Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-01-24
THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY.

THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY.
Papers on Food CSnservation Read and
Omccrs Elected.
About one hundred women attended
tho meeting Of the Woman's Auxiliary
to the Vermont State Dairymen's as
ISOLATION, at the roof garden OF the
Hotel Vermont Thursday afternoon
Mrs. Luella Bickford, the president,
welcomed the ladies and Mrs. Julian
Dimock addressed them on the subject
of Food Conservation" Mrs. Dimock
said in part:
II am not going to be bit optimistic
in this address, am going to be pes
simistic throughout don't believe we
women Of Vermont are working hard
enough. We think too much OF what
we want to do and not enough of what
we ought to do The whole secret of
German success IL that from the era
die they have been taught to obey.
The trouble, I believe, with the women
the trouble with New England. 1t Is
the trouble with America. Tho idea
started with washing,on's hrst speech
and It was carried on In the Monroe
doctrine. We tend to shut ourselves
up too much. We are shut in geo.
graphically and we stand by that idea.
President wilson's message last year
was the hrst step against provincial
ism. We are Just beginning to make
up to the world idea. We people Of
Vermont have given but we haven't
given enough. The men OF Vermont
haven't given enough OF boys Of money
or OF conservation.
"There is one word which the world
has not learned to spell. That IL pro-
duction, and It IL to the women that
the world must look for production.
The men are going to war and the
women must do It. That sounds hard
to some women who have worked SO
hard to make the farm pay, but there
are plenty OF women who have not
worked. There are plenty Of rested.
strong women who could do the work
| easily. What Ia the amount the wom-
en- Of America can do compared to
what the women are doing over there
When our men come home how are we
| going to measure up with the standard
OF womanhood they have got from as
sociating with the women Of Belgium.
France and England?
"One Of the chief troubles with the
women Of Vermont Is that they don't read
enough. They don't know what is going
on. You can't get the world idea II you
don't know what the world Is doing.
am saying these things to you women who
are awake because It IL the duty Of the
women who are awake to wake up the
others. First we must learn to sacrifice.
We must get broader Idea Of life. What
are our lives anyway? What is the life
Of your boy or your husband compared
to what he is fighting FOR? What does 1t
matter how long we live as long as during
our lives. we do our duty?
"And now from that to sugar. Think Of
the people who think they can't live with
out sugar! We must not only learn to do
without sugar but we must teach our
families to do the same. We must see that
every member Of the family is in step.
When they get in step they will stay there.
1t is up to the mothers to set the pace.
There never was a time when human life
keep up the health and spirit Of the men
at home as we'll as those In France. They
must do with less sugar. less wheat flour.
and less fat but they must hnd things
Just as nourishing to give as substitutes.
They must keep their families we'll. When
you have keyed yourself up to the spirit
Of sacrifice, you will be surprised to find
that 1t isn't sacrifice at all, and that you
really like the dark bread better than the
white. In France they are conserving
everything. We can do at least as much
as they for we have the Yankee ingenuity
to help us along.
Many Of the women Of Vermont do not
yet realize the Importance of saving fat.
We ought to do It first because Uncle Sam
has asked US to, and second because fat
is needed for munitions and for the
nourishment Of other peoples.
you town women must also do your
share. You must not ask us to supply you
with things needed in Europe. The women
on the farms must realize that often q
tremendous glory comes from doing dull
things, II the ideals are right. Perhaps the
woman on the farm has not time to dc
Red Cross work or the other things which
are 80 necessary but II she is only clean
ing up the cans and cream separator in
the dairy, she IL saving human life by
helping to give to others cleaner milk and
cream.
Sometimes In conserving we find the
substitutes more expensive. What does
that matter? Corn 10 more expensive thar
wheat but corn can't be shipped and ir
Europe they don't know how to use corn.
meal the way we do. Our part is to buy
the corn and let them have the wheat. VIZ
must remember that VIC are fighting Il
keep alive that for which our father gavs
their lives. War IL great !sveller Of clasi
distinctions. Already women who arr
doing war work feel tho difference. The
men who have gone abroad are beginning
to feel the brotherhood Of man and we q
homo must have that same feeling"
WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE.
Miss Bertha Lee Of Lyndonville next I'D
dressed the meeting on what wome,
Have Done In A Agriculture" Miss Lee sal.
In part:
Ever since there have boon fields t.
cultivate. women havc helped to cultivate
them and woman's work has always beer
to help save the waste. Women havs
drifted into indoor work ~ the world grew
older but Of late years they have taken 8
new interest In outdoor work and the re-
suit is q stronger woman. physically, ant
q woman who has demanded an educa
ton. Since war broke out women have
gone rapidly in agriculture" Miss Lee tolt
Of the work at Vassar and how when /.
of the twenty men who ran the farr
there went to war, rs many girls tool
their places and did work equal to that Of
the men in every respect. At tho end o.
season each one of those girls was stronger
and healthier in every way.
"At Mt Holyoke the same experiment
was tried and with success. We have
come to that point" said Miss Lee" wher
we must get busy and use the soil At oul
door. We must now learn to feed our
selves. That is merely question o.
knowing food values" Miss Lee ther