New Britain herald., 1917-04-27
WHAT! RIGHT HERE IN THE EFFETE EAST
No Sir, They're Not Going to
 Wear 'Em at All

| New York. April 27.-The twenty 1 farmerettes at Farmingdale, L.. l.,
 vanguard of the scores of women who are to train this summer for Uncle Sam's service at National Service school No. 6. had their dress parade yesterday. as per announcement, and after trying on overalls and bloomers trying on overalls and bloomers de- decided somewhat regretfully on the short skirt uniform. The heads and
 chaperons, Miss Alice Carpenter, Mrs.
 Franklin P. Adams, Mrs.. Maybelle
 Morgan and Mrs. Graham Smith ad. vised this prudent course after taking
 a look at the swarms of movie men l and photographers in the offing. A. 1 A. Johnson, runs things at the Farm ] ingdale Agricultural school. which has the farmerettes under it's wing
 MT. Johnson has most liberal policy 1 in regard to. the movie men. The 1 more the farmerettes get on the screen the better for the school he l says, only girl must be performing some honest to goodness job when posing-she can't be taken milking l a COW unless she really is studying 1 dairying.
 The nix on bloomers policy proved 1 its wisdom promptly when a man en- tered the farm headquarters at 50 East Forty y-second street yesterday and asked for details about the school. And will they wear pa-that is. l what is the costume 2" he inquired. i Short skirts-no bifurcation."
 Mrs. F. P. A: assured him kindly. That's all right he said with 1 on going out for that course in farm ing, but I was kinda-well, it's all right, I'll take those circulars" Several men dropped in to make inquiries for their wives, and so
 many women registered for the sec. 1 ond farming term. which begins next month, and for the regular camp. l which opens June IA, that it looks as
 if the school would end by taking in
 a considerable portion of Long l Island.
 l Oh, the Merry Raindrops. The farmerettes worked all day in ] spite of the rain. The chaperone tried l to protect the fair pupils with um :
 brellas, but MT. Johnson pointed out the movie men, and feeling that they l might injure the cause of woman | they put CNC uIuOEOlldS away l MT. Johnson was enthusiastic about his feminine helpers. They were worth more than men, he asserted, only it was necessary to hold them
 back and not let them work too hard. I One girl learned to drive a traction I engine and others planned their plots 1-each is to have a miniature model farm 1 5 by 20 feet. Each can have an incubator, and Rowena Spillane, a
 fragile girl who has spent her life in
 Greenwich Village painting yellow
 chicks on Easter cards, insta ntly spoke for the first.
 "Now I'll learn how a chick looks
 she said pensively.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi-
 dent of the National Woman Suffrage
 association, is more daring than Miss
 Carpenter and Mrs. F. P. A. She has
 come right out and advocated bifur-
 cated things for suff farmerettes, and
 yesterday sent out from the national
 suff headquarters at I'll Madison ave nue a couple of pictures of farmer
 cites in extremely 1eggy garments
 neat, chaste and eff1cient-which have
 her official approval. Any woman wishing to know where to buy them
 should apply to Miss Rose Young at
 the above address.