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explosion would be a hole through the themmelves in servants’ hire in a surroundng the warhead, that pres-| nut:.wall and the bending of the first ? ; South, in New York City, im its sub-| very short time. A vacuum cleaner sure, following the line of least re-| stee) pores sesoulter waives" t urba, and on a farm, I can look at| means that you do not have to hiro sistance, !s exerted inward and BP-| powdered coal cylinders will be die- the housekecper'y problems from all/a man to come in and clean the rugs ward through the sbip's bull, “the| rupted,” he says, ‘and the tiquid these standpoints. fficiency in the home means Bases rushing out laterally between | spray and powdered coal will be cat- “Before the war,” admitted Mrs.| economy. But," Mrs. Stockbridge the ship's hull and the water, bend- | - ‘ IF SP pee) AEM HT eT ' Cares for Family of Five Ww ithout Need for Servants’ a _) Bzpert Housekeeping Methods Outlined by Mrs. Bertha E. L. Stockbridge, Author of | “The Liberty Cook Book,’ Who Says It’s the Married) Job” to Keep Her Home Running Efficiently, | Woman’s for These “‘Servantless Days,” and Must Not Criticise Husband for Derclictions if She Falls Down on It. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World), smoothly and efficiently. That is her share of the conjugal part- nership, and if she falls down on it she cannot justly criticise 8 Dae job of the married woman fs to keep her home running herself.” 4? Bam mum Quantity of sugar and fats. “I have kept house,” Mrs. Stock- bridge says in the preface to “The Laberty Cook Book, “with three ser- vaats, with two, sometimes with one, and at others with none at all, and fave endeavored to produce a book ¢ an instant pressure in all directions | absorbed by the spray and their vol- wages for one month of ono maid sf 300,000 nda to thi inch; | UMe reduced, 1 think, at least three- 4 for the woman who docs her own| will pay for an electric dishwasher. Se aS foe carats ost | Geet cooking as well as for the house-|A washing machine and a mangis and since the best of ship-armor !8| 179 helieves the result of such am ' keéper who has a cook anda kitchon| seem expensive, but they pay for : maid. Having lived in the far Stockbridge when I talked with her at her apartment, No. 128 East 24th her husband for his derelictions. And if in these ser- vantless days a woman cannot hire a housekeeper—tet her keep hor own house. Assuming that she is in normal health, she can take care of her home and prepare the meals for her family, yet have plenty of leisure for The speaker is Mrs. Bertha E. L. Stockbridge, for twenty years @ practical housekeeper and the author of “The Liberty Cook Book,” which tells patriotic but per- plexed housewives how to make anything they want to make with the minimum number of eggs and the mini- keep house without a servant should invest In the modern labor-saving devices—just as her husband has in- stalled in his office the latest filing system and copying machine. The added significantly, “true economy moana the saving of time, the SON ee a TONE ORY | mee mN IRE Reprinted, by apectal yermianion, — ars Ri a x ~ HRA eg The New Ship Submarines Can’t Sink DIAGRAM SKETCHES OF HUDSON MAXIM’S TORPEDO PROOF SHIP WHICH UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WILL BUILD TO ESCAPE GERMANY’S U BOATS. from the Popular Bcienes Monthly, | MON A “Torpedo Proof” Ship Hudson Maxim’s Invention To Foil the Submarines Selected for Acceptance from Among Thousands of Plans Submitted to the Government—Work Will which torpedoes cannot sink United States Shipping Board now in use Such a ship dullt at once, acco: and offered gratis authority on high jthe Popular | force of a torpedo will be directed i i When the warhead of a modern ‘German torpedo strikes a ship well | under water, he says, the action of | the explosion is practically instan- taneous, the liberated gases exerting more yielding than the mass of water ing the hull in over an area some- | times forty feet in diameter, while | of inventor of the smokeless powder used and navy and the adapter of hundreds of other destruc- tive and protective forces. The tremendous power of the torpedoes of to-day is clearly shown in ence Montaly written by Mr. Maxim to explain how the | his plan will throw about the ship which may be strack by it. } the strong screen c: at Once Begin on Construction of Ship Described ; by Its Inventor in Popular Science Monthly. te finited States Government believes the problem of making ships has been solved. At any rate, the has selected from among thousands of plans submitted to it one which, theoretically at least, promises to fur- nish a ship which will withstand the force of the most powerful torpedo 500 deud-weight tonnage, is to be rding to a plan of protection devised to the Government by no less an explosive han Hudson Maxim, the by our army the Introduction of an article in nto safe channels by the protection oil of the barrier in the path of the blast will be driven forward through * the stee! screen, commingling Its spray with the hot gases, with the result that the heat of the gases will be instantly ried along together and hurled againgt ntmilly located in 1 oylin 4 h e i Street, “the American housewife was|ing of the housewife’s strength and the gases burst through, expanding | rong steel screen should. mare thé blindest housewife in the world.| nervous energy, as well as tho aay. We Se fei ae a bend somewhat under the blast, tt It was her custom to get one ser- | ing of fats and sugar, is ball of incandescent gases | : 3 “i or more if she could afford and turn ever her kitchen, ‘while she spent ber time entertaining herself. But since Uncle Sam made bis appeal to them our women have “Even more important a factor in domestic efficiency than modern tools conveniently arranged is brains, | The housewife never should take two steps where one step will do. | moves at the rate of thirty miles a second, or more than five hundred times the speed of a fast cannon ball. The four hundred pounds of T. N. T. in the German torpedo-warhead oc- | will not be entirely carried away or broken through.” And he thinks that by this time the gases wil) be vented through the top of the cylinders into the atmosphere so that the energy of thi ast bsorbed and isat- beém so fine! All the criticisms} When she has a large, well-filled ice cupy about four cuble feet, but cal ters ving Ce HREEAL wail oF Be agiitist the war changes in the home | chest, lot her market every other day the Instant of detonation they as-| Deel: learns the inboard wall of t menus have come from the other | instead of every day. When she ts in sume a temperature of 6,000 degrees | et ‘ Ree ee sid6 of the house. And now that our| the kitchen, let her finish the tashe Wahrenhelt and iberate 40,000 cublo |” 4. suasim anys tt has been proved tyes are opened I do not believe that|of the kitchen instead of flitting fect of gases. ‘The pressure exerted | 4.01 Tuiverined, coal best: we shall ever fo back to the old|back to dust the piano in the parior | ‘aside o ship's bull by auch an enor. |'mtt Pulverized coal ix admirably | Gaya of waste and inefficiency in the }or make the beds. Let her plan her mous volume of gases Is 20 great, eee oe ae eae Hie beme. meals and work tn advance.” | says Mr. Maxim, “that often the ship| Que no on yeoman co eals | ducing no smoke, it can be p EET soared | pital Reveal pega Oa ba Broken 15 Gyo): an ts the caee /6t | cee oy ncery toiany part ee the “phat is a fact which we must empba-|New England wisdom, “Let your| the Sussex. ’ sise from this time on. It is one of the most important and exacting professions, Think of the things a Qousewife must know and do! It is notenough to feed her family; she must feed them healthfully and eco- with an internal shock-absorber ts #, the submarines have } \ nomically. She must keep her home |¢F own car, she is able to cook and | now to be tried out. Mr, Maxim's gargnred in tho poat year more than i clean and attractive, yet it must be|Clean. You have no idea, too, how plan provides a@ strong longitudina: 2 ce ae ¥ ms od i Nei a we Allied , , comfortable for all the members of |™&ny women are finding out that | wing bulkhead situated at a distance | Nations ay on able to build k The a 4 the: family.” they can be efficient housekeepers. of about twelve feet inboard from the | andi s been m than $6,000 a “And with the domestic service The newly married ones are particu- hullwall of the ship, a sufficient mass | sgeee ets Bs problem in its present state, how is a woman to keep the home machinery grinding smoothly?” I asked Mra. Stockbridge. It was then that she suggested the “one-woman househol.” “A woman,” Mrs. Stockbridge calmly, “can cook the and do all the work for a fam- of five without doing any work after noon until it is time to prepare the dinner. The days that the dinner comes out of the fireless cooker she has only to put it on the table when bead save your heels.” “Any healthy woman can keep her own house,” reiterated Mrs. Stock- bridge. “And she need not have tho strength of an Amazon If she is able to golf, to play tennis, to drive larly enthusiastic, even if they gave ttle thought to domestic pursults before marriage, “The war has brought on a renais. sance of domestic activity among our women. For one thing, though they may be serving less foog they have become acquainted with more kinds of food. They have learned the deliciousness of various dark breads—always considered ‘faddy’ until food conservation began—and they have learned the Possibilities of the casserole and of the many ex- OW are our sea fighters playing their part in the great war? Woe hear splendid stories of the boys in the trenches, but compar. fleet of troopships, warships and de- | stroyers, and was in an exciting com- bat with German submarines off the coast of France, Later he went out “Only half @ dozen were in that first group, but other groups followed, and groups are still following, Thoy bave not driven the U boats from un- How Our Sea Fighters Are Playing Their Part Work of the Naval ‘‘Watch Dogs,”’ the Destroyers That Guard Our Troops Overseas, Described by James B. Connolly in “The U Boat Hunters.” usually on the job twenty-one hours rough weather the wireless operator may room for forty hours at out of the twenty-four,, In be beld tn hi, After many unsatisfactory expert- | ments, here and abroad, with exter- nally applied devices ‘for protecting tho | hull of 4 ship, such as booms, nets and | | shields, the idea of furnishing the ship of puffer cargo, with expansion spaces for the gases, between the huliwail | and the bulkhead, to absorb the blast of the torpedo before its force reaches and disrupts the bulkhead, “| hae found that pulverized coal, on account of its compressibility and | elasticity, i9 a very effectual shock- absorber,” says Mr. Maxim. “As pul- verized coal may be used for driving the ship, I have chosen it as the main shock absorber. “When a torpedo strikes a ship con- structed according to my plan, the hot, ship by air pressure as effectually as oll is piped. “Wo are trying hard to build shipe faster than the ubmarines can de- vour them,” he says; “but, in spite ef all our efforts, A GOOD ARGUMENT. § he dislikes motor cars, a coun- horses, Recently he bought a handsome mare, and a few days later asked his groom what he thought of the new arrival. “she's a fine looking animal, str, replied the man, “but I'm afraid she's a bit touchy.” “Why do you think so?” questioned n't seem to take to po : r. She can't bear ) file ready. Not every morning in ears for the yonce An | atively lite of the work of the boys| with one of a mumber of American | der the seas, but they have made it Ja stretch, ‘The typical slenderly rapldly SEMOUR see iG eegentt my a eee’ thrarauan —. sores \ the week will be fully occupied, |ooming of peace I believe hi tee in the navy, We know, of course, | destroyers on active duty in the North| possible for merchant ships to live tn built heavily engined Ne bebe sgteepe ely Stout screen of round steel vods,| “Oh, she'll settle down in a few \ el shall “have a nation of efficient | ‘Mat over a million goldicrs have been |Sea, his ts how he sums up “what | that part of the ocean they are coy. |S0 Dadiy tht in a moderately heavy | thon @ gout Rell AN Ui Gl aaygm the squire reassured die, ‘fo keep house in this fashion a [Housewives ‘etticient homes, “and,|transporied safely to the wesiern| they have boen doing” for tuair proud | ering. trolley line to get avout the decks,| “vinderg in which powdered coal 1s| “Everything's strange to her, you { woman's Kitchen should be as con- ry. theatre of war, thanks to the vigilant | sad rejoicing epuntrymen: se | atin, the fob of T boat chasing ling “piates ot “which buckle, into] MNT I TH ential that the | know. T don’t think there's much veniently arranged as her busband’s ANOTHER LADY. mbrsienanin, ofthe watandors OF the) ERAT, BAYeNeRe ANE: ATA Sere | 1NHT TEA 18 GROkNe Milne Bins | gaee: Fek Cr LOVE SP cactrover| came anould be Rowse: $0 \enpadd | Wrens with her temper Wusiness office. The things that she | pps ire Hast End doctor was attend eee a hag ig be 4 rele yee ake eee aves aera old, Ia “Th :'U Bos vn “any the author | "eFvice: for every one who goes there! without bursting the ship's compart-| “Nor ot Bevan hen ieee ene oan cm sae 60 SC Be T ing an injured woman who had ora ery ney ALTO Sas 4 rer during an eighty-five | st ; ps eo vivial rah i sures PE ee per gescea: + oe uy ments, I provide free upward vents | Ooo oy Pilates ee meant hept.on a shelf near the stove. ‘The seme te hee ee stroyers and thelr crews were among | Y ys & som y eharp pi there ig no beating ther except by articles jn ber pantry or storeroom which are in most frequent use should be kept on the lowest shelves, _ The table on which she prepares her | vegetables and meats for serving ‘should be. beside the stove instead of clear across the kitchen, “Also, @ woinan who intends to arm severely bitten, He dressed the wound did go he remarked: sae ta he “1 can not quite make out whi sort of an animal bit you. “Tne wound 1s too small for a horse's bite and too big for dog’s bite.” “Ob, it wasn't an animal!” ex- claimed the patient. “It was another lady.""—-Rocky Mountain News, the very first military units to be sent abroad. But of the work they have accomplished over there we have had few details—and that is why wo must all read with special interes: James B, Connolly's new tale of our bluejackets in arms, “Ihe U Boat Hunters." Mr, Connolly went across with a one free arm hooked around @ stan HAVE never known any life but) tions was made up of stage people. I | ) 1 a rmrrrens | SR SER SEE Bee ee ef | ahaa) a servine. muere of uve] that of the stage. Beginning to| At the age of seven I played In r d ‘ h Oth 9 (sinking Lner 603 passengers without | jammed up in the eyes of the ship aria | eee PO BIRe ate eeece eatery Qvilecn Base } ‘oun ew. e er up-- o Wakes the Bu ler [ the loss of a life, One of these Je-!and never think at sea of taking Of | years, my entire existe has been |rett's company at the Theatre Royal, ~ +24 p stroyers lashed herself to the sinking | their clothes, and where they sleep |that of the foot ry ge gdh eee Bey on a train, Irving Berlin, famous eong-writer, jotted down 4 WO months ago while mding 5 I from Camp Upton to New York the the lyrics of « wong destined to be- And Now Top Sergeant Boselly Has an Alarm Clock to The Evening World takes pleasure in informing the youthful song writer that tt has succeeded in locating the “other pup who wakes the bugler up,” and herewith lies the story. The “other pup who wakes the Help Him Do Lis Stunt. dawn found him sleeping soundly, No bugler tooted for a few mornings. Boselly was forced to ask Col. Doyte, his commanding officer, for a |requisition, He got it—for an alarm mile run to answer an § O 8 call, she exceeded ber builder's trial by half a knot. Incidentally, she saved a mer- chantman and her $3,000,000 cargo which had been shelled for four bours by a U boat; also she ran the U boat under—one of the new big U boats with two 6.9 deck guns, “On the same day two other de- ship the more quickly to get them off, and as the liner went down our Little! ship had to use her emergency steam to get away in time, A fourth de- stroyer of ours got the U boat which sank the liner, That was the record of one little croup of destroyers.” | life with the hougds of the submarine. “It 1s @ dangerous, hard service, on Jone of the roughest eos in the | world," he writes; “a service where for days on a stretch it is nothing at all for destroyer crews not to be able to take & meal sitting down, not even in chairs lashed to stanchions and | (when they do sleep), mostly by snatches, on chart house or ward- room transoma, i “And for watches—eight hours in every twenty-four, night and day, watching of thelr convoy, of their off the them face of the at Hunters” ts published rt : through the ship's deck. “It such a ship should be struck by ‘a torpedo,” he continues, “the water or food to me, It would be unu 1 denied food and as much so were not able to act, I would die soon, Spe | Began M CONSTANCE COLLIER. ts, « Acting is like sual were | Puck. In either case 1 feel |in Hull, Later I rejoined Wilson Bar- s company, appearing as Ancaria The Sign of the Cross.” A series of good engagements fol- i]re When 1 was 4 baby my family was | lowed, after which I was engaged to very poor, I travelled with my mother, | make my American debut at the Gar- y Stage ready, and, when you come to think of it, that’s very convincin'"—Argo- naut Career come the most whistled melody in | clock, Becretary Daniels, Admiral Jettove | °°! ea, of periscopes, (The pros- | Elizabeth Collier, in what was known) rick Theatre, Now York, appearing } New York. He called it “How I Hate |>USler up” is none other than Harry| Boselly wrote his father to get bim| ang other eminent authoriticy on both| Pet of collision with their close- at Britain asa third road com-|as Anne Mario in “Samson,” with \ to'Get Up in the Morning.” He wrote |© Boselly, # First Sergeant in the|no and send tt post haste, Father] gidey of the Atlantic have stated re-| Packed convoy and themselves is a Ay motier wea © cancer, but) William Gillette. On returning to | Mt en the back of an old envelope, |*%th Field Artillery, Supply ‘Train,|B. who is day foreman of The Even-| cently that the submarine peril is at| Pad chance in itself.) ntually played many parts,| England I played Portia in “The Mer- | | ‘The last five Mines of the song are: | 0W tn France, ing World, forgot ali about editions,| toast under control. It seems clear| “Destroyer crews do not loaf over-/4mong them numerous Shake-|chant of Venice” at» Stratford-on- “Some day I'm goin’ to murder the bugier, " Seme day you're going to find him Boselly got into the fighting game last September. His request for a lil’ Frepch atmosphere sent &c., for & few hours, and bought one It She type that does everything but ta that a goodly share of the credit for this victory belongs to American sea much around deck. They can't, They live below decks mostly, strapped tn spearian roles, at three years it was as Mustard See When I began acting | Avon, and then appeared at His Majesty's Theatre in “June.” I played oe nee | 7 ' to -|in “A Midsummer's Night Dream."|abroad for some time and then re- Mica’ to Wathen ‘Somat (sandion Aghters. when ft Is rough to @ stretch of can / | ot : ; dead, France for the winter, As the top| ‘ay that his som. prerelved word. to. | "Aw Mr. Connolly points out in “Phe! vas laced to four pleces of iron pipe| From that time on I had child parts| turned to America and toured 11 i BEEN tooo TH: got the other pu Sergeant hia job is to wake tp the/¥d Pal iD good shape, without a|U Bout Hunters,” “Our destroyers|sct on an angle down against the| until f became big enough to assume | “Israel.” Other appearances of mine j se er DUP, wp the) scratch, rhe ship's aides and calied a bunk, Kven|more important ones, 1 love my |in New York include one in “Trelaw- SNMiss who wakes the buries up, [buster in thé wee ams’ boure of the| went over there at a time when tne| ship's sides “AB? pend the rest of my life in bed.” ce pursuant of The Evening ’# policy to be thorough in all it made a mental note at time, of Berlin's threat “to got ether pup, who wakes the bugler Sergeant Boselly was twenty-seven morning. Boselly had little difficulty | years old when he enlisted, He lived in doing this for the first nine or ten | With his father at No, 666 Wegtmin~ j ster Road, Fla ah. months because of the indessant rear |" "The Evening World prides itself on of the big guns around his camp. | this discovery, but at the same time But lately the bursting shells have absolves itself from responsibility been palling and he falls to bat an eye should Berlin meet up with “the other pup, the one who wakes the bugler when they burst, The breaking of , up.” U boats were sinking more tonnage in one month than Great Britain was building in four, and because of U boat activities the loss of ships in the usual marine ways was far peyond normal. To the weary British our fellows brought @ fresh vigor, a new Agaressivencas, pped in so they are sometimes, when she has a good streak on, hove out into the passageways, It was a young doctor of the flotilla who said that, excopt for their broken arms and legs, his ship's crew were dis- guatingly health The skipper ene My great-grandfather played wit the Keeleys, and my grandmothe work; it is virtually my entire exist-|ney of the W Mme, Collier, @ native of Lisbon, took | the first big ballet to Engiand and in- troduced that style of entertainment of a destroyer ia'to London, Our family for genera- at the Empire Thais" at the Criter “Peter Tbbetson" at | Theatre, one in bj ion, and one in r,| the Republic, | | Tam now in “An Ideal Husband" at | foot the Comedy Theatre, and am finding | tho most fun out of acting winy t haa tho engagement a very pleasant one, | not yet ton years old. ‘The steea wee T always enjoy my work behind the! then a fairy world to me, and ae ~ CONSTANCE COLLIER’ ghis, but it

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