The Washington times., 1917-04-22

think most of them are concentrating
more OF their elimination Of waste
and on the conservation OF time
rather than on reducing their scale
of living to an extent that will af-
feet their dependents. Mrs. Baker,
who, I'm told, drafted the appeal
which the Cabinet women made to
the women of the country, put IT very
well when she recalled the story OF
the garbage collector who said OF a
family on his beat that che didn't
know much about them, but they GER
tainly did have swell swill," and
continued: There's absolutely no
excuse for any family to have swell
swill: and 1t is the personal and pa
triotic duty of every woman in the
country to see that there is no more
of IT."
Mrs. Marshall Thinks Women
Should Watch Kitchen Closely.
had a little chat on the subject
with Mrs. Marshall. who was nursing
a cold which kept her. indoors for
several days. She admitted depre-
cstingIy that II rather looked as II
a woman who lived in a hotel, as she
does, was preaching on a subject that
she could not be expected to practice.
But, while she admitted 1t was only
in the matter of dress that she could
apply her precepts, she added, 81 do
feel very strongly that IL the average
woman would give personal atten-
tIon to what goes on In her kitchen
she could save a lot of money. I
don't necessarily mean scrub her own
floors, but go out into her kitchen and
keep her eye on things out there
know what's going on in her. own
house, you know"
Here the Vice President showed
such evidence of a desire to break in
that Mrs. Marshall yielded to the gen.
tleman from Indiana. "I just wish
to remark" he chuckled, that so far
as my observation goes the more time
the average woman spends in her
own kitchen, the more money she
takes out of her husbands pocket"
Then, as Mrs. Marshall protested
against that as reflection on her
housekeeping abilities, he added,
mot at all: we were discussing the
average woman,"-with an accent on
the word average"
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when Decorum
siIeneed T. r.
The marriage OF "Archie" Roose-
velt, the "enfant terrible" of the
Roosevelt administration, and Grace
Lockwood, of Boston, naturally brings
up "reminiscences of the last wedding
In the Roosevelt family, when the
Coloners son Kermit was married to
Belle Willard. daughter OF the Ameri-
can Ambassador to Spain. This we'd
ding, in contrast to the present simple
wartime affair, had an official flavor,
and Theodore Roosevelt. who is a
great hero in European eyes, was
there.
Oddly enough, he had to take the
same train as the King OF Spain and
they were actually in the same
wagon ristorante," but though in
full and plain sight of each other IL
was not etiquette that they should
speak until ceremonial presentation
had been made by the ambassador in
Madrid. So the journey which might
have been passed in pleasant CONVEX
sation had to be made in a formal
manner, each ignoring the other.
The element OF unusualness which
one expects in connection with the
Roosevelts was supplied at Archie's
marriage by the fact that the State
law requiring that hve days must
elapse between the filing of a declara-
tion of intention OF marriage and the
issuance of the license was waived
in their case in order that the cere-
mony might take place on the four