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New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

cellar, up in the attic; these ignite spon-
taneously, and the economical housekeep-
er's home goes up in smoke.
Dust and lint, too, are very lnf1am-
mable. You may light a match to look
for something in a closet crowded with
old clothing, and the flames soon spread
all over the building. A mere spark has
been known to ignite accumulated dust
under bureaus and couches.
If you discover fire in your closet re-
member that bucket of water and
broom are a good fire eXtlngulsher, tor
with wet broom you can throw solid
sheet of water or beat fire out il it
has not made much headway. If bed is
burning you can wet the surface with
broom and in this way keep the fire from
spreading over the ticking. You can pull
down burning curtain with broom
and beat the flames out.
Do you and the members of your fam
lily know what to do in a fire emergency?
Do you and they know where the nearest
first duty when moving into new neigh
borhood to locate it.
An old fire chief says, Don't wait un-
til fire comes to think what to do, think
now And remember, an ounce of pre-
vention is worth many tons of water
from the fire engine afterward
"Evorv houco chou1d hayo coyo or hino
either water or a patent contrivance, at
hand for immediate use. Don't wait
until the house is on fire to draw your
water. Even a child can stop fire in
the beginning if he knows how. 1t is
not bad idea to have an occasional fire
drill in the home, so that each member
Of the family will know what to do with
the means at hand and how to summon
immediate aid in case Of need"
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because the right so long withheld when
1t was granted caused shock; second
because writer's with fondness for
dragging forth facts and figures showed
in display type the numerical advantage
OF the women and the ease with which
a united woman's party might refuse to
turn votes for women into votes for
men and set up petticoat government.
But the women anti-suffragists. sulking
IN their tents, sent forth round robin
declaring that, while they had done
nothing to gain the vote, they would
use 1t to keep the house divided. Where
upon those old and wise of the political
amen corners bade their followers take
heart and remember how many hopes
had foundered on the reefs of dissen-
sion between mothers, sisters, cousins
and aunts
There was some effort to daze the new
voters with an array of the oldtire
party problems and questions, the an
swers to which no man knoweth and no
woman would ever understand. But all
parties and seekers for political prefer
ment, desiring the woman vote. NOT car
ing to scare it off entirely, took heed
of the plant: eff there is so much +o
learn and so many puzzles to unrsvo,
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Editors Note: We hold no brief for
Uome1a, and aOe entertain no antagonism
toaOard men; get sometimes ne feel iB..
PEELED to protest against the pregcilnq
fashion of scolding the gentle ser jor
everything that happens, from the nor
notorious dispossess notice that ,cos
served IN the Garden of Eden TO the
latest local fire.
Granted that most confagrotions oc.
cur IN homes-it is not just because the
homes contain oomen, is it? But BE-
cause it is IN the home that fires are
built, lamps are lighted, meals are
cooked And, by the acay, lchen you
come to check up the vdrious causes
Of fire in the home, hoaO many Of these
are due to defectiUe fues and chimneys
designed and built by men, to electric
light a0i,es badly insulated By men, to
stairavays Unprotected ander tenement
laa0s made By men?
To be sure, it is said that coz kicked
over the lamp that caused the big Chi
cago fire; bit cigarettes and matches
dropped by the perfect male hare been
hnoacn to acreak some damage, too, IN
clnding explosions IN Jersey msnition
factories.
Maybe there would be just as many
fires an the home If George did the
houseworh. You can't tell A. L. P.
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iII

flying around. But there was nothing
for US to do: we just had to allow it.
If one of US even touched those pans
they would wipe them with their very
dirty turbans. So we learned to let the
pans alone.
''They came to US with nothing but
these turbans and few rags tied
around their waists, and when it was
time for the first batch to leave /
gave them some warm B. V. D's To
my utter horror l saw them leaving the
hospital with the B. V. D. S ON the out
side and the rest of their clothing tucked
into them. | protested, but they insisted
they looked too nice to hide under any
thing else
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Don't Want
To Be Read To

The boys want practical things done
for them-mostly things that demand
good, sound, hard work. And they do
not want to be read to- Why is it that
the Red Cross has 1000 applications a
month from women who would like to
read to the boys? Has anybody ever
met sane, normal man, sick or well,
who would allow woman to read to
him? l wouldn't dare even suggest 1t
to them myself!
"They need the best of everything.
And If the women cannot give it to them
they should stay at home. | wish could
raise word of protest against society
here that advertises much about the
splendid work it does in taking flowers
to the hospitals. The flowers that were
brought to the Willard Parker each day
tor those poor, overworked nurses to put
IN vases-for, of course, the society
didn't go further than the outside steps
of hospital for contagious diseases
were just garbage left over from some
florist shop, where it could not be sold
they had been in the shop for days.
"I've word of comfort for the girls
left behind. Ny work made me hear
many secrets, and of all the thousands
OF stories | listened to | learned Of pu'
one serious case of young soldier WIZ
is returning to Europe to marry Freneh
girl
But let our girls be careful They're
not getting back the men they sen'
away. These men have been near grim
tragedy and death. They have seen in'o
the far beyond and they have Finished
with the shams and the make believe
They know the real thing when they ses
it, and they won't ever again stand i0'
anything else from their women folk
And the women have much to leafa'
she concluded.
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we will just stay at home and go on
with our Red Cross knitting"
And they forthwith laid aside the
whereases and wherefores and adopted
new tactics 1t was not desirable to try
out the Mississippi jiu-jitsu election
methods.
Down in that state, when Nose called
early to cast his vote, an election officer
read him the Constitution with great i'm
pressment and then asked: "Do you un-
derstand what l have read? for the law
of Mississippi requires an understanding
and comprehension of the intricacies of
this assembling together"-
Hold on, boss" Nose interrupted. 81
understands one thing, dat means nig-
gar don't vote in de state er Mississippi. I"
Instead, every effort was made to in
struct New York's new voters in the wav
to cast vote which would be counted
for the candidate Of her choice.
We will depend on every man to in
struct his wife and daughters how to
vote and whom to vote for" a speaker
shouted to mass meeting But those
who heard him shook their heads sor
roWfully and consoled one another with
the information: "He is a bachelor and
does not understand the new voters but
he is to be married next month and then
he Will knOW-maIlana
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w hen Our Boys Had Influenza

lated from any outside human contact.
Perhaps my chief work was CORE
spondence. I've written $50 letters to
mothers in four weeks-just personal
notes about their boys. I know how
much more such letters meant to them
than an official report. And made the
boys, directly they were we'll enough to
hold pencil, write a postcard home
every day. At first they protested Wig
orously. They are in the habit of writ
ing once month 'or So and they don't
see why etc. But they do it. And
they even began to enjoy the habit, when
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Go to the telephone the telephone book, tell
the OPERATOR report fire. call from
which the calling subscriber wishes report FIRE will be treated
emergency CALL and charge will be made therefor
Emergency calls will be given special attention, and their
completion will take other operation
will be expected be familiar with fire. police and ambu
lance numbers. develops that impossible for the calling
subscriber the telephone the operator will mmedi
aey obtain the address of the subscriber and the circumstance
will be reported to the proper station
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got better they'd be calm and quiet.
But the French, bless them, were some
times bit of circus. When they were
really i'll they were always certain they
were heading straight for the other land.
But once they got we'll enough to talk,
all they wanted was to get out, some
how. Que je m'ennuie; que je ZEN
nuieD they would exclaim How bored
| ann And | just wonder how many
times was told-for luckily I spoke
their language-that no French hospital
would EVER be built facing gas tank,
as this was.
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Woman-the IncaIculable
Element

Perhaps another assertion and story
of Mr.. Parker will help to explain the
vote for the amendment in the country
parishes of Louisiana and the votes
against it in New Orleans. In a tribute
to his friends and followers of the pine
woods of the state he said: "My fond
ness for fishing and hunting has made
me many friends among those leading
the simple life and living close to
nature. Their judgment is clearer and
better than those contaminated by COM
mercial and political life
"One day, when I was sitting on log
eating lunch, one of those grizzled
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

State alone in 1916 through carelessness
in handling lighted cigars and cigarettes.
What must the figures for the whole
country be? The great Baltimore fire,
costing the insurance companies $50,000,-
600, is said to have been caused by q
cigarette thrown into rubbish, where it
smouldered, and finally created the con-
hagration which swept third of the
city away.
Do you ever leave your kitchen while
there are clothes airing on line over
the stove? Lines frequently break, and
you may come back to find your kitchen
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"Dont stop telephone, the Fire Department Don't
dress children; take them along they it's bitter
cod-and aloud you
'Co to fire alarm box and leave nothing to
fraty the handle and open the box Eut turning
the handle send the alarm You box
turning the handle and pull down the hook which you see
inside.
sAfter that stand by the lamppos until the fire engines
come that will be ready to tell them where the fire is
even If the night cold and haven't dressed the chdren
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at Would You Do If Your House Were Burning

cost of living by attaching additional
lights to the electric wires himself, just
advise him to read his fire insurance
policy first. Almost always there is
clause that forbds this. 1t frequently
overloads the circuit, and when the house
burns down from that cause the insur-
ance company is exempt from making
payment. Employ competent electrician
for such work.
But if you do have burned-out insu-
lation or an automobile fire caused by
electricity or gasolene. use sand or a dry
powder extinguisher to put it out Water
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Letting the Christmas
Tree Catch Fire

One word more-Christma is coming,
and with Christmas the tree, and with
the tree candles, except for those who
are able and prefer to make use of the
small electric bulbs which are sold for
the same purpose.
Candles and trees mean fires. The
newspapers of December 26 are as full
as those of July Of disasters resulting
from unwise celebration Yet a few
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
"Women and Children First"
AT the Ballot Box

Women and children first" is slogan
OF the new voters in all parties. At
any time in careening candidates
career If it becomes known that he
abuses his wife and children, or is
opposed to reforms for the securing of
oetter conditions for women who work
to live, he will lose the women voters
support. Without notice or warninp
they will fade and disappear from the
wlgwams of his camp.
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But, then, you don't wear stripes on
your pajamas, SO you're just a kid to
me! l laughed at him, and we became
great pals.
"They always wrote home and said
they were better and all was we'll with
them, however matters stood. One poor,
dear lad l held in his very last moments
managed to scrawl a card to his mother
to say he was feeling fine
but we hadn't only our boys We
had them of every nationality. The
Americans and English were pretty much
alike-they'd lie still, and when they
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Miss Heller
Division of Relief

The Red Cross, too, sent its help. "The
Division of Military Relief for Hospi-
tails" is it's official title, but it was all
vested in one single woman, Miss Eu-
genie Heler-white haired, plump, smil-
ing, the very embodiment of kindliness
and humor. "For," says Miss Heller,
with a twinkle in her eye, "when job
is so bad that nobody else will take it
it's always passed over to me. And
do it,"
Patrolling the wards of Willard Park
er for fifteen hours a day at stretch,
with no pay and an excellent chance Of
catching the "lu'-she's done it now
for eleven weeks--is certainly heroism!
"Just what is military relief" asked
her.
''It's doing everything for sick man
except the technical nursing of him"
she replied. "That is to say, keeping
him good tempered, writing his letters,
reading them to him when he is too sick
to read them himself, buying for him
any little thing he may need-and many
times filing his last Wishes" she added
thoughtfully.
II went around with two baskets,
each of which, by the bye, weighs twenty
five pounds, and containing everything
the boys might ask for, from boxing
gloves for the convalescents to a rosary.
Nobody has been alipwed to visit the
hospital. and the men have been iso
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are surprised when they are accused of
carelessncss in observing the common
sense of fire prevention. No matches
should ever be kept in the house except
in metal box.
Never throw match into waste
basket. Look into your husbands coat
pockets before you put the winter clothes
away for the summer up in the attic.
The suns rays and lack of ventilation up
there make it pretty hot sometimes, and
matches have been known to ignite from
this cause
Women may not be directly responsible
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Matches and Ciqarettes

Close to 5000 matches are struck
every second of the twenty-four hours in
the United States, and there is lot of
room for carefulness in doing it. Ten
per cent of the investigated fires in
houses have been found to be caused by
the careless use of matches.
Where do you keep your matches? In
a box made of wood or paper on shelf
over the stove? Lots of people do, and
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

farmer friends, splendid man, said to
me: John, this woman suffrage busi-
ness has made me do lot of tall think
ing. Nine times in ten my wife would
vote with me--the tenth SHE would be
right"
Just how the newly enfranchised
women of New York would take their
right to vote in the November election,
which was their first chance to exer-
else the franchise, was matter of
moment and a cause for loss of sleep
to more than one of those who like to
represent the people in good fat Job!
I'VE helped you gain suffrage" the
Democratic party softly, but forcefully
and frequently reminded the New Citi
zen, and the Republican party cried in
rebuttal: "You belong to us by right of
discovery, for we saw you first With
equal insistence Prohibitionists, Social
lists and the Labor party, all in time and
turn, made claim to first consideration
at the hands of the women voters.
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for the fires caused by carelessness in
handling cigars and cigarettes, but read
this to the smokers Of the family and
maybe they will help to eliminate the
danger: One million three hundred and
seventy-four thousand six hundred and
fifteen dollars was lost in New York
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in flames. And, speaking of kitchens,
never keep your wood box near the stove
unless it has metal sheathing on the
outside. The light, dry timber it con-
tains is easily set on fire.
If the man of the house comes to you
and tells you he is going to beat the high
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Feminine "reminiscences of Election

present food administrator of Louisi-
ana. Both were leaders in the great
fight made on the Louisiana lottery in
1892-'93
1t was remembrance of the whole
hearted aid given by the women in that
campaign, too, which made John M.
Parker declare: "Woman's sense of
right and wrong is much stronger than
mans, her sense Of perfect justice much
SO11nNerv
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"We had a lot of Japanese They
were scrupulously polite and formal.
And each one as he left would come to-
me and make a little set speech of graft
tude, his hand on his heart, ending with
a low bow
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When Even the
Germs Gave In!

1.-The Hindoos, and there were many
OF them on the boats, were difficult They
would insist, sick as they were, on cook
ing their own rice and keeping the pans
under the bed. Imagine, with the germs
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IlQuUIcQS vi WOIIlSI nave DCeIl DuIueU
to death because they tried to remove a
burning roast from the oven. Turn the
gas off and throw salt by handfuls on the
blaze. You can remove the salt later and
you will have saved your life as we'll as
the meat.
Kerosene
Maybe you have put kerosene on the
fire many times to hurry it up when you
have slept little too late or have stayed
out too long and want to cook dinner
quickly; but there may come flash and
roar some day, and the agony and death
which follow will give the man who gath
ers statistics one more victim to charge
up to women's carelessness.
No sensible woman ought to have to be
reminded of the danger of filling lamp
at night with another light near at hand,
yet more than 200 women are burned to
death every year in the United States
from just this cause. If lamp takes
fire throw it out of doors if you can do so
quickly, or toss rug or blanket over it
and run for the contents of the flour bar
rel, salt box or baking powder can to
throw over it. Never use sugar, for this
will only add fuel to the flames.
Cleaning Fluids
Don't try to save 10 cents by cleaning
your gloves with gasolene, naphtha or
other cleaning fluid and burn your house
down in the process. Many women do,
and disfgure themselves for life in the
bargain. The annual prey in this coun-
try of home cleaned garments is 5000
homes burned and over 500 women
burned to death, besides twice that num-
ber so injured that they carry ugly scars.
Is it worth it? If you must use cleaning
fluids at least do SO out of doors, and
keep them stored in a metal box outside
the house.
Fire caused in this way should be COW
cred with sand or soda.
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Standing With Reluctant Feet
Where Politics and Justice Meet

There was time, brief but full of
portent, when the newly enfranchised
sex in New York stood hesitant-6rst.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
The Kid
Lieutenant

"They were very brave Most of them
were youngsters, and all they needed was
little jollying up. | remember one
who was very sick-he was a bit of a
worry to his nurse. Now, don't carry
on so, kiddie dear, said to him. Sick
as he was he drew himself up
I'm lieutenant said he.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
BY ROSE FALLS BRES
Attorney at LaW

NJ ~ssslss aso ass "s 1"''11@' ~'sn saSs rHs
suffrage for women, but Louis
lana, the first of the Southern states to
submit suffrage amendment to the peo-
pie, did not waken to the importantly of
the women and the opportunity to go on
record as standing in the front line with
the march of progress. The amendment
failed to carry by few thousand votes
If the suffrage amendment had been
lost in Louisiana by reason of lack of
votes in the parishes it would not have
been past understanding, but the coun-
try piled up big vote for the amend
ment and the city of New Orleans
killed it,
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the majority of these are the result of
the ignorance or the carelessness Of
women. Do you know that $3.50, 900
worth of property goes up in smoke in
the United States every year, that loss
of $4,000 occurs every ten minutes and
that there is a fire somewhere once in
every minute?
"Well," you ask, what is that to me?"
Just this: That all this expenditure of
100000 a year comes right out of
the pocket of the American citizen. 1t
affects your financial situation just as
surely as does the tax on your land. 1t
affects the cost of everything you eat,
drink and wear. Don't snuggle down in
your chair and say the insurance COM
panies pay for fire losses; insurance com
panies are merely the collectors and dis
tributers of a tax which every wise per-
son pays to them. 1t costs each man,
woman and child in the United States
$3.50 a year to pay for carelessness. Are
you one of the guilty who are paid for?
When house burns down the Fire De-
partment men wager ten chances to one
that the woman living in it set it on fire.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

it brought a letter a day back. Forty
three thousand postcards l sent off in
six weeks, and felt triumphant.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Burning Fats

The danger spots in every home are
the kitchen stove, the various heating
and lighting appliances, the chimney,
storage places of waste materials and
hot ashes. In our nationwide campaign
for conservation every one is advised to
save and try out all fats, but in doing
this keep close watch, for overheated fat
sputters and splashes and catches fire,
and is a prolific source of trouble
If this should happen to you, however,
don't rush at the pan and try to remove
it-you may set fire to Yourself In
stead, place some flour, salt or sand in a
dipper or small receptacle tied to the
end of long stick and empty it on the fat.
Do not throw it on, for that will make
the burning fat splash all over. And
never throw water on it, for that will
spread the flame wherever the water runs.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Fires in the Closet

is a conductor of electricity and only
helps to make matters worse.
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Bv MARY HAMILTON TALBOT

OW many women realize
that it is their own fault
when their homes burn
down? 1t is q severe
al'raignment, but experts
have estimated that so
per cent of all fires are
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

Some economical housekeepers have a
mania for saving rubbish; they tuck
away oily cloths and greasy waste under
sinks, behind back stairs, down in the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

thing else.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-10
HUN TROOPS
ARE PASSING
into AUSTRIA
Report German Force is in
TyrOI and SaIzburg While
Dual Monarchy Protests
to Berlin Officers.
Associated Press Service:

Associated Press Service:
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9.-Gerrnan
troops have crossed the Austrian
frontier into Tyrol and Salzburg.
The Vienna Neue Frieie Presse,
reporting the presence Of the Ger
mans in Tyrol. says that the Austro-
Hungarian supreme command has
protested to Berlin against the
passage Of Germans through Aus
trian territory and that the Aus
Hungarian government will also
protest on the grolnd that the arm
istice concluded with the entente
powers and the United States might
be endangered thereby.
Under existing circumstances. ii is
added, Austria-Hungary is power
less to hinder the movement, by
which Austrian territory might be-
come a war theater."
The Bavarian war ministry re-
Gently informed the Tyrol authori-
ties that a considerable number of
Ravarian troops would march TO the
northern ,TyrOl frontier as a guard,
doubtless fearing an attack by the
entente from this direction which
would threaten Munich and other
important Bayarian cities.
I'VE come as friends" the minis
ter declared, but will use force II
we are resisted"
The German field marshal Won
Mackensen also requested permis-
sion for his army 10 pass through
Hungary from the Balkans 10 Ger
many. and was informed that the
request would be granted on condi-
ton that the troops lay down their
arms or entering Hungarian soil.