New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

have had no medical care since 1914
have been treated"
Miss Morgan's Message
Miss Morgan's personal message
to the women is:
"It is essential that we keep up
the right kind of relations between
America and France. have such a
deep faith in America that / know
she will want to go to the assistance
Of France if she understands the
urgency Of the need. France is do
ing everything possible to shoulder
the colossal burden herself, but the
task Of bringing back the people and
Of bringing back the soil Of DESC
late waste Of battlefield il stupen-
dous and cannot be done overnight.
Surely we cannot feel that we have
done our part in the war unless we
arc willing to share in the work Of
reconstruction"
In New York society girls are
helping in the work Of the American
committee. Many Of them serve at
the little tearoom on East Thirty
ninth Street. All service for the
committee is volunteer, but tho girls
who give their services are as me-
TEDIOUS and punctilious a. girls
working at similar occupations for
their livelihood.
The Committees Tearoom
This little tea and lunch room
gives off the essence Of the Ameri-
can committees spirit. It Is bright,
cheerful place, small but complete
and comfortable; part Of an old
barn. The walls are decorated with
well chosen photographs Of the area
in France where the committee
serves. The little tables and chairs
ere painted yellow, and on each
table is a diminuti3e orange tree.
The only persons employed there
who receive salaries are tho cook
and the dishwasher.
Miss Maude Mortimer Johnston
Is in charge of the tearoom, and
her name and the fact that she vol
unteers her services might suggest
that she was condescending lady
who occasionally came in to preside
in a grand fashion over the cashiers
desk.
If you go to the tearoom, how
ever, you will search in vain tn any
such person. If you insist upon hav.
ing Miss Johnston pointed out, the
first person you ask may not realize
just who you wish to see.
Society Girls as Walters
To your bewildered inquL7 she
may explain that Miss Johnston's
nickname at the lun ihroom was for
long time "Tiddy." This was
given her by one Of her co-workers
who insisted that she was bright and
forever fitting about the tearoom 10
that she reminded them all Of . It'd
dlywink. Hence the name "Tiddy."
However, delivery boys, icemsn
and the like in perfectly good faith
came to the lunchroom invariably
asking for "Misstiddy."
And the significance Of the name
"Stiddy" soon struck the girls In tho
tearoom and they have insisted upon
calling Miss Johnston Study"
If you insist upon having her idsn-
titled you may find thu. she Is the
very person who Is ~ hat moment
clearing away the dlsnss or doins
some other bus boys Job. Miss John
ston has been with tho lunchroom
eves since 1t started, has sesn Il
through hard times, but has kept
on smiling and working tlfelessly.
The mattresses In the tearoom.
each OF whom has a Fifth or a
Madison Avenue address, wear
horizon blue smocks that remind
you Of French worK,ngmen or
Greenwich Village artists.
Back to France Soon
Above the tearoom are the office
~ooms OF the American committee.
These are headquarters sor all Of
the work in this county and the
liaison offices with the Office Of the
committee In France.
Miss Morgan has been in this
country for about five months and
has aroused the interest u people
In many states. She and Mira Dixie
will return to France next month.
Miss Grace Parker, known FOR her
work during the war viii the Ma
tional League for Woman,s Services.
Will have charge II much Of the
campaign work In this country. She
Is now on = speaking tour through
the Northwest.