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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
BEGIN TO TRAIN.
With Your Country at War, Get In Line
For Special Work.


The Importance of training women in
home economics, nursing and the gen
eral conservation of food, clothing and
health is emphasized in a bulletin IS
sued by the department of the interior
Now, as never before" says the bul
letin, every woman needs working
knowledge of home economics; hence
food classes should be opened for all
women desiring them. Special atten-
ton should be given to diet require
ments for maintenance of health and
efficiency, methods Of eliminating all
waste from the household and intelli-
gent use Of the more abundant foods
for those which are either scarce or Of
better keeping qualities Inevitably
there will be need during all Of the
next few years of soup kitchens, free
school lunches and other forms Of
community feeding. A few weeks or
months of intensive study of the spe-
cial problems connected with handling
larger quantities Of food will prepare
q number Of women already trained In
dietetics for this work. Summer
schools may well offer such courses
and grant advanced credits If this
seems desirable.
Extension service for women living
in cities is as much needed as is the
work now being done by the agricul-
tural department for the wives OF
farmers. Workers for this service
should be prepared by the institutions
for higher education. These women
need to be well trained in economics
and sociology, as well as In home eco
nomics, and should be urged to volun-
teer for this extension type of work
Extra classes giving several hours
daily to practical instruction In the
home care of the sick should I've organ
lied for all women students. and the
most recent knowledge concerning the
care Of infants and children should Dc
available to them. This is OF eSpecia.
importance for various reasons. II
war comes upon American territory the
well trained graduate nurse VIII ne
called to war hospitals. and the orul
nary nursing of home sickness will dc
volve upon home women. In addition
TO this duty will be the care of return
ed convalescent wounded.
Normal schools. colleges and univer-
stiles can during their summer schools
train women to instruct in Red cross
sewing in order that the public SchovI
sewing OF next year may be most ei'
fectively executed. In addition 10
this, courses designed to prepare teach
ers to instruct in the remodclinS Oh
garments will be timely. One OF tne
great services women can render IS L.
the saving Of the nations supply VI
food and clothing Special short COURSES
in the study Of the condition OF III
tional supply of household mateFia,
needed economics and the socioIosic
and economic effect OF women's acti''
tiles should be offered"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
PARIS CUES.
Small Details That
Really Make or Mar.

Some Of the smart foulards are In
very large designs and must be made
up very cautiously, but there are plen-
ty Of designs less striking, and even
where the design is very large the col
oring may perhaps be neutral enough
to save it from being spectacular.
On the other hand, there are strik-
ingly brilliant colorings as well as
striking designs in some Of the new
foulards and other figured silks, and
certain Of the French houses, notably
Bulloz and Premet, have not hesitated
to employ these bold materials, some
times successfully from a pictorial
viewpoint
Belts, girdles and sashes are omni-
present and often are the most indi-
vidual features of the models. Some
Of them are very wide and very elab-
crate, others quite narrow and simple,
and their position varies from high
directoire to dropped medieval though
the latter line has less favor than 1t
has had, and normal or high waist
lines are the rule.
Sleeves on day froSks are more often
long than not, but many three-quarter
sleeves are shown, too, on afternoon
models.
For the evening bodice there is often
a tiny sleeve, If only an elongation Of
the shoulder, but the sleeveless shout
der strap corsage has not disappeared.
Square and second empire decolletage
are most in evidence. Paquin and sew
eral others show liking for the collar
effects standing away from the neck
on day frocks, and there are quaint
ties Of collarless arrangements cut
straight across or in a shallow oval or
little square, often with some collar
adjunct across the back.
Here and there a polonaise of IN
broken front line appears, and the fat,
comparatively plain front Is the gen.
orally accepted thing, even where the
rest Of the skirt Is draped or very full
Skirts of tailored costumes are plated
in part or all around or are cut to fall
straight and comparatively narrow.
though not yet too narrow for COM
fort The shirring Of the slight full
ness at the waistband in the back is
still used on the plain models.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06

iels, wife of the secretary of the navy,
and the young man her eldest son,
Josephus Junior. 1 told Mrs. Daniels
later of my mistake.
Josephus, my poor boy, did you
hear thatY cried his mother in tragic
tones while her eyes laughed. And
right away we were acquainted.
1.-The navy secretary's wife is what
they call In the south .folksy,' and ]
love the word. Folksy people are the
innately kind of heart They assume
you are all right to know and erect no
formal barriers while they investigate
and catalogue you. They open their
minds to you in the same hospitable
way they do their houses and, like the
American law, hold you innocent until
proved guilty.
I'm glad you want me to talk about
my boys went on this broad chested.
mother hearted parent of four, for I'm
Just a domestic woman whose bust
ness in life is to see after her loved
ones. If, as you say, have managed
to be pals with my lads it IS because
they have not been brought up. I've
Just loved 'em up.
1--WE never suppressed them-told
them to hush up, that children should
be seen and not heard. We have en-
couraged them to think and speak their
thoughts. From Josephus, who is
twenty-five, to Frank, who is only
twelve, all the boys have their careers
fully mapped out"
Mrs. Daniels comes from a family of
soldiers, statesmen and writer's. Her
grandfather was one Of North Caro-
lina's governors. Her uncles, her IA
ther, her mothers people, all were emf
nent in various professional lines, and
the beloved o. Henry was her second
cousin.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
PAY FOR GOOD WORK.
Don't Try to Remunerate Your Wash
Lady With Castoff Clothes.

Lady With Castoff Clothes.
Women have sometimes made a repu-
tation for generosity by giving away
various things useless to themselves,
things they have grown tired of, things
always undesired bestowed upon them
by one or another of their well mean
ing friends and relatives.
Whatever may be said Of this pro-
cedure, it at least puts to shame the
person who offers to pay wages with
discarded things. For instance, there
is the woman who tried to pay part Of
the S1.50 and car fare Of the washer
woman with a half worn winter
coat and the one who gave the young
schoolgirl who tended her mischievous
four-year-old On entire Saturday after
noon a last months magazine and a
soiled ribbon for her services.
To a very great many people money
Is the most urgent need of their lives.
Only money will pay rent, only money
will buy food, only money will provide
against want In old age.
Payment for service Of any kind
should be in money. Payment for serv-
ice should be prompt Payment for
service should be maintained at the
prevailing standard. Women should
stand by the women who work for
them.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06

Farragut In the great fight Of Mobile
bay, Mrs. Anderson comes OF distin-
guished ancestry. Her marriage united
her to another distinguished family,
Larz Anderson being the nephew Of
General Anderson Of Fort Sumter fame.
The Anderson estate at Brooklne,
Mass, with its magnificent v1stas, its
spacious halls and brilliant Italian gar
dens, forms one Of the most tmpos-
ing homes to be found anywhere.
Two million dollars were spent on the
buildings and grounds, and the Cupid
fountain standing on the site OF the
original Anderson homestead is world
famous for its artistic beauty. The
house and garden, with the bowling
green between, crown high hill which
ON all sides falls away sharply.
Not only has Mrs. Anderson become
famous for her charitable work and
her interest In the welfare OF the poor,
but she has made her mark in the lit
erary world.
She is devoted to children and takes
more pleasure in providing pleasure
for them than In planning splendid
fetes for the famous. Her most am
bilious literary effort, a book Of fairy
tales and other stories, published sew
eral years ago and dedicated with
much love" to her husband, is the re
suit Of her careful study Of how to
amuse children and at the same time
TO instruct them.
Mr.. Anderson, who was q captain Of
volunteers in the Spanish war. has
served as secretary to the American
embassies at London and Rome. He
was appointed minister to Belgium In
August, 1911.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Homemade Kitchen Cabinet.

For those who cannot afford the luz
ury Of real kitchen cabinet a very
good substitute can be constructed
from the top Of an old fashioned buffet
II It has shelves so much the better; it
will then hold all kinds Of spices and
small cans containing articles In daily
use. Small hooks about the size used
for hanging up tin cups may be driven
into the fat surface and will hold
many utensils. such as the egg beaten,
can opener, tea strainer.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Gardan Aprons as Gifts.

Apropos Of gifts. farseeinS n'u'
woman has made up several fasciha'
ing garden aprons to give 10 lrlelus .
who work in their garden plots. SoiHo
are Of washable awning stripe o'nsI'
Of a heavy shocked chambray' =,
most serviceable Of the lot are those '.
rubberized drill in a charming eo--
solor. This material is not at all nea'!
and may be washed OF with a spous S.
She also has made several small apr.
Of the same material to be useo "
play aprons for children.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
THEU.S. REDCROSS
Wife of One Time Minister to BEL
gium Serves With ZeSt.
ON MRS. WILSON'S COMMITTEE

Mrs. Anderson, Aided by Great Wealth,
Social Popularity and Many Friends,
ls jealousy Aiding Red Cross Work
on the Local Committee
One Of the most interested Of Red
Cross workers is Mrs. Larz Anderson,
wife of the one time United States min
lister to Belgium, who Is serving with
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson on the Red Cross
committee in the District of Columbia.
Mrs. Anderson Is one Of the richest
women in Washington, her grandfather
having left her fortune Of ST. 100000.
An only daughter Of the famous COM
modore, G. 81. Perkins, who was with
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Square Deal For the Shops.

IF women had only the courage to
stop shopping when they are tired ~
said a young woman the other day.
"They buy things then that they do not
and never will like, and it is a bother
to the women and a needless expense
to the shops. The goods are inevitably
returned and credited. When shops are
30 decent about accepting goods and
crediting them it is only fair to such
establishments to give them a square
deal"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Learn to Swim.

A person who cannot swim misses
all the fun Of fine exercise and sport
He may at any time be caught in a
water accident, and other persons may
have to rescue him at the risk of their
own lives He may have to see his
mother or sister drown before his very
eyes and not be able to help her.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Aprons Made of Shirts.

A wonderfully neat kitchen apron can
be quickly made by using a mans dis
carded shirt. Turn it so that the open
ing will be In the back; cut off the
cuffs, making the sleeves as short as
you wish, and trim out the neck in a
round or square yoke effect. If pre-
ferred, the garment can be put on as
originally worn by sewing up the front
opening and making a new one down
the back. This can be fastened with
one or two buttons. The shirt is al
ready hemmed, and the side openings
can be left as they are.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
MISS PRISCILLA

Over a belted Jacket of rose JERSEY
cloth falls this long coat Of navy POiret
tweed, hobbled in slightly at the bot.
tom, just enough to give a tOnneau
silhouette. Truly n chic modification
of the army poncho!
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Sugar Sirup,

Many prefer homemade sugar strip
for cakes and waff1es, but its tendency
to go back to sugar" IL annoying. If
you win boil little corn strip with II,
two tablespoonful to pint, it win not
recrystalhze. The corn strip cannot be
tasted.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
FOR YOUNG FOLKS
Sleepy Time Story About a Mighty
Battle of Long Ago.
HOW VICTOR WAS REWARDED

Wonderful Feats That Lad OF An
eient Greece ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cd Remarkable Strength and Clever
ness-Eated by Wicked King.
Tonight, said Uncle Ben to little Ned
and Polly Ann, I am going to tell you
about the
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
4 CABINET LADY
Wife of the Secretary of the Navy
Comrade of Husband.
IS MOTHER OF FOUR BOYS

Mrs. Daniels Comes of Distinguished
Family and Makes Point of chun-
ming With Her Four Big sons-Ths
"FoIIesy" Type of Woman.
An interviewer recently wrote:
AT the hotel table next mine had
noticed a woman Of genial plumpness,
prepossessing manner and jolly laugh.
The serious young man with her SEEM
ed a youngish sort of husband, but In
terested and attentive withal, and my
sophisticated mind dismissed the slight
disparity Of ages as a common enough
phenomenon.
''Then somebody told me the pleas
ant, comradish lady was Mrs. Dan.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
UTILITY COAT.

For Real Service Buy a Coat Some
thing Like This.
Built Of gingersnap brown is this
topcoat Of serge, so nattily trimmed
with Scotch plaids. collar. cuffs and
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06

this flaxen maiden is offered as a mod
ell saleslady. Her gown Is blue satin
banded with black velvet ribbon. A
scrap of silver cloth gives her mantle,
and please note how ingeniously bit
Of black lace Is used for her mitS-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
Helpinu Her Country.

This year everybody is trying to do
something to help Uncle Sam get
enough food for his people. So that is
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-06
FOR THE FETE.

Doll saIesIady Always Popular at
Charity Bazaars.
Almost every device for raising re-
lief funds is being used these days.
There is so much profit in dolls that
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
IIVTS PROUD ENGLISH" LINED
~ Up UNBLUSHINGLY

Berlin tries to feed its millions by means
OF the Voikskiichen, or public kitchens.
Let me disDel the common British Illusion
that the German public kitchen is a charita-
ole institution. Il is a state-socialistic in
stitution and is based not on charity. but on
cooperation. The Germans are far too clever
to debauch the social conscience and the pro-
ductive energy of the poorer classes by ac-
customing them to depend upon charity TO
help them out of their difficulties.
Although the Berlin public kitchen is BY
no means to be regarded as a model institu-
ton, the principle on which it is founded
seems TO me right one. Its main object IS
to save food BY eliminating the waste of
labor fuel and material involved in the sys-
tenn of separate household Kitchens and to
provide not free meals, but thrift meals.
Berlin has now had these public kitchens for
abou, year. and there is no doubt that in
some improved form they will survive after
the war.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

| have seen them greedily eat potato peel
ings from the hand Of some kind-hearted
child or woman in the streets.
In the hot spell last month the meat, dis
gusting at best, became tainted into the bar
gain "Why don't you keep your meat on
ice. Frau Schultz" complained a customer.
ice! Where am to get ice from? II I
order IT, they take five days before they send
it. The ice company say they have no hands
left, and that their horses are all on the
sick list. What is one to do" It is the
same story everywhere.
l., spite of all these and many other diff
Culties the people still manage to get along,
and although they grumble a good deal, do
not dream Of giving in or slackening their
efforts because OF them. Life has TO them
become good deal less comfortable. and in
many cases hard thing, but. dosed by the
sophistry OF their mentors. they stifen their
backs and are determined 10 hold out to the
bitter end. though not man jack Of them
but longs for peace.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
NTOW THEY ARE MAKING
4 Y FLOUR OUT OF WOOD.

IN Germany there is at present in use a
method secretly but very extensively prac-
tised Of obtaining a kind Of -four from wood.
This -four" goes by the name OF Holzmehl.
Il is a modification Of the discovery Of a
Swedish savant whose name | have forgotten.
This new wood fodder is a sort of forlorn
hope which the landowners have eagerly
clutched at The Russian forests in the occu-
pied districts, I have heard. are being ruth
lessly cut down and turned into wood meal
This wood meal is intended primarily to serve
az a cattle food. or its nutritive properties
know nothing They arc said 10 be low. Bread
is also made from H. and ! have been told
that it is given TO the soldiers. | am more in
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
A BABY COULD WANDER
a ABOUT WITHOUT RISK

The traffic in the London streets, too, is
surprise to me. | find them pulsng with
life compared with corresponding thorough
fares in Berlin. The Leipziger and Friedrich
Strassen are still, it is true, fairly animated
but in the rest of the city baby could wan
der about at no great risk to life and limb.
Private carriages and motor cars have long
since disappeared from the streets, and the
riding tracks through the alleys of the Tier
garton are untrodden. Here there seems 10
be no lack either of taxicabs or chauTeurs.
In Berlin IT is practically impossible 20 get
such a vehicle. ] have known men TO leave
their comfortable fats in the Tiergarten
quarter 10 live in hotels in the city. in order
10 be close to their work auto or
droschke is never 10 be had Berlin is too
almost without horses. All available horses
we're called in long ago for military and.
where they can be spared for agricultural
purposes. The horses now seen in public
vehicles droschkes, omnibuses, etc, excite
ones pity. They are mere bags Of bone, and
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

cined to think that it ia reserved as deli
cacy for the prisoners camps.
Folk in Berlin are already anxIously gather
ing together in their cellars what coal they
can in anticipation Of an even greater short
age next winter than they had to suffer from
in the winter just past For want OF coal
many schools had to be closed, in some
cases for several weeks In houses with GEN.
tral heating the water in the pipes froze and
the pipes burst. Plumbers were everywhere
in demand, but there were very few TO be
had. The whole trouble was brought about
by the lack Of facilities for transport. Lack
of mechanics, lack of lubricants lack OF tools.
all added to the difficulty. Nor were there
enough horses TO cart the coal from the rail-
ways once it did arrive. One frequently saw
horses that had fallen on the slippery snow
and lain there, too weak to get up again, or
wagons that had stopped in the snow whose
horses, in spite of curses and brutal whip
ping, could not move the vehicle.
II was the poor who felt the pinch most.
The long queues of people in the streets.
waiting hours for coal on those bitter days,
excited ones pity. The great cold certainly
made them feel the lack Of fats and nourish-
ing food still more keenly.
They shudder at the thought that the war
may last over another winter, and say: "lm-
possible, impossible!"
At the present moment every German is
anxously asking himself: "Will our food
supplies hold OUT" On this subject the Kai-
sers government has thought it wise to be
franker with the people than it has been on
military questions. I'VE can and must hold
out" say the authorities, "but it will be a
close thing. our bread supply is assured till
August Is. and with luck and good manage
ment we can make ends meet till the new
harvest comes 10 our relief"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

The public kitchens are run by the various
town councils of Greater Berlin, which have
the best opportunities Of obtaining the nee
es,ary raw materials from the supplies al
ready requistioned by the state with the
minimum of Intervention by the proiteering
middlemsn. During the winter there were
times when my family and ! found il practi-
cally impossible to get along without having
recourse to the public kitchens mean at
periods when there were absolutely no fish,
no eggs, no potatoes and no vegetables TO be
had. and only half pound of meat a per-
son a week The middle and professional
classes rather hung back at first, and it was
amusing to see how people we knew followed
suit once they found us proud English" un-
blushingly lining up with our enamel pot in
9 tea basket.
| am the last 70 wish 70 magnify the pre-
dicament in which the Germans find them
seves with regard to food supplies. and in
order that there may be no msunderstand-
l. The present rations mean serious priva-
ton. but not starvation.
. The ratons cannot he further reduced with
out disaster to the public health.
2. Even the present rations mean dimnuton
of productive efficiency in the working
man and an increased mortality among
the aged and feeble.
(. II the present rations can be continued in
definitely. the people will be able TO
struggle on, although with deteriorat-
ing morale. till the sword decides
- people that cannot be fed with bread
must be fed with delusions The press, in
obedience to the military press dictator. man
ages to doctor every adverse report and to
take the sting out of every German defeat.
The explosion at Messines was heard from
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
IIOW MAMMALIAN HARDEN
i / WAS BROUGHT TO HE'LL

The courage of even the most Co, :,
Of the Berlin journalists, NaNimi.'-" - Ia
oozes out at his finger tips when "
the point. | heard him one e''A"s o.,
crowded public meeting IN the on A,s
monte Hall that he had been ioro'"' a,
authorities to discuss the ques'0" :. y,
terms. With an heroic gesture - x,.
an actor in his time he protes'e'' .,,,:
not let the wish Of the governne"' 80. )
my way If thought il was 10 W. .,,,.
vantage TO disregard H." The GROW. ..irt
ed this unheard-of independents ', .cs
at Harden's next meeting he eo0.. ayrss
any dove. for his magazine Wv .,s q
("Zukunft"). had in the mean ''"'' ssl
fscated and he had promptly com, :, gsr'
From private sources know w. .,i y
is convinced not only that thefs ,a
been no European war had Ge'n, v..,c .
cided on IL; that England ara sli
their best to prevent the war; O.' 'c,rss
worse in his eyes. he thinks ,as, ,,.t,r y
blundered into an unequal and 'n'' DOS y
astrous contest through deps'''"s ,a
MARKHAM traditions Of statssm'
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

Instead Of goods one sees placards containing
the latest police regulations dealing with the
sale of food commodities; most instructive
no doubt, but not very fattenng. On the
Anschlagsaulen advertisement pillars at the
street corners large spaces ordinarily de-
voted TO theatre bills are occupied by long
notices about the latest coniscations Of raw
materials, and others with particulars of the
weeks rations. The latter are always perused
with intense interest by the population.
In London it seemed to me almost comic
10 hear people here and there complaining Of
shortage and dearness of food and to find
some of them even imagining that they were
suffering hardships.