Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-28
CREDITABLE LETTER GIVING
IDEAS ON WOMAN'S PAGES
Writer Advocates Various Changes-Woud Have Voca
tional Gude-Day Calendar and
Other Features Added

The ,o7iter Of the toHotoino letter. Miss
Dorothy colby, of 4f2e Girdrd avenue. re-
cetved honorable mention in the competi-
f,on held for readers Of shc Wondn's Page.
70 the Editor Of the Womdn's Page.
Dear Madam should introduce the fol-
lowing changes on your woman's Page.
eore are new departments, others merely
notifications of those you now have;
1. woman's Exchange and Household
Helps.
2. Editorial.
8. Educational Department.
l.. Practical Aspects of Womans Work.
g. Fashion Department.
O. Health and Beauty Hints
T. Continued story (Adele Garrison).
g. Calendar Corner.
o. Society News and Fiction.
1, woMAN's EXCHANGE AND HOUSE
HOLD HELPS-I think the Woman's Ex-
change should be divided into two sections.
ene devoted to questions and answers on
recipes, the other to questions and answers
on all forms of etiquette and social enter
tainment with advice on every problem in
social relations not only love affairs. In
the section on cooking, I think the editor
should discuss matters of proper diet for
persons of various ages auu occupations,
giving also easily understood explanations
of food values. which foods should he
served together In one meal etc, offering
sample menus. She could also consider
the subject of economies in cooking and
In the planning of meals, inviting sugges-
tions from the readers. The whole section
should be built up, as far as possible, on
an interchange of letters among readers
In the second section let the editor give
suggestions on all sorts Of entertainments
and offer small weekly prize for new
ideas.
should then eliminate all recipes from
Household Helps, and devote that column
exclusively to really helpful suggestions
such as you often give, on intelligent house
hold management-problems of houseclean-
ing, use of spare time, tested household de-
vices, fireless cooking in word, scientific
efficiency applied to the home. All ques-
tons from readers Of a practical nature,
such as are now printed at the beginning
Of the Womans Exchange under the head
ing "Todays Inquiries" and their answers
could be transferred to this column or
printed separately as smaller department
Discussions of the problems of scientific
housekeeping should alternate at regular
intervals with an article on How to Make
Your Home More Artistic" illustrated. |
consider this column of very great impor-
tapce as most women are looking for ideas
on this subject, and 1t would help to arouse
o more general interest IN esthetic. mat
ters and to create real taste in home fur
nishing. on a certain day each week the
editor might introduce a novelty by making
a journey through the antique or Junk"
shops Of the city, with an eye to discovering
all sorts of inexpensive articles which could
be converted into really beautiful objects,
and be put to, practical use at a remark
ably low cost. Wherever possible, l should
give prices of everything described in this
department.
Q. EDITORIAL would suggest that the
editor vary her usual chat with bright
little discussion on some important topic Of
the times, quoting the views of prominent
persons or with comment on the day 5
news from the woman's point of view, in a
vein not too heavy, yet serious enough to
stimulate into activity the opinions of her
readers. There is no reason Why this
could not be varied with editorials on other
matter published on the Woman's Page,
Just as is done by editors of other depart
ments OF the EVENING LEDGER. The
woman's editor could also follow the no.
table acts or achievements of women in all
walks of life all over the world, and make
as much as a whole column of brief, pointed
paragraphs, noting and commenting upon
such happenings.
The editorial should give character and
distinction to the whole woman's page,
causing the paper to be read and respected
and chosen above all others by thousands
Of women.
3, EDUCATIONAL-Iy should like to see
on the womans page an educational de-
partment, conducted by teacher or