The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-24
AN ECONOMICAL CozY NEST

ana WISH CnaI you were 1ldIIl6u
too?
And look over your salary and bank
| account.
And decide that you couldn't.
Well, you want to bring this story
right over to the only girl and tell her
your dream of the coy little nest and
| its fireplace and its rose colored lamp
| and blue dining room and all. How is
this story going to help? Well--lt's
| like this-it will tell her how to make
that little pay envelope of yours stretch
| over all the bills that the t1rst OF the
month brings around. Now, don't spoil
the romance of it and say that news
paper story can never solve your prob
| 1em-'cause it can.
First tell her that you love her.
Then-well you might give her the
ring.
After that let her keep Wednesday
afternoons for her very own and go
down to the Gas Co. on Crown street
and upstairs. to the lecture hall and
listen to Miss Hawkins.
She'll see a modern kitchen.
She'll be told what to give you to eat
that won't make you have to buy pep
sin tablets.
She'll be shown how to cook it.
She'll be told some little ways of saw
/ ing pennies that soon make the pennies
saved amount into dollars and pave the
way for that bungalow in the suburbs
or the new automobile.
Mr.. Ewes of Tie advertising depart
ment decided to have Miss Hawkins
comes here and tell the only girls how
to make the bestest boys the happlest
| men alive Of course she tells some
older women and some who aren't only
1 90 IL h,<< Of al ch RI
| And MANY a cozy little nest in New
Haven can thank Miss Hawkins for her
valuable suggestions and Mr.. Ewes for
| his forethought in having her here.
Not so many years ago way out West
/ in Indianapolis, Mr.. Ewes had several
classes of this sort. He had one in a
| school for hayward girls and it was the
| biggest success he had-one of those
successes of which he will never cease
to be proud and glad. If you could
see some of the dear precious letters he
! has tucked away in a special drawer
of his desk, you would know just how
much of a success his classes were.
Many of these girls who would other
wise have had no means of livelihood
after being dismissed from the school
are at present earning a good and hon
est living as cooks in homes. Isn't it
worth while to have had classes like
these?
And many times he had classes in
churches-c1asses which had mothers
from the slums, only girls from the
factories, women from the middle class
homes and wives in silks and furs-all
bent in learning how to make the one
man happier. Lucky Mr.. Ewes to have
smiles to so many supper tables. After
all smile to begin meal is a great
thing. And what would be more apt to
bring a smile than big chocolate cake
or pumpkin pie or the like?
Of course cooking isn't the only hob
by Mr.. Ewes has. He says he has
great many of them but I think the
thing he likes best to do in this world
is to do good to others. He is so happy
when he is telling about having made
someone else's corner of the world
little brighter that l should say Mr..
Ewes is the kind of man who spreads
smiles You'd have thought so TOO if
you had seen the class of girls he gave
they stood at the end and gave a rising
vote of thanks with smiles on their lips
and in their eyes. And they carried
those smiles into work with them and
made everyone they met smile with
them. Just see how far a little bit of
happiness may 60
Fortunate girls are the ones who
work in the Gas Co. They have a
model kitchen all of their own in which
they can prepare their lunch at noon.
Everything a cozy-nest kitchen could
ask for but the bride. A white enamel
gas oven, shiny black stove, ice box.
No wonder they like to work there.
Who wouldn't? Mr.. Ewes is so proud
of his kitchen that it's the very first
thing he shows you. He is almost as
proud of it as of the one he had in the
capitol at Washington around which
was built a model home and at which he
and Mrs. Ewes gave series of lectures
on the art of keeping house economi-
cally
So it's like this
If you love the only girl, tell her
Then let her read this.
If you are the only girl, you'd better
go down to the Gas Co.
Remember it's Wednesday afternoon
at three.
Go down and get a look at the can
ming cupboard.
Go down and peep into the cooking
books.
Go down and learn how to save the
pennies.
Go down and learn how to make
cake and cook steak so that he will al
ways love you as much as he does now.
And if you don't love the only girl
send some one down just to learn how
to smile.
Smiles are great things.
Cosy nests are full of them.
So is love
And Wednesday afternoon at the
Gas Co. with Miss Hawkins and Mr.
Ewes will produce smiles.
And smiles will produce
Oh, we'll, you know.
HELEN MARY.