Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
HITS for MRS
By Dorothy B. Waleski
Garden 4-SS89

long hundred years? The staff of the SENTINEL
has wrestling with this problem since last May In fact
small eXaggeraon to that they have eaten breathed
slept
they only the idea of the shape taste
and smell Like the fable of the five blind
Athe elephant it all depends on where you touch IT,
On hand only the of one persons lifetime for
few the other produce five complete
generations and hereabous often
Montgomery County 1855 10 years from the
Civil War Its customs and foways much closer to the
preceding centuries than to today But in the realm of human
emotions have translated the fowery language that
flowed through the early SENTINEL columns find the
and hates, charity greed despair humor
Its human interest stories haven't changed a whit
On the other hand comparison of womans work. then and
ow is almost Impossible You can comprehend "oilo Wthout
marves of today but really understand
life which the aborsavng device apt away
break down?
with world advertised For
Sale cheap washing machine used only handerefs
but instead Wanted information leading the whereabouts OF
runaway kitchen girl followed by description of her
weight and identifying marks?
is much easier to along half century to the
beginning University Maryland and
study the first bulletins offered the homemaker of that day.
Imagine we say mo refigeraors! Tch Tch No running
waer N.Y." but at least feel that still the
planet.
Food preservation big problem the
early bulletins devoted to this subject Modern methods
canning just beginning to be known but all the
most daring stuck by the old standbys of drying sailing and
. pickling
Suggestions storage spring house.
the potato cellar This last was dug out OF the ground and
with One winters hated the chop
ping out of the weeks supply of abbage apples and potatoes from
this hole ground.
running water
the housewife took her kitchen and the outdoor
counted the advantages of the kitchen Encouraging
the people to put in plumbing the educational of the
bulletins then.
The ideal convenient kitchen that the sole
cooking and serving food with all laundering
its electric
washer, dryer and dishwasher in a
Few houses had bultn cubboardS clothes closets There
fore bulletins directions for making shoe bags and garment
bags for protecting the clothes they hung hooks
on the walls
These lesserknown differences
DO years have made in the life of the average housewife They
lead that philosophical question What do the
spare by laborsavng
Puzzlng this takes lot of the mems time
Meanwhile of spare activities upon us Come
Montgomery County will
campaign to package"
have far will raise the the coming
years the metropolitan agencies
County health
and welfare needs of the community outside of the
services.
The Countrywide residential
RocEvies of this $5OO Phillip County
chairman; Mrs e. Brooke Lee is vice chairman charge of
Rockville and UpcOunty and wi" HOvsepan the Mayors wife,
is chairman for the Rockville
Preparations for the Rockville began September
a meeting section
captains Hovsepian
home West Montgomery Avenue.
captains P Hackey Mrs. Theodore
Mason Mrs Frank Williams Mrs John H. Magruder Mrs Edward
Meyer Mrs A. Osborn Mrs John Whtelaw, Mrs William j.
Long and Mrs Otis Watkins.
Hovsepian again
Woek Mrs Robert Munster captains
from the south and north of Ves Mill Road on September 10
Hovsepan meeting Sep
TENDER Is caught all those absent the first meetings
Mrs Woelks captains Mrs Robert Brien Mrs Richard
Alexander Meta Mrs Robert Slutz Robert Sal
ohn Mrs Gabrielle Burgee Mrs Ernst kretschmer Mrs
Martin Stang.
Captains Mrs Coleman Mrs.
August Nage Wells
hostile Mrs Ecker and Mrs E. S. Atwel.
Mrs ThOrson has been holding similar small group meet
this month questions the
Chest and its and their This is
begun with the of making the drive vital
part the than fund raising operation.
Captains urged to hold their meetings with
tn On the
An areawde information will be given all four
TV channels September 80 help the residential work
err and her understand the Community Chest
The Kickoff will be held the Woodsde Methodist
Church Silver October B. On October 90 when is
hoped that the major part the drive will be completed the work
and captains will honored Victory Luncheon at the
Manor Country Club Oscars for special merit will be out
then and Oscarees for of ladies parcipa
ing.
Each captain has number of 10 workers and
worker average Of 80 houses There doubt that
they will have Victory Lunch and that Rockville will
have higher quota because they went over the
top in this years drive