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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-12-19
Little drops OF water,
Little raisins, too
But Uncle Sam won't let me
Tell you what they'll dol
BY TOM BASHAW
in Herald-Exa
B. L. T. GUESSED WRONG

The Supreme Court upholds the
validity of an ordinance requiring
street car companies in Sacramento
to sprinkle their tracks. This is the
first real victory the vets have won,
and contains the promise of another
equally cheering.-B. L. T. in Chicago
Tribune.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-12-19
CONGRATULATIONS FOR
THE HONORABLE COURT

Goo mornin', y'r honor. Swell
d'cishun of yoursh. Swell day. Swell
night. Swell head. Thanksh awf'iy.
'Rah FIR constitush'n! 'Rah f'r peash!
st. Louis Star Journal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-12-19
False Run1ors

During past months numbess circulated to the
effect that the lid would Many printed by the
newspapers many circulated privately by individuals
claimed positive information that the lid would be off
by certain date.
Now that the Supreme uphoding the law and
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

we have a foreshadowing Of what
Will be most refreshing change to
housewives. The housewife of the
future-and of the near future
will herself do that part Of the care
of her house or her apartment
which she can do best and likes to
do, and the rest she will side
step and put on more compc-
tent shoulders, paying herself the
difference in money earned by her
self in remunerative work at which
she may be skilled. She may make
preserves while the housewife who IS
skilled kindergartner cares Tor
her children. Cooperation of house
wives will be general in the very
near future and the sooner we get
busy about it the better.
In the year 1880 our little sons
or daughters who are now toddlng
about the grass or rolling over and
kicking up their little heels VIII
say:
Really, mother, do you mean 10
say that as late as 1919 all THIS
work was done at home? All the
laundry and cooking and every
thing, just as in my great-great-
grandmother time they spun ana
wove, and made soap, and all that:
That WAS when women couldn't
vote, either. How interesting, And
how-how funny
And we may reply: There was
transition period, my dear, lets
see, about 10 or 20; it was any
thing but funnyv
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Each New Milestone Bears a Promise
For Her Who Can Read

in a garden space which is neces-
sary to his wellbeing and yet near
enough to his mother to be con-
venlently reached whenever she
chooses to look in" upon him.
Medical inspection, education and
training in the nearly forgotten sub
Ject of manners are also included.
No one who has watched the chill
dren of the well-to-do out for their
airings of morning on Riverside
Drive, in the care of irreproachab}v
correct looking nursemaids or gov
ernesses, can doubt that the little
ones would be far happier and bet
ter off playing in such a garden
of childhood as DR.. Montessori
planned. Probably their parents
suppose the children are at play
and "enjoying themselves" MANY
a time one sees them, like luckless
little prisoners. sternly reprimanded d
Tor venturlng 20 stray few steps
to speak to. another child; they are
often made to sit still for hours so
that the nurse may have her gossip
without concerning herself as to
her charges whereabouts. If the
loss of such servitors. joggles or
jolts the mother into making more
intelligent provision for her little
folk-so much the better.
The professors wives at Chicago
University have arranged a CO.
operative nursery and playground
for their youngsters. Each mother
who places her child in the nursery
pays so much for the privilege, or
she may give her time instead. Here
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
When a Clown Says
Milk Is Good It's So

Roars of acquiescence were his
answer, and so he told the story
1t appears that the farmer and his
wife took pity on his ignorance of
country matters and enlightened
him on every perplexing point.
They showed him how the cows
were MIXED and they told him that
at present these animals were work
ing overtime to get milk enough for
the city children, who insisted or
drinking milk instead of tea and
coffee because it makes them grow
tall and strong. This reminded him
that he had had no milk since
breakfast and he must interrupt his
story to take his nourishment, for
milk is a food as we'll as a drink
and he makes it a point to drink
at least a quart a day. He took the
bottle of milk from his basket, re
moved the paper top, wiped the
neck of the bottle carefully with
paper napkin, explaining that he al,
ways did this to any bottle or glass
or cup from which he drank, as one
never knows who used the article
or whether or not they had whoop-
ing cough or measles or mumps or
any other disease that one might
catch. Then, with much joyous
blinking of the eyes and rubbing of
the stomach and wiggling of the
toes, he drank the entire contents
of the bottle.
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Put Up Memorial Tablet, for Bridget
Will Not Be Back

It's not \ strike in the ordinary
sense, where the workers have
certain points they wish conceded
and strike as a means to an end.
Not SO! They simply don't care for
the job. Other jobs are proving and
have proved more remunerative.
The wide range of occupations now
open to women has made house
work optional, rot Hobson's choice.
If women prefer field or factory,
they go there. The interesting feat
ure of the oldtime problem is that
it has suddenly become a general,
not a special, problem. No longer
is it, What shall l do for 8 cook
or waitress or nursemaid?" Not so!
Instead it is, "What is the best
arrangement that we, housekeepers
OF N, or M, or of such and
such street, can make for our
householder"
In book written, it must be.
about fifteen or twenty years ago,
Mrs. Gilman pointed out the absurd
ity Of single block exhibiting each
evening the phenomenon of some
seventy or eighty different little din
ners being cooked and served by at
least seventy or eighty different
women, each having been marketed
for and prepared individually. What
an enormous waste of timsl Pr~h-
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Cho-Cho Says and Cho-Ch0 Knows-By Elene Fo

rot so much from eating too li.l.
as from eating and drinking tbs
wrong kind Of food
All sorts of methods have bee,
tried, with very little success, n
remedy this condition, to indu..
the parents to provide and the chill.
dren to cat the foods that will nom
ish and give them strength. Cha.
Cho, the health clown, howeve,
seems the happy solution Of the de,
fculty, and Cho-Cho and a pair =.
scales, on which each child can BE-
weighed once month, is comb;
ration that will 90 very long wsv
toward bringing about the desired
results.
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The Child Health Organization and the Public Schools
Conspire TO Set Wisdom to Mirth in the
Mouth of CI01Um

ways in the old-fashioned way. And
then he gargles his throat like this,
to get rid of all the dust Of the
street-and next?"
"He takes BATH"
Right again." says the clown,
and you never saw such fun as Cho-
Cho had in his bath, scrubbing him
self and squeezing the sponge over
his head, and getting soap in his
eyes and mouth, and suffering and
laughing all at once. One never
realized that bath could be such
fun.
"And now," said he, as he rubbed
his back with the imaginary towel,
what next?"
"He opens his windows!" came
the chorus.
"Of course" said Cho-Cho, che
opens them at the top and the bot
tom, like this, so that Mr.. Good Air
can come in and Mr.. Bad Air can
go out. And now he drinks a glass
of nice, cold water-he drinks four
Of these every day and this is his
last-mm, nm, it's good! Now he
gets into bed and he tucks the
covers tight under his chin so they
won't get up over his head in the
night and shut out all the good,
fresh air, and the first thing you
know, he's snoring away like this
"And now, before I co." said
Cho-Cho, 'I'm going to show you
q trick. am going to pick plum
out Of the air and change it into an
egg" and amid breathless silence
he performed this miracle. "I must
go now," he said, "but remember
what I've told you, and what Cho-
Cho says Cho-Cho knows. Drink
plenty of milk and eat all the greer
vegetables that you can get
whether you like them or not
they'll make you strong and healthy
Brush your teeth, take plenty OF
baths and sleep with the windows
open, and Cho-Cho says you will
gain half pound month. By, byen
And taking up his impedimenta, he
slowly made his way to the door
kissing his hand and shouting "Good
hy!" at every step.
And you should have heard the
audience cheer and shout and yor
should have seen the waiting throne
on the sidewalk crowd about for &
asst glimpse of the great man. Adeli
NJ Patti or Jenny Lind in the hour ot
her greatest triumph never had a
greater ovation than this, and
. am sure had Cho-Cho lived in the
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proved by standing on the scales
and letting one of the children read
the figures. A whole pound! and
normal child is only supposed to
gain half a pound in a whole month.
He pranced about and laughed with
glee over this glad news.
And then he produced the frying
pan and the coffeepot, which he
brandished in the air as he pranced
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over an imaginary obstacle, nearly
losing his hold on his market bas-
ket, to the unholy Joy of the youth
full spectators.
''EIo. Hop Says Cho-Cho.
almost Lost My Dmner!"

"Ho, hop he roared. "Almost
lost my dinner that time. Those
vegetables are precious. l eat 'em
alive and get big and strong" and
he ambled up the steps in real
clown fashion and made his way to
the auditorium.
They were in the midst of sing
ing "Frenchy, Frenchy" those
twenty-five hundred children, when
suddenly the magic door opened
and as suddenly the singing ceased,
and from every last one of those
twenty-five hundred throats came
the welcoming cry, "Cho- -Cho! Cho-
CHOP
The white figure advanced to the
centre Of the platform by slow
stages, because of continuous
dropping of the various articles
contained in his basket. 1t was the
old, old trick, which never fails to
amuse. In picking up a carrot he
dropped beet and in picking up
the beet he dropped a cabbage, and
SO on; and how those children
laughed! When at last he had de-
posted his burdens safely on the
bench behind him, he turned to
address his audience.
GIVE been to the country since l
saw you folks last" he said, "and
the things in that big basket were
all given to me as presents by a
kind farmer and his wife that
stayed with. I'm city man and the
country was strange to me, so l had
lots to learn. Shall 1 tell you about
nv yisit?''
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er's wife how she cooked it to make
it soft and mushy, and she not only
explained the process to him but
gave him saucerful to sample,
all covered with milk and sugar, and
it pleased him greatly. He found
the eggs, which the hens had laid in
the hay, and learned that there is
as much nourishment in one egg as
there is in good big piece of beef
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
House sekeeping Is Group Problem Now -

ably by 1925 we shall have become
quite accustomed to the solution that
is now being forced upon us by the
exodus of the servant. Each apart
ment house will have its expert
housekeeper, its staff of excellent
cooks, and dinners at each house
holds preferred time will be sent in
with ease and celebrity.
Quite in the spirit of the times
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
By FRANCES DUNCAN MANNIN

to you "sweetly clean "Send your
washing to our laundries and re-
ceive in return leisure for larger
usefulness!' Could anything be
more alluring to hard-pressed
housekeeper?
Presently we shall have concerns
urging us to Tell us what your hus-
band likes and we will cook his
dinner for him, and in the excellence
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n Twenty-Five HUN NDRED
children sat in the auditorium

of a public school the other
s-s~ssxnoon, singing Justify the songs
of our late war, with their eyes
fixed all the while on a closed door
at the right of the stage.
Twenty-Five hundred children Of
ages ranging from four to thirteen,
with here and there baby in arms
whose "little mother" couldn't leave
it alone. Twenty-Five hundred chill
dren aglow with excitement, pa
tiently awaiting the appearance of
an old friend, Cho-Cho, the health
clown.
Outside, the sidewalk and the
entrance to the big building were
crowded with hundreds of other
children who had come too late to
gain admittance to the already
overcrowded hall, waiting to wit
ness the arrival of the great man.
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OUSEKEEPING can no
longer be met as an individ-


ual problem; it has become
a group problem.
If you cannot entice a cook. do not
sewail your lot, gentle reader, nor
aope IN a kind Providence to bless
sou with one, nor, like the modest
author of late popular lyric, urge
he Almighty to "Turn Back the
Universe and Give Me Yesterday"-
trltilng request-nor advertise in
despair, offering automobiles, bank
eTs hours, handsomely furnished
rooms, and the like. Probably in
-uen manner the Egyptians Of
fharaoh's time bewailed the fleeing
lsraelites-their servant class was
migrating and who would do the
housework?
Instead of this confer with YOUR
nelghbors and set about finding a
~'"As"factory substitute for Bridget
SSthe Past. Set up tablet, worship
at the Shrine of Memory-but don't
expect her back,
Your difficulty is not peculiar
difficulty; thousands of housewives
are sharing it with you. For whether
we like it or whether we don't, the
complete reorganization of house,
keeping has begun. And it has be-
gan by fairly general walkout.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Better Than
Charlie Chaplin

Il don't care" said Willy Rosen-
baum, 81 seen him the last time,
only wuz so fur back that /
couldn't see him very good, but I'll
sit a good look at him ter-day, all
tight, all right. hope he brings all
them things with him; maybe he'll
drop 'em like he did last time"
II seen him, too," said Joseph
Morinsky. Gee, my little sister
wuz so scared that she clumb un-
der the seat at first, but when she
heard the other kids all laughin'
she come out an she laughed, too.
He was some hit"
"He's better'n Charlie Chaplin"
was the opinion vouchsafed by Ikey
Einstein.
~ seen him, too," said Rosie
Marinoff, "but my big brother says
he amt a real clown tall, he's jes
q man all whited up"
One shudders to think what would
have happened to doubling Rosie
if an ambulance bearing the in
sigma Of the National League for
Womans Service, and driven by a
young woman in the khaki uniform
of that organization, had not drawn
up to the curb just at that moment.
Here he is! Here he is! Cho-
Cho, Cho-Chow cried the assembled
multitude, and sure enough, a IA
miliar white figure emerged the
rext moment from the back Of the
ambulance There wasn't a shadow
Cf doubt about his authenticity
The first glance was enough to con
vince the most skeptcal that this
was no impOstor, but really, truly
sure -'nough clown, with his white
face, on which glowed the tradi-
tional red spots, with his big white
ruff, full trousers and coat, marked
with the bright red diamonds. In
one hand he carried a metal scale
(such as is used for weighing the
baby and on the other arm a mar
ket basket filled with green vegeta.
bles, from the midst of which
peeped a saucepan and coffeepot
end a pint bottle of milk.
The mere sight of him brought
back the joyful day when one was
young and credulous and sat on the
wooden bleacher and watched the
antics of his prototype in the saw
dust ring below. Oh, he was a sure
'nough clown, there was no doubt
about it.
Hello, childrenw he called as
he alighted from his coach. "Glac
to see you again" And he tripped
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
The Monthly Weighing of
Cho-Cho's Followers

The monthly weighing is mos,
important factor in this work and
the Chld Health Organization j,
doing its best and using all its in
fuence to see that scales are par
Of the equipment of every public
school. The ceremony of "weigbjry
tie baby" is stale and unproftsbls
compared with the excitemen.
which attends the monthly weighing
of Johnny and Jenny, who have rig.
idly lived up to the instruction.
given by Cho-Cho for four long
weeks. They step onto the scales
With their eyes shining and their
hearts pounding with excitement,
and they stand rigid, not moving 50
much as an eyelash, while the
teacher adjusts the weights and
bends over to read the figures, and
if, by chance, those figures exceed
their hopes-if they have gained
more than the desired half a pound
their cup Of JOY is brimming over,
and if, on the other hand, they are
not quite up to the mark, their
guilty consciences remind them of
the coffee which they have drunk
or of the baths which they neg
lected to take, or the green veg
etables which they refused to eat,
end they realize that Cho-Cho was
! rght-one cannot do these things
and still gain his half a pound a
month.
Cho-Cho is very busy these days
going about from one school to an
ether and giving two performances
2 day, and when the vacation
schools are closed he is booked solid
Tor months to come in other cities.
But one clown cannot do all the
work Of the country, and so other
Cho-Chos are being trained to 60
forth to the other cities which are
olamoring for their services, for the
activities of the Child Health Or
ganization are not confined to New
York City or even New York State.
1t is a nationwide campaign. which
they are waging to better the con-
Gition of the boys and girls who are
to constitute the next generation Of
our citizens.
The method used by the Child
Health Organization supplies the
child with an incentive to better
his condition. II puts into his little
heart the desire to grow big and
strong and healthy, and it tells him
Just how to do it. 1t is building
up the next generation of our citi-
zens by giving these children pitts
of wisdom and good advice con-
cealed in a sugar coating of jest
and merriment administered by the
universal favorite of all children
"a real, sure noueh circus clown,
Cho-Cho, the health giver; may his
shadow never grow less
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stes q. The cabbage bed and the
vegetable garden were visited and
he learned that spinach, a vegeta-
bic for which he never cared, CON
tains vast amount of iron, which
makes one strong so that one can win
races and pitch baseballs better
than any of the other fellows in our
gang, and SO on.
So far as one could see there was
very little that Cho-Cho missed in
that short visit to the country, and
when he came home after eating all
the things that make one strong and
healthy, 10 and behold, he had
gained a whole pound, and this he
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

placed it on a chair, yawning and
rubbing his eyes the while.
"What does he do next?' he
asked his audience.
"He brushes his teeth" was the
reply.
"He sure does," answers Cho-
Cho, "and this is how he brushes
them, up and down, up and down,
in the new style, instead of cross
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Hurnanizing
Health Rules

Health NuleS
Are you wondering THAT it's all
about and how far NY .Sory is true,
and if so, why?
To begin with, Cho-Cho is real
clown, who was procured through a
dramatic agency by the Child
Health Organization, christened
with it's initials, c. H. o., and
trained by its director, Sally Lucas
Jean, to give a series of health talks
to the public school children of the
City of New York. The matter was
arranged through the Department
of Physical Education of our pub
lie schools, in cooperation with
Eugene Gibbey, director Of vacation
schools and Fairgrounds. The work
was undertaken as an experiment
to be tried out, not con the dog y
but on the children who attend the
sessions of the vacation schools, for
the purpose of ascertaining whether
or not this would prove an efficient
method of presenting the few
! necessary, elementary rules of
health, so that these children would
be stimulated to follow them Of
their own volition. There are eight
of these rules laid down by the
Child Health Organization, which
are as follows:
A full bath oftener than once q,
week.
Brushing the teeth at least once
every day.
Sleeping long hours with lcin-
doWs open.
Drinking as much milk as pos
sibIe, but no tea or coffee.
Eating some vegetables or fruit
every day.
Drinking at least four glasses Of
lcater every day.
Playing part Of every day out of
doors.
A bowel Increment every morn
ing.
The Child Health Organization is
only year old and yet it has al
ready done a vast amount toward
improving the health of the chill
dren in our public schools. The
draft examinations are Indirectly re-
sponsible for its existence, for
these showed so clearly the results
Of neglect and malnutrition of the
children of the last generation that
those who were interested in the
subject Of child welfare were con-
vinced that drastic measures we're
necessary if the next generation
were to grow up into healthy, use
full citizens. And so the Child
Health Organization was formed,
with DR.. L. Emmett Holt, a famous
child specialist, at it's head, and With
Miss Sally Lucas Jean, a most en-
thusiastic and efficient worker, as
its director.
The work which is being done in
the vacation schools has the hearty
cooperation Of Dr. Josephine Baker
who is at the head of the child vel
fare bureau Of our Health Depart
ment. DR.. Baker stood beside me
the other afternoon and witnessed
Cho-Cho's performance with tears
Of JOY running down her cheeks.
1t is a fact that at least IS per
cent of our children to-day are suf-
ferlng from malnutrition, resulting
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of our little dinners for two he will
even forget how mother used to
cook"
Are your children delicate? Our
childrens meals are prepared under
the supervision of expert dietitians.
We know exactly how their food
should be prepared"
AT what hour do you wish your
apartment put to rights? Our house
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

wives aids are at your service" 8"
There is far more in DR.. Montes-
SORTS idea than the ease by which
the great Italian educator could stow
academic information away in young
heads. Its big social slgnifi-
cance has never been rightly
valued. Suppose we should take
her suggestion in the new housing
that must come and build in every
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Away With the Cofeepot
And on With the Spinach

Continuing his story, he told Of
the field of oats from which the
farmer explained that oatmeal was
made, and he inquired of the farm
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days of horsedrawn vehicles the
animals would have been removed
from the shafts and the hero borne
to his destination by his devoted
admirers.
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plock such provision for children as
she made in her Casa Bambini at
Rome-it's reasonable to suppose
that there may be children in city
residential blocks as we'll as in tene-
ment blocks. Here a child is cared
for from early, morning until bedtime
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Going to Bed
In Proper Wise

Then he varied his performance
by giving a side-splitting imitation
Of a boy going to bed. He un-
dressed with great care and care
fully folded each garment and
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about, declaring that they were the
deadly enemies Of all children, and
the only thing that should be put
in them was holes. Nothing cooked
in d frying pan or a coffeepot was
fit for any child to take into his
system, and he hurled them from
him in a rage
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is The advertisement of laundry
machinery company "Pack your
troubles in laundry bag" And
IN melllfluous language it describes
the perfect processes which safe
guard your linen and your dainticst
OF lingerie until it is brought back