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puntil it. represen’ gthirds of her normA4i expenditure for + im, # few. York—and there seom to be tween ‘the Battery and ¢he Bron: ‘il. the Saitheir weekly living accounts in half. ‘A reporter for the Evening World ular retail stores this morning on The lower west and the upper east Pixty-ninth Street. The first ‘butter and egg stare he bounced © “Very well, John. How much did 1 “Pil just take two pounds this time and make it do a week.” John, She shook her head. looking woman, wideawake as a lark at daybreak, Here's the bill of fare, eggs that was 47 yesterday is 49 to-day, eggs 45 yes- terday 47 to-day, eggs 43 yesterday 45 either product on Tuesday, but there had been advances from time to time in the last ten days. ied Pas -Famliy Pur- s Are Reduced From 3 ‘to 50 Per Cent. tho is waiting for her Gov- to get after the food gamb- the old fashioned housewife of of thousands of her be- gamblers and thé re- wholesalers worried, «l- sick. This kind of housewife sitting back on her dignity and down the weekly market bill less than two- odstuffs six months ago. A very nitimber of housewives have cut de a hurried trip thréugh ten pop- “3, from Forty-second Street to into a young clerk was telling a oman that butter is 2 Saturday? pound an’ half, mam.” ‘Some eggs, mam?” suggested next customer was a younger “1 want a dozen out the 45-cent case, John,” she said. ‘Sorry, mam, eggs is up 2 cents. our pect can" y, &c., mam, all along the line.” "Il go out and buy a chicken. It's| she said, and walked off. NTIMENT,” NOT SCARCITY, |AISED PRICE OF BUTTER. he 2 cent advance in the retail e@ of butter and eggs was felt nearly all of the downtown sec- jms Of the clty Tuesday night, ugh there had been no ad-| ce on the wholesale price of; The head of the ox River Butter Company frankly the “ONE DISH OF POST TOASTIES mar tor m: NOC. 0. D.'s. halt, to have eee dealer. But there is no doubt but that You bet he ons for man Weil, store at the bridge I have to di the shrewdest buyers. Youn come in here between nineteen and twenty and buy as economically as their methods do. What's the result? Our business in both stores has been cut down 15 per cent, in six months. “The wholesalers know their busi- ness has been cut down twicd that much, because I don’t lay in as much butter and eggs sore. and of said. My a chain In the rb I did. they're sore. clerks and agents are up here every day looking for busine: knows that these prices are criminal. The receipts of butter, eggs, potatoes, &c., never justified them. But when every other agency falls the econ of the New York housewife is going to scare them flat.” At another store, this one on Co- lumbus Avenue, variety, the genial manager had bis i "4 rocked with all kinds of pro- This is what tion store,” business is mine, run the other end, selling all kinds of provi vegetable that space from us. of it? we are not responsible, raise the price on the necessities of life according to the prices charged seeped the food think they can bluff the Ameri- can housewife, but they are mistaken. Why, in this store and my La yetrrd 1 wit! They're ‘Their Everybody my the chain store. front uu call a combina: “The butcher two brothers The rents Vhat do I think ers know that We have to But it's bad business all around. Here's of clerks, the heaviest. not a good bu by some relative. lows downtown ought to squeal. Toey know just as well as most the gamblers brought this on.” | WOMEN GOOD CUYERS SINCE THEY LEARNED &CONOMY. | Wherever | same women poorest | upper Ninth Avenue, crowds of youn, ten or on you good |soup one or if we stop Somébody ought to be in jail t Why, de has been cut in half, es- ly on meats and potatoes You fool a New York woman, and an the story are Every was good sec And reporter -New buyers. told: tions of Around especially the woman of large family. example: block lives a family of seven people. | Their meat bill was never less yhan $7 a week. That's a big meat bill in this neighborhood, the the money us went I low coming into that family is only that The father is a watchman. Now they've got it down lo $4 a week, including the Sunday meals, always woman who is ris being taught how You bet the fel- that the York yen in and ed women were found haggling ‘with corner store me! vendors in neighborhood. In answer the mized, excepting the 58 diet for buy twice old F to an inquiry one young woman said: , it's surprising how t Dan eats and still has enough, We just cut down the meut bill one when 1 me allowance of meat, |for you never know who will drop in and vegetables make with May be they'll | Sunday, the chil ing #0 39.50 NO EXCHANGES, ddy's a week. much how muea ldren, fifteen minutes at a time nts or street Market she TO CHECK FOOD FOOD GOUGERS ‘dade te Wigs bk oa the wholesalé raises are not natural and charges them to “#enti- ment.” Housewives are studying the mar- ket reports these days and are not inclined to find fault with their local dealer who must pay stiff wholesale rates, the housewives in New York have the merchants worried, food merchants, “That's just an examiplay! said H, L. Smythe, Third Avenue butter and “The men who gamble in POSES OS eee Miss Eva Buckingham of No. 5% East Seventy-elghth Street an- nounces the engagement of her niece, Miss Dorothy Morrison, daughter of the late Mr, and Mrs, Daniel W. Mor- rison of New York, to Manton Mon- roe Marble, son of Mrs, Oliver W. Marble of Chicago. Mr, Marble was graduated from Michigan, class of ‘16. been arranged for the wedding. get wise and cut down the prices, All the records show decreased consumption of meats, butter, poul- try and potatoes. Poultry is going to waste in cars because of decreased consumption. Meat ,consumption 1s 45 per cent. less in the districts from the Battery to Ninety-sixth Street, east and west, exclusive of hotel cen- tres, of course, what ghe attributed this shrewdness in buying to, Mrs. Albert Ll. Warren of the Trinity Parishes League for Economy in the House- hold said: “Primarily to+ good bringing up, secondly to natural ability to make ends meet. From Fourteenth Street to Fifty-ninth Street on the west side the married women are quite able to run their households, J am talking of family women now. They have met the high cost of living situation with one answer—eat less of foodstuffs that are very high, Cut bills in half seems to have been the motto, This attitude has made par- ish work very easy for us among a class of women who are Inclined to be extravagant or lack the ability to shop economically. But you wouid be surprised to know that this class is very, very small. The poorest woman I have met on Ninth Avenue buys her family needs with wonder- ful economy. Of course, too, there are hundreds and hundreds of other familles who are terribly hit by these prices, Their men are work- ing, but they are not making money enough to keep up with these | prices.” “CHARGE ACCOUNTS” IT’S CASH NOW. None of the social wor! of economic soc! SHRINK; | wives’ associations would venture an try BONWIT TELLER & CO, The Specially Shop of Onginalions FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET Will Close Out Friday About One Hundred Women’s DAY asd EVENING GOWNS Formerly 59.50 to 95.00 Two or three dresses of a kind, assembled from the regular stock, including Georgette crepe gowns in flesh pink and and navy blue charmeuse. Also a limited number of imported handmade handkerchief linen frocks, Evening gowr:s of Georgette crepe, of net, of satin with silver lace trimming — also net over metal cloth. white, flowered crepe de chine gowns opinton on what hag been the actual slump in domestic buying. The books of the Jocal dealer are the best guide, t seems, and they show that ge ily the buying of sugar, eggs, butter, poultry, potatoes and jams has dropped from one-third to one-half in ninety cases out of a hundred One storekeeper carried accounts for twenty-five families in the Greenwicn Village section NO CREDITS. nate Bai's Mh tA resources is now directed by Mrs. Gor- the University of | uj No date has |° Jand pint fruit | Mr. Suffrage Party Organizing] | Canning Clubs All Over the State. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. direct line with Herbert Hoover's recommendation that. patriotic ‘women concentrate on the conser. vation of food, the New York State Woman & Party, as part of its war service, will organize canning}. clubs among tho school girls of New York City and State. WE The «mobilization of daughters in an attempt to conserve the nation's food ee «& \ Nori:s, of No. 377 Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Norrie has a working model of the new plan for food conservation in full operation in Dutchess County, where her summer home Is located. She is laboring in co-operation: with Henry Morgenthau jr., son of the Ambassador and Chairman of the}. Committee on Food Production and Conservation. At present, in this one county, nearly half a hundred canning clubs are working overtime putting fruits and vegetables in the name began to mobilize nearly go. In a Sul Sarah M. Kirby, canning demonstrator, has touretl thirty“com. The Suffrage party ha contributed the full time of ecutive secretary, Mrs. W. C. tern, for this work, and has to make good any deficit of the Can- ning Committee up to $100 a month. ‘The work is being conducted in a essentially practical manner, for Mri Norrie is an excellent housewife her- self and understands how to appeal to other housewives. No group of society women, whose names are as- sociated with’ elaborate entertairi- ments in the drawing room, rather |, than with canning bees in the kitchen, is instructing the wives and daugh- ters of farmers how to preserve strawberries and spinach. 46° HE women of Dutchess Coun- ty," sald Mrs. Norrie to-day, “are famous cooks. Canning confer- ences are held, where valuable recipes and ideas on food conse:vation are exchanged, Our ambition now is to make these clubs ‘Mother and Daugb- ter Clubs.’ Organizations of girls have beca conducted in Dutchess County for two years prévious to 1917, but it is only this year that the mothers and daughters are working together in putting up additional food for the winter months, ittle Elizabeth Shears, aged thir- teen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert C. Shears of Hyde Park, N, Y., is one of the champion canners of the district. Elizabeth, working with her mother in 1916, canned 297 varieties of foodstuffs, including more greens than most people ever imagined could be used for food, Elizabeth won the champlonship under the United States Department of Agriculture on va- rieties of the thirty-three Northern, Central and Western States. “One young girl has put up elghty- seven varieties of canned goods, which she helped raise on the estate of the uncle with whom she lived, while one club member has exhibited f@ seven-course luncheon made up en- | tirely of canned goods.” Mrs. Kirby, the canning demon strator, shows the women the “cold packing method” authorized by tho United States Department of Agr! culture, She carries in her car a heavy pasteboard box in which ket- pans, strainers and necessary small articles are packed. These were purchased in such sizes as to fit into | each other nicel Everything is there for canning fruits or vegetables ing jams or jellies. A “pro- or miniature wash boiler hav ing a false bottom and rack to hol d | eight cans, half pints, pints or quarts | of any make desired completes the | outfit. ‘This js the “hot water bath” in which the cans of fruit or vegeta- bles are “processed” or sterilized, The fruits and vegetables are taken aloug for each day's work. O when the Suffrage automobile, | loaned to the Home Defense Committee for canning work stops at a place scheduled for the day, all the | local committee—and there is usually a local committee of three prominent ladies—has to furnish is a fire, a ta ble or two and plenty of hot and cold water. A similar method of organization| and instruction is being perfected for New York City, particularly for the| outlying boroughs where fruits and| vegetables may be procured any | for canning The Suffrage also has purchase ars, aning Committee 4,000 glass quart | which are being sold at 7 and 6 cents apiece. The pu chase of these jars is to enable t women to obtain th at a reason able cost, the speculators have | sent up t ket prices “Mrs. Norrie suggested the work | and she and the Woman Suffrage | Party have been very helpful,” said Morgenthau. ‘The campaign |s meeting with great response from the farmers’ wives, as well as the fac- tory workers of the city.” ideo o THE PASSING CYCLES. There was a Russian ballet in Sleepy Hollow last night. Have You ‘After N Meals 4 feeling of stuffiness, & sensation of oppression nd (at ng ok Whaat Wis tie, there) will often Cooative: Piles, Pullioess of the 1 the Mend: i Ts oe sHlown MH Heat” adway’s | Pills ill aid 1m freolug phe Sa of tut tags ‘adore mamed dhrorder conte Om | pabway® Pe ee ‘sh. Mow Yert, ‘By Mothers and Daughters Is Aim of Women Patriots PAIFSTS CHEER ATTACK. ON DRAFT AT MEETING HERE Call Conscription Act Uncon- stitutional and Advise Fight on It in Courts, Declaring it to be the inflexible pur- pose of the organizers of the First American Conference on Democracy and Terms of Peace to keep strictly within the law, speakers at the con- ference in Madison Square Garden to-day, nevertheless, spoke in the most emphatic’ terms against the consti- tutfonality of the draft. They advo- cated an appeal to the courts for pro- tection on the part of thase drafted and denounced the conscription act &s most immoral and “imconstitutional, Dr. Judah L. Magnes, who referred to the despatch from Washington tell- ing of the purpose of the Department of Justice to take stenographic notes at peace meetings and prosecute those who infringe the law, and said: "I don't know whether this is the kind of meeting the Department of Justice means, but if it is and there are stenographers here, 1 would like to invite them this platform, may see and hear and to where they tako down everything that transpires. “In Prussia at politica} meetings the stenographers are seated on the platform, ‘They take notes and re- port to the Government. Inasmuch as we are very rapidly becoming Prussianized in this country we should follow the Prussian example at our meetings Daniel Kiefer of the Fels Fund Amounting to $176,000,000 will be an- | nounced in New York before the clone of this week. Reports were current Prato eS Announcement: of: Big Pur- pt $175 000000 chase Expected to Be Made, Within Week. ‘Two Ldberty Loan subscriptions son in Wall Street to-day that one sub- withheld out of deference to the Lib- scription of $100,000,000 had been ‘|made by a munitions mantifacturer _Jand the $75,000,000 submoription thad | $40,000. ‘been taken by a bank. Formal announcements are being erty’ Loan Committee, whose desire the Gtock Exchange to-day was on the statnent by I Up, President of the National City Bank, that he knew of anjinstitution that had subscribed for $75,000,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. included in tho $175,000,000 au’ tions already mentioned. in Walt Trust Company, a Mort tion, Vanderlip. Bond salesmen refused to slack up on their work because of the belief that the big bond buyers would over- subscribe ‘They demand to-day than ever and in many of checks in payment of subscriptions had already been drawn up and were awaiting them. <A large part of the army centred their efforts upon Brooklyn's industrial districts this morning. lego endowment funds may be util- ined in buying Liborty Bonds was ex- Pp women from the The class has just urging members to realize the im- portance of participatign in the Lib- erty Loan with the $1,000,000 educational en- dowment campaign for Vassar now under w gift committee, of which Miss Ruth Danenhauer that Commission of Cincin of the morning session, course of his address: ne Conscription Act 1, chairman is both im moral and unconstitutional, It unconstitutional, for it violates prohibition jfaveluatary itu plitting went cas ment de t the 4 not for Thirteenth bid nation nse, Sending con scripts to Europe is not national Thirteenth Amendment ts not worth the paper it is written on, #0 the first duty of a patriotic citizen who has been drafted is to appeal to the court for protection of his consitu- tional rights “L cannot say that I have much eon- fidence in the courts. T have had te casions to take of which seem to me to be in ble.” Kiefer said it was not a que tion of a citizen's duty to defend th country Such’ a 4 not confront us," he said at War because certain persons with authority wish to have us at war, regardless of neces: sity or of popular wishes, Otherwise there would have been a referendum on war.and con Heription Ir, Keifer said eracy could not come in Germany until the Ger man people wanted it, And when the German people wanted it they would |wet it Democracy should begin at home," he said, “and the first place that democracy must win Is the fight against conscription and st war without consent of the pe I fear before long thi Wilson will be explaining that in more senses than one it is conscription of he unwilling The address was unanimounls adopted with rousing cheers as the sense of the. mee n, Bell Off ort Myer Major Gen, Bell was called to Washington last night. Accom- v by his aide, Capt, Marshall, he will inspect the training camp at Fort Myer, Va vre returning, Work was’ begun yesterday on & building at Governor's Island for a Bureau of Registration and Con- scription | Ven Below Back on Western Front. COPENHAGEN, Emperor May man re mar ught of the ' nt ommand of Arras Line, fr arm said in the} ) es Om the 1 ig that the small investor shall not by: be itd to believe that Wall Street in| % gobbling up the loan. ‘The big topic of conversation on nk A. Vander- two: ‘This is not ster ip= It was naid the Guaranty n institu. one meant by Mr. sion: Street that was the ‘The Volunteer Army of Liberty the loan by $100,000,000. found their services more in establishments visited the big An original method by which col} by a committee of sar class of 1911, ued 300 letters ned to-day ‘The new plan has to do ay. ‘The class of 1911 will pay its share of the fund in Liberty Bonds, The is chairman, announced the bonds were acceptable to Looking over the models in the Franklin Simon selections of MEN’S Hand-Tailored Suits’ Ready-for-Service HESE are just a few of the models in the '25 range. note much difference in the particulars of each. that we are not so good on descriptions as we might be. reason is that the difference between one Franklin Simon model and another is not confined to a detail change in a pocket or a lapel but in- volves a complete re-arrangement of lines from Arras to Verdun. No. 772 A two-button straight square front effect, slightly open at bottom, with new peak lapel, and slanting welt pockets Sharply waisted and takes the curves on high, pockets, and plain cuffs, but not conventional, front with rounded corr trifle, and something choice in a new George ! but these descriptions peak lapel. sound flat! No. 776 Not radically different indetail from mode! 778, but lapelled so differently as to give a much shorter front and show Nothing finer on two more of the vest. buttons. serve district they OF LIBERTY BONDS}: Davi sion inthe nation, of the loan, ances where an scription so large has bee: in advance. #1, Harriman National 8, Burrill, $1,000,000, ‘The Hibbe cl tween Tenth and Eleventh Streets, Ho- boken, was burned to the ground to- 316 A conservative suit, buttons for a change, regulation or flap 0. 778 Back to two buttons again, a square in touch with ae Os Omcers the Boy Scouts. ire of the Tatter, James B. Wost and Colin tone, Ww: nt to Ny eng ome con. partment cireulation Coe ah soa and of millions Seeopien of ag A be Far werk, weir and tl com Seoretaty McAdoo, Employeos of the ee ae This Ate fag rk by oS. “seoute tit ‘succeeded ig attested by latory statement made by laboratories to-day ) making & na pete tor arthnt on. ber signi man-American,” in a certified check, riot is i8 one of the first in- Individual —sub- afc itself and #ohool teachers, $1,956,250; Bank jew York, $4,000,000 for itaelt and ec ‘hroust 1,000,000, Bank; Middleton Ruaneto Mutual Insure Livermore, 3 Broad St.. next to Bedell, Newarke Hoboken Factory mical factory, a wooder tory building, in Jefferson, be- WHEEL CHAIRS WE MAKE OVER 7O STYLE SARGENT CO, #95 oarh Aven There were many small explo-~ Loss, $10,000, FUR STORAGE The Shop Individual JRUSSEKS. 1 West 34th St., Opp. Waldorf Clearance Summer Styles At Special Reductions formerly 35,00 at ey 49.50 at 362 Fi fth A * at §DH You will not One reason for that is, But the chief No. 780 Atwo-button model, with extremely straight front, small button cuffs, and slanting pockets rather far forward, Extreme but not noisy. No. 516 Another two-button style, with round-cornered square front, patch or plain pockets and perfectly natural shoulders. Selling out of its class. No. 773 A Norfolk Model—a Duke of Nor- folk Model— with two buttons, straight front, slash vertical pockets, and inverted pleats from shoulders to belt only, Not a pinch back —perish the thought! No. H!4 A Double Breaster, with a pair of buttons, regulation pockets, three but- ton seam cuffs, and clean cut narrow waisted lines such as are rare in double breasters. Suffers for want of words! with three Conservative » Opening a And the cut and the workmanship are something you do not, one cannot get in other $25 clothes Men’s Clothing Shop— 8 West 38th Street ‘A Separate Shop om the Street Level gens Simon & Co. Men Clothing Furnishings Shoes FIFTH AVENUE