French city
which the army authorities feared, III
advance, must be taken from them in a
rush At one moment the kaiser, with
10000 of his guard in clean uniforms.
waited, beyond, to make triumphal
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n of Battle, French Women Ply Their Needles

DEASANTS Work Fine Embroidered Lingerie for American Women
Have the Fancy Needwo Through the
Who Her Orchard Worked While
Shells Destroyed Her Bhe Quite Near Hrand and Power Looms of
Needle
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NGHTGowN SHOWING WHAT CAN BE DONE
EMBRoDERIEs
A
YEARS WHO THEM IN HER PLUM ORCHARD
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-05
NATIVE OF WEsTFCRD
Henry c. Storrs, Former Railroad
Man, Celebrates Golden Wedding
Wife Native of Vermont.

kilograms and letters Of congrat-
ulation from all parts of the United
States, stack of nearly u foot high,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. Storrs of No.
122 Clark street Friday, in celebration
of their golden wedding anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Storrs were married in
Worcester, Mass, Sept: 1, 1865.
posts of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, Sons of Veterans, Woman's
Relief Corps, and other Organizations
called and an informal reception was
held in the afternoon from 4 to 6 o.
clock. Many members of the Wind
scr Avenue Congregational church, Of
which Mr.. and Mrs. Storrs are mem
bers, also attended the reception.
Henry c. Storrs was born in West
ford, July 10, 1884, the son Of William
and Harriet E. CWoodward) Storrs.
Until he was Is years old he lived on
farm with his parents. At that age
he went to Willilnantic where he was
employed on the old New London
Willin1antic & Palmer railroad, now
a part of the Grand Trunk system He
later left the railroad and worked in
wooden mill in South Coventry. Mr..
Storrs was made a voter in 1855 and
cast his first vote in Ashford in 1886
for John c. Fremont for president In
1857 he went to Worcester where he
remained until the outbreak OF the
Civil war. In 1852 he joined the nine
months regulars and served with them
until mustered out at the end of his
term of enlistment. He then re-en-
listed for service with the Fourth
Heavy Artillery He served during
the remainder of the war with the
Fourth. After the close of the war,
Mr.. Storrs worked for five years for a
mercantile house in New York and
lived on Long Island. He then came
to Hartford, where he was at one
time in the employ OF the Adams Ex-
press company.
Mrs. Storrs was born in Winhall,
Windham county, Vermont, in 1913,
daughter of Louis and Patty Robin-
SOM Williams. Mr.. and Mrs Storrs
have two sons, Henry w. Storrs and
Charles H. Storrs, and three grand
children.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-05
Ex-SOLDlER CHARGED WITH
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC
Is Fifth Man Held in Connection With
Shaw Street Case in New London.

Policeman Charles P. Hammond ar
rested Hoy E. KittIe. alias Edward
kittle, of CharIestown, Va, in New
London Saturday afternoon on the
charge Of being engaged in white slave
traffic. Kittle is an ex-soldier and a
few months ago, it is understood was
given fbob-tail" discharge from the
post at Fort H. G. Wright, Fishers Is
land, N. Y. This is the fourth con-
secutive arrest of alleged white s1av-
ers by Policeman Hammond within the
last several weeks.
Kittle is wanted in connection with
the cases of Mary Rose Dennito and
Louis Bloom, who are awaiting the
criminal term of the September su-
perior court. the former on the charge
OF living on prostitution and the lat
ter for white slavery. 10th are now
confined in the Franklin street jail
on failure to obtain bonds of $4,000
each. KittIe, it is stated, has con-
transactions at the Dennito woman's
place on Shaw street. before she had
been taken into custody. For this
reason the police have been on his
trail since July 20. He was able to
elude the grip of the law and keep
his wherea bouts secret until last Fri
day, when Policeman Hammond OBJ
tanned information that Kittle was in
Bridgeport.
Not desiring to give Kittle another
chance to make a getaway, a warrant
was made out for his arrest ard for
warded to Bridgeport. While the
Bridgeport police were searching for
Kittle he jumped to New London to
see a woman. stated to be his wife. He
was not long in the city when Police
man Hammond apprehended him
to the soldiers surprise.
Kitt1e enlisted in the army at Co
Iurnbus, O.. and later on was transfer
red to New London. The police state
that he had visited the Dennito place
on many occasions during his soldier
life here. He makes the fifth person
arrested OR held by the police in con-
nection with what, 1t is charged by
the authorities, went on at the Dem
nito place. Besides Mrs. Dennito and
Bloom, Clara Rivers is also at the
Franklin street JAIL as is Mary Baked,
witness for the state.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-05
COUNTY FARM BUREAU
HAS FINE EXHIBIT.
Milk Testing, Prize Winning Poultry,
and Boys ard Girls Club Work At
tract Many.

The New London county farm bu-
reau, Woodbury. o. Rogers secretary,
and F. c. Warner agent has one of
the best and most practical exhibits on
the fair grounds. They occupy a tent
just to the north Of the exhibition hall.
At one end is a space devoted to boys
and girls club work in charge of Miss
NJ. E. Sprague. assistant club leader
who also conducts a canning demon
Stration at 10 @. m. and 2 o. m. Mon
day she canned tonla toes, and today
she will show how to can other garden
crops. Miss Della Norton, a Norwich
ticles. 80 fruits and vegetables and IA
jellies. The exhibit attracts no little
attention and rivals even the exhibits
entered elsewhere at the fair by adults.
It demonstrates enphatically the val
liable work the county clubs are &C
mplishung.
There is also a space devoted to a
milk exhibit, showing the results at
tanned by feeding cattle proper rations
compared with the results of poor
feeding. This table is work every milk
producers attention. Then there is
the milk tester, who tests samples free
of charge. At the other end of the tent
is an exhibit of three cattle from the
Uncas farm. They are Bluebell, Daisy
and Goldie. Last year one gave 500,
quS1i ISJ ciIIOlILS1 IyODO dlACll - anu t1IS
third $500 quarts. Visitors are asked
to pick out the cow that gave $500
quarts and drop their answers with
| their names in the little box provided
for this purpose.
The Branford Farms have one corner
Of the tent, where they show a pen OF
prize egg layers. and also the style of
house used by them in the interna-
tional egg laying contests. Along the
| walls of the tent maps show the loca-
ton of the different boys and girls
clubs in the county.
At the right of the entrance Allen
Latina mshows a swarm Of bees at
work-in a hive and he also shows
honey in the comb. Both the hive and
the honey are in glass cases and come
in for a good deal of attention. There
are also to be seen pruning tools, poor
| ones compared with good.
In the center Of the tent is an in
| formation table which is in charge of
! Secretary W. o. Rogers, who has Abe
capable assistance Of Miss Tucker.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-05

started men for New London and the
Associated Press reserved two suites
for its representatives.
The Carranza members OF the com
mission are stopping at the Ritz
Carlton in New York. except Lui Ca
breranl, who is at the Hotel McA7pin.
Ignacio Bonillas and Albert J. Paul,
with their families and secretaries are
at the BiItr2ore and so is the AIext-
can ambassador designate, Eliseo Ar
redondo. Senior PAM is accompanied
by his wife and two children ara
Senior Boniila brings his wife and
two daughters.
The envoys will enGeavor oadjust
the financial and Industrial difficulties
of the Carranza kovernment whIle
they are in this country and It has
been reported already that negotia-
lions have been begun between Senior
PAM and certain American capital
ISIS to settle the National Railways
of Mexico problem and that there
either would be a reorganization of
the Mexican government controlled
system or it would be turned back
to the American operating officials
soon after the peace conference is
brought to a satisfactory end.