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New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

ored coat which made me and every
body who looked at me Chat is, the
mem happy all day. my female friends
refused to be seen on the street with
me in said coat; they said ] dressed like
a chorus girl; they said | was commons
they said | only did it to attract at
tSation, and since | really w2s at heart
a lady, why not dress like one and stop
being affected? And they added that if
| knew what people said about me be-
hind my back and how it hurt them (my
friends) | would stop it just to please
them.
Now, ! have so much to say about
all this that emotion chokes ne and |
know not where to begin. Where,
asked myself, did these women get their
drab standards and their pathetic self
conscious fear lest they would not be
labelled all over as ladics-~and why, for
that matter, this fearful desire to be a
lady? However, that's another story.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
By ELENE FOSTER

rSHREE soldiers just back from
overseas were sauntering along
East Fifteenth Street the other
morning when their attention was at
+racted by three flags that hung above
tbe door of a brownstone house facing
stuvvesant Square. The Stars and
str;nes YVES in the centre, nanked on one
side BY the white and red banner Of the
Rcd Cross and on tho other by the dark
blue Of the Salvation Army.
"Eats!" exclaimed tho first soldier.
"Doughnuts" said the second.
nMe for thatw said the third, and
With one accord they turned in at the
basement door A door at the left
opened into q big warm kitchen, where
several women III long pinafores with
the red and gold insignia Of the Saliva
tion Army on their collars were bust
ling about making preparations for the
midday meal. They looked up from
their work at the sound Of footsteps.
Good morning, boysl" said they.
"Good morning, sisters!" replied the
soldiers, seating themselves at a long
table which seemed to have been placed
especially for them in front of the win
dows. GLOW goes everything?" and they
proceeded to take off their coats and
make themselves at home.
"Huugry?" asked one of the women.
'Betcherlfe," was the reply.
"The big parade yesterday cleaned
us out of doughnuts, but how would
you like nice apple pie just from the
oven and cup of coffee?"
"You've said it," was the answer
The coffee and pie were placed before
them, and inside of three minutes not
drop of the one or a crumb of the other
remained to tell the tale.
Great eats" was the verdict.
Drop in again" said the adjutant in
charge, "and we'll have some doughnuts
for you"
The three musketeers expressed their
gratitude, shook hands all around and
departed, utterly oblivious Of the fact
that the room was not a soldiers can
teen but the kitchen of the new Booth
Memorial Hospital for Women and Chill
dren.
The Salvation Army flag meant "eats"
to those three soldiers, because they,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
"Out of Love- Days
Means In Love Here

Poor little tads," confded to Colonel
Bown, Il suppose they are placed in an
institution when they leave here"
"Not at ALL" she replied. Gone of the
objects for which we strive is to keep the
mother and child together. 1t is not only
better for the child, but it has the best
KIND of restraining influence on the
young mother. AS soon as they feel that
the mother is strong enough, physically
and morally, to leave the home we find
her position where she can keep the
child with her, preferably in the country,
for there are fewer temptations there
for the mother and healthier conditions
for the child"
Don't you find that women object to
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cloth suit-no trimming on it except the
5000, and little boyish cut to the skirt
which you can only get at that price;
then she buys modest little crepe tur-
ban-also with nothing on it, and costing
about $50 as consequence; then she
buys set Of collars and cuffs, so sheer
that you can see through them and alb
solutely as plain as a mans shirt front;
these she attaches to the broadcloth suit;
then she goes to a beauty paror, and
comes out with her eyebrows as thin as
razor and her hair in two neat and
iridescent packages, just showing un-
dcrneath her plain little black turban:
no human being can compete with that
girl when thus arrayed; her consum-
mate simplicity makes every one else
look cheap and tawdry and she is easily
the best dressed woman in any COM
munity she happens to walk into.
hand it to her, as | am sure cvcrv one
else does in the bottom of their hearts;
but the terrible tragedy is that it looks
so easy that every woman, when first
she gllmpses this get-up, thinks: "Pooh,
IS that all? I'll bet I can do that"
AND she spends the next fifteen years
finding out that she can't do it to save
her life under $500 a month.
Now, may be wrong, but think that
the effort Of the average woman with an
average pockctbook to look like that So
ciety girl is national tragedy.
She achieves the drabness without the
simplicity; she gets the combination of
gloomy black without any of the rich
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
The Home and the Hospital
Mother and Child

Il have talked to you great deal"
she continued, "about our home, when YOU
really came to see me about the new
Booth Hospital, did you not? That is be-
cause | never think of the two as sepa-
rate; the one grew out of the needs of
the other and | cannot separate them III
my thoughts. I am SO thankful to be
able to give to other young mothers
through the added facilities of the new
hospital the same loving care and atten-
ton that are given to our own girls. 1t
is big undertaking financially for us,
but we feel confident that we shall be
able to swing it; faith and hone and hard
work are bound to win the day"
And the fathers and mothers. brothers
and sisters, sweethearts and wives of the
men who are coming back from overseas
singing the praises Of the Salvation las
sizes who fed them and mothered them
when they were in dire need of food and
care will see to it, mark my word. that
the work of the Salvation Army shall
not suffer for lack Of funds.
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her checks and her chin and her lips
always in tip-top color One day while
she was hanging around a sailor boy
brought his mother into our hostess
house. She was a dear little old lady,
from upstate somewhere, | should think,
and OH so prim! While she sat stiffiy
on chair, with her boy beside her, our
elegant driver took out a nice mirror
from one pocket of her uniform, and
little powder box, and proceeded to touch
up her nose. | wish you could have seen
the gob's darling mother Her eyes
were like saucers
"Then our wonderful creature went
forth-I've no doubt to go on duty for
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rail and soft buff above, and the floors
are of buff colored linoleum. Three
graduate nurses are in charge, assisted
by any number of aids recruited from
the ranks of the Salvation Army volun-
teer workers. Celebrated surgeons act
on the consulting board Of the hospital
and often perform operations in its
fresh. white operating rooms, which,
with the sterilizing plant and labora-
tories, occupy the top floor Of the
building Each floor has It's own diet
kitchen, supply and linen room and
broom closet There is n lift and every
convenience that one would find in any
other well-equipped hospital
But when all is said and done, | must
confess that there is one particular floor
in that immaculate new building which
interested me more than all the rest of
it put together, and this was the one
devoted to the babies. There are long
rows Of white iron cribs, with spotless
bedcovers and white blankets bound with
blue ribbon, and nearly every one holding
a little atom Of humanity, all as fresh
and clean and healthy, and apparently as
happy, as any pampered darling of up
per Fifth Avenue. They were of all
ages, from two weeks to eight or nine
months, and they laid there kicking their
feet, sucking their thumbs and gurgling
with contentment, in orthodox style.
The end of the room was cut off from
the rest by wooden railing, and this
formed a playroom for those who were
old enough to toddle about Here two
Salvation Army lassies are in charge,
teaching the children to use the blocks
and rocking horses and other toys pro-
vided for their amusement.
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DO Drab Colored
Clothes Make a Lady?

10 begin with, it has taught US the
value Of bright colors. Before the war
used TO 20 to charming club where
society buds and little chorus ladies and
other Of life's ornaments went to dance
every afternoon from 5 till z, and this
"eihg nay only chance to observe the So
elety bud at work / used to keep nv
eyes open, especially to see what they
wore.
ana when l saw what they wore q
great light dawned upon me, and /
Knew for the first time what the matter
70 with American women's clothes.
"nen walk along the streets of our
great city / continually am oppressed
W sne dulnegs and drabness Of wom-
shS Clothes; / mean the average woman
'he sees on the street. Why. in
sparkling city full Of purple posters
aha waving flags and silver sunlight, do
"'s women dress in dull grays and dirty
Dfpwfe and shabby blacks? I asked N.Y.
~. And when shook off this OBJ
'sssiofa and bought myself cherry COL
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employing these girls in their homes?'
inquired
Every seldom" was the answer; "there
is not the feeling about these poor un-
fortunates that there was twenty years
ago. usually have more positions than
| can fill. You see, the housewife pays
less for the service of these women be-
cause of the baby, and the girls are less
liable to want to change than a woman
without membranes would be. am
very careful not to send girl into SER
vice until ! am sure that her feet are
firmly planted on the strait and mar
row path. | watch over them carefully
even after they leave the home
"You happened in on one of our Out
of Love- days. Once month my girls
come back to me, out of love- for the
home, and we have a happy reunion. In
few minutes they will begin to set up
the big tables in the drawing for
our monthly supper. After supper we
have a social hour and then a short re-
igious meeting and real good old
fashioned sing. 1t is really like coming
home to the girls; as a matter of fact it
is the only home that is open to many of
them for many of the parents refuse to
forgive the daughter for her one misstep.
They bring their children with them on
these Out of Love days, and l feel like
real grandmother"
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"Oh, yes!" said he. "The girls and
women who make up in public You
know. In twenty blocks down Fifth Ave
nue. saw twelve women inside of
buses powdering their noses, and eigh-
teen on top. | was in a taxicab, so |
missed some, l know.
"Then | got into bus, and twelve
women passing me in their cars were
using lip sticks. Must be an awful nui-
sance under a veil, hey, what?"
"Well," admitted the girl, at has to
be done-when one has time"
ooh! Plenty of time, now that the
war is over" cried he. 81 lunched at
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
CapitaHzirag the
Backyard
By CoRINNE UPDEGRAFF WELLS

Dy (ONAANANL Ot Dl-1NAtF WELD
a YOUNG woman obliged to re-
~ main at home to care for an
aged father and mother earned
some pin money and made herself a
blessing to the community by caring for
her neighbors' small children.
One morning neighbor asked the
young woman if she would look after her
little boy until she returned from the
dentist, adding: "He will amuse himself
and be perfectly safe IN your beautiful
backyard" That gave the girl the in
spiration for starting her little enter
prise. She believed she could secure a
number of children to care for each day.
The yard was large, had several shade
trees, plenty of grass and flowers and a.
grape arbor under which swings and ham,
mocks could be hung. 1t was inclosed by
high fence and a gate that would lock.
After formulating her plan, she asked
several women in the neighborhood if
they would allow her to care for their
children under school age, either in the
morning or afternoon Of each week day.
at moderate rate. Several delighted
mothers agreed at once, so that the young
woman felt justified in adding a sand
box and several pals, shovels and sets of
tin mSulds to the other backward at
fractions. She agreed to give the chill
dren crackers and milk in the middle of
the morning and afternoon and to call
for and return those whose parents had
no convenient way of sending them. The
girls mother and father were able to
look after the tots while she was busy
borrowing and returning others.
The mothers who did not care to send
their children regularly were glad to
avail themselves of the convenience dur
ing especially busy seasons, when their
time was occupied with house cleaning,
canning, sewing. ETC., or when there was
illness IN the family. Any woman, young
or olds married or single, who loves chill
dren ;snd has yard could do this. be-
cause in every neighborhood there are
mothers who would be glAd to have as
sistance of this kind occasionally.
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zee'"g Emergencies and Long, Steady Building Are Both
Salvation Army Specialties

SO that the young mothers could be
taken care of and the babies be brought
into the world in the privacy of the
home. This arrangement proved such
blessing to those unfortunate girls that
Colonel Bown longed to help solve the
purpose Of happier women who find It
difficult to meet the financial demands
OF the stork. So she began to plan and
work for the real Salvation Army Hos
ptn.
knowing the slender resources Of the
army, | asked where the money came
from to run the home and whore she
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
CheerfuIly, Cheaply Gay
IF Not Expensively Elegant

How much cleverer if she would say
"Go to; if can't be elegant can at
least be gay; I am not society bud.
why must | dress like one?" A new
world would at once open to her--a
world of cheap, gay fabrics which, if
she had a grain of ingenuity, she could
devise into pretty, neat feminine clothes
which would make her a pleasure to the
eye instead Of the pain which she now is.
"Yes,' hear you say "and come out
in baggy Greenwich Village effects and
be labelled a freak"
Not at ALL why will people always go
for their hints in clothes to those who
cannot learn how to dress? Go to the
chorus girl. She knows how, and dresses
better on 10 cents than you do this mo-
ment on $50. She has to dress we'll;
it's her business in life, and she couldn't
get a job if she didn't Go and study
her; take a walk up Broadway, and find
out why it is your husband never will
walk home from work along Fifth Ave-
nue., but makes long detour from the
office, across Forty-second Street and
then down.
He does this because he prefers to
see pretty, we'll groomed faces and heads
of hair topping green and lavender
shirtwaists on his homeward route than
to see sallow ladies swathed in wells
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

plea, and demanding that the members
of your family stand for it indefinitely.
True, the men wear dark colors. but
their clothes have always the distinction
OF being uniform, and a uniform is
always an interesting thing. Women
have not even been clever enough to do
this The young society girl has; what
she wears is almost uniform; that is
why 1t is so good and so interesting.
There is no excuse for the fact that
the average woman looks like a we'll
bred ragbag; her clothes lack spirit and
reason-why?
Because she expresses in her clothes
neither reason nor pleasure. True, these
two do not often 20 together but if we
can't obey both let us at least observe
the dictates of one or the other.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
A Census of ''Powder Puff Hounds"

HNHERE is an Englishman, gassed
at Loos, who came over to this
country on some mission, and is
here yet. 1t doesn't quite matter WHY.
put nc likes us and he may stay very
long time.
lie is very emphatic about the war
pelng over. "lt is, you know" he says.
When some of his American girl friends
are on duty driving ambulances or work.
ing long hours in canteens, he reminds
them that their work ought to be over.
for the war is. If you corner him. and
argue, ne sighs and says it is lonely
for one Englshman.
He dropped in to tea with one of the
girls who had been driving wounded SOL
diers about the city. She was very
tired, but the Loos victim likes tea
with her.
what did you do all day." she asked.
I'VE had what you call over here q
thrilling time," said he. ave been rid
ing in taxicabs and buses and sitting
around hotel peacock alleys making a
ccnsus OF powder puff hounds. If
were woman ! could do it better"
Am ] sure what powder puff hound
is?" asked his hostess.
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white beds in each, and a number of
private rooms. The wards are free to
inmates of the Womens Rescue Home
and to other poor women who are rec
commended by the physicians in charge.
The private rooms, which, by the way,
are the daintiest and checricst places
imaginable, are kept for the paying
patients, who as Colonel Bown expresses
it, arc of "thc intermediate classes"
and can afford to pay reasonable price
for the care and attention which they
receive. The price of these rooms is
$40 week, exclusive Of medical attend
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we'll, at a we'll known place, and every
woman | saw at table there had time
to powder her nose before and after
eating-and sometimes between; and the
majority remembered that they had lips,
after eating. l counted twenty-one who
rouged their cheeks right while l looked
at them!"
'It-doesn't quite seem in good taste,
does it,"
ooh, Of course-taste" shrugged the
Engishman.
"That makes me think of something,"
gurged his hostess. "We've got won
derful creature in our corps l don't
know how she does it.! But she keeps
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came true and the house at the other
side of the original one, No. 314, was
procured and remodelled and named for
the founder of the great organization,
"The Booth Memorial Hospital" and
less than month ago it threw open it's
doors.
The hospital staff consists of five
women doctors and three consulting ply
sicians In association with the Red
Cross it conducts, in the basement of the
building, free clinic and dispensary
for the families of men in the service.
There are three wards, with eight neat
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like mummies and swimming along
the avenue shrouded in genteel black.
The man is human; yet I dare say that
if you took him shopping and asked him
to tell you honest and truly which does
he like best on you, the blue crepe de
shine-chene (can't spell it)-with the
purple border, or the nice little black
mohair, he is so we'll trained that he will
say, Il think the black is more refined,
don't you?"
Don't believe him; he lies; he really
likes the blue and purple cloth better,
but, Like yourself, he hasn't the nerve
to say SOL
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
The Demure but Expensive
Debutante Sets the Style

Then, as | told you, I went to the lit
tie dancing club and saw the d6butante,
and all was suddenly made clear to me.
All these women are trying to dress
like the debutante, and that is what is
the matter with their taste and their
standards.
Now, frankly confess that the Amer
lean society girl is very clever What
does she do? She buys, for 5000 or $500,
an absolutely plain little black broad
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Wanted: Sixty-hve Volunteers
To Wear Cherry Red

If women would take the initiative in
this matter Of wearing bright colors in
the street and in the Offices where they
work they would be contributing some
thing to the gayety of this nation, which
they never will so long as they struggle
on with the refined and ladylike idea.
If sixty-fve ladies would agree to
go out upon the Avenue in cherry colored
coats all the timid souls who now wear
black would begin to initiate them, and
pretty soon it would become known in
the best circles that ladies this spring
are dressing in the color of cherries
and there you are.
DO you think you could persuade any
soldier boy to give up his khaki suit
because it showed the dirt quicker than
his old black one? Yet you are dressing
like an old woman of sixty on that very
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
By WINIFRED DUNCAN WARD


nEFORE the war it was left to the
II Salvation Army and the sales
ladies' of the department stores
and the mattresses in a few restau-
rants to know the glory of a unifor-a-
Now everybody knows about it, and the
great postwar struggle is going to be
how to keep our women and young girls
in clothes so nearly like a uniform that
every one in the street will still turn
around to look at them.
Woman has found out that you can
do things in blue collar with a gold
anchor entwined with silver serpent
that you couldn't possibly get away
with in any other costume-the great
problem being how to keep the game
gong now that the game is up, as it
were.
We do not doubt that the Paris and
American dressmakers will solve the
problem if given time but in the in
terim and since we cannot all belong to
the National League for Woman's Ser
vice. what is TO be done? They also
serve who only stand and wait; but can
America be going to ask US to stand and
wait in our last years suit? No, we
cannot face anything like that. Let us
see what the war has really taught
women about clothes, and let us profit
by it Instantly, thus getting ahead of
the dressmakers.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Hats OFF Once More
To the Salvation Army

In point of fact, believe that ninety
nine out Of a hundred citizens Of this
enlightened country owe the Salvation
Army an abjcct apology for having mis-
judged it, and ! hereby humbly tender
mine.
1t took tho great World War to open
our eyes to tho fact that the Salvation
Army is vital force in the community;
it needed the testimony Of our return
ing heroes to convince us that its activi-
ties we're by no means confined to stand
ing on the street corners and singing
hymns.
The Salvation Army has been plod-
ding steadily along for the last thirty
years, never seeking publicity, making
no public appeal for funds-except once
year, when it makes it's collection for
the children's Christmas celebration
and it is only when something like the
opening Of the new hospital brings it
before the public that we realize some
thing of the good that it is doing.
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expected to get enough to finance the
new hospital. She smiled at the question
and replied:
"We had just 500 to start the work
when we moved the home into SIG, but
with faith and prayer, and steady, hard
work, one can accomplish anything."
The running expenses of the home
were reduced to minimum by using
only volunteer labor. The girls do all
the work, under the direction of the
supervising housekeeper, Adiutant Jen-
sen, who has worked under Colonel
Bown for the whole twelve years that
she has been at the helm. This serves
a double purpose, for it not only saves
paying for labor, but it fits the workers
for domestic service when they leave
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Booth Memorial Hospital for Women and Children

like all the rest of the community (or
at least the great majority Of the COM
munity), know absolutely nothing of the
constructive work which the Salvation
Army has been doing, quietly and eff
ciently, for the last thirtY-odd years.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Holding "the Long Purpose
Like q Growing Tree

The Booth Memorial Hospital has
been long, long time ''in the making"
so to speak. It is the realization of a
dream which the officers of the organi-
zation have had for the last twenty
years and for which they have been
steadily working all that time, namely,
the establishment of a Salvation Army
Hospital in connection with the Women's
Rescue Home.
Twenty years ago the Salvation Army
established on the East Side of the
city small home for wayward girls.
In course of time the home outgrew it's
quarters, and twelve years ago it moved
to the brownstone house which it still
occupies at 316 East Fifteenth Street
Colonel Bown, an Englishwoman Of wide
experience in the management of young
women, was put in charge, and she still
remains in that position. Seven years
ago the adjacent house, that is No. 314,
vas added to the home to provide sleep
no quarters for the constantly increas-
no number Of inmates and to allow of
one floor being fitted up as hospital