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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

in, my elderly friend opened the
dumbWalter to get her morning milk.
The milk was there, but fianking it
on either side were two small boys
with very red hair, freckled noses,
and beautiful, marble-like bodies as
naked as the day they were born.
And they were both smoking ciga-
rettes. OF course the woman who
had opened the dumbwaiter door
shrieked outright.
"Hey, hush!" bcseeched the larger
of the two. "Wc'll be caught"
''Who on earth are your" asked
my friend.
ave just moved in upstairs" said
the spokesman. "Carrie won't let us
smoke in the kitchen, and mother
won't let us smoke, anyway, so we
have to hide in the dumbwaiter! We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
BY JANE GRAY
b ARENTS must often be most
incomprehensible creatures to

~
their children; and selfish
mothers-for there are selfish moth
ers ARE undoubtedly the most in
comprehensive Of ali to their chill
dren as we'll as to outsiders!
An elderly, motherly woman who
lives in an apartment house far out
in New York has above her a new
neighbor, young mother, very gay
and pretty and musical. She is a
widow, and supports her two chill
dren, boys of eight and ten, very
nicely, but she cannot give them
much intimate attention. That,
however, is not half as bad as the
example she sets them.
She worries about their health
and rightly so, for they arc not
strong. And, Of course, they ought
not to smoke cigarettes so young as
that---but they do!
One morning in the late summer
when thg young woman first movce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
By ELENE FOSTER

HNHERE is knock at the door
and Mrs. Valinski, of Stan
ton Street, leaves her wash
tub, tiptoes to the door so as not
to wake the sleeping baby, warns
the three children playing with bits
of coal on the floor to be quiet.
opens the door a crack and beholds
through the aperture one of the
young women from the neighboring
Settlement.
Good morning, Mrs. Valinski,"
say the young woman in the CHEEKY
voice and with the radiant smile of
the social worker, II have come to
ask you few questions. 1t is for
your own good; you see we are 60
ing to try to help you to get your
house repaired and your rent re-
duced.'
Mrs. Valinski casts a sorrowful
glance at the tub filled with clothes
and another at the clock on the
mantel, then she silently picks up
the crying baby and sinks into
chair with a sigh of resignation.
She has been through this same
ordeal so many times beforel At
first she had implicit faith in the
promises of the social worker that
her condition would be improved if
she answered the questions on the
blue paper, but as time went on
and investigator after investigator
came and went and nothing came
of 1.-THE roof still leaked, the
wastepipe in the sink remained
clogged up, the windows still re-
fused to open and the rent re-
NAMED the same, or increasod-sh
lost faith and endured the visit
with martyr-like submission.
The failure, however, lay not with
the young woman herself nor with
the organization which she repre-
sents, but with the powers higher
up-the legislators who, in most
cases, suggested that the investiga-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Spasns

your offer and serve YOU we'll.
Il can make your apartment look
always cheerful and beautiful and
can cook and bake. Besides, | can
sew for you from the simplest to
the most exquisite gown, also, suits
and coats. l can, also, embroider
the prettiest decorations for YOUR
home and make you the most styl-
lsh hats, in exchange for being in
your intellectual confidence and sur
roundings and receive some re-
enumeration which l do not get from
my aunt who can only supply me
with board.
Il have intentions of entering
college in 2 years and from now on
will get inspiration needed and vet
be at your service with the best |
can do to leave your head free for
writing"
Don't answer that" cried all her
friends. You'll get into trouble if
you try to hire that mutt" warned
the writer's husband.
A series of telephone messages and
letters from the girl thereafter sent
the writer's husband on a little tour
OF investigation. The girl really
needed work. Her aunt kept shabby
boarding house and her uncle was a
baker out of a job. 1t evolved that
he, too, had read the advertisement
and thought he might do if his niece
were not hired! The girl fed on
Laura Jean Libbey and her kind and
made all her own clothes, not badly.
The writer finally hired her. She
stayed three days. They were the
most distressing days that home had
ever known. The girl sang snatches
of German opera at the top of her
lungs all day, and couldn't be in
duced to do the homework. Her idea
OF Remuneration" was SIS a week,
and she stole out of her comfortable
maids room at night to sleep on
sofa in the woman's study, 'to get
inspiration" she said.
Another answer to her advertise
ment appealed to this woman. A lit
tie English housemaid, who wrote
surprisingly pretty hand, said that
she was eighteen years old and
had longed for better position since
first coming to America three and a
half years ago. For two years."
she wrote, 81 have been parlormaid
to lady honor very much. / am
very happy here, but always feel
as if there was more in life than to
be busting all the time. / want to
make way for myself in the world,
if / can"
"Poor creature!'' cried the writ
er. "She shall, if can help!"
The little English maid came. She
was pretty and trim and quick as
lightning in her movements and the
machinery of that apartment began
at once to run on wheels. 1t seemed
ideals
And then, what happened? A
mere American would never guessl
At the end of a month Nellie gave
notice. She was going back to the
lady she honored very much, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
demonstrating Rents
Is a Man-Size Job

This work is being carried on by
the Reconstruction Commission Of
the State of New York, which was
appointed by Governor Smith
shortly after he came into office.
The chairman Of this commission is
Abram |. Elkus, former Ambassa-
dor to Turkey, Who served as coun-
sci for the New York State Factory
Investigating Committee, and its
members are all men and women
who have long been identified with
movements for lettering social and
labor conditions. The following
paragraph from Governor Smiths
message to this commission explains
its duties:
cit is Immediately necessary that
the commission examine carefully
the housing conditions of the state.
There exists among various volun-
tary agencies a large volume of in
formation on the subject of pres
ent conditions and | have no doubt
that these agencies and many others
interested in the housing problem
will be able to offer constructive
recommendations that will give re-
lief. l ask the commission to make
every endeavor to secure the full
est information and, after carefully
studying it, to recommend either
legislative or executive action. The
war made apparent how fundamen-
tai adequate housing is in relation
to labor supply. / am particularly
anxious that we find a solution Of
our housing difficulties that looks
to the future and that programme
may be initiated that will make for
the permanent welfare of the
state"
Acting in accordance with Gov
ernor Smiths suggestion, the COM
mission has called upon the neigh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

she gave her reasons when pressed.
That mistress was a lady. She
preferred working for lady. The
lady never spoke to her, except to
give orders, and she radiated class
distinction. Nellie could net Under
stand the writer's efforts in her be-
half. East is East and West is
West, and never the twain shall
meet" rather sums up her viewpoint.
Whereupon the woman telephoned
a good employment agency. "Send
up good Irish maid" said she. "If
you have one that doesn't care for
reading and drinks a bit, she'll do.
At least she won't want to better her
condition."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

only four small rooms I wondered
where the other family would be
slowed away.
The women of the tenements
have only two plans for meeting
the increase in rent-either they
take in another family and do CO.
operative housekeeping, or they
plan to do some sort of extra
work themselves. If there is no
small child in the family the mother
goes out to work, but if there is a
baby she works at home, finishing
waists for a nearby sweatshop or
making artificial flowers. No Won
der that these overworked women
are crotchety and cross and occa-
sionally vent their misery on their
husbands and children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

the moderate priced apartments of
four or FIVE rooms, which formerly
rented for from $50 to $40 per
month, but which have been raised
to $40 and $50, and plan has been
submitted to the Reconstruction
Commission for building with pri-
vate capital a number of houses
with apartments which shall rent for
the former prices. to be finished
by autumn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Forties and in the Yiddish districts
of the lower East Side families of
from six to nine people live in three
small rooms, only one of which has
any outside light or air. This light
room is used as the family living
room and very often as the par
ents' bedroom, besides. Behind this
there is dark kitchen, lighted only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

loan you helping hand The SER
vice is free. Perhaps women who
have been facing the summer with
dread and despair will find, after
taking the advice offered by the bu-
reau. that their chamber work will
be done by a trained nurse and their
meals prepared by statistician who
loves to cook. Fortunate mortals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Uncle Sam Introduces the Household Assistant
How to Do 1T

not like New York offices during
July and August. I am a Column
bia girl and interested in great
many things. l think that house
work is very attractive under the
right conditions. If you will
write me when | may see you |
shall be glad
Dear Madam: Would like very
much to consider your position as
advertised, if agreeable to you.
Am the daughter of clergy
man and the widow of a lawyer,
we'll educated, conscientious and
refined. Please send me details
of duties required, number of
members in family, etc.
The character of the letters is
quite as striking as their number
All are written in excellent hand
some of them are we'll typed, hard
ly a misspelled word in the lot
Nearly half the writer's say: "This is
just the opportunity l wanted" One
woman said: II wrote an article
about this very plan fifteen years
ago for a woman's magazine"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

vidual advice about her problem,
who is ready for the home assistant
and wishes to get one or two for her
country house this summer, is urged
to go to this bureau. 1t is located
at the United States Employment
Service, 112 West Forty sixth
Street. Inquire for the headquar-
tiers of the committee on home as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Your Rent Goes Up-Tell the Reconstruction Commission

ton be made and who promised all
sorts of improvements and reforms
and who received and pigeon
holed the statements of the investi-
cations and straightway dismissed
the matter from their minds. The
dlsgraceful sanitary conditions of
the tenements, the lack of repair
and the excessive rents can be rem
edied only by legislation, and it looks
as if we were going to get it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
- How Not to Do 1t
An advertising Experience in 7tvo Acute Spasms

a WOMAN writer in Philadel-
~ phia, who really had the
- A cries on the servant ques-
ton and asked only for a superior
young woman who would keep her
apartment fairly orderly, inserted
this advertisement not long ago in
all the city papers:
"Housework: Woman writer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

and kept a portfolio full of them for
future copy. The humans she
hired-there was a procession of
them might very we'll have fur
nished material for a book on "Ser-
wants Not To Be Hired"
The first letter that brought re-
suits to its writer was, I have al
ways said, a unique composition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

entire salary home and give it to
their wives. One dollar a month
may seem very small increase in
rent and one can only realize what
it means to family paying $11
a month by going into the home
and seeing for ones self the squalor
and poverty in which they live. In
the Italian quarter in the East
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

wants a maid in fve-room apart
ment. No washing. Place for ell
derby woman or girl who would ap-
Ireciate leisure for study or read
ing"
She was swamped with replies,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
She Is a
"Home Assistant"

The home assistant who works on
a. business basis for eight hours a
dey, six days week, with extra
pay for overtime, and has her own
independent life, is an employe in a
private home. She is the solution
Of the problem which vexes the
housewife. The opportunity Of
standardized work in the private
home is a welcome one to women
who, for Some reason, are unadjust-
ed to industry or business.
1t looks as if-contrary to all ex-
perience and opinion-the demand
for homework were perhaps as great
as the demand for houseworkers.
These scventy-fvc letters have
proved that there is nothing the
matter with the occupation.
But the housewife must know
how to manage her house on an in
dustrial basis if she expects to Sc
cure superior women for employees
and keep them.
In one Of the Offices Of the United
States Employment Service there is
a bureau in operation which is "put-
ting over" the technique Of such or
ganization. BY lectures, personal
advice and supervision, women who
cannot get servants and who wish
emplogss are being taught how to
get them and how to plan the work
required in their households so as
TO fulfil the necessary conditions.
This bureau il operated by the COM
mittec for home assistants, which
includes in it's personnel representa-
tivcs from the Young Womcn's
| Christian Association, Teachers Col.
lcge, the United States Employ.
mcnt Service, the Womcn's Trade
Union League and progressive
housewives.
The United States
Will Help You
Any housewife who wishen indi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Exodus of the
Well-to-Do

In the files of the Reconstruct
ton Commission there are hundreds
of letters that have been received
from tenants of all classes protest
ing against the increase in rents,
for this profiteering is by no means
confined to the owners of the tene-
ment houses; the tenants of the
palatial apartments on Park and
Madison avenues and on Riverside
Drive are victims as we'll. The
rents in these districts have in
creased from 20 to 80 per cent for
the coming year. These people,
however, have a great advantage
over the dweller in the tenement,
for they have the ready money with
which to move and they are moving
Thoroughly disguised with the ex-
orbitant rents which the agents Of
the high grade apartment houses
are asking, they are buying houses
IN the side streets of the upper East
Side, where they can be free from
the profiteering landlord. / know
of whole block on East Sixty-frst
Street, between Second and Third
avenues, where all the houses have
been bought by former lessees of
high-priced apartments and are be-
ing remodelled for their occupancy.
The same conditions prevail in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

sistants. There an efficient sccre-
tary will register you and give you
lecture dates; an experienced super
visor who has tried the plan and
knows how it works will write your
advertisement, help you select your
assistant, plan your schedule and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Mother Must Sublet or
Go To Work

Sanitary conditions in these tene-
ment houses are probably no worse
to-day than they have been for a
long time, but it seemed to me, as
l made the rounds with several of
these investigators in different Sec
lions of the city on a lovely, sun
shiny spring day last week, that the
children were dirtier, the houses
smellier and the women more sullen
and uncommunicative than on pre-
vious visits. 1t seemed as if a
heavy pail hung over the tenement
districts; there was something
gloomier and more hopeless in the
atmosphere than ever before. After
listening to the first interview
realized that this was not whim of
my imagination; the people, espec-
tally the women, we're plunged in
gloom. 1t was the first of May and
in nine cases out of ten the rent of
the tenement had been raised on
that date. This increase ranged
from 10 to rs per cent, and in rare
cases reached 33 per cent.
An increase in rent means
stricter economy and closer plan
ming for the woman of the family.
1t affects the man indirectly, for as
a rule these fnreiCners hrinor fhoi,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

who have good servants are not ex-
pected to be interested in this ex-
pertinent; there is no attempt to in
terfere with the old regime. But
women who have nobody, whose
only alternative is no service at all,
are cordially invited to meet the
home assistant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

"Der Madam" wrote the girl.
:" I beg to say, that I am 81
years of age. high school gradu-
ate, poor, but there is not a thing
under the sun that I cannot do or
any one more ambitious to accept
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Seventy-hve
Applied

In this month Of May, 1919 AID,
hundreds Of women munition work
ers prefer to remain unemployed
AkAer than return to homework :;
employment bureaus are unable to
supply 30 per cent of their calls
IRON housewives and the servant
problem is apparently insoluble.
se. how many answers did that ad-
vertlsement receive?
twenty-five. Seyenty-fve WON
IN, willing to do homework, willing
- cook, to do chamberwork, to do
anything required Of them except
na laundry. Isn't it amazing?
Not at all, when one reads this
"ad" carefully. 1t is calculated to
appeal to the self-regpecting woman
VI good traditions and businegs
Standards. That it has done so is
apparent 10 any one who has read
sne letters which poured in. Here
are tho Of them:
Dear Madam; Your advertise
henG IN Sunday'g paper Interested
me yery much. have been with
ne Royernment department Of an
s@etfical houae for the last ten
months.
Although like the work, / do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Of all household duties
washing is the most Iabo-
rious. Yet washing can
be made as easy as turn
ing on an electric light.
To-day there is one washing
machine which operates smooth
ly and noiselessly, which elm
mates the tearing rub of the
old-fashioned washboard, which
produces snowy-clean clothes
and which costs but I cents for
an entire washing.
1t does away with the laun-
dress problem-it keeps the
help happy and it is an absolute
boon to the woman who is
forced through lack of help to
do things around her house.
This machine may be seen at
the shop of Walsh-3 f A.
the most unusual electric shop
in New York, dedicated to
comfort and beauty in the
home. For Walsh-3 f IT,
from out the thousands of cleo
trical devices invented yearly,
selects only the most practical.
And YET the prices are no high
or than in a commonplace cleo
trical store.
On Monday, May 5ih,
from nine to five, there
will he a special demon
stration showing this ma
chine in operation.
Dalsh
; f AZ
Electrical Decorations &
Household Conveniences
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Young business woman can
spend three months in cottage on
Maine coast if willing to help with
homework in exchange for room
and board; eight hours a day, six
days week; travelling and Incl
dental expenses paid and SIS a
week additional. Apply by letter
only"
TIME above advertisement ap-
peared a short time ago in
one of the large metropolitan
dailies. 1t was inserted by woman
of peculiar temperament, a woman
to whose stubborn optimism friends
had tried in vain to apply reason.
"My DEAR" they said to her, al
most tearfully, don't you know that
we haven't been able to get any help
Tor months on end, even in town?
We've advertised and advertised,
offered large wages, promised the
earth-all to no avail. Only few
bedraggled biddies ever apply.
You're wasting time and money.
Everybody knows there are no
servants to be hadr
The stubborn one smiled quietly
But / don't want servant.
want an employe and I'm going
to get one. You'll gee"
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-21

Mrs. ]. H. Cassidy, who gave an organ
recital.
Mrs. Cassidy's program contained
three orchestral numbers arranged
for organ, the ever popular grand
march from Tannhauser, the Poet and
Peasant overture and the Beethoven
Symphony Movement, all well adapted
to the Temple organ.
The public was invited. Printed pro-
grams were distributed at the door.
The program was as follows:
March from Tannhauser Wagner
Scherzo Caprice Ward
Mrs. Cassidy.
Thy Kingdom ver------------Gaul
City Temple Concert Choir.
Andante from First Symphony
Beethoven
Mrs. Cassidy.
Pilgrims Chorus -----------Wagner
City Temple Concert Choir.
Serenade -----------------W heeiuoh
Mrs. Cassidy.
Overture to Poet and Peasant -Suppe
Mrs. Cassidy.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-21
Rabbi Believes Bolshevism Will Not
Gain FOOthold Here.

That Bolshevism will never gain a
foothold in the United States because
Of the united spirit and patriotism of
the American people is the belief Of
DR.. Henry Cohen of Galveston, rabbi
Of Temple 'B'Nai Israel, an authority
on immigration questions as well as
psychological instincts of foreigners.
"With reasonable effort the Ameri-
can people could suppress Bolshevis-
tic agitation in its embryonic stage
and completely eradicate all disturb
ances akin to the menace" DR.. Cohen
said. All the American people need to
do is to enforce their laws, and they
will have nothing to fear from Boil
shevism or its allied forces.
"The American people are too de-
voted to their country, are too single
minded to permit their being influen-
ced by Bolshevistic propaganda. They
would fight Bolshevism just as they
combated the armies of the Hun. This
being the case, Bolshevism would be
the last thing to take root here, and
we have little cause to fear any harm
from it."
DR.. Cohen left Saturday night for
Galveston, after having spent three
days here. He addressed the Lions
Club Friday and spoke at a meeting
at Temple Emanuel Friday night and
yesterday morning.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-21
Funeral Notices.

TuHcidl 1NOIiCtS.
The body of Mrs. Sarah Simon, who
died in New York, was brought to
Dallas Tuesday and laid to rest at
Emanuel Cemetery, where services
were conducted by H. S. Scheline. Mrs.
Simon, who formerly lived in Dallas,
is survived by daughter, Mrs. Alex
Wolf of New York; a son, Ed Marks
of New Orleans; sister, Mrs. I. Low
enthal, and brother, Ike Carr of Dal-
las.
The funeral services of Leon Block,
81 years Of age, who died in San An
gelo, November IL, were held from
the residence of DR.. Cecil Block, his
brother. Rabbi George Fox officiated,
burial was in Emanuel Cemetery. Mr..
Block had been i'll for some time and
had gone to San Angelo for his health.
Mr.. Block was a man of sterling quail
tiles as was evidenced by the respon-
sible position which he held at E. M.
Kahn for the past twenty-five years.
Prominent among the Columbian Club
set he was one of the most popular
and well liked young men of the city.
Highly esteemed by all for his kind
and generous nature, his many sor-
rowing friends expressed their sincere
sympathy to the bereaved family by
the many beautiful floral offerings
nations to charity in his memory.