The Washington herald., 1916-07-02
The Children's Bureau.
BY ELLIS MEREDITH.

Did ye notice. Bridget" said Mrs.
OBryan. that tn Prisidint has took
time to have Congriss get out a
loonch program"
Well, I've often thought soldierin
would be moore poplar If there was
moore pie an liss hard-tack to ut re-
piled Mrs. Dugan. "Fwats he goin TO
have fer loonch?"
Hes sthrong on sandwiches" an
swered Mrs. OBryan. turning to the
paper in her hand. "How's this? Let
tuce or celery sandwiches an cup
custhard.'
1T sounds all right" said Mrs. Du-
gan obviously, but howiver is he goin
to get tn cup custhards acrost Mex
ico widout gtttin' them split or soured?
I've heard 'tis hot there, an rough
goin'. No doubt a cup custhard. just
from tn ice. would be mighty re-
freshin' to a hot. hungry soldier by
but I don't see how he IS to git
thin"
Get along wild ye." said Mrs
OBryan testify. '"Tis not for tn SOL
diers but for tn school childher he is
havin' tn recipes made out. 1t seems
that in some parts tn ChIldher is
takin' cold hUckwheat cakes an fried
eggs to school, an in ithers they have
pretzels an q raw turnip. an whin |
was gotn' to school in South Boston.
manny's tn time I've seed a little
gurrl wild a square av rolasses candy
in tn wan hand and a picked lime in
tn thcr."
My. my, but Gein' grandf4thor IS
mighty improvin' 10 man" said Mrs.
Dugan. 7 do ramimber me nov. that
Just befure Mr. Taft quit heir prIsl-
dint he appinted a lady 10 look afther
some kind av' a bureau, ! dI1naw eN-
actly fwat kind At was, tIt tn poor
woman was ixpcted to soort out an
kape iverything in ut belongin to tn
chidher av' tn nation. wild a top drawer
fer women's lnthrests. I misdoubt me
it looks like most top bureau drawers.
TIL way I come to ramimber is that
twin Misther Taft was putin down
things he had did that he ought to be
reelected fer, he put that woman first
av all-Lathrop her name was-I think
she hasn't changed it ! shuppose she's
had some av thin buckwheat cakes sint
her to kape in that bureau. ar it started
her on tn cup custhards."
Mrs. OBryan looked rather crest-fallen.
I'm disapp inted," she said. I thought
twas tn President was attindin to US,
an I saw how poplar 1t I'D make him
wild tn women voters"
"Mayhap himself samples tn sand
wiches," hazarded Mrs. Dugan, but I
doubt ut; 1 think Misther Taft would
have took a moore personal inthrest in
things to ate, but bein' a school teacher.
Himself would naturally think av school
childher. an It's about time, Nellie
O'Bryan. Fwin I think av' tn prisidints
we've had an tn things they has took
an inthreet in, an congressman has made
laws about an senators held endurance
talkin' contests over, I do be thinkin
they've been in no hurry gettin' to tn
childher They begun bein' INTERESTED
in pigs twin I was a little gurrl, an ye
wouldn't behave tn things that can all
a pig, from cholera an trichinopoly to
things they's no name fer. They got
very excited over pigs at times"
do ye name tn Pork barrI?" asked
Mrs. O'Bryan, plainly puzzled.
Il do not" Mrs. Dugan shifted con-
temptuously. "They's always been anx-
ious enough about that: It's ra'al pigs
mean, an next we began gittin circu-
lars about chickens: next to a pig a
chicken prisints tn most disqufting
symptoms. Beside choldery, same as
tn pig only different. they has roup an
pip an lice, an tn egg crop sv tn coun-
thry stands somewhere bechune tn steel
an tn moving pitcher industry. I've
heerd tn American eagle is a hen. but