The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-16
WOMEN WANT
CITY REST ROOM
Two Hundred Who Lunched
at Baptist Church Friday
Ask the Common
Council for It.
MRS. JONES IS SPEAKER
In snappy Talk She Tells Why Coun-
try Women Prefer Trading Else
where Despite Our Good
Places of Business.
MRS. JONES IS SPEAKER

Kenosha had a mirror in which tt
see itself as others see it held up with
| kindly but firm intention to its face
| at the splendidly democratic dinner
| given in the Baptist church parlors
| under the auspices Of the farmers in,
stitute Friday noon. Here two humid
red town and country women met tc
discuss mutual problems. Unfortu
nately the dining room was too small
to give place to nearly another humid
red who would gladly have entered
the discussion and have partaken OF
the dinner had there been room.
Mrs. J. E. Jones of Pleasant Prai
RE, in direct emphatic talk gave an
answer to the question she said she
had been told Kenosha merchants Of
ten ask viz: "Why do not farmers
trade in Kenosha more?"
The women of the families of the
farmers are the reason why not, - said
Mrs. Jones. They insist upon being
as comfortable as possible when they
are shopping and until Kenosha mer-
chants furnish them comfortable rest
rooms with toilet facilities, the WON
en- find it much easier and more com
Portable either to send an order to a
| mail order house for what they want
or to go to Chicago or Milwaukee
where there are rest rooms and com
Portable places provided for them
by the stores.
You have all heard of Antioch
Well, there are many wives of farm
ers in Kenosha county who go to An
tioch to do their trading, not because
the stores are one whit better, but be-
cause when they get there they find
a comfortable rest room in which they
may rest, comb their hair, wash up,
take care Of their babies or lay them
down to rest on a soft couch while the
mother herself rocks in one of the big
easy chairs and reads the magazines
or papers provided on the table in
the room.
Immediately following the talk,
Mrs. Peter F. Stair introduced a reso-
luton, unanimously adopted to the ef-
feet that rest room is badly needed
IN Kenosha and appealing to the com
mon council and the Retail Merchants
and Manufacturers association to es-
tablish and maintain such a room.
Mrs. NJ. Benedict made plea for
hitching posts for farmer horses and
sheds in which they could be tied, as
she said at present they must be driv-
en- to some barn if the farmer wants
to leave his team while in the city.
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford made an APP
peal to the women Of the county to
make themselves felt in county school
politics to the extent Of seeing to it
that the spirit Of the state law was
carried out in the appointment of a
woman to fill the office of supervisor
of teaching in rural schools. She said
no man could do the intimate work
among women and girls which the law
intended should be done, in discovering
home conditions and others that af-
feet the teaching in a given district.
Miss Louise Cottrell made plea for
the appointment Of probation officer
and was applauded when she recalled
the fact that in the last session Of the
county board it was the county mem
bers who voted for the woman proba-
ton officer and the city members
who opposed it.
Mrs. Richard Welles introduced a
resolution asking the continuation as
permanent feature of the farmer s
institute, an annual woman's luncheon
with discussion following, similar
to that held Friday noon. 1t was
unanimously adopted.
The tables were prettily decorated
with jonquils and ferns.
ScHMTnT pRopuRTv corn