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gentlemen" and purchased a pleas
ant looking shinbone from one of
The chains of grocery-meat market
stores found all over Washington.
Need we explain that the sfinbone
is used ordinarily for soups and
suchlike, and not for roast meat or
slicing? For those who have kept
house it is hardly necessary to add
that Mrs. Washington Housekeeper's
dinner was a failure on this afore-
said occasion. Indeed, it was such a
calamity that she was moved to
write q letter to the chain of stores,
telling them what disappointment
its products were, this partly to re-
lieve her own feelings in the mat
ter and partly to follow her hus-
bands advice about tracing the din
ner deficit to it's lair. There are dis
advantages sometimes in having an
expert auditor paying the bills.
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Home Canning Takes
Kindly to Globe -Trotting

les, we were missionaries and
our work has started around the
world" said Mrs. Davis, with an
apologetic smile for her pride in ac-
compllshment. Through these two
priests, who attended our demonstra-
tions, canning and drying are to he
taught to the people of Syria. (She
showed a kodak picture of two
bearded old men, Through two
young men they will be introduced
into Egypt and much of the food Of
the valley of the Nile may be saved
Through this young woman (taklng
out another picture) the message
will be carried to the French prov.
inces of Algeria.
For the first time in history tho
French Department of Agriculture
published bulletin to be sent to the
men and women Of all the provinces"
DR., Lund and Mrs. Davis wrote
this bulletin and it was translated
and sent out by the French govern
ment.
"No, I should not say that our
work has had time to reach the peo-
PIE of France as whole, but | be-
lieve that when we arrive next sum-
mer we shall find people ready and
eager for the spread of the work"
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Shopping
For Bones

I'm order to get better acquainted
with the situation here I visited
some of the stores in our system. l
found there piles of most tempting
bones, partially stripped of the
meat for hamburg steak and other
demands, placed to one side. In
reply to my question if these ever
were sold l was told that there was
no demand for them. I was sur
prised, for these bones make the
finest kind of soup stock and for 0
cents would furnish the fundamen-
tai for a pot of soup for large
family for, perhaps, more thar one
meal.
"Of course, such large accumula-
ton of bones is not daily occur
renee, but they are to be had in
large quantities on certain days
of the week. Housekeepers should
know these days and plan their
weekly menus accordingly. There
are many points Of this nature
which can give housekeepers, both
old and new, about purchasing. [
expect to have a number Of re-
quests for assistance in budgeting
and will welcome them, because |
have for many years followed a
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wherever she is requested to do so.
The personal service in reply to let
ters sent in to her office will be
large part of her work, both in
answering complaints and in max
ing the replies to requests for ad-
vice on household science.
The thirty-odd stores of the sys-
tenn will be other points of contact
for reaching the women with the
fact that Mrs. King will lecture on
correct buying Of food and it's
preparation. She also plans to
issue, about twice monthly, a bulle-
tin after her own heart, full of
timely recipes, with no editorial
eye but her own to wise the length
or character Of the culinary infor-
nation. This magazine will be
distributed to the housekeepers
through the branch stores and viii
advise them about seasonal pur-
chases and many other ways to cut
the high cost OF living.
II am particularly anxious to
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just ahead of us-the disappearance
OF the servant class, the immense ad-
vances IN cooperative living, the
tremendous increase in servant
eliminating apparatus-probably no
one factor would be of more help in
the undeniably difficult adjustment
period than the cooperation of men.
Men are often better organizers.
more skilled in eliminating useless
movement, quicker to introduce
labor-saving machinery-when the
work is up to them.
1t is your son rather than your
daughter who invents the short cut
IN performing some household chore.
The fact that men have invented
most of the labor-saving machinery
which is of use in the household
is not without significance.
Women have urged in supporting
their demand for equal suffrage
that the woman's Viewpoint was
needed in our political life, the
woman's concern for child welfare.
for the more human, more merciful
Interpretation of laws - and men
have conceded this. Is it possible
that in our years of domestic
transition the application of mascu-
line intelligence and method will
have clarifying effect on some of
our household problems and will
make for a more successful adjust
ment?
Two in the tangled business of
the world,' says the poet. VIII it
be two" in the still more tangled
business of housekeeping in the
servantless home? Will housekeep-
ing become a joint profession?
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turned to New York, where
she will spend the winter doing re-
search work at Columbia University.
She is Mrs. Bernice Carter Davis,
formerly of the United States De-
partment OF Agriculture. Mrs. Da-
Wis is full of enthusiasm for the
work from which she has just re-
turned and believes unreservedly
that the message of the home can
ners will eventually go around the
world.
The members Of the expedition,
all of them home economic experts
with special training and experience
in canning and drying, left last
spring To carry their gospel TO the
French The French Minister OF
Agriculture suggested to the French
mission that American canning
methods would be help in solving
the food problem. Both the French
government and the United States
Department of Agriculture cooper
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budget worked out in my domestic
science classes.
81 hope to demonstrate that q
grocery firm can have a domestic
science bureau with such success
that other cities of the country will
adopt them. There is an unlimited
lleld for the consultant dieti.ian
and household engineer, if one NAV
SO term the work, because If is
broader than the mere preparation
or food for the family table. The
buying end is one of the vital points
now. Although | have been in
Washington such a short time
have learned with much gratifica-
tlon that the women are coming to
realize this, too, and they are seek
ing advice and instruction to i'm
prove any lack they may feel in
their own knowledge of food selec-
ton and purchase.
Mrs. King received most Of her
training in Chicago at the Univer-
sity and the Illinois State College
and has lectured for several years
before the American University
Extension Society in Philadelphia.
She went over to France as the first
woman dietitian to be sent by the
government, one of her popular lect-
lures after her return being about
her experiences among the soldiers
under the caption "In France With
a Frying Pan" She is known ma
through her writings in the
leading women's magazines.
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NsNs ssgw VI. .@g

from the class. However, it was
part Of our programme and we
asked. Every man in the class
wanted to try his hand-and did!
Their wives and all of the women
III their families came to these first
classes and learned what we were
doing just as the men did. A num-
ber of the teachers from the travel
ling domestic science schools of
France were also in the class.
"As in everything in France, the
men are divided from the women.
Even in our lectures and in watch
ing our demonstration the men sat
on. one side of the room and the
women on the other
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An Artistic Pack
Won the Day

"This whole attitude changed on
the third day of our demonstration,
however You see this was the first
time the teachers of France had ever
been called together by the govern
menc. Five or six Of them refused
to leave their families and come to
the ten days Of lectures and demon
stration. The vacation period is
very short in France and they did
not wish to be disturbed.
"But the antagonistic attitude of
the teachers changed. We planned
to ensnare their interest. You know
the artistic temperament Of the
French. Well, we made several
fancy packs. These showed them
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Containers at
SO Gents Fer

The fact that the French have
heretofore done so little home can
ming made the work Of the American
mission more difficult. Also. the
French did not have the materials
with which to do their own canning
on any except the smallest scale.
Jars holding less than one pint cost
fifty cents in France last summer,
and in many places it was simply
impossible for the Gamers TO get
containers for the vegetables after
they were ready to be canned. The
American Gamers gave away all of
their equipment and everything they
could procure. The arrangement has
been made that the same mission
shall go back again next year, and
before leaving France the Americans
made plans for the requisite equip
ment apparatus and cans for can
ning in large quantities which they
We're short Of this year.
"Our first classes were composed
solely of teachers. We had planned
to have them give a demonstration
as part of the course, but the cool
ness of our reception made us hesi-
tate to call for a demonstration
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Enlisting the
Countryside

"Whenever the canning squad
moved to a new place the whole
countryside became interested.
After we had placed our methods
and work before the teachers
Of these agricultural schools and
the domestic science teachers we
gave lessons to some of the older
girls in the house Of refuge for
children of the devastated region.
The only buildings were barracks
and a few rude structures that had
been put up by the Americans.
These young girls came to the bar
racks used for demonstrations and
became enthusiastic Gamers. There
ere American domestic science teach
ers who go about teaching the vii
layers in the devastated region and
they worked with the course.
Another time we taught some Of
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HareIock Ellis, the Noted SocioI0eisk
Declares That His Feilov Men
Are ''DOmestic Purusites''

occupy woman's whole existence!
Is this throne, like SO many others,
to topple?
Una Trailing
Her Knight
So, formerly, was a woman's eco
nomic helplessness an asset III her
feminine charms; her lack of ability
to make her way, her limp depend
ence and appeal to any man who
happened to be around, were evidence
of true womanliness! Una, trailing
her Red Cross Knight, with an ass
and a dwarf by way Of equipment,
was beautifully typical. The modern
woman does no such thing. Brito-
mart, rather than Una, is in the
modern spirit - Britomart, who
donned her armor and did her bat
Ting for herself. The girl of to-
day may still wish to trail her
knight, but she cranks her own
motor, or starts her own aeroplane,
and needs no assistance from any
one.
Female helplessness no longer
wears a halo-observe the Salvation
lassie handing out doughnuts on the
firing line; economic helplessness is
frankly called inefficiency, or at
least unpreparedness. 1t is no
longer even admired by men. Is it
possible that the masculine depend
ence in which, according to Mr.. Ellis,
men have been trained not only by
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that little Henry, as we'll as little
Henrietta, is versed in the art and
practice Of housekeeping? Is it pos
sible that housekeeping will cease
to be one-sex profession-no
longer the exclusive prerogative of
women? Is this to be result of
the tremendous influx Of women into
varied industries?
Yet the domestic arts do not them
selves require abilities that are es-
sentially feminine. Men have ex-
celled in all Of them when they have
chosen to do so. Tailoring, cookery,
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tics and interest in the vote; little
Edwin may quite as we'll have in
herited his mothers passion for
cooking. Wherever and whenever
men have needed to acquire such
skill they have done so easily
enough. Outdoor cooking requires
far more skill than the gas stove
process, yet many men excel in this.
Sailors as class are proverbially
able to shift for themselves in do
mestic matters-and this freedom
of the nautical profession from Mr..
Ellls's charge Of "parastism" is not
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serve, while he cooked the salt-fsh
dinner, every detail of which he had
arranged before leaving for his Of
flee in the morning. Nor would he
leave trail of disorder and a desc
late wake of burned utensils-not
he! Everything must be ship
shape" This same seafaring parent
when ashore could market well, and
did, every Saturday, with skill and
enthusiasm, taking one or two of
the youngsters along that they
might learn the ropes Never did
an employe of his marry but that
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IL N&

M 9TH the completion Of the
w first foreign canning as
signment ever given out by
the United States Department Of
agriculture, the group Of four home
economic workers lent to France
Tor the past summer, has returned
70 this country.
Reports made by the authorities
show that the three series Of demon
stratlons we're highly successful, and
the department has announced that
other countries, impressed with the
work done among the French, are
making Inquiries concerning the
feasibility of their getting the SER
Wees Of similar home canning teams.
The Ministry Of Agriculture Of
france planned the work Of the
american demonstrators to be main
y IN giving instruction TO leaders,
VINO In turn would study the meth
"ns and adapt them to French con-
utlons. 1t was decided to send the
directors Of the French agricultural
~''eges, the professors of botany and
s.'~nlstry and other educators to the
hrst series Of demonstrations. This
klonp was augmented by the wives
VI some Of the college professors and
"ner women who we're permitted to
taks the course.
The demonstration were given
" all u these students, but the
women had their own practice
Periods separate from those allotted
hs men. II had not been thought
mat the men would desire TO act
aaiiy do the canning themselves.
uut when the practice period arrived
asss pro1sssors and directors rolled
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Market Complaints
Answered in Person

The letter of complaint was writ
ten, but the answer was complete
surprise. On the second day after
it was penned an automobile drove
up to the door of the simple little
block house in quiet part of the
city. A comc1y, gray-halred woman
Of substantial appearance sought
out Mrs. Washington Housekeeper
with her complaining letter. The
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~ ATHER startling is the note
~ struck by Mr.. Havelock Ellis

~ ATHER startling is the note
~ struck by Mr.. Havelock Ellis
in recent article. If the
heresy had been voiced by an
ultra- militant suffragist like Miss
Alice Paul, or by an iconoclast like
Mrs. Nation, one might have under
stood it and discounted it a little.
But when a notable sociologist and
psychologist like Mr.. Ellis asserts
that men are "domestically para
1tic" the charge is taken more seri
ously.
The economic parasitism of women
is q thing of which we have heard
enough; it is only of late that it has
lost it's aureole, but that the para
sitism of men, their helpless de-
pendence on their women for home
comfort, should also be stigmatized
is new departure in criticism.
Yet the habit is old enough-it
goes back to the day when Eve gave
Adam the apple instead of bidding
him go to the sidcboard and help
himself.
Hitherto this dependence and help
lessness in supplying creature needs
has been held a mark of greatness
and diademed as an indication of
male superiority-man's mind must
not be vexed by such trifles, though
it may be quite right that they
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the instructors Of the Mutil6s so that
they could go back and teach the
disabled soldiers canning" continued
Mrs. Davis. "Many of the men
liked the work, l have been told,
when they learned how much saving
was accomplished by ii.
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"Be Independent of Your
Women Folks"

A worthy farmer asserted proudly
that his mother had brought him
up to be independent of women
folks"-his cake and pie and pre-
serves could take rank with the most
notable production of the neighbor-
ing housewives, and so we'll did his
mothers prescription against rash
marriage work that he lived in
bachelor contentment at sixty, keep
ing house himself in irreproachable
fashion.
Since women no longer need to
marry for meal ticket or an in
come, is it possible that the day may
come when men will not marry for
a home, because they can arrange
things comfortably for themselves,
without any feminine assistance?
Will that mother be held up to
opprobrium who neglects to teach
her son as well as her daughter
both economic and domestic in
dependence? Will the curricula of
the future give training in home
economics and in child psychology
to boys as we'll as girls, instead of
offering a system of education from
which one might infer that the
young men were all destined to be
cclibates?
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the captain himself gave him
brief first aid" course-taught him
how to make bed properly and set
a room to rights, how to cook a few
simple meals; being Of the opinion
that no man should marry while un-
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Get a Sailor for a Father
And Fire the Cook

l remember household which
ooasted a seafaring parent, and
when Bridget or her associates de-
parted it was father who took the
helm, father who marshalled the
youngsters into the performance of
various household chores, with the
zest and effectiveness of a fire drill;
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Another Job for Mother: Teaching the Bo1

mothers, but by wives-is this to
pass also, as the woman's depend
ence has passed?
Will it be up to mother (and to
father, if competent) to see to it
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y FRANCES DUNCAN MANNING

interior decorating are feminine
enough when practised on a small
scale. Often enough in the past has
little Angelina shown that she has
inherited her fathers zest for poll
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taking the courses and were prac-
ically unknown for home use. The
land sealer had never been seen by
my Of the teacher-pupils in canning;
indeed, it is safe to say that the
French had no idea that tin cans
,ould be used in home canning.
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BY LILY LYKES ROWE

ton. In return, the firm hopes to
get constructive criticism through
the Domestic Science Bureau as to
how it can best serve it's customers
and to create a friendly feeling
among them, Just as the department
store caters to it's clientele through
the postoffice, the writing and read
ing room and numerous other feat
ures which have become a part of
modern merchandising.
Thirty Points
OF Contact
A very definite plan has been
outlined for reaching these Wash
ington housekeepers. Through
churches, clubs and all kinds of
women's organizations word will be
sent that Mrs. King is available for
lectures on all phases of domestic
science. Announcements will be
made through the advertising space
carried by the firm that she will
speak to groups of housekeepers
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up their sleeves and went to work
as enthusiastically as any little
canning club girl in Dixie.
The department believes it is
possible that the American meth
Cd of gaining the confidence of the
rural people by governmental
demonstrations for canning may
form the basis for future county
agent and home demonstration work
in France. The French educators
have all expressed their desire to
have it tried in that country.
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"Meat Marketing
A Main Issue

"Women are not educated to pur-
chase food supplies and must get
this knowledge from books, from
study courses, from lectures or
from hard experience. In these
days of science experience is usual
ly the most expensive and hardest
way of getting such an education.
| knew as little about housekeeping
as any one when | was a new house
keeper, but | made up my mind that
if | could learn algebra, Latin or
Greek from book ] could learn
scientific housekeeping. SO for
many years now [ have studied
domestic science through books,
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through application of such knowl
edge in my daily life and through
courses in schools wherever they
were offered within my reach.
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help the women in the purchase of
meats, because that is the highest
priced item on the food bill just
now and they do make so many
errors in buying" said Mrs. King, in
discussing her new work
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Que to any special endowment, it
Is simply that circumstances have
forced training upon them.
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it was father who would cook
breakfast, where fapjacks or deli
cious broiled mackerel would take
the place Of the worthy and de-
tested cereal. At dinner time he
would bid mother sit back and OBJ
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Men Needed for
Domestic Reconstruction

In the coming years of domestic
reconstruution-which are evidently
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n IRIS. w SHIN TON
lY HOUSEKEEPER was get
ting ready for a very i'm
portant dinner. at which she was to
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why Make Mother Work 1t Out at
Home When Father Learned the
Answer at the Office?

able to meet a situation which fate
might thrust upon him!
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w 9TH the completion Of the
w first foreign canning as
signment ever given out by
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occupy woman's whole existence
Is this throne, like so many others
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-19

your associates. I feel that your fine
ability may again be UTILIZED as a
member Of the Senate. in advancing
the Interests of the nation and the
adm alistration in; that great forum:
"No; President has had a more loy;-
al, a more devoted, or more res
isourceful friend than you have been
to me. Your work as chairman OF
the banking and currency committee
of the House of Representatives, m
connection with the establishment OF
the Federal reserve act, and your
stout support of the administration
at every turn while member OF Inc
House caused us to rely upon you IN
every emergency.
"While your occupancy OF the Of
flee of Secretary Of the Treasury has
been brief, the administration OF It's
affairs under your guidance has
moved forward to the highest levels
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-19
AGAINST. UNION WORKERS
Business Men of Dallas Cannot
Treat With Labor Any

Dallas, Texas, Nov. 13.-Dallas
has the distinction Of being the
first open shop city in the country.
Business men and industrial chiefs,
at meeting yesterday, agreed to
no longer treat with organized un-
ion labor.
Continued and unreasonable de-
mands of labor unions menace the
city's welfare the announcement
said. "We will no longer deal with
organizations that flagrantly break
their contracts.
According to the decision, union
men will have to work with nom
union men if they work at all in
Dallas. 1t was said strikes were
expected, but industrial concerns
were prepared to meet them.
Labor leaders predicted last night
that there would be a general walk
out that would result in complete
tic up and paralysis Of business in
Dallas. They said unions in other
cities might be called upon to- &C
out in sympathy. The building
trades crafts would be called out
Wednesday. they said.