The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
STYLES IN COOKS
Any Kind or Color Is Hard To
Get These Days.
Bridget Is Too Busy Making
AmmunitiOns.
BEST MODELS FROM SOUTH
Built on Generous Lines (Ma-
son and Dixon MOstly.)
:. aSumb Waiter and Fireless
Cooker Are Dependable.
BEST MODELS FROM SOUTH
BY MARGARET MASON.
written for the State JOurnal.)

Oh. Bridget is making munitions
And Hulda the mountains doth roam
While Liza makes tracks for the seashore
We're left in servantless home.
This IS the season of the year when
newest styles in cooks and the latest
effects in second maids and mattresses
are agitating the female mind much
more than the dernier cri in bonnets
and blouses.
When Tilly begins to burn the grid
die cakes and NOPE around with
misunderstood expression in her lam
bent oros then you may as well nit
the trail to the employment agency at
once. For Tflly has begun to feel the
yearn for the great outdoors. She
hears the sad sea waves calling and
the whisper of the pines.
For ten years l have spent my siz-
cling summers in my city fiat. No one
ever said to me. wilt thou fly with
me to some cool grot?" SO I just had
to stay put and do all my whiting right
in my happy little home. Not SO
Maggie, Minna or whoever happened
to be breaking my china at the mo-
r1ent AS soon as the first signs of
spring were noticed they gave their
notice They packed their trunks and
hied them to some mountain, held OF
seaside resort while became queen
4
the sink as a last resort. Can you
beat it? No, but they always did and
still do.
Lure OF the Factory.
Now that munition factories are
4 added as an equal lure to the siren
call of he summer resort. times are
doubiy hard for our erstwhlle happy
names Treasures of our domestic
4 MENACE are now wrested from without
49, off
fiji shrapnel shells instead or pastry
/ shells. Biscuit making has given way
70 bullet making and the hands that
once pushed the baby carriage are
now doing the same for the gun car
rage and making bombs to scream
thru the air while our helrs scream
| nurseless at home.
To make the worst of it, servant
styles left to choose from never Of
fered less diversity before. There are
4 but few imported models being used
this season owing to the difficulty of
4 trnnsportation. Some of our most
serviceable little German effects can
no longer be obtained and there is
only a scant showing of Swedish,
County Clare and Hungarian model
maids Naturally a domestic domes-
tic isn't in it with the imported ar
ticle. but even a made in America
maid" is going at a premium these
days.
ReaIJ the best little all around
model for general homework is
Southern product. 1t is built on gem
erous lines (Mason and Dixon Mostly
and is worn very dark this season. 1t
is excellent for cooking and really
shouldn't mind the heat. One of this
model lot known as The virginia Is
particularly smart, wears well and is
guaranteed fast black.
Have You a Finn?
Have you a little Finn in your
i home? A Finn is always much bet
ter at the flapper stage. Firms are
especially handy at handing round the
hash and besides they sort of add an
extra finish.
Swedish models are scarce, aye
there's the rub, hut if you can sue
=. coed in sharing one you will find them
great for massaging the dishes and
4 rubbing down the furniture and up
q the silver.
we have gone in so extravagantly
for everything Chinese this year that
it seems only meet we should follow
up Oriental lines to the chief cook and
bottle washer. A Chinese servant is
chink thru which one bright ray of
light is let in on our dark servant
problem. A japanese is sure to please.
with one of these you'll live at ease.
A Japanese man and his wife are
pair to draw to and two of a right
kind that are hard to beat.
But it really won't do to be too
fussy about your maid servant or
your man servant this season. You
mustn't mind if their complexion
1 doesn't go with your wall paper or
their style conflicts with your period
furniture
You'll be lucky if you have any
waiter except a dumb waiter or any
i cook but a fireless cooker.
Ruth Chatterton may think she is
the only one who is starring in Come
Out of the Kitchen" this season-but
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