Evening star., 1918-07-28


United States has the biggest COM
mittee of women who ever worked
together. No national campaign can
be won unless every woman is in
formal and does her share. So every
woman is a committee member"
Mrs. Lamar explains that the wom-
ans committee Is an organization,
but not a club. 1t is the machine
through which all clubs in existence
can work and can keep in touch with
complished by the machine" which
has for its parts the state divisions,
the county units and the organiza-
tions in some cities which have been
worked out from wards to precincts
and from precinct to city blocks.
In many rural districts. she says.
the women are organized in small
groups and the leader of such groups
has beat" which includes from ten
to twenty-five families. Through this
system families living far away from
centers are kept in contact with their
responsibilities toward national af-
fairs. AS Mrs. Lamar phrases 1t, "the
woman's committee wants to have e.
speaking acquaintance with every
woman. whether she belongs to q
club. to q church society. a sewing
circle, or whether she is a member
of no organization at all"
President Wilson has a sweet tooth.
things most popu-
Keepinp the lar with the dis
President Fit. man ISIS is good old
fashioned pound cake" the kind that
mother used to make. you know. or
maybe grandmother. says the New
Orleans Picayune. You use a pound
of butter and a pound Of sugar and
a pound Of eggs and a pound Of the
rest of the 'fngrejiencies," as my
Senegambian says. and the only per-
son who has indigestion from the
finished product is doubtless Mr..
Hoover at the very thought Of such
old-time prodigality
The President doesn't go in for
cakes with filings and f1uffs and
things on top. His second partiality
is for little individual cakes or
cookies baked in little fiuted molds
inevitable corn mullins that help to
make Kentucky famous.
It's the presidential consort herself
who chats about her husbands gas
tronomic predictions, the while she
is her own self nibbling on his prefer
eHccS that nearly always HelP 10 iuf
nish forth the tea table at the after
noon affairs Of Mrs. Wilson.
The White House chef naturally
plays up to the boss appetite. An
appetite Is q necessary asset these
crucial times il you have anything
to feed to 1t. And the President
fortunately looks well fed and com
Portable.
And all the credits due to Mrs. Will
son. You can't please his handsome
helpmeet better than to congratulate
her and her personal vigilance upon
the At condition of the PresidesSs
health during these soul-racking
dition is Mrs. Wilson's main war
work. It's the lady's patriotic as we'll
as domestic obligation not to let the
head Of the nation get peaked" and
run down. when every ounce OF his
mental and physical ability is in
urgent requisition.
Il
Secretary Of War Baker recently
Council OF Defense in
Our American Washington, D. c..
and gave q definition
CultWe. of culture as 'the
substance of things We have forgot
ten," says the San Francisco Chron-
fcle.
1--WE are now learning what Amer
lean culture is, and it is in no way
dependent on what we have con-
sciously been doing and learning OF
late. 1t is deeply founded on all that
our ancestors have thought and SUI
fered and done in all our history. The
spirit of every soldier In our Revoiu-
ton and of every soldier on either
side OF our Civil War, who gallantly
gave up his life for his ideals, has
become a part of the culture that is
in each one Of US now.
"In this war we are feeiing Tor tne
first time the strength OF a back
ground of which we had scarcely been
Conscious. For the splendid spirit OF
our men and women today we nave
the whole history of our country 70
thank. Until now we nave not ieit
the need Of such a spirit, but when
ave- need comes, we find 1t is tnte-
grally a part Of US. 1t is the substance
81 the things we have forgotten.
r
sob dearr walled the debutante to
her hostess when the other guests had
filed out and the last
n.11., Tall. khaki-clad officer had
gone down the gravel
the Iale. walk where the cars
we're parked, II suppose have en-
barrassed them, too. by not knowing
lust what rank was which-to say
nothing of my own embarrassment"
she finished. almost in tears.
The debutante had called the colonel
sergeant" and had termed a second
lieutenant major"
"of course, couldn't remember
each name and title when you intro