Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-09
MRS !! l! VAUGHN CLOSES HER.
C00N IN HERE
y;sctutes Under Auspices of The
n Tmes-Dispatch Are Highly
Approved.
GIVES HER VIEWS ON SUFFRAGE
Discusses Dress Reform and Other
a. Topics of Interest TO Women Seek
s ings to Make Happy Homes for
Their Children. ~

Though Saturday morning is tn,
houseYife's busiest morning of tn.
whole week, the auditorium of the Ma
sonic Temple was, Comfortably filled
morning by 10 O'Clock to hca,
{ the final lecture of Mrs. Kate Brew
S VauEhn's course in home economics
(which shas been conducted during the
Il past week under the auspices of The
Times Dispatch and has created wide
n spread sintcrest throughout the city.
81 Taking up first the questions which
+ mad been asked her, Mrs. Vaughn went
" on to- the consideration OF several
4 tempting and nutritious dishes. Celia
Tin played leading role in one of
4 these. #Oatmeal cookies. which are the
8 cookies. par excellence in the opinion
q or many houcsheepcrs, were achieved
4 while the -lecture went on uninter-
rupted, and at the special request of a
number of women in the audience, Mrs.
Vaughn demonstrated just how those
wonderfully light and delicious hot bis
cults which have taxed the descriptive
t@powerS of so many enthusiastic writer's
were made by recipe which. il care
fully followed, would always insure
4 success.
Mrs. Vaughn does not approve of
soda biscuits. "Alienists," she declared,
have assigned three reasons for the
1act- that there are so many country
I
these is loneliness, the second. hard
WORT, and the third-soda biscuits!'
MRS. VAUGHN GIVES
HER VIEWS ON SUFFRAGE
4 Since Mrs. Vaughn is brainy wo-
man, who roads and thinks and OBJ
serves conditions all over the country
She does not always talk about cult
& nary matters in her lectures, because in
her opinion. cooking and religion. eth
"a n 10 ~.
frage is going to hasten the time when
women look at things sanely and
wisely, when there is no longer the
double standard, when women dress
more sensibly and bring their daugh-
tiers up imbued with tho wider vision OF
service to humanity. then. 1 say, God
hasten suffrage"
Unsparing in her arraignment Of the
women of the present day, Mrs. Vaughn
went on to declare. with n frankness
which doubtless left. several smarting
wounds. that a sane way of dressing
In itself would accomplish more than
mass-meetings. These insipid. foolish.
silly, gigsling high school girls are
not to blame for wearing their MILDLY
blouses too low in the neck and too
short in the skirt" Mrs. Vaughn de-
clared, but one should blame their
forty-year-old mothers at home, who
indulge their daughters to their ever
tdStili5 ana WHO appear IN pup
lie half dressed.
mo wonder sensible parents have be-
gun to look askance at the high
schools for their young sons and are
making sacrifices to send them to pre-
paratory schools. where they will not
be thrown with girls" went on Mrs
Vaughn, who is herself the mother OF
several sons. Let us teach our girls
that they are responsible for the morals
of the boys with whom they associate,
as Well as their own morals: let us
make Christianity, general. and / be-
lieve that state of affairs will result
which will hasten inevitably the end
of the war"
Not the least OF the many interest
ing features OF the lecture was the
Hoosier Kitchen cabinet which was
presented TO Mrs. John P. Madison, 3ol
North Meadow Street, and another
beautiful cake which Mrs. Lewis H.
Blair carried home in triumph. The
local Red Cross was also presented with
one of these Incompatible cakes. Mrs.
Vaughn and her assistant, Miss Mary
Davis Estill. left yesterday afternoon
for Norfolk.