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New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

TAVE you white elephant in
your home? A silver swinging
ice water pitcher, perchance,
that was Aunt Elizabeth's idea of the
acme of elegance in wedding presents, or
the yacht club cup which William won
in the race for twenty foot yawls-or the
silver cake basket of the hideous u S.
Grant period which Cousin Laura be-
queathed to you in her will? These or
others of their ilk have, I am sure, long
been discordant notes in your otherwise
perfect scheme of decoration. You
couldn't consign them to the garret for
fear of a surprise visit from one of the
donors, whose feelings would be hurt by
their absence, but at last the hour of
your deliverance from these horrors Is
at hand! The problem is solved and
in the incest possible way. You can kill
two birds with one stone, you can rid your
house of these atrocities and be render
ing a patriotic service at the same time
and neither Aunt Elizabeth nor the COM
modore Of Williams yacht club, nor
Cousin Laura's "relict" has any "come
back" when you explain that you have
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Can New York Women Cooperate? They Can

undertaking. The Department of Public
Markets engaged to help secure the ma
terials for canning
preliminary survey was made by
the Food Council to try out the temper
Of the housewives of different neighbor-
hoods on the subject of community can
ming. Those neighborhoods where the
desire for centre was greatest were
chosen. Schools with kitchens on the
first floor were as far as possible, uti-
lized, because of the difficulties of carry
ing materials up steps.
The object of the community canning
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Cozoperattne Buptng
ann Can11tng

THIS IS q scene IN Little Red School,
house m The Broac qUhere some tquenty
hoMsekeepers canned ut once and "COPPER"
ated IN reducing labor and expense
Is Neav York too big, too suspicious,
too unmeigh6orly, too "naircd" as to races
and interests to JOIN hands for co0pera-
tive centuries? We do not believe 1t, and
the community canning venture confirms
our opinion Education and proper or
gonisotiom are mecessar'y-thot is oU
Lonra A. Cauble, Deputy Comnais-
sioae7 Of the Department of Public
Markets, reports that the demands on
the department by groups of aOon1e7 IN
eve'>y borough Of the city for the con-
tiauation of the community canning
centres to operate during the latter part
of august and September afford proof
past questioning, both of the need for
such aOorIi and the success of the sunnnacr
campaign j1st ending. With fruits and
vegetables at their height 1t seems as
though such efforts should be doubled in
stead of discontinued, and every effort
is being made to carry the a0ork further,
What is true of cooperative canning is
true Of cooperative buying. Dealers de-
huered to the canning centres on per
cent instead of Is per cent margins and
to"'ad they could do 1t proftably aohem
there aoas no spoilage, the sale aoas as
sured IN advance, and deliDe1y of large
quantity a0as made to one place.
The Tribune Institute Cooperative
Consumers Buying Clubs (Morningside
8775) can saue you from 6 to II cents
on the dollar IN buying such foods as
eggs, butter, p,'unes, 1'disins, beans, etc.,
If yoA WiI "club together" 1'ry It,
ANNE LEWIS PIERCE
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Why the "Flying Cadet" Needs
A Fairy Godmother

1t appears that conditions in the avi
alton branch of the service are bit
different from those of the Army, Navy
or Marine Corps. A student of aviation,
who is called q cadet, receives during
the period of his training a private's
pay, that is, $33 per month At the pres
ent time. when the need for avators
overseas is extremely urgent in nine
cases out of ten the cadet receives his
commission and his sailing orders 81
multaneously. The equipment required
for an officer in the Aviation Corps is
expensive and it is vitality important that
he should have the very best, for an
illfitting helmet, goggles that wabble, or
gloves that fail to keep his hands suf-
ticiently warm may cause disaster. I'm
less an officer has private means he finds
himself without the necessary where
withal to purchase his outfit, and there
is usually no time to borrow from rela-
tives or friends, so, as he expresses it, he
is 'up against it." This is where the
aviation committee comes in and where
the money from the Treasure and Trink-
ct Fund is put to good purpose The
officer has only to step into the office at
259 Fifth Avenue and state his needs
and whatever part Of his equipment is
lacking is gladly supplied.
l happened to be in the office of the
society on the morning after 200 or
more of these young aviators had re-
H.
ing orders. A fine, manly looking lot
of young fellows they were and how
some of them did hate to ask for assist
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

was, of course, to economize in the buying
of materials, to save on equipment, fuel
and labor through community effort
The method adopted for operating the
canning centres, in order to keep all the
housewives in block from hocking in
on a hurried impulse on one day of the
week, was to have a system of registra-
ton, whereby woman registered n
week in advance for the privilege of
using the kitchen, depositing 10 cents
jar for the material for each jar she
wished to can. If when the material is
canned the cost falls below 10 cents T.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
A Daniel Come
to Judgment

A short time ago point for fine judi
cial discrimination arose in one of the
kitchens. One group of Gamers de-
parted leaving the skins of their peaches
behind. Another group, arriving, res
cued the peach skins, added thereto the
syrup left in the discarded syrup cans,
and presto! there was delicious jam.
Gamers No. l learned of the jam and
Immediately put in a claim for it. 1t was
made from their peach skins and their
corn syrup. Gamers No. 2 answered,
"What would your peach skins have
availed without our ingenuity"
The judges decision went to Gamers
No. 2, but the object lesson accomplished
the purpose, for there are very few
peach skins left to waste in that canning
centre now. Boiled with a little corn
syrup, they are made into syrup for pam
cakes, if nothing else.
(Mrs. William Hohenzollern kindly take
note of what this little world war is do
ing to the so-called wasteful American
housewivesD
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

In the first place. there isn't any jelly
turned out of the centres, because jelly
without sugar is as yet too experimental
and sugar is used to the very minimum
in the kitchens. Corn syrup replaces
part or all of the sugar called for in
the recipes. A large quantity of the
syrup has been donated to each centre.
For preserving that demands sugar for
sweetening a cent a jar is charged.
The community experiment has pricked
the surface Of New York reserve and
aloofness and brought out spirit of
real neighborliness. When the registra-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

the days work divided according to the
number of jars each individual wishes
regardless of who has done the canning.
Up in The Bronx many of the house
wives bring products Of their own gar
dcns to can, and the twofold pride in the
preserved vegetable, both of their own
raising and canning, is almost as great
as that of the soldier who has baggcd his
Hun.
The canning centre does away with
the danger of experimentation and loss,
of the "watchful waiting" to see whether
the jelly is going to jell or jell too much.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
The Patriotic
Penny

IND you ever hear of society
whose initiation fee was two
cents and whose dues were
penny week? | mean a real. sure
enough, grown up society and with head
quarters on Fifth Avenue at that, There
really is such a one and it is known as
"The Patriotic Penny" 1t is another
branch Of the work which the National
Special Aid Society is doing.
It's slogan is "Stand by America" and
its raison d'etre is to encourage the spirit
of loyalty and patriotism among our
people-little people and big people-and
to discourage German propaganda.
"The Patriotic Penny" was the idea Of
Miss Weeks, of Wilmington, Del. a
member of the National Special Aid So.
ciety, who is particularly interested in
the welfare of the colored people of her
own city.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Enough Pennies viii
Buy an Ambulance

"The Patriotic Penny" was established
in Wilmington three months ago, and it
recently purchased an ambulance for
French hospital which cost $1,000. One
need not be an expert arithmetician to
figure that this means membership OF
at least 10000. Many of these members
are children in the public schools.
Encouraged by the success Of the or
ganization in Wilmington Miss Weeks
brought her idea to the National SpeclaI
Aid Society, and The Patriotic Penny
Immediately became an important hranch
of the society,,s work.
A member signing the pledge card ano
wearing the patriotic penny of the So
clety pledges himself "to discourage
newspapers in the German language; 70
discourage talk of peace without victory
to report to the National Special AID 30
ciety any unpatriotic acts or speeches
to encourage enlistments; to keep up tns
courage and enthusiasm of our boys; 70
work in every way for the army sn'
navy; to buy Thrift Stamps and MpefN
Bonds and to save food needed abroso'
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

tom began the demand exceeded the
equipment; there were not enough boil
ers for the forty centres About four
hundred in all were needed. The Food
Commission had furnished 1870, and be-
cause of the short period for which they
were to be used larger expenditure
was not deemed wise. A call went out
for wash boilers, and wash boilers came
in from many different sources. Some of
the housewives who patronize the kitchen
loan theirs between wash days, taking
them to and from the kitchen each week.
A newcomer in the centre is always
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Wisdom Gained as Well
as Canned Goods

The chief advantage of the kitchens
has been educational. The setting of a
standard in canning has been even of
greater value than the actual saving of
FOOD. The centres have proven beyond
doubt that New York needs Just such
community places for the annual can
ming, which is often difficult and waste
fu when done at home The saving of
equipment has been very great and the
canning has been done at a lower cost
than when done in the individual kitch-
ems. The prices on the blackboard of one
centre showed beans by the quart,
cents; plums, II cents; peaches, 23
cents; conserve, 80 cents.
The securing of materials has been
the greatest difficulty the community
centres have encountered. Another wear
this will probably be largely overcome.
Quick transportation of materials from
direct markets has been very difficult to
accomplish. In order to secure the best
fruits and vegetables at the best possible
prices for canning certain devoted mem
bers of the Food Council have gotten up
two and three times a week at in the
morning and purchased at the market
centres.
Whatever the final record NAV be in
actual food preserved, the gain in accu-
mulated efforts of the women who have
cooperated to put over this community
experiment, III the warm friendliness and
spirit of helpfulness awakened in many
housewives who never before have
rubbed elbows in any undertaking ont
side their own homes, and in the stimu-
lus to general conservation of food has
made the community canning centres in
greater New York a siural s,,ccacu
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

But the treasures and trinkets that
are on sale in the Fifth Avenue shop
are only small part of those which
are received The majority of the con-
tributions are veritable white ele-
phants" which are scld for old gold or
silver.
The Treasure and Trinket Fund is
growing rapidly. The committee IN
charge recently sent a request to the
Governor of each state asking that he
appoint an efficient, energetic woman
in his state to serve as state chairman
and take charge of the shipments. Al
ready more than twenty of these state.
chairmen have been appointed and tho
results of their work is seen in the IN
creasing number of packing cases which
are being received daily from distant
parts of the country From the time OF
it's inception last September the Treas
ure and Trinket Fund has raised S70,-
900, every cent Of which has been ex-
pended for the comfort of our flying
men.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
New York in Small
Toum Ta,.x,s

New York in Small
Town Terms
For the past few weeks, since early in
July, New York housewives have aver
aged a weekly output of about thirty
five hundred quarts of community canned
fruits and vegetables, to provide against
lean pantry shelves the coming winter.
The common kitchen stove, over which
some eight hundred to thousand house
wives gather daily, is in the big red
schoolhouses of the city, forty of them,
all the way from lower Manhattan to
The Bronx, from the East River to the
Hudson, and extending into the borough
of Brooklyn.
The municipal housekeeper who has
loaned the cook stove and teachers to act
as supervisors is the Board of Educa-
ton; the up-to-date substitute for the
wise grandmother standing back Of the
canning kettle is the Bureau of Conser-
walton of the New York State Food Com
mission; the neghborly helpers who have
been at the elbows of the housewives
helping stir the kettle in more ways than
one have been members Of the Federal
Food Council from all over the city. The
Department of Public Markets has
served as neighbor who has sent over
patches Of peas and beans to "do up"
1t has been an interesting experiment
in community housekeeping and in war
conservation. Of all the cities in the
world New York, with its shifting boun-
daries and it's nomadic living tendencies,
it's unrelated foreign groups each with
it's own Old World habits of homemak-
ing, is the hardest in which to win CO.
operation on any community domestic
endeavor. But the war, with it's COM
mon necessities and common problems, is
drawing New York housewives together.
This year the need to save food has
been even greater than last. Foods to
can are more difficult to get and prices
are higher, all of which tends to make
home canning more costly and uncer-
tain undertaking. The Bureau of Con-
servation, the Food Council and City
Department Of Markets working to-
gether secured the cooperation of the
City Board Of Education to use a certain
number Of the school kitchens as can
ming centres, and $4,000 was voted for
salaries Of domestic science teachers to
supervise the work, plus 81 900 for sup
plies. The Food Commission then agreed
to supply the jars for canning slightly
below cost, and to stand for the break
age, to give the services of six demon
strators to supervise the canning, and
generally to organize and launch the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

with all sorts Of interesting things, from
cashmere shawls to silver snuffboxes
| am not going to enumerate the treas
ures to be found there at ridiculously
low prices. Go in-the buses stop at
the door-and see them for yourself.
During the winter that shop averaged
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

the object of attention from the old
timers. little japanese woman came
timidly into one Of the uptown centres
one day and all the others turned in to
help her through the initial intricacies
Of canning.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

jar she receives refund, and if it is
more she pays the difference. 1t was the
plan of the kitchen to can only one food
a day, and usually this plan is adhered
to, though often a vegetable and fruit
are canned on one daY.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

beautiful tracery. 1t was taken to
Fifth Avenue dealer for appraisal and
was found to be rare old Seventeenth
Century piece worth at least 81, 900.
The society has already received an Of
fer of $3.50 for it, end $3.50 will fit out a
goodly number Of aviators.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

over thousand dollars week, clear
profit.
of silver is unearthed amid the "white
elephants. Such a one was discovered
the other day in the shape of a queer
old silver goblet with graceful lines an(
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Some Community
Features of the Work

p A woman may, of course, bring her
own material and can entirely on her
own account under supervision Of the
teacher, but as a rule the canning is all
done on a community plan, the result of
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Where the Treasure Is
Look for the Heart

1t is planned to swell the ranks u
"The Patriotic Penny" by campaign "
the early fall among the school chlidfeD
throughout the country, for there is j,
reason in the world why every last schO'
child in these United States shouid NV
wear the Lincoln penny and live up "
the pledge that goes with it.
And you should see the long hS'
accomplishments which this organlza'''"
already has to its credit. There is the fs''''
paid monthly, of large house whic" ;,
used as service club for soldiers a".
sailors; fifty thousand cigarettes s'A.
monthly to the wounded in the vat.o1.
military hospitals and outgoing sllps n,tal
chairs and sanitary tables for hosr.,N NV
wards; a pulmotor for one OF tile .snry
camps and countless smaller enlei eS'
needs .f,l
All these material things are us'. .se
and necessary and good to 40. p'. aT'he
moral and patriotic good wnicn i
Patriotic Penny" has wrought si''.s .srse
was founded a little more fha'
months ago is beyond calculation .,.,n of
Why don't you join? Form eIuu usrt
ten or twenty people and become ;, q ..o,s- ave
of the great Stand by America iIs a;.ty
ment. The National Special Aid oosthe the
$50 Fifth Avenue. will send .yon ~ i
badges and pledge cards, and al taa' >
asks is that you live up to your NJ.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
By KATHERINE GLOVER,

1EW YORK has proved that she
can get together over commu-
nifty canning kettle with as much
enthusiasm as any village bounded by
Main Street and the COW pasture
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

made the supreme sacrifice and sent
your greatest treasures to The National
Special Aid Society to be sold to buy
equipment for the men in our flying
corps!
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
A Mother in
Euery Port
By MARTHA GAMBLER

<<"HEY used to say that old salts
had wife in every port, but
they didn't have anything on
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

own city.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-07-19
William WiIkie Collins.

Wilkie Collins. the English novelist,
visited the United States in 1874, and
gave public readings of two of his short
stories. His fame as a novelist cul-
minated with the publication of "The
Woman in White" in 1860, and great
crowds went to see and hear him read
The two stories he read in this country
were 1.-THE Frozen Deep" and "The
Dream Woman" which had not yet
been published. His full name was
William Wilkie Collins. He never
made public or literary use of the vii.
liam, although it was his fathers name.
The father was celebrated painter
of Royal academy fame, and, us Lon
don critic said, "the son describes a
picture as happily as the father paint.
ed it," not meaning that the son de-
scribed painted pictures, but referring
to his graphic style. He wrote BIZ
ography of his father.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-07-19

are large, roomy closets in each room
and special feature of the front room
is the dressing room with a triple mir
ror. All of the closet doors have bevel
plate mirror panels.
The kitchen is fitted with built-in
cooler, bins, wood lift, ironing board
and sundry cupboards. There are no
cut-up moulds or useless trim to catch
dust and make burden for the house
wife to carry.
The exterior finish is spruce siding,
rough side out, stained brown. The
interior Is Douglas fir, stained golden
oak to preserve the figure of the wood.
The dimensions, exclusive of the porch
es, are "a feet by 43 feet.
This is a thoroughly modern design,
which is equally good for the farm, vii
lage, or suburban town. It Is the
story-and-a-half bungalow type that
makes full use Of the space up under
the roof. Some very graceful ideas
are worked into this dwelling, both for
outside ornamental effects and DISPOSE
ton of the space inside. 1t is design
that can be studied with profit by any
prospective home builder.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-07-19
cost little, but not much as compared
with the benefits to be derived.


cost little, but not much as compared
with the benefits to be derived.
Strangely enough, the farm homes
have not kept pace with city homes
with respect to these conveniences, and
this in spite of the fact that the av-
erage farmer can buy and sell the
city dweller several times over. Farm
ers have been just little slow in
taking up with these improvements,
probably because of imagined difficult
ties connected with their installation !;
or because they imagined the expense
would be far more than it really Is.
There has been a great deal of talk
about farm labor-and the shortage
of it. The farmers have been urged
by everybody who can write an article
for the papers. to produce as great a
crop as possible. But there has been
little said about the farmers wife
and what all of this increased prOduc-
ton means to her.
When the farmer himself is hard
pressed, as at harvest time, he can
generally secure additional help to
take care of the crops. He may have
to pay little more than in normal
times, but he secures the additional
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-07-19
BY WILLIAM A. RADFoRD.

There are many good reasons for
building a home and making it entire
" modern, both in its outside appear
ance and in its interior arrangement.
There is pride of ownership which
benefits the entire family, making them
more self-respecting and more to be
taken account Of in the affairs Of the
community. There is the matter Of
sound construction, which keeps down
the coal bills and makes the house
more livable in all kinds Of weather.
an advantage that is not always pos
sible attainment in the rented house.
And then there is the advantage Of
convenience to the family, and espe-
cially the housewife in doing her
work.
We are coming more and more to
give first Importance to this PROPOSE
ton Of convenience in the home. Run
ming water, both hot and cold, base
ment heating plant. modern lighting.
either by electricity or acetylene, and
built-in furniture, are all essential fea-
lures Of really up-to-date residence,
and no one would think of building to-
day without providing for them. They
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-07-19
German Miners Superstitions.

Speaking of miners superstitions, in
Germany the workers underground be-
lieye that the mines are infested by
gnomes that prowl about. filling and
emptying the lodes and engaging in all
sorts of mischief, observes a writer.
If displeased with worker, they are
likely to throw him down ladder or
crush him beneath fragment of rock.
Chief of the Teuton mine gnOmes are
Nickel and Kobold. The former is a
benevolent and helpful goblin, but Ko-
bold is wicked and malevolent. To
propitiate them, two metals, nickel and
cobalt Cloth originally discovered in
Saxony) were named after these sub,
terranean bogies.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-07-19
Are You One OF Them?

There are great many people
who would be very much benefited
by taking Chamberlain's Tablets
for weak or disordered stomach.
Are you one of them? Mrs. M. R.
Scarf, Baldwinsville, N. Y, relates
her experience in the use of these
tablets: 81 had a bad spell with my
stomach about six months ago, and
was troubled for two or three
weeks with gas and severe pains in
the pit of my stomach. Our drug
gist advised me to take Chamber
lain's Tablets. l took a bottle
home and the first dose relieved me
wonderfully. and l kept on taking
them until | was cured" These
tablets do not relieve pain, but
after the pain has been relieved
may prevent its recurrence.