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New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
She faces also loneliness, the necessity
of ieoring her room TO go out on rainy
Sundays

e ANDLANDY, genus homo; species,
4 hash serving; habitat, q gray house on
81 side street; famous Tor her ability to
run up three flights Of stairs when she
snelIed forbidden coffee in the bedrooms and
to see through pocketbools when they were
empty. Extinct.
The time is coming when landladies viii he
relegated to such paragraph in the diction-
aries. Readers OF o. Henry will still shiver
with sympathy for the poor little heroines of
his boarding house tragedies, but they will
have to ask their grandniothers to explain Just
what that terrible creature, the landlady, was
For after half century Of uninterrupted
warfare the landlady has given up. The
great hash revolt has been successful, snd
freedom Of diet Is now assured for all.
It required untold perseverance, and count
less dishes of prunes sent TO the kitchen un
'asted, but that is the way Of all great reforms
in history Every little complaint, added to
he complaints Of past generations, finally
broke the spirit of the tenacious old landlady.
go eat in your cafetsrias,' she says. "Go
form your own clubs and manage your own
eooks, if you like trouble, but don't bother NE
any more. I'm broken down old woman. and
I always meant to do my duty by you, but them
as has no heart can't appreciate kind intentions
in others, and hope you find something cheap
ef than prunes and something that will be bet
ter for you
In place Of the rrune server and bin cot
'ecsor, otherwise the landady, there has de-
.vcloped a new kind Of renter of furnished
roorns--one who treats her dodgers like ladies
and accepts q check with thanks.
The title of hostess has been bestowed upon
ner by the group Of women who first discov
rcd her--the Association TO Promote proper
Housing for Girls, which has its headquar-
, teTs in New York and branches in many cities
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of these homeless girls in their keeping were
we'll aware Of the deficiencies or cafeteria
dict. They knew that 81 meal boarding
house table is worth many meals in a res
taurant, and that if you let the average girl
escape from beneath her own roof without her
breakfast the chances are that She will not
bother to get any A cup Of coffee in drug
store is the feminine idea of a breakfast.
Moreover, no girl buying her own food at
a restaurant can secure the variety and bal
ance of diet which is automatically brought
about by boarding house ,nenu, unless she
spends wisely and lavishly. Try living for
dol!ar a day in restaurant and see now
many vitamjnes you can buy.
So tho women plotted u way to preserve
the good features OF the boarding house. They
organized fund with which they proposed to
finance Il number Of erstwhile landladics who
promised TO conform to the standard OF
''hostesses." Many landladies, tottcring on
the verge of bankruptcy, accepted the help
ing hand held ont to them and turned their
lodgings into creionne-hung oases for girls.
There were others, hostesses born, who had
always lnotsiered the girls in their charge.
These two classes came together in the
Hostess Club Some continue TO furnish
meals to their guests. Others, and this is
considered the sounder and more efficient
financial arrangement, merely provide rooms,
while their dodgers take their meals at "A cen
tral Girls Community Club or other well
established eating place like tho Young
Women's Christian Association cafeteris.
Across the street from the Girls Community
Club, at 108 East Thirtieth Street, arc five
brownstcne lodging houses, presided over
by hostcsses. One hundred ard twenty girls
eat at the club dining room, paying $3.50
week for two meals a day
The hostess movement has spread TO other
cities, and in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, Cor
example, they have improved on the New
York idea to the extent Of adopting club
buying. They cali ii '"The Landladies' Round
Table" in Pittsburgh. Twice a year the land
ladies' hand III the lists Of bedding and liner
which they need to the secretary Of the
Round Table She buys the material from
The wholesaler and the following week, when
the supplies have arrived, gives q Bargain
Tea" for all members Of the Round Table.
when pleasant time is had by all, swapping
stories~--no doubt about the servant prob
cnl----ust as MI women do at tea parties. IT.
another city the landladies buy their coal al
wholesale rates through their club.
"The Round Table mas made the greatest
difference in the lives not only cf the girl
odgers but of the iaudIadies themselves" say
Miss Lillian r. Smith, Of Pittsburgh. "What
has seemed TO doubt. drab way of earning
their living has suddenly taken on the appear
ance of valuable social service. Their ini
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played havoc with their budget and their A.
gestions. Of course if they can pool the,
pocketbooks on the wages Of s'good rnotberl,
old housekeeper"- NEUROLOGICAL creatur
who still haunts. the side streetz-they nesa
ask nothing more Of life
At least they will not ask It for SIX we.l.
or 80. But even this idyliic arrangement has
one drawback. Seldom is the household ot
girls sufficiently elastic 20 allow OF uue,
pected guests, or OF dinner engagements ont
side the home. The most magnificent priyat.
secretary is scarcely equal to braviag tbs
ll-wili Of a domestic treasure by bringing
home company too often, and it IS dishearten
ing to have to refuse dinner at the Plass
with your rich old uncle just because there
is roast 9or dinner and you have to eat Won,
share.
The business girl whose program is frresu
lar and whose invitations are frequent. cor
tents herself with room in pleasant house
and eats wherever she happens 10 be at mes
time. She has freedom, variety, ard oppor
unity to indulge in secret oyster stew Il
she wants to economic. She faces also LONE
liness, the necessity Of leaving heg room OF
rainy Sundays, and the expense % individus
meals.
There remains the third soIution--she
working girls club, which ranges in dignity
All the way from the $5 q week se.ni-charity
institution 20 the beautifully appointed and
exclusive clubs of the college girls and p,o-
fessional women. The girl who prefers CON
panionship TO privacy, whatever her fiaancsl
status, finds her happiest solution here.
The Girls Community Club attempts a
further concession to the spirit Of modern
independent womanhood. IN addition TO sup
plying meals at low rate w1licE, could not bs
approached by the buyer for small family
the clubs concede to the girls their freedom.
of conduct. No chaperonage takes away their
JOY of life. They make their own rules, i
any. They are free to come and go in the
evenings without explas~eion TO anyone. tn.
doors are locked at rAsnights but every CIR
has latchkey.
What more car you expect in 1921?
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
HOSTESS SUCCEEDS LANDLADY
BY EMMA BUGBEE

hostess ls-~weli, listen to what the hos
tess thinks she is. II happened at recent
meeting in New York Of the Hostess Club
vfssich has 400 members. The subject pr,dey
discussion was, ''What should hostess do
when a roomer is sick?' Some one began to
tell about a girl who lay with "a contagious
sore throat without attention from any woman
in the boarding house for more than "a week
The landlady refused to so to her and forbade
tho servants even to bring her food, for fcnr
of contagion among the other guests. Only
The Chinese elevator boy brought her Ice cream
from the delicatessen shop.
Loud murmurs OF "Shame" and mo won
III would 40 it" accompanied the tale. Wher
the speaker finished the room was in an up
roar. Those present made one anothers blood
curdle with the terrible tales they told of old
limo landladics, like little boys whispering o.
ghosts they know will never bother them, rs
All they have to do is to turn on The 1ectric
light and holler for Ma.
II remember one of these landladies-~antl
ii wasn't so very long ago, either" cried an
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result is the same---tae classic author is IN Sof
q revival in book form as well as on the screen
Book agents who are real geniuses In their
business even make the movie revivals q talk
ing point. It's lots easier to sell set of books
when you can tell the hesitating purchaser
that there's going to be big screen revival Of
the classic writer's best known novel az one OF
the leading theaters.
SIN this way the movies have given q ne7'
lease Of life to many an author who has bee
headed for oblivion. Librarians can tell righ
away when any classic has been announced fo'
4 screen revival. They have to go and bruSi
the dust from books that have been undisturbes
for years. Just let it be known that any popu
lar screen star is going to lend helping hand
10 some ancient author by putting OF q version
of one of that authors books, and rush Is
started which the novelist would not otherwise
have experienced.
S'You know how it is with the classics. Pee
pie may have them on their book shelves, but
they are not always read-not by any means
They belong TO the books we are going 70
read some day Generally that some day
never comes We 20 on year after year, de
luding ourselves with the idea that We are
going to read those waiting classics, but do
we ever do SO voluntarily? Very seldom.
But when screen revival is put on thers
IS natural desire to see what has been dont
to the book-whether the acting version fol
lows the original in faithful style, or whether
the story has been much changed. Generally
we find that the changes arc numerous and
heroic. In fact, in some cases we have diff
:uity in making the two stories match any
where. What the motion picture scenar'o
aasn't done to the author the chief actor has
finished But, anyway, we have read classi'
that otherwise we wouldn't have touched, ano
when some literary gas-sou Taages seferenct
10 such and sueil azDhoss best novel "
can truthfully gay that we have reas is, are
we don't have to assume a wisdom that doe
not belong to us, nor is there any need 70
change the conversation into other channels
For these things, then, the movies arc TO be
thanked. AS long as the revival market is
active no suthor Of any prominence whatever
need fear that time will bury him past resusel
tation. II there is any punch at all in his
stuff the movies viii keep his books alive"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
SHIFTING FOR A LIVING
By ARTHUR CHAPMAN

In such a case, chemistry is of Nttla or uo
help. Chemical analysis doesn't mean much 10
the perfumer when it comes to telling him what
is in a perfume. He has to depend on the
individual with the highly developed sense of
snoell--the person who distinguish the
varied odors in perfume, just as an artist
can pick out the coors in painting
Unfair Some may cxclaim, but the per
tuners don't look at it that way. They point
out that the Same sort Of imitation goes on in
every line, even to plays and books. Let
success be brought out, and instantly the mar
ket is flooded with things just like it. Only in
the case of perfumes, it is not 80 easy to
initiate.
A novel or play-any hack writer might get
close to its atmosphere. But perfume is
too subtle. The element Of hack imitation
cannot enter, without being SO obviously
second-rate matter that nobody will be de-
ceived So the expert perfumer sits at his
post--a court Of last resort. Upon his deli
cately trained nose depends his employers
business. 1t may be a Roman nose a snub
it may be narrow-bridged or broad, but it's
Judgments must go unquestioned.
Nor do the expert perfumer's responsible
lies stop at the selection of new perfumes
That is only part Of his work. He must see
that the products OF the establishment are
kept up to the standard--that there is no
deterioration in the quality OF perfumes being
manufactured. He must help out his employ
er's pocketbook when it comes to making
choice Of raw materials of various grades.
Upon his gift of scent may depend the choice
of natural products--for instance, orange
lavor-costing 500 pound or $500
pound. Or cheaper materials may vary frors
81 20 SO pouna.
Also the perfumer must DE depended upon
to get up something when occasion de-
naands, which is often. The perfume manu-
facturer is like the manufacturer Of cigars
he tinds that often it is better to get out
new poor brand than to stick to well known
good brand. The public's desire for novelty
must be catered to.
The shifting power Of the expert per
tuner comes in valuable play in the manu-
fsct7are of synthetic perfumes In some eases
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
by ELEANOR E. SANxAY

ANIMATION has kindied at the thought OF 1he
yirl they may save from evil associates ny
providing her with "a kindly home atmosphere
and they have experienced asw senss of Dug
nifty in serving the health and happiness o.
homeless people, If only by giving them gcoS'
wholesome food and comfortable rconis. JUS
as the wife and mother knows that food ana
pleasant surroundings are the first essential
to family, so the landlady has learned 70
rank her work rs Of primary Importance 20
the community. She ceases 70 look upon her
work as mere money-getting and approaches II
in the spirit Of the social worker"
It is, however, due as much TO the spirit Of
the girl as to the cost Of living that the old
fashioned boarding house is doomed.
The modern girl is independent, high-spirlt
ed, intolerant Of uglincss. She will not eat
prunes every morning and she will not submit
TO landlady domination. She rcsents the meal
schedule-stew on Tuesday, beans on Satur
day, chicken on Sunday. She receives high
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" TVIN(S by one S sense OF smell can be
3 done, and very handily, too, even in
l@-~-~ these days of high costs, provided one
can prove that he is qualified to join
the exclusive ranks of the highly paid per
tuners
1t is tho task of such men to detect varia
lion of odors III perfumery materials Com
pared with their task, the employment Of the
Tea faster becomes "A rough and unsclentific
business. The sense of smell is many times
subtle than the OF taste The
pert perfumer must have such sense refined
to the ultimate.
Men in New York are drawing large salaries
because of their ability to detect the minute
variations Of odor in perfume materials. To
have nothing to do all day but to sit at a table
covered with walls, containing materials that,
through intinity OF odors, call up visions OF
the lands where Snbad the Sailor touched Oh
his voyages---not q bad sort of JOB. is it?
But there are certain drawbacks For instance.
would you return confident Eyes" if your
esnployers manufacturing perfumer, said:
Jones, there is wonderful new perfume
that has made great hit in Paris. Every
over there is crazy about it. Here is a
sample Of 1t. ! want to make something that
approximatcs this perfume Now, it's up to
you 20 tell me what Is in this sample
If you ars an expert perfumer, you will be
sble TO pick out several of the ingredients OF
The new perfume. You may not get them all.
Batting 100 per cent is even more than is
expected of Babe" Ruth. But pick out enough
sss <zsm basis on which your employer can
work in manufacturing his imitation Of the
perfume. The gaps can be filed with sub-
stitutes thst are "just as good" You have
aehi2ved the general effect desired, and your
aoss comes cut with the first American show
ing Of the new perfume that has appealed to
shs pariaian public and your reputation as Il
NssnfHsts Ia gnsdsa
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these synthetic products, some Of which are
derived from coal tar, are utilized TO "fnish
OUT perfumes which are based chiefly OF
natural oils. In fact. few perfumes are alto
gether synthetic products, except perhaps n
few Of the cheaper varieties. Most of TIE
products that go into perfume arc imported
from the ends Of the earth. Flowers from
The South OF France are said to be the best
for the perfumer's purposes. Also the natu-
raj oils that arc produced in France and Italy
are said to excel because they are produced
by hand process, instead Of being extracted
by machinery.
But no matter what the ingredients
whether they come from flowers from France
or California, from the far.ofr Oriental
lands OF ron,ance-thc expert pcrfuncr must
be called upon in the process Of assembling
and blending. Always the perfumcr is work
ing from the standpoint of the outsider rather
than himself. He tries to imagine just what
sort OF an odor will be most acceptable to
the shopper who is looking for a new pcl-
rune. 1t is his dream to devise some combi-
nation that will win It's way--that will be
caught up like popular song. What he has
done III the past is forgotten. He is work
ing always with the future in mind. The
dainty perfume Of yesterday must be exceed
ed by the one Of to-day. He is always look
ing for the thing that has never been discov-
ered--~the perfect formula Just as the pros
pector is always seeking the mother lode.
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every woman knew why she had become y
hostess.
ut is very easy TO tell the difference be
tween a landlady and hostess," she said.
Just put this question to each woman: What
would you do il one Of your roomars were
ill?' l put the question 80 one woman re
Gently.
I'd give her two days TO get we'll, and then
Id call up Bellevue she said That woman was
a landady.
"The next one said: why Ed do what any
woman would DO I'd scnd the poor child up
some hot tea and some nice brown buttered
toast That woman was hostess.
Il know another woman who is q real hos
tess. The girl in this case was not i'll, but
she had had an experience in her office which
made her realize that it was not safe to keen
that position any longer, She told her land
Lady that she would have to give up the room
because her money was almost gone. And
that woman-shc had real hostess heart
answered:
MY dear child, you did just the right
hing to throw up that job and you must MOI
worry about the roora. This house is you
home, and every woman with heart in her
would say the same thing
So that is what hostess is by the cleHni-
lion of her fellows
Any woman can become q member Of the
Hostess Club if she satisfies the requirements
Of the Association to Promote Proper Housinp
tor Girls AS to cleanliness and minimum price
winch enables q landady TO list her rooms
under the associations room registry In ad-
dItion, 10 become hostess she must guarantee
parior where gentlemen callers may be Ell
tertaincd and must maintain herself The
eracious personal dclneanor which the title
hostess implies
The girls who rent her rooms are under
obligation to behave like guests in the home
FINANCIAL arrangements are agreed upon IL
advance, even 10 the trifing details unor
which most congenial relations are destroyed
The regeneration OF the iandlady is the re
suit of two factors--t the high cost Of living
and the new spirit in working girls. Neither
conld have brought about the Hostess Ciuh
without the other, and it is hard to say which
should come first
The Association 10 Promote Proper Hous
Ang for Girls began TO hear that lodgings were
getting worse and worse, and prices were
going higher. Ii was found that hundreds
of women who had made their living BY TAX
ing dodgers we're going out OF business, unable
10 meet the rising. cost OF food and coal. Ser
vants also were getting scarcer aud more I'M
rellabia Dozens of boarding houses shut
their dining roOns and announced that the
nearest meals were at the cafeteria around
the corner,
The mothcrIy women who had the welfare
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n WING by ones sense Of smell can be
done, and very handily, too even in
l@---~ these days of high costs, provided one
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other men,ber, gaining the floor. 1t was in
Of those houses where the landlady
wouldn't allow anything to be cooked in the
rooms. The girls couldn't have even an alec
hol stove or bit Of dish over the gas jet. This
girl was seriously i'll, with trained nurse
taking care Of her, but the landlady would not
allow her to go into the kitchen TO cook for
her patient.
well, after she had stood that as long as
she could, that nurse came to me and asked
to have a tray sent from dining room. She
said the girl had had nothing to eat for two
days but orange juice and raw eggs and such
things as she could buy for her in the grocery
stores. She had had nothing at all that was
hot,''
There was the sudden silence Of people who
hear something they cannot believe, yet know
they must believe.
Then back-veiled young woman rose
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er salary than the woman worker Of pre-
cedng generation who flourished in the beard
ing house and she demands higher mode OF
living.
She Aas three forms Of escapc-the kitchen
cite apartment, the room and cafeteria and
The girls club.
The kitchenette apartment is the ideal solu-
ton fer the colder eirl,' and nearly all come
70 it eventually, due to combination OF dys-
pepsia, high salary and the instinct, deep in
every woman's heart, for her own little home
The kitchenette is an excellent solution Of the
living problem for group Of congenial young
CT girls, too, provided Of them is willing
TO assume housekeeping responsibilities. But
even kitchenettc does not run itself. Girls
who are working ali day are unable to give
the time to cooking that wise dieting and
economy demand. The tendency is to live on
lamb chops and bologna, and they soon find
That haphazard buying I'll small quantities has
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-03
Foreign Trade

Middle western and eastern inter-
national bankers disagree as to the
measure of relief through credit
which this country should extend TO
Europe Middle western bankers
bark back 10 first principles" and
hold that the United States should
first make provision for domestic in
dustry before embarking upon a new
cycle Of foreign loans.
Restriction of exports will encour-
age lower prices by increasing the
supply of goods available for domes-
tic consumption. At the same time it
Will curtail the outlet for the un-
doubted surplus which American in
dustries, including agriculture, nor
mally produce, and to some extent
will limit employment and depress
wages. The nations industrial ca
pacity has been developed far be-
yond its own immediate needs. The
very industries which middle western
bankers desire TO protect are bewail-
ing their loss Of exports and seeking
10 retain and broaden their foreign
markets.
A compromise between the two
contending groups Of bankers-such
a compromise as will best serve the
interests Of the entire country-is es-
sential. Investors may assist in re-
construction abroad by purchasing
foreign securities, while the banks
Weld an attentive ear to the claims
Of domestic industry.