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Stomach And Liver Troubles.

No end of misery and actual suff-
ering is caused by disorders of the
stomach and liver. and may be avoi-
.ded by the use Of Chamberlain's Tab
let's. Give them trial. Ihey only
cost a duarter.-Adv.
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FURNACE HEKTWzGouIpTpES.
WiraIess end PireIess

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=. . should discard wholesaler
- -retai ilers, appeal to ..huy now. as
| that slogan only means prices
kept up. Buy thriftily and help IN
| nationwide move to force down
prices.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13

Passes," and in place of the corpse
of Ottima's aged husband, lately
murdered, has stood for me-per-
haps dishes to be washed, and Otti-
mas lines have come to mind:
eve must do
You know what-go in and carry
and have felt with the lover, Se-
bald, who says, dreamily:
"What if we let him stay till the
angels take him."
There is no work that has not it's
full share of drudgery perhaps
three-quarters of it is drudgery;
yet any one who loves his work
will cheerfully perform the irksome
three-quarters for the sake of the
happiness in that small part which
is pure joy. But to adopt pro-
fession, to spend ones life on work
that is irksome, and in which, be-
cause of lack of talent, one may have
but Indifferent success, is not noble
its stupid. In the first place, the
work is not well done. Second,
the mental state induced by ones
being a square peg in round hole
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isn't in it with the prospect of house
keeping and no servant.
The Chore That Will
Not Be Cainsaid

| once ran across one or two num-
bers of magazine called "The
Woman Rebel believe the maya
zine is now prescribed. l chiefly re-
member the striking advice that each
woman should be able to "look every
man in the face with {. Go to
u expression in her eyes" How
useful this ability might be in daily
life am not sure, but l doubt not
there is many a woman who, in the
present servantless state, has looked
some especial household chore in the
face with precisely that expression
in the eyes. But the chore doesn't
go. 1t stays.
Waits, and will not go away;
waits, and will not be gainsaid,"
says Mr.. Longfellow. confess that
when contemplating some chore
which ! have wished anywhere than
before me I have thought-the more
shame to me e!-of the lines in "Pippa
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q as a Profes sion

years have gone in for everything
driving ambulances, flying, organiz-
ing relief work, or, like the Salvation
Army lassies, carrying their dough-
nuts and coffee up to the firing lines.
What immense energy! What tre-
mendous "power Of HUSTLE! One
thing that the war proved was
women's immense capacity for work.
The number of neurasthenics that
forgot their ailments and got busy
was proof enough Of the psycholo-
gist's believe that more nerve trou-
bles were caused by energy lacking
an outlet than by the traditional
overwork. The war work presenting
such wide variety, each woman
gravitated naturally toward what
she could do best.
Innumerable are the times that
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it has been said and written of cases
of welded infelicity that all the
trouble was that the wife did not
properly understand the job of
housekeeping. Had she been up
in it as her grandmother was";
"If daughters were only properly
trained in the duties of a wife,
all would have been we'll.
Yet l believe that the reverse is
true; that great number of the
cases. that end up in the Court of
Domestic Relations and numberless
others Of the marriages which have
the more tedious ending Of simple
boredom are non-successes precisely
because Of this insistence on the
idea that, whatever her talents and
inclinations, housekeeping is the
only profession proper to the woman
who has married.
Take the we'll known case of Jane
Welsh Carlyle, for whose professed
unhappiness the luckless Sage Of
Chelsea has been blamed for two
or three generations. She was
brilliant woman, but also a good
housekeeper-apparentlyf felt it up
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to her to do that and nothing else
but had she written a novel, or
edited a magazine as a sideline, and
let some one else who might pos
sibly have had better understand
ing of dietetics run her culinary
affairs, possibly her Thomas's diges-
tion might have been better and
both would have been happy. When
she was getting out a new issue she
would have been serenely uncon-
scious as to whether Thomas were
in an amiable frame Of mind or not
AS it was, his digestion loomed too
large on the domestic horizon.
The mental state Of being tied to
an occupation in which one has
little skill and consequently has
slight interest, the being forced to
let go "by the board" other work
for which one cares, inevitably pro-
duces dissatisfaction with ones self
and with ones environment. It's
enough to queer any partnership, let
alone such an exacting one as mar
riage. Over and over again does man
try the experiment-Mrs. Grundy
applauding-of marrying woman
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working girls with Inexpensive
rooms is that it has no servant prob
lem. Salary must be forgotten by
the employees. There are nineteen
persons working in the Chicago
boarding house, and the average
pay is $3.50 a year-.less than a
dollar day. There is no question
of hours. No day is too long; there
is no such thing as "overtime.' The
members belong to military organ
ization and are under strict rules
and regulations.
Another secret Of the Salvation
Army boarding house is that system
is used in the selection and buying
Of food. Coffee is served at break
fact only, because it is too expensive
for service at each meal. Meats are
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and see for YOURSELF" said the girl
who lived at the Salvation Army
boarding house.
At $3.50 o'clock the girls met and
walked out Of the district of grimy
streets until they reached a small
park. On one side rose the gothic
walls of library, on another the
spires Of churches, and on another
was the brownstone structure that
had once housed an old and fash
ionable club of the city. The girls
turned in at the old clubhouse.
The lobby of grained and carved
oak, the huge fireplace and the big
comfortable chairs spoke welcome.
Merry voices, some bit tired, could
be heard. A Salvation Army ma
tron greeted the girls, and from
some place in the house came the
notes of player piano.
The dining room had once been
the club grill. Upon tables fresh
with clean linen and flowers the
following meal was served: Lamb
stew, fried potatoes, caulf1ower,
salad, pie, tea or milk, relishes,
bread and butter.
After dinner the girls scattered
about the large rooms of the house
and chatted or read until a gong
sounded.
"You don't have to come. 1t is
not in any sense compulsory, but if
you would like to attend prayers,
Join u.s."
In the big library the girls sang
few hymns and a Salvation Army
lass read chapter Of Scripture.
Then there was prayer.
Later the girls went to look over
the rest of the house. Upstairs the
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are about to be married, and who
will be prepared by the conserva-
ton centre to conduct their house
keeping on a scientific basis.
AS the storage of the jars of
fruits and vegetables is often seri-
Gus problem in the small space of a
tenement, free storage will be pro-
vided for these at the conservation
centres. A label with the name of
the Gamer and the contents of the
jar will be pasted on each jar and a
ticket of ownership given to the own
Ell. BY presenting this ticket at any
time she may receive as many of her
jars as she desires. This system has
also another advantage, for it
teaches the housewife to plan ahead
and to use only the amount that she
really needs from her store.
This plan of free storage was
tried out last summer at Jacob Riis
House, and it worked out beautiful
ly except in one case where the
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rooms were light and clean. Down
in the basement the whirr Of an
electric washing machine greeted
them. Girls were washing their
clothes, ironing and drying them.
Next day the girl who had been
war worker moved in. No sooner
was she settled than the matron told
her that the boarding house kept
list of business firms whose man
agenents were known. Within
few days she was successful in get
ting a job with one of these.
The girl has been at the Salvation
Army boarding house for six
months. She now has a single room
and pays $3.50 a week.
One reason the Salvation Army
can meet this situation of helping
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13

CHE came from a small white
- cottaged town on the banks Of
the Illinois River, where twice
a week they have movies in the old
opera house. She never missed a
weekly news film, for the boy who
had kissed her laughing goodby
was toiling through the mud of Sois-
sons and she wanted to see him.
One night he~was thrown on the
screen along with other khaki-clad
heroes. Her patriotism reached
fever heat and the next mornings
train whirled away to Chicago with
another recruit for the vast army
Of lassies who worked for Uncle
Sam to help win the war.
After the armistice was signed
and the government no longer needed
her, there were other jobs aplenty
but none that paid $25 u week.
After laborious figuring, cutting out
restaurant meals, movie shows and
doing part of her own laundry, she
decided that she simply couldn't
make both ends meet on less than
$25 a week.
She felt that she would have to
20 back home within a few days
when she happened to hear one of
her friends talking about boarding
houses. She learned that the Saliva
ton Army ran boarding "home"
where rooms and meals cost from
$3.50 to $3.50 a week.
'Ts it charity?" she asked.
Come to dinner with us tonight
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to work, their services will be of
inestimable value.
Already more than twenty cen
tres have been opened for registra
ton, and more will be added if thew
are needed. Registration began last
Monday and will continue indef.
nitely. Each woman who registers
pays 10 cents as token of her
good faith, and this is placed t,
her credit and helps to pay for her
first jar of fruit or vegetables.
The women pay wholesale pric IS
for the materials and jars which
they use, and both are of the best
quality. The spoilage of the dozens
Of cans of fruit and vegetables
which were put up last year at the
City Canning Kitchen under the
Williamsburg Bridge stands out as
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an awful example Of the results o
using second rate materials.
No More Putting Old
Fruit in New Cans

The directors of the City Can
ming Kitchen were perfectly conf
dent that they could take the fruit
and vegetables that had been dis.
carded by the dealers on the docks
and by sorting them carefully and
preserving them Immediately pro-
duce canned goods of the same
quality as those made of first class
materials. For a time it seemed as
if they were right. The results of
their labors certainly looked deli
cious, and, what is more, they tasted
just as delicious; but the first frost
of the autumn had not fallen before
those long rows of shining glass Jars
began to fizz and sputter-well, in
a manner reminiscent of the good
old days of a month ago. This was
in the nature of a tragedy for the
"And where," said Mrs. East Side
unanimously, "are our can-
ming cenfres?"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13

r%HERE never was case where
in the old saying concerning
J. the proof of the pudding"
was more clearly demonstrated than
!, the present instance--that of the
|, community canning centres. You
will remember that number of
these canning centres were estab-
H.hed last summer in different parts
n the cityCin school kitchens, clubs
and settlement houses, wherever
here was proper equipment-as a
wartime measure for the conserva-
lion Of food. The fact that they are
to be reopened this summer as edu-
cationaI centres, with a pretty fair
prospect of becoming a permanent
part of that branch of our public
service, speaks volumes, does it not,
for the quality of the eating?
The Board of Education
Is Convinced
1t required good deal of "argu-
iying" a year ago to convince the
gentlemen serving on our Board of
Education that it was their duty to
Spen the public school kitchens for
this purpose, and quite bit OF
pressure had to be brought to bear
before they could see their way
clear to making an appropriation
sufficiently large to carry out the
broject. This being the case, there
could certainly be no more illumi-
mating proof of the success of last
years centres than the fact that this
year, without a hint or suggestion
from the outside, this honorable
board has come forward and offered
not only the use of the school kitch-
ems, but whatever money is needed
to pay the running expenses of these
centres, including the salaries of as
many teachers as are necessary to
carry on the work.
Furthermore, the Board of Educa-
ton has sought the cooperation or
the Department of Public Markets
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War Community Canning Centres Bac-And Then Some

body Of women who volunteered
for this service and who wero
known as "The Federal Food Coun
Gill;" acting under the direction of
the Federal Food Board. These
women were asked if they would
be willing to undertake the same
work for the coming summer, anil
every one Of them has accepted the
obligation. AS they are thoroughly
conversant with the conditions in the
various districts in which they are
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
The Apotheosis of the
Kitchen Cabinet

In recent magazine is an elo-
quent advertisement of kitchen
cabinet. A young woman is depicted
In bridal raiment gazing with rapt-
ure on a new kitchen cabinet, the
charms of which are being displayed
to her by another woman, evidently
mother or brand new mother-in-law.
"This will help you to keep young"
says the older woman.
Now the kitchen cabinet is an ad-
mirable one, and the idea of it as a
labor-saving device is sound. If the
girl be housekeeper by choice or
profession, undoubtedly her heart
will leap to greet it, as Words
vorth's to the rainbow in the sky;
but suppose she isn't?
Does her father or her husbands
!ather hand to the joyous groom on
hls wedding morning a bucksaw and
hatchet for chopping kindling, be-
cause these may be needed in his new
character as husband? Many June
bride, especially Of the college crop,
VIII pause before that advertisement
WITH thoughts other than those the
manufacturer intended to convey.
Sae may be pianist or Salvation
army lassie, social uplifter, a
nurse, or a magazine editor. Why
should she greet with joy the tools
ana equipment of an alien profes-
son! viii a surgeon gladly aban-
S'h the scalpel for the bucksaw be-
eeuse ne sees fit to marry? viii a
3"yer turn to a correspondence
0e N dalrying! But if, after the
marriage ceremony, it still doesn't
'"'sfest her, then there is something
wrong with her"-so say some of
'uf "onen's magazines, which are
n'ii more or less early Victorian In
aeir viewpoint.
our friends, the anti-sufragists,
whose interest in the home is in
shse, should concern themselves ac-
a'eiy With the pressing Servant
moniern,' for the idea of assuming
."e responsibility of home during
rue present shortage in home assist
sn1s is epough TO deter any woman
sno does not love kitchen cabinet
.'o'n the perilous undertaking. Az
osssrrent to homemaking the vote
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Canning Is Only the Bait
There Is More to Come

Canning is the bait used to lure
these women to the conservation
centres, but once there they will re-
ceive instruction in many other
branches of housekeeping. They
will be taught, for one thing, to ar
range a meal so that their children
will receive the proper proportion
of tissue-building, BODYBUILDING and
strengthening foods, and after
reading Mrs. Mary Heaton Vorse's
descriptions of the results Of under
nourishment and ignorant feeding
Of the poor, anamic, crippled chill
dren Of Vienna one realizes how i'm
portant this is.
There will be classes in cooking
in which the women will buy the
materials just as they do for the
canning and take it home for the
family's midday or evening meal.
And right here let me say that Miss
Cauble and Miss Schermerhorn have
no idea Of foisting our American
food ideas on the foreign women
who have fully as good and often
decidedly better ones Of their own.
On the contrary, they will take
what is good from the foreign wom-
ems cooking and teach it in the CEN
tres where it is unknown. AS a
matter of fact, some of the most de-
licious preserves and jellies pre-
pared last summer in the canning
centres were those put up by the
Hungarian and Bohemian women at
the City Canning Kitchen from
their own national recipes.
There will also be instruction in
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Salvation Army has been meeting
the problems of the working girl by
caring for her practical needs and
safeguarding her purse at the same
time.
The attached budget shows how
the Salvation Army does it:
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near the same age and class Of
society. For instance, there will
be classes of young married women
who will learn to cook for a small
family; of older women, whose
families are larger, and who, there
fore, must exercise a more rigid
economy; and of young women who
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13

THERE is nothing SO good for
any profession as eliminating
the unfit. This blessing and
regenerating process has at last got
busy with the ancient and honorable
profession Of housekeeping, hither-
to the happy harbor and asylum of
every grade of misfit. And none will
be more benefited by it than thu
misits themselves.
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Everybody
Ready

From the number of requests that
have come to the Board of Educa-
tion for the reopening of the can
ming centres, it is expected that
there will be a much larger attend
ance than that of last year, and the
results of the registration Of appli
cants thus far fully>j justify this ex.
pectation.
The canning centres of last year
were under the supervision of
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chosen that can be served hot or
cold; vegetables that are appetizing
as steaming side dishes or as salads.
The story of the boarding house in
Chicago rs the story of Los Angeles,
San Francisco and ten other cities
in the West and Middle West. The
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because she interests him when she
is doing the thing that interests her.
whether it be teaching, or talking
from soapbox, or nursing, or act
ing in the movies, and straightaway
taking her from her chosen work
and setting her at the alien profess
sion of housekeeping, with "his
coming and his going for an outside
interest. Presently these facts lose
their bright significance; presently,
also, the man begins to wonder why
she IS no longer interesting, and
convention urges her to sink her
identity still further and TRY to
keep up with his interests"
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classes of from fifteen to twenty
each, and so far as possible two
women will work together, buying
their supplies together and helping
each other in the canning. 1t is
hoped that these classes may be
composed of women of somewhere
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poor women of that district, who
had spent hours of their time to
store away that food for the winter
There will most certainly be no
repetition of this experience under
the new regime.
The twenty centres which openel
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usekeepin6e q

reacts unpleasantly on ones family
and fellowship. Moreover, the fact
of being barred from the work one
prefers has disastrous effects on the
nerves-and the results are unpleas-
ant for the family and friends. This
ancient custom, adhered to relig-
iously, of showing all women, what
ever their taste and inclination, into
the profession Of housekeeping, and
insisting that they stay there, is re-
sponsible for more restless daugh-
ters, more discontented wives and
mothers than any other of our
ancient fetiches.
If Jane Carlyle Had Made
Books Instead of Pies
Look at the hundreds and thou
sands of women who the last two
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eiaC uihSiSAe SueS VI siiSal anu ioW
they can be used, but they will be
taken to a neighboring market ani
given practical demonstrations.
How to Get the
Goods to Can
The problem of procuring sup
plies for these conservation CEN
tres is the most difficult one which
the directors have to meet. The
solution which seems to be most
practical, provided the dealers ara
willing to cooperate, is to find "a
first class fruiterer and grocer in
each district who will buy each
day at the same time that he buys
his own supplies whatever is
needed for the conservation cent-e
and deliver these at the centre for
certain small commission, or
10 per cent, of the cost of the goods.
This proposition has been made to
several dealers and they have agreed
to do it.
Of course, better solution still
would be to buy the supplies from
the farmers direct, if only a means
of free transportation could bs
found to bring them to the centres.
Hark We, women of the different
motor corps who are about to re-
tire to civilian life, do you want
to continue the splendid service
which you have been giving to your
country for the last two years?
Here is your opportunity-volun-
teer as motor truck drivers to bring
the fruit and vegetables from the
nearby farms and orchards to our
city conservation centres. 1t won't
be as thrilling as swinging through
the city streets behind the steering
wheel Of an ambulance filled with
wounded soldiers, but it is a use
full and important service, Just The
same. Think it over.
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The Plan Includes Everything,
From Cheap Raw Materials
to Storage for Canned Goods

mother Of the family was sent away
to the country for a fortnight and
discovered on her return that the
children had found her canning
ticket" and had drawn out and
eaten her entire stock of sweet
preserves,
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Conservation Is Only a Nucleus;
Marketing, Food Values and
Cooking Also Taught

for the organization and operation
of these canning centres, which, by
the by. are henceforth to be known
as community conservation CEN
tres and the two departments have
placed the entire project in the
hands of two very efficient women,
Miss Grace f. Schermerhorn, di-
rector of cooking in the New York
public schools, and Miss Laura E.
Cauble, Deputy Commissioners of
Public Markets.
While the canning and preserv-
ing of the fresh fruits and vegc-
tables will be the ostensible func-
ton of these conservation centres,
Miss Cauble and Miss Schermer-
horn have far more comprehensive
plans for them than the mere con-
servation of food. They realize
that the high price of food makes
the choice and use of it serious
daily business, and therefore, in
struction will by no means be linn
tied to canning. The women who
attend the classes will be taught
food values, the proper nutrition
for the children Of the family, and
to buy the proper food and how to
cook it to the best advantage. In
fact, they purpose using the con-
servation centres as means of edu.
eating the women Of the neighbcr-
hood in all the branches of house.
keeping and homemaking.