Arizona republican., 1917-06-17
SOCIETY IN FOOD DRIVE
Long Island Farmers Wives In.
 structed by Wealthy Women

Dressed in hobby sport suits and wearing platinum wrist watches, sev- eral of New York's ultra-society wom- en are touring Long Island to teach farmers wives how to can and pre- serve their surplus foodstuff. They are the Pauline Reveres of the Long Isl- and Food Reserve Battalion, seeking to arouse the rural population to the perilS of food shortage and the need of conserving for next winter all the food in excess of what is actually needed during the summer.
 Clans, eclaires, real turtle soup and similar dishes which soothe the pal ates of the wealthy have been aban- doned by these rich women for rhu- barb. That is, they are not eating the the rhubarb. but they are featuring on rhubarb. They show visitors just how to make cans, in which the rhubarb has been placed, alright. Cannery ex- perts from the Long Island Experi- ment Station do the talking and at the proper moment the lecturers di- rect the attention of the audience to the airtight experts.
 Train of Freight Cars
 Freight cars make up the canning special. The women give the rhubarb lecture in the freight cars. To the rear Of the train is attached the pri- vate car of Ralph Peters. president of the Long Island Railroad. The wom- en ride in that. Over the doors of the freight cars. in blazing red letters, are these words:
 In these freight cars, when the train stops at a country station, are the fol- lowing from New Yorks select: Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, jr, Mrs. Ar thur Scott Burden, Mrs. William Laimbeer, Mrs. Watson Webb and Mrs. Ralph Peters. Also, from the ex- pertinent station are Mr and Mrs H. B. Fullerton and Mrs. A. Louise An drea.
 The first lecture was at Nassau. Pink silk sweaters and the fancy gar den frocks of the fashionable North Shore residents mingled with the Sunday best, black serge and white shirtWaiStS of the town. Cooks and hOusekeepers came in motor cars to greet the special. Others came down the sandy country roads pushing baby buggies to hear the lectures and see the demonstrations.
 However, 1t was in HicksVille that Mrs. Vanderbilt got in the best work of the day. While mothers attended the lectures she took care of fretful babies. It all began when movie men tried to get a picture of Mrs. Wander bilt as she strolled the station platform, waiting for the lecture to begin. One of the movie men wheeled a baby carriage out of the way and turned the babys face toward tho sun.
 Man, Don't you know better than that?" Mrs. Vanderbilt exclaimed inn patiently. "The poor lamb can't have sun in his eyes,
 Mrs. Vanderbilt drowned on the mo- vie man and kept a protecting arm in front of the baby's face while the pie l ture was being taken. The baby's mother leaned out of a car door, awed. as she saw her son pulling at a plat mum bracelet on Mrs. Vanderbilt's wrist.
 The wealthy New York woman soon was the center of a ring of babies. The infants. evidently charmed by her pale yellow sport suit and big black mothers could give whole hearted at 1 tention to the demonstrations inside i the cars.
 Food for the Needy l Why not?" Mrs. Vanderbilt laughed i when asked about the nursery. q know a lot more about babies than l ] do about canning. I've got three ot my own"
 1 Mrs. Vanderbilt sympathized with the mother of five children over the high cost of living. She inquired of another what she fed her baby and expressed approval when the mother answered cows milk"
 i It was decided to establish a cen 1 tral canning station in Hicksville and 1 furnish motor car service to gather fruit and vegetables from those who will have them to spare. This food will then be preserved and distributed to the needy.
 l The special fan into no opposition | on the first day of the trip until it reached the last stop. There a Ger , man band serenaded the canners so long it had to be asked to stop. There