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FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918 | FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918 © Give a “Kitchen Party” | New York's Newest Idea ' In Letters to His Father | U.S. Soldier ‘Over There” | | Tells of Army Experiences 4 é 9 The June Bride’s Trousseau HER WEDDING GOWN, TRAVELLING SUIT AND “AT HOME” DRESSES SPECIALLY SELECTED) |. : ig ; ; " (ROM THE SMARTEST OF FASHION’S 1918 DESIGNS. Women ot Lower East Side Institute Newest Form of Patriotic To Aid F ood Conservation Real Word-Pictures of Adventure and Armg Camp Life These Letters, Written by Lieut. Curtis Wheeler, Yale me ‘ Entertainment by Giving Kitchens for Neighborhood ' Man, Now Published in Book for Fathers and i Demonstrations of Table Economy, Under oa Mothers Whose Sons Are in France. Real morning comfort in Auspices of U. S. Food Administration } A the new home without sac- : j By Marguerite Mooers Marshall eee Arita tearm ROE ‘ By Hazel V. Carter E is a New York boy, son of one of New York's best known lit! Ht tng nestines from Susy.” 4 \ erary men, Edward J. Wheeler, He went to Yale, spent four + Ecru chiffon, old rose rib- _,. be months in a battery on the Texas border and was one of the Bi bon and clusters of buds. N AOE sider (He: auaclens of ihe Vork Federal Bourd (08 contingent chosen to go abroad from the first Plattsburg camp. His name is Curtis Wheeler and his rank that of Second Lieutenant of the famous Fifth Field Artiflery, whose first battery com- mander was Alexander Hamilton, And there has just been published -his book, “Letters From an American : Soldier to His Father,” a bo lich every father, every mother, with a boy Over There should read for , 4 its absorbing interest, its compact good cheer, its honest ae Returning the atternoon calls of the United States Food Administration, an Rose, Deputy Director. Here are the directions for giving a Kitchen Party: Mrs. Yetovitch, for ex- ample, of Henry Street Settlement invites her neighbors—all the kitchen ted by Dr. Mary Swartz bb ITCHEN PARTIES” are the newest form « riotic entertains i ment given by the women of the Jower east side. They are i} literary workmanship, r cool, summery gown of white chiffon and lace. hold—to come over on a certain afternoon, telling them that kitchen the Federal Food Board a demonstration place. There are wonderful snapshots in words scattered all through the fourteen “Letters From an American Soldier to His Father,” written, by the w ay, for home consumption only, and therefore merrily spontaneous, For instance, there is Lieut. Wheeler's picture of Christmas Day ina certain little corner of Fra { “and, wandering through it all, benevolent, kindly, carefree, that greatest institution of modern times, the American buck private. With his hand in his pockets, jingling bokoo Frankies, a Christmas quid in his cheek and a Christmas breath floating mistily out into the frosty air, no Roman Emperor has anything on him. He has a nod and a bong body and he gets a smile in return er As been chosen t ho acts as interpreter duces Mrs. Florence 00 for every- Another real American of whom | tae young officer writes with glee, “Letters From an American Sol is “that crazy cowpuncher Jimmie |dier"; “we laid out gun-parks where V. —— from Fargo, N. D. He is|there was no mud (the curse of! an aviator with an ambition, He} most gun-parks). We put guards), wants to do just one thing; he] at the gates in little sentry boxes, | wants to get the Kaiser. I veriiy| We built us huge watering troughs, believe when he finally gets his Jit-| Where scores of horses frisked and tle one-hundred-and-fifty-mile-per-| Whinnied and kicked each other! hour S. P, A. D., the darned nut is| thrice a d We bad camouflaged | going to head straight for Berlin.” | grain dumps and hay dumps and} But the most entertaining letters| other dumps, We did everything we| | in the whole light-hearted collec-| bad ever read or heard of, and we}! partm Mrs. Wright arms full of gr she takes fifty cents s will pay { While Mrs, Wright puts on kitchen apron, the hostess provides her with pots and spoons and ‘om the cupboard—and the) find them equally cooking bégins cups is the way to Down at Henry Street Settlemen tly in. he ¥ tlon are those which describe Lieut,| had a gorgeous time doing it. Of| where a large part of the population | h ae Wheeler's adventures when, in his] course we made many mistakes, but} is Jewisu, Mrs. Wright usually dem. Last year when we had war own phrase, he was “King for a|We never made the same one twice, ‘ 4 onstrates how noodles can be made| bread wagon,” Dr. Rose said, “many Day.” First he had to take Sypply!and it was better than seventeen| This wedding gown of white § from barley flour instead of whe 0! c lained that of and Headquarters of the Second| schools.” charmeuse and real lace ma; f Ww e the Je Gi alee be given an added touch of nov- flour or how to mak y ‘ h elec: Battalion, a long column of mules,| Wheeler acted as Mayor and his elty by arranging the veil to con- pancake with barley flour. The inter nd | {oea; but horses, supplies and men, on a ree: friend as Chief of Police. They got ceal theryes. preter explains it to the women as the po elr own ord-breaking night hike to entrain.| along beautifully with the towns- 4 ite In sw e use their ‘When hé reached his destination he} people, and one night put out a fire | :| When the finlshed product 13|own s their own pans and th furnished a Major with escort| While the local fire department was} turned out—flaky white or n « d rea i | wagons filled with rations and gett! into its uniforms. Among! : brown, the case may b forage, and h himself was put in| the efficlent helpers on this occa- ments are served. That is M en are very en i command of “the French village, a sion were three ex-members cf the} which is amply big enow ut t abo t em ations, tf dattalion of tbard-boiled artillery) New York Fire Department. | “At Home,” this decolicte guests, 1s sampled. If the party ap-| Many of them have sons in the se regulars, more or less, and God Marching orders came at last and knows how many horses.” | at the end of the first day's hike gown in plain and printed prove of the flavor and the war sav and they are anxious to do thelr chiffon is suitable for enter- ing idea, they ymise to m it in| part in the ervation work, so As he wrote to his father, with] Lieut, Wheeler pulled into a cer taining afternoon callers tueir own kitchens and to teach other! that their boys may have the food * boyish exultation, after his return! tain town “looking forward to quick and dinner guests. os at friends and neighbors how to use war that they need to ‘The only . Apcstag Rape A j ce For the “Honeymoon Trip” a : te billets, “I have done about every-| billeting, a quick meal and bed. plainly tailored travelling’ sult | substitutes trouble is that tofore they didn’t thing except command a regiment.|Then follows an amusingly non- modeled on these lines combines | This week has been the first intro: | know how to pr the substitutes. ® Now that it is all over, I am still ajchalant description of being under serviceability with smart avpeare duction of Kitchen Part but as| They have little children, perhaps, very meek Second Lieutenant with | fire ance, t | they have been suce Lt nd t cannot away to attend #0 many bosses that I hardly dare| we pulled up in the main | be carried on t th 1 es Inuit they ean move, But, hell, I have lived!” | street the old Fourth of July stuff] ; districts of Union Settlement, accord- It is in this letter that he deseribes| started in the sky and every in-} ese w a aS ES SSS SS ea Me iat ei eet NR aa ES TPS TS rt the hike which prefaced his little|habitant disappeared in the cellar of | phere I shall show the women how] Naw York © first city to tre term of supreme command, “I had |his house P . 2 h | to use more rice and potatoes instead | out the plan, according to Dr. Rose, about as much as a battery to pile) “Imagine the situation—a whole| OOy 1c ar 1 ie lot go much spaghetti,” Mrs, Wright| but she believes that it will bo adopt: out into the night with,” he begins.) column in the open and dust spit said, “1 shall prepare the things ed throughout the untry “tt was glorious, You couldn't see} ting all around you. It was bad nasi a thing, and all you could hear were| enough for the men, but mules are! the wagons crashing off the Invisible| valuable. I had two more than I sa aye chal get ai ks cgy ny. ee abet ey eP a Pao T h (o R eason " W h M i » to Jearn ip their own road and my beloved mule-skinners| started with and I wanted to finish Who Can Reason and Philosophize About the Foibles and Fads and Fancies raising thelr volces to heaven in|with that record. So I gavo the of This Drab Everyday Life and Point Morals That Are a Benefit to a World Scientific Facts Applying to Questions heroic Gargantuan curses. command to unhitep and lead into 7 ; " 5 r , “ “The Major who gave me the Job| the nearest ey Then I got the That May Be Losing Its Sense of Humor Under the Stress of a Nerve- You Should Be Able to Answer sald I had to break the record injold rolling kitchen under cover, Racking, Strife-Embiltered Period. : s : ane getting there and tn entraining, and| started a meal cooking and went out BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER W hy Does Water Gurgle When " sare : hi ¥ tt ° t nr force thas by gosh! we did it—with the odds/to look for billets for the men. e Poured From a Bottle? ihe Baviieg aaron ause and ends of the regiment. I even “It was the funniest thing you Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), ha Gin tapas iablil cantensthé |mlane't iy a A re 7 ae ie. the bad a dentist whom I made help|ever saw. I would knock on a door, HE MAN who cutteth down on his rations of patriotism is the Thee said it, eleccvie, Aid seecens strong oharacs|fo sah other, Ie you’ RY a os load mules and a doctor who drove|hammer my stick to pleces, and ace of fatheads, | é . —. Vesristlo which ptande out adovelbend n wire back and forth’ tees a four-line hitch and swore better|eventually {t would be opened a peree | Honesty in a Berlin statement is scarcer than wool in a tens | wverything It wants to go some | ever, at t) no point it will finally even than my wagon Corporal. crack, always by a woman, “Where There is no fool like an old fool, except an older one, | dollar suit. | place else the ti When it} break ap 1 you evonfiatie “We had to wait while the outfit} was the patron? ‘In the cave, of| acon a spraenmieg ine Jiearns of a there 18 no | ov ' f the particles f abead finished entraining. Then we] course.’ ‘Could IT see him?” ‘Well, The avaricious man is like unto the sun worshipper who de- 4 ] 4 4 h I * lair It wants to go there above al th W to eaoh othe pinned back our ears and went to|perbapa’ Then the ‘patron’ would| mandeth pay for rainy days Aerial Passenger Line the Latest Step im) ti'.c5, Sit soo fe ie with so «|, femetimen in r altterant {t. 1 loaded horses at five places at|stumble out of some subterranean : eae » R id Th : | Wheo you turn a hottie full ¢ pa. Al 9 ch will ordte 4 once, mules at another, matériel at| grotto way below and T would ask If thee wouldst cure dandruff, get bald apl ransit. J. aN ahaa ee Mn aa a Uredraniens no very two, rations and forage at another.|him for ‘places’ for the number of aa | HILE tho United States ts fust| Trondhjem, and even as tar north as| Ut And G8 BORN BET Tale bas wire may I think I must have walked miles|‘hommes’ and ‘chevaux’ printed on| The Home Guard should wear his medals n it home. W inaugurating an aerial mail] Kirkenos, Other routes are planued| abt rept TE 6 you|very hard “ae 7 that night with a long whip in one} his door | pls: delivery, the Norwegians have| for cross-country service between | CYry time sok Hele A “ , tie, On the i hend and a flashlight in the other! “Then in the midst of all this| The coward getteth wounded in his shadow, gone @ step further and are ready to| Christiania, Trondhjem and Bergen. | EN" between t ater | na bu 1 make it thy (sort of modern Simon Legree),|‘Trrrrrrrrrrrrp!' in the sky, Roman! se es iat ures ‘ freight and passenger Pas I “ ve is sagition Mia these keh watlmen the @ nen ou can bend 5 pe eee » 1 vi ‘ 7 | service by air. routes, others wh ill endeavor to! ® ; anieh 1 ere prodding ig su of Gary Saran candies and skyrockets and set Recognizing superior talent, the shark surrendereth the ocean to The “Tidens ean” of Christiania| maintain regular service between Re and pu w pees ae at sbi rae ie slass worker Lif oda a lly weet ctl jPleces, and thon, bom, bom, boule,! ine U boat, and now dependeth for a living on six lead pencils, 9 pair | states that a number of business men| vanger and Aberdeen, Scotland, anu) to 'et | * aS OPE lishes, lar vey 30 NAR a few reconds’ sleep. We came /and then @ roar that shook the cob- smoked classe: { nficatine. pl hy i from all parts of Norway have decided | between Christiania, Norway, and ( ltimes t ater pushes the air back, rie , , / bottles, &@,, under the wire a half hour ahead | ples in the street. At the first crack| Of Smoked glasses and a sup} Mane Puarary. |to issue @ prospectus relative to the|penhagen, Denmark, by way of Goto- a ane ie ae sod then bending it, of the nearest outfit. We were able/the door would slam shut and you ris | organization and promotion of a com-| borg, Sweden, : ; vain it also to serve out a piping hot breakfast|could hear the ‘patron’ pei The flapper weareth summer furs around her neck to kee cool, ae to te ped A-8 Norsk Luft-| Hydroplanes of the latest me 1 18 as bee i and let all hands turn in to get) back down into his cave. It weal The flapper also keepeth her head cool by the vacuum system, fartrederl, The purpose of tho new] will be used, and it will the ¢ Frow y some sleep an hour before the train|so darned ridiculous I couldn't help|——— —— . So erm | ompRDY 1a: t0'bo HAY OF maintaining RARYOR AE Snes Heise to make th me Auucativn, Tate Wake dy eye ae eee | laughing, but at the same time it} army canvas will stop anything. As|feel quite like a gentleman again| SOEUR AEA TONER eat ba sibia OL ADE SORUSEIALIN AS Oke and Others Break? CELLULOID Than . ding good berths for men, was vastly annoying, because T!a matter of fact, {t will stop shrap-|{nstead of a combination of Nero! x pwogian and pclae yee , e a ph Pe i WON'T BURN, mules, horses, Lieut, Wheeler crawled |wanted those men to get @ good) nel, even when {t doesn’t keep out| Uriah Heep and Gyp the Blood."| thy project, it carried. to com Seoccanise Rive noe Wee cea / Serie r4 a i , Whose merits into a fish wagon and napped on @| night's sleep. rain. I euppose the shrapnel! But the real, brave, reassuring con-| tion, will no doubt be of very great| table, it will require tour Per ise ot them will i . ; 1 proclaimed, sack of oats. Then came and went! Finally, Lieut. Wheeler, consicen-| bounces and the rain doesn’t.” | clusion to the book is the conclusion | importance to Norway, says the pa-|half hours to cross from Stavangs re ia a0 the fact that ata ibe lous the Major, leaving him to take care! tious young officer that he was,| Of course Lieut. Wheeler brought |of an earlier letter to “Daddy: “So| per. ‘This field, unless covered by the Abe t ne pt ave t ity A of the battalion and the little French | found places for everybody. Then, he/his command to headquarters in) here may I leave you, busy and| Norwegians — the ) probably |to go ( y of re r + Roe community, one other Yale youngster | adds, “as a matter of fact, half our| perfect condition, The last of the! happy and well, with boys 1 have | Would be taken by enterprising | Copenha, The distance, ing on to each ot 1 vexeta ' i avteaa | working with him, labor was wasted, for my wagoners|"Letters From an American Sol-| known avout me and something big | Companies of a similar in the | fror to Stavanger, fol-|dimoult tc eak them away from i U After cosily billeting every biped 1 don sleeping in thelr escort|dier” is @ delightful description of | to work tor j adjoining countrie owing t, will be each other, A , astra Sa 4 and quadruped in the outfit “we!wagons, Wither the Fourth of July|his Christmas somewhero in Franco,| “Letters From an American Sol-| Th? Proect ca oe me 1 3 gt thle is ¢ esta , deine 4 \ tomlin built gravel roads and graded them,” | stuff failed utterly to impress them,| including @ tea party with a charm-|@ler” is published by The Bobbs-| Bnei 6 ead eh ” Paha ee at Berg uf wien paver 9 anell Joes) '\ mA calmly narrates Lieut, Wheeler injor they cherished the beligf that!ing French family which “made one | Merrill Company, peta a tojh a nol poe any OE cae ee a } Ri a2. fra aa 7, f ( } ‘ ae a .