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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-06-10
Father DeVine Dies
Bu Special Correspondent.

NEW BRUNSWICK, June 1o.-Rcv.
James Il. Devine. of the Sacred Heart
church of this city, died here yester-
day afternoon after an illness of
twenty minutes. An attack of acute
indigestion was responsible for his
death. Rev. Father Devine was sixty
six years old and had been in charge
of the Sacred Heart church here for
the past twenty-three years. He was
a graduate of Seton Hall and at one
time was in charge of st. James
Parish in Woodbridge. Prior to that
he had a parish in North Trenton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-06-10
MOTORMEN AND
CONDUCTORS

Public Service Railway Company offers steady and per-
employment moormen and conductors and
to conductors, upon the following attractive wage
scale:
For the first six months service covering the
period of learning the business) 30c per hour
After the first six months and until the end
of the fifth year SOC per hOur
After five years 40c per hour ....
minimum of $3.50 IS assured trainmen who
roll calls and performs such duties may be
signed.
persons entering the employ of the company for
time payment of $1,000 will be made upon
completion of thirty days actual platform service.
The employment offered affords opportunity for patri-
otic healthfl occupation, upon remunerative
basis The company will lend every encouragement to
employees. Applications may be made at Car House. Smith
ST. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays between 23O and
p. M.
Former employees whose record satisfactory will be
welcomed back into the companys employment and the
those returning forthwith far the rate of
concerned will continued the time Of their
withdrawal from service
Public Service Railway Company
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-06-10
Worth kncWlno.

Mildew stains can be removed by
rubbing a little soap over the fabric
and on the top Of this a little chalk
and lemon juice. Place the garment
In the sun for several hours and then
wash os usual and the spots will van
fish.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-06-10
ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. NJ. I. Demarcst Hostess to Wood
bridge Club
Ru SperiaI ('O7-re ,y,s },p,

WOODBRIDGE. June 10-Mrs. M.
l. Demarest entertained the Auction
Bridge Club Friday afternoon. Mrs.
+. l.. Gridley was elected as a men,
Der. There were four tables of play
ers. The only guest, Mrs. John G..
Walker. received two pretty handker-
chiefs. The club prizes Thrift stamps,
were won by Mrs. s. b. Demarest
and Mrs. r. c. Demarest
The next meeting will be On June
2e. when Mrs. Frank r. Valentine
will entertain at her cottage in As
bury Park.
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|lM|.z AM Dom 551urb DO Dou 29ap for ANA
V%SAalW Dour Coffef? NSIak9
Dour Coffer >?

1t is not idle curiosity on our part. this in
tefest IN your coffee bill There is much mvs
terry about coffee, its blends, grades and prices.
ana CONFUSION of terms always means unintelli-
gent and Improbable buying. You may buy
TWO cof1ees that differ only in the roasts given
them, and pay more for the one than the other.
and, liking one better than the other. think that
you are paying for difference in quality.
FRESH roasting, the right degree of roast
>'hght or dark, to suit your taste). grinding
just before making, and careful preparation of
the beverage-these are all requisites for a
real cup of coffee. On Page 2, the Institute
Service page, you will find full discussion of
methods OF coffee making, with different types
OF coffee machines and grinders
Will you let US help you to solve the buvinp
end of the problem? Fill out the coupon below
and mail it, with 81 cents, to the Club Service
Station, and you may find among the samples
offered coffee. that suits you for much less
money than you are paying now The samples
include one of the best Bogotas obtainable
(Manlzales, from Colombia, Central America)
which is offered in two forms-i. e.. with .
city roast (medium), and with dark or
high roast, the latter being preferred for
after dinner coffee and regularly by MANY win,
like so-called stronger coffee with more body
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During the day the children of the rich paw
little attention to the Zeps. Daylight raids are
infrequent, and the wealthy sections of the
city, as we know, are little visited, day or
night The Hun cannot destroy as manv
babies to the square inch there as he can in
crowded quarters where men and women have
larger families! So he uses his devils in
genuity upon the poor
During daylight raids nurses are instructed
to keep their charges moving about the little
family parks and gardens and to make no COM
ment on the noise of the anti-arcraft guns
Sometimes the children do not know that
raid is going on.
Individual English children, boys and girls,
display traits of character not common in the
young, and acts of real heroism are not in
frequent in these days. The force of example
and precept is preparing them to grow up into
bigger, better race even than that represent
ed by their elders, the men who are fighting
and dying.
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Concerning a Boy
Who Was Once Afraid

Reginald Weldon, of Iford, Essex, for in
stance, is only eleven years old and an ordi-
nary, play-loving schoolboy who used to be
very tlmid-before the war. But like the
children about him in Europe, he lives in an
atmosphere of bravery, and it has had its
effect upon him.
His father and three brothers are at the
front; his mother and sister are doing can
teen and Red Cross work. He runs all the
errands of the house, goes to school and takes
care of his baby sister. He hasn't time to be
a Boy Scout-a circumstance he deplores but
accepts without complaint
One Saturday morning Reginald was riding
down hill on his wheel to the butchers when
he saw team of horses drawing alf-loaded
moving start to run away down hill. At
the foot of the hill a crowded quarter,
with many babies and children in the streets.
Reginald just speeded up and chased the
van When he got near enough he grabbed
the back of the wagon, kicked his wheel from
under him Git a new wheel, and the lad
does not have many new thngs) and drew
himself up into the He crawled over the
swaying furniture and pans and things to the
front seat and out upon the shafts, where he
got hold of the reins and stopped the team
just in time
Had there never been a war Reginald Wee
don could not have done that at eleven years
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and color. The other sample is the best grade
OF one of the cheaper coffees-a Santos.
Which is which? Send in the coupon at
tached If you would help to solve the coffee
mystery and report to the Service Station by
mail or phone as to which coffee, Red, White
or Blue, you like best. The key to the puzze
VIII be given in the Institute section next Sun
day, July p, and orders received after that
date
These three coffees will be sold in five-pound
packages, II cents a pound for the Santos
and p cents for the Bogotas, plus 10 cents q
package for wrapping ana postage if you afs
not club member and delivery must be maaS
by nail-a total of 95 cents. or $1.20 for hVs
pounds OF coffee by mail. Club members hss
order five-pound packages for delivery WIN
other ORDERS at II and 22 cents net. SlnsT
pound packages of the Bogotas may be hap
for % cents.
The average coffee order for family OF l0',
IS about six pounds a month. To save from
TO 10 cents a pound, as you can by ouy'D.
through the Cooperative Clubs (the amour
varying as to whether you buy the cheaper
more expensive coffee) means saving OF l'".
95 TO 81 year, or one to four Thrift opa''s
a month"; ANNE LEWIS PIERCE,
Director Tribune las''e'"
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w ar
By MAY BOSNIAN

A MERICANS little realize yet the ire
~ mendous influence that war has had
upon character in Europe-not only of
the fighting men, but more strikingly, of those
who have stayed at home: the old men, the
women, the children.
Selfishness, envy, extravaganza have fallen
like cloak from the shoulders of rich women
They wash dishes and scrub floors ten and
twelve hours a day in canteens and appar-
emily have forgotten their smooth hands and
their social prejudices. Old men no longer
play chess mediate in their club windows.
They cannot. And little children seldom cry
when they are hurt. "The soldiers DON'T"
they tell you.
Upon little children the burden OF war falls
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to the men without or legs or eyes,
the case may be- The children do not shrink
from any of these men. There is no dread, no
revulson, at sight of disfgured face or a
dismembered body.
For every child is taught this daily: "These
soldiers are beautiful They are great men.
They are Christ-Hke men. They have become
as they are in order that you might grow up
happy and safe and Free
This is litany in British homes. And the
little children, growing up in the time of this
most horrible of wars, understand. Any man
they have known is unchanged to them, even if
he comes home With wax mask replacing one
side of his face. The with arm
leg gone is only different from the child him
self in that his loss Of limb makes him better
person. They appreciate it all without SEEM
ing effort.
1t goes to soften the dire effects of war.
Nothing those children in the streets
hereafter will fill them with horror will
repe them. "This is war. These men have
suffered from it. Therefore they are more
beautiful than they were before they suffered"
1t is a simple thing that American mothers
might teach their children-when it becomes
necessary: that is, when our boys begin to
come home, marked by the suffering that has
made them beautiful
While children taught this ltany of love
In England, they are safeguarded from other
horrible aspects of the war. Underground re-
treats have been prepared for use during air
raids, and going into these in time of need is
made to seem like game by parents and
nurses and teachers. Great fun" they call
it. And "Who cares about the Germans?" is
the kind of cheer they give when they march
run into these cellars
But nowadays the dugouts are never used
at night by most families. Why? Because
youngsters sleep during air raids, even when
their elders are astir. Then let them sleep.
God is good! Better let them die now in their
beds than grow up nervous wrecks or with
lifelong memory of childish fright and horror.
1t is said that fewer deaths result among those
who are sleeping near the top of house that
is bombed-there is not such a WEIGHT of
masonry to crush them perhaps-and so par
ents put children to sleep above the second
floor wherever it is possible. More and more
English people are getting to ignore the raids
Houses are often struck by lightning; thew are
sometimes struck by bombs Whv. then. on.
courage children to fear bombs more than
lightning? they ask.
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Two Y w. c.. A. Workers Bring Reports From the From

with these two women, and think he will be
silenced forever on this subject.
Trig, alert, bright-eyed and up to date, from
the crowns of their extremely becoming three
cornered hats to the toes of their neat black
shoes, these two women are the very antithe
sis of the old idea Of the members of the
Y. W. c. A., just as the work which they have
been doing overseas is the antithesis of all
pre-conceved ideas of Y. w. C. A. activities.
And in the hour or more that l was with them
they never even limited that they had ever
heard of such thing as a prayer meeting
These two women are Miss Blanche Geary
and Miss Henrietta Roelofs, and the work
which they have been doing in France is of
distinctly different types, for it is far cry,
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of the girls in regard to the future. In for
mer times every young French woman looked
forward to matrimony as the end and aim of
her existence, and the idea of remaining sim
gle all ones life and being obliged to earn
ones own living into the bargain was some
thing too awful to think about. Owing to the
losses of the war only u small percentage of
these young women can hope to be called to the
high estate of wedlock, and the way of the
wage-earning spinster seemed hopeless and
dreary indeed to these women, who could see
nothing in the long road ahead but hard work
by day and the dingy barracks by night. The
advent of the Y w. C.. A. workers has changed
all that and given to the future a far brighter
aspect.
The girls themselves are exceedingly appre-
ciative for what is being done for them, and
their relatives at the front often express their
gratitude in letters to the women who are re-
sponsible for all this good work.
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Do you remember the great Y. w c. A.
drive of last winter, which began with mass
meeting at the Hppodrome on Sunday and
ended the following Saturday, with something
like $4,000 900 in the treasury of the associa-
ton? That was nearly six months ago, and
the other afternoon l met the two women who
have just returned from organizing the work
in France to which portion Of this 100000
is being devoted.
If there still remains in the community one
person who holds to the old idea that the Y
w. c. A. is purely religious organization
whose members are interested in nothing but
prayer meetings and religious revivals, |
should like to arrange for her or him land it
is much more likely to be "him"D to talk
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appearance. The last function which Miss
Geary arranged before her departure was :,
dinner given by dozen nurses and canteen
workers just back from the front in honor of
as many marines who were then on their way
to join IN the fray and cover themselves with
glory.
There no restrictions for the women at
the hotel. They may come and go as they
like; the outside door is never closed Miss
on serious business and that thew will con-
duct themselves with dignity and decorum, and
that to lay down rules for them would be al
most an insult, and up to date the results have
proven that she is right
Petrograd, notably the night that munition
plant was blown up and the Minister of NUM-
tons himself sent word that the hotel was in
grave danger This scare was hardly over be-
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Hope for the Future as Well as
Help for the Present

1t isn't difficult to appreciate the difference
that all this has made in the lives of these
women; it has given them something to think
of outside the dull routine of factory work, it
has brought a vital interest into their lives,
and as result they entirely different be-
ings. Their eyes have lost the haunted hope
less expression, the exercise and good food
has given them healthy color and the long,
dusty highway knows them no more.
There is another side to it all in which Miss
Roelofs feels great deal of satisfaction. She
feels that it has entirely changed the attitude
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fore an air raid and bombardment shook the
building. All this caused no panic or hysterla
for almost every woman in the house had faced
danger as great over and over again.
The Hotel Petrograd is not yet entirely self
supporting, but month by month the deficit
grows smaller, and it is hoped and expected
that it will very soon be at least self-suppor
ing.
great deal has been said in praise of the
morale of our soldiers overseas and Miss
Geary pays as great a tribute to the courage,
conscientiousness and dignity of the women who
are working with them over there There
never have been finer women, she will tell you
since the world began. and every man, woman
and child in these United States has reason to
be proud of them
And this being the case, aren't you glad
that you made that little contribution last
winter to help the work of the Y. W. C. A.?
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up to them, but more often than not the tray
remains outside the door with the food I'M
tasted, for the inmate sleeps straight through
the next day. The day after that she begins
to "sit up and take notice." and by evening
she puts on fresh clothes, descends to the din
ing room and begins to make inquiries about
opera and theatre tickets. From that time
until her ten days leave is over she is on
the go every minute and she goes back to the
camp or hospital rested and recuperated and
ready for another long period of strenuous
work.
There are gay dinner parties almost every
evening in the dining room of the Hotel Petro-
grad, when the bright uniforms Of both the
men and women and the gay decorations of
the national colors give the room very festive
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A "Vacation Lodge" for Women
War Workers-American and French

The Hotel Petrograd is the Mecca of women
war workers when they are on what is known
as "permisson." They come back from the
front after their period of work in canteen
OF hospital, as they express it, "al in," with
but one thought in their mnds-to take hot
bath and tumble into a real bed. They are
shown to room and nothing is heard from
them for twenty four hours Meals are sent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Comfort and Companionship for
Women Munition Workers in France

The conditions in which the muniton work.
ers were living were pretty serious. In the
first town which Miss Roelofs visited she
found the women sleeping in huge open dor
mitories in low rows Of buildings like bar
racks. There were no amusements in the
town. not even a moving picture theatre, and
after a hard days work in the factory there
was nothing for those wretched women to do
by way of amusement save to walk along the
long, dusty highway This highway
thronged night after night with an endless
procession of men and women of all nation
alities There were Chinese, Cingalese, Arabs,
Portuguese and Greeks, and they wandered
aimessly along, chattering in dozen different
languages.
Miss Roelofs recognized at once the crying
need for good, wholesome amusement for these
women, and she opened straightway the first
of what are known as "Foyers des Allies" at
Feysin, near Lyons These "foyers" contain
a canteen, which supplies we'll cooked lunches
to the workers.; a gymnasium, reading and
writing rooms and large auditorium, where
enterta ailments and moving picture exhibitions
held
The girls are served at noon in three shifts,
and after they have finished their lunches
they swarm into the auditorium, where every
noon there is an entertainment of some kind
given by "home talent" Miss Roelofs will tell
you that some of the performances are really
remarkable, and all sorts of talent, amounting
sometimes to real genius, has been discovered
in the ranks of the workers. Not only do they
often write and act their own plays, but they
design and make the scenery and costumes as
we'll.
They love the gym" also, and they are
never too tired to don the homemade knickers,
which they have made in imitation of the
teachers boomers, and play game of basket
ball or hockey. But the one thing above all
else that they most DESTROYS of learning
is the English language. 1t is difficult to find
teachers enough to instruct all those who
thirst for this knowledge.
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OF age Perhaps he never could have done it.
until short time ago he had cried with fright
at the dark!
~, But he has done it now as matter of course.
Inc furniture moving people gave him hand
some wrist watch as a reward and the neigh
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boris had the bicycle repaired for him. But
Reggie is very much upset if any one tries to
praise him.
1T was nothing at all" he says stoutly.
You should see what our fellows do in
Francei"
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BY ELENE FOSTER

1t was Miss Roelofs who organized all the
work of the Y. w. C. A. in France Long
before we went into the war France called to
the Y. w. C. A. for help in lettering the con-
dtions among the muniton workers, and
twelve women were sent at once with Miss
Roeofs in charge. These women opened cam
teens and recreation centres for the women
muntion workers and huts for the nurses at
the base hospitals.
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is it not, from providing recreation and enter
talnment for the peasant women in the NUM-
ton factories of Southern France to conduct
ing frst-class hotel for women war workers
in the heart of Paris? And yet the object is
the same; it is the old, time-honored object
for which the Y. w. c. A. was founded more
than fifty years ago, namely, the care and
protection of young women. There is one diff
ference, however, for whereas in former days
Chat is to say, in ante-bellum days. the
Young Women's Christian Association was in
terested solely in the welfare of our own
young women, it has widened it's activities
and now it takes the daughters of our allies
OF France and Italy and Engand-under it's
chickering's wings as we'll.
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"La'Vie Feui.
nine, Paris,
has a from
cover like this
ON its May ~
issue, shouing
hov little bonn.
bardMeNtS aud
air raids haze
terr0ri2ed + h Q
French spirit

most heavily: it is their characters that are
to be moulded most by this terrible conflict
raging. But English mothers have taken
certain steps to guarantee that this moulding
may be happy one
"Ihe war does not come home to them as it
does to the French children and the poor little
Belgians, they say. "Yet-there is a war.
They must know of it. They must grow up
to appreciate just what it has meant"
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War Rates at the
Hotel Petrograd, Paris

The work which Miss Geary has been doing
is of quite different nature, but it is quite as
important in it's way and even more personal
in it's appeal to some Of US, for it concerns the
protection and comfort of the young women
we are sending over in various capacities
to work in own army-your daughter
or sister or best FRIEND maybe And isn't it
comfort to the people at home to feel that
when that young woman arrives in Paris she
will be housed in real American hotel con-
Quoted by real American woman who is COM
petent to advise her on every subject under
the shining sun? should say it is!
The Hotel Petrograd, otherwise known as
"The Hotel for Women War Workers." was
opened last December and since that time it
has registered 1900 women (this does not take
into account the scores who have made two
or three visits) 1t prides itself on it's cuisine,
and it has dining room under whose glass
domed roof $50 people are wont to dine in the
evenings. Rooms at the Hotel Petrograd, with
petit d6jeuner and the table d'hote dinner,
range from to II francs, that is, from about
S16O to $2.15 per day. Dinner alone costs
francs and no tips are allowed.
There are real American comforts at the
Hotel Petrograd, hot baths and steam heat, if
you please. The latter was kept up all through
last winter at what seems to us terrific ex-
pense | almost afraid to tell you-325
francs was the price per ton for coal, between
$50 and $50. But Miss Geary assures you
that it worth it for the comfort that it
brought to the girls coming back after long
weeks spent in work at the front
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Where the Spirit
Really Counts

1t is the custom in England and Scotland
for children to salute all manned or invalided
soldiers the streets and in the parks, and
to stop in their play and talk to them On
appointed days they carry flowers and fruit
to the hospitals and themselves present these
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The Hotel Pei
rosrad, in Pa
ris. zvh ere the
4 m e rio a n
Y. ". G.. A. is
at home, with
Miss Blanche
Geayy as host.
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and FIR e n oh
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ton zU0ykeys