The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1919, Page 16

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919 Household Expert Evolves Plan for Reconstruction Of the American Home | _ Mrs. Christine Frederick Would Rove Government Institute Universal Training in Home Manage- ment, Would Simplify Meals, Clothes and House- hold Furnishings, Improve the Home Atmos- phere and Give Wives and Mothers Opportunity for Outside Interests. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1010, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) T= are the seven points of reconstruction in the American home, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919 Fourteen Points for the League of Matrimony | By Nixola Greeley-Smith ; 4 Copyright, 1919. by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wo No. 1.—JUSTICE FOR MARY JONES . “MI ARRIAGE is like life in this, that it is a field of battle, and not AMERICAN MANT00,HAS BEE sa MADE OVER SR wei a bed of roses,” wrote one of the most coddied husbands that ever lived to charm the world with the beauty of a clear spirit, clearly interpreted Engaged couples, persons enjoying the first week of the honeymoon, and comfortable middle-aged men and women who signed a peace pact so long ago they have forgotten there even was a war will not agree with this trite quotation from Robert Louis venson. But other individuals whom [ summon to take part in this conference for the establishment of the League of Matrie mony may be willing to admit that at least in the house’ holds of their married friends they have observed certain tendencies which almost justify his opinion \ Why must marriage be a field of battle? Has it always been one? Must it continue to be forever a struggle for supremacy between two per- sonalities incompletely harmonized? Or is it possible for a permanent peace pact to be conclude’ between ® man and woman? It all depends on} pn. Mary Jones—who is she? Just wait] 4, a minute, Our grandmothers, we told, were better wives than we a There can be no doubt of th + Paunches Are Passing Before the War the American Man Let Himself Grow Fat at Fifty Now Men of Sixty Have ‘‘36’’ Waists and Use Old Belts as Trunk Straps By Zoe Beckley. , 1019, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl.) ULKY men, please step to the rear and be seated—or wear screens B We hate to seem rude, But the army figure has supplanted the opu- lent waist line, None but the slim deserve the fair. And the sooner as suggested by Mrs. Christine Frederick, author of “The N ring,” and acknowledg Housekeeping” and “Household Engine expert in home efficiency 1. National law for the compulsory training of home-makers. H New handling of the servant problem H Feeding instead of cooking for the family 4. Simplification of superfluities. 5. Changing the home atmosphere. 6. Physical reconstruction of the home-maker. 7. Giving the home.maker a chance for a career. Although during the war Mrs, Frederick spoke for the Food Administration on 110 consecutive days in grows up, find some girl willing marry him, and then teach her everything he thinks she ought to know, from setting a dinner table to bathing the baby 1 girl Prid Com % Foam the civilian with the equatorial excess realizes it the ee our grandmothers in the mass) ore getting rar n do p “/ten differont States, she spends the greater part of her time in Applecroft vet Even his tailor no longer loves the fat man. 11 were undisturbed by a strange new! tur to ma nen, the at Greenlawn, L. I, the efficient yet charming home she has made for Mr Frederick and four youngsters. So when she discussed with me her care-! fully thought-out application of the popular catchword, “reconstruction,” to) 5 iets tart, {La 1 1 Hstenine to no vague or o is aac nies as Mek ek theories, but to the conclusions of | Gu general houschold rout housewife whose broadmindedness 18! nope we shall keap on wearit tempered with a sense of the prac acihes, ahd 1 Glee we enlent “During the war,” Mrs. Frederick | pity with profit our household first ed born into the brain woman of to-day who has on y had no time to develop a sense of| scarcity that a desire for justice, and they | po revived ae would have been considered Un-| pogign tt is unhooverish to require more than 4 across the chest. Military hips measure but 39 1- cial count. Wadsts must stop at 33 1 21 3-4 thigh limit, while calves must quit at 14 1-2 in the de The approved height 1s 5 fect 8, and the weight to match is 148 1-2. Not an ounce more unle you are Pershing. tall—or want to be the funny man in the movies, Women have known for a long time that “fat inc ply grows lowe nd be such @& Will have te will have to mselves to giving up the eventually | | justice womanly had t Now, justic universe, It does not exist, in deed, outside t nan, and it dwells therein mos! hey possessed Cranoe is the rarest thing in the rar ving in Mary Jones mes Mra ton li jousness of r- co fata began, “the Government for the nishings —- the unnecessary, dust- ‘ just as time officially recognized the im-| gathering, work- ing ornaments Before war work was in fashion the pudgy maiden good word for political ad- 4 lib ana eee (he portance of home-making and of the | and draperies, Such simplification thinned herself by other heroic measures, girl in a 42 shirtwalst could lied elie ieauibrargiahges eine Crusoe had come home-maker. ‘The 20,000,000 house-|ghould play an important part in the hope to turn the head or rule the heart of even the Falstafian male. Now, | Fe ie oa aering lanivinanie ee ‘ hem wives of the country were asked to| physical reconstruction of the home by @ sort of poetic justice, man, too, must melt to the mold of the dough- celaotede ele pre aeehrey id Dr ge UL ave eed enlist as ‘kitchen soldiers,’ and 0) “The atmosphere of many a home Mary pe reer swer stand solidly behind the men behind | should be reconstruct If we are to ua bapa ta } Nene pecceliien oy Mere Neue Tailors has de - | s justice, This is from the] visiting card. Ar ; anaes the guns. ‘That precedent having / keep the husband do the youn reed it, Bill, and is yours to obey—or " cut out by every ttle jad Women particularly have |iut 1 have neve 7 Hae been created. it seems to me the Gov- |! members of the family in the hon who went from the wheat field into the navy, and every grocer's clerk who shown @ persistent indiffere tO 1 Sine ip an “a os ae ? ernment might recognize the impor-|day, certain too common restr limped, a hero, off the battlefields of France. in their personal relations with men.) oman” Keeping hier maiden namye, i tance of universa! training in home | must be climinated, . Rnrrnrrnrnnrnnnren ® ¥et a first I i except, of cour work, Wey Fos Management for its girls, who will be : ; ‘ Jone flight” have decided to make only| the new mind.” o the Saturday nig vath an cpa Ol A aS ’ ‘ wound the me sibilities of your : the home-makers of the future. 7m, | 66 HE perfect man,” asserts) dor models, So unless you have! The “new mind,” Mr, Fehlman|bowl-cut And 1 mother face to face with the problem | janitor by sticking two famos over . “As a first step in the’ reconstruc- ‘Ss | Frank KE, Fehlman, whose), io¢ of old barrels you want to| maintains, is a sort of Siamese Twin | Whiskery and rick of dividing @ hunk of deer meat to! your doorbell wh will i job as Pre of C -| as uy the satisfaction of her hungry brood tion of the home, then, | advocate a sitet Pr t of Church) wear out, better thin down and take! to the “new figure.” You can’t sep- forty? N Cee ae prensa ie Ps yl rtleularly u insist - national law putting into the thr W-Hall, Ine, requires him to know | Voy erin on youth, lceeta the a “gob,” for in-| Will 100k," predicts Mr. eae: eee ene ee pay to himeeit | UPON Keeping 1s anys and to teach the « 8 » “ | nan, “ reader will doubtless say to hi Lele 3 grammar grades a compulppry cour And to teach th hip Of) phe Ameri man,” goes on Mr.| stance, who was growing turnips two | MM, “like th in Disten I Luke Wonten eesalveiiners (hit Suntiowstror: sour tase wae wished rene making 1 46 pot call Hl C [clothes “is the army man. Of courre!| reniman, “ia just becoming clothes-| years ago and going occasionally to tf Who has the aippy ed T1neea|| ibe Worm Fecaiva more the Mee on you by him with all tile ier # e+ domestic science, because that usually; § | 20 you suppose any chap who left! conscious, Before the war he let] young folks’ societies in the vi the diagr: Coat cut with a low|ARd many of them do. fe sort OF" of existence, while yo isbund is Ho means covking alone, and the course) 17 pounds of adipose at Plattsburg 18! himselt grow fat at fifty and began| charch hese, he biuat maaie|collar which shows th en one at | Women we see sitting about in cabs) ssuany some one you for youre se No Crime for Father te Drop |yoing ty jot i ain? J ’ cauren; ‘where he Dlushe imeelf . At) arets would be appalled by the idea ; ae ’ ; © shoulf include more, Sehool & c if the lear going to let himself collect it again?/tq wear whatever was comfortadle.| aimost to death because he was so] est half way down, This allows the Ryker gre hie lted.to hee, | oo eh ~ should be taught marketing, keeping} Cigar Ashes on the Floor, You bet not. He sees wh handi-|}1e'¢ go into a tailor shop and say,| sh ite collar to be low IE | hehe leas gat odni Ke sai La But Mary Jones car Jeed, must lt house, keeping an account of ex-| Father must not feel that it is a{cap it was, and what an old man it|jemmo see something conservati ‘ s ; the things that make fod (ere Seah 0) WOMen Te? | live on: Unt suc. | mething © Ho and his cronies sat over in one Ww loOK | tvaan the cae Gh aleceas and twentye an in any su penses on the budget pian, dietetics! crime for him to rumple the sofa] made of him, On gets the grand) And the tailor would drag out what corner, and the girls‘giggled and tee-| Youngs. Plain k papas sion warca ih Net York Co*sful marriage ev loes not if © “and cooking, The ones who need this | cushions or accidentally drop a bit of} and glorious ‘feo!’ of thinness he’s | we call ‘old man models,’ hase vente, Shae RASranle “Double breasted cout pap riigp iy fete dedi pineboolgy Ce hefore jan= 7 instruction 1 wil never get It cigar ash on the floor, ‘The children; going to stick that way, even if he hey were generally of navy bluc| gob's hair was cut funny, His hands| buttons, Cut in at t | les Gane ate, thaw what, Ore AS Geeary Her right to . anywhere unless they get it at school.| must he given good times at home, !does have to Ko slow on*custard pie. | serge, which has been popular since | were like hams. And when he danced | thé and navy off laut 4 ripe yo Ae sb A ae exist comfortably and happily and mes | allowed to invite friends there; As for the sws who've been|the year one, And our fat friend| which he didn't hardly “dast’- Ripple sleeve ns if ti Uennee open Ge on Men aemuurtae nok bevernct crippled by trog- r pas then the children will not seek friends) oversea and lived and worked and] would ease himself into « suit meas-| eet behaved like jammed jogs in a{!M Wrong. like Heese Weoley on Amalie SEE Chat it are. what Mrs, Joba jand good times somewhere else Jrought Wik nalithat-—will those ur ) across the chest and 51] rapid ri |Seam far up on tt ulder and set actually Hike when of y exchange Smith should do and be, and wear ; % | “The aver: American homes | chaps sit nd let their waists |around the so-called waist, Then] Yook.at him now! Finest, cleanest, |in a trifle full givir arm plenty ling He and look, is the fir ntlal to | | maker is greatly in need of physical! and the up again? 14h spill cigar ashes soup com- ‘aightes att kid topside the | of room but wing its outline with. | with his mind on| ¢minine peace marriage % bs [reconstruction How married and! guess n ing man's|fortably all down his facade—and be! earth, He began to improve with his|out a trace of padding je aawas seh nye ‘ihcate ‘ 4 Of course, where there is no Mary . " | sot ov e ofte joo! event y en 1b t perfectly ha except fe eo e . t Sd ah = pis sph eds one rut jus 1 ay jsettied-down she often looks, ev ' ven the Is that got) perfectly happy, except for the little} girst navy haircut mebady: loaned rousers 1o¢ t bottom. Sort of} control of her own property, wonders |J0Me# but just a blank mind watte ' me |when she ix no more than thirty-five! ove 1 te hop and hike with|rheumatism and dyspepsia and may-| nim a kit of manicuring toola, He| glorified gob traight down, | what eles married women can want,|i0m cof @ mubber stamp, the situation 190 The reason is not, as she thinks, that] the best of The world’s young|be a touch of gout, He was hung he t 1 1 GRY 7 cia, | 19 asic But, as 1h intimated ) | polished his boots and pulled up his| loose at the ankles and kind of short. | What they desire cannot be legis- Jousehold Assistants Will Be No he has toy too hard, ‘Th wel g It 1 h start. Stuf-|with cobwebs, but he didn't realize it.| socks, got into his trick clothes,|{t gives a boy effect Fncweeuid'lintad: for it a aohahee iniitanc'a than tupid women are becoming t Longer “Household Slave: eral reasons for her poor physical! finess is Snappin is bi rom now on you will hardly find | stapped a “bean n his head and—! stuff, And if t vppens to b ment tude toward the woman he | © . ’ “There will be no more servants in| Condition arc that she cats too mu lye wth au er—how|an ‘old man model’ from 42d Street | nad a new outlook on life perfection « knees or bow |marries, his recognition of her rights| py: : srl 7 the home. We may as well accept {sits around to > much and kets tool you going t f youlreentt|to Waco, Tex, Mon of sixty atel At whatever port he was stationed [loca it amoothe tiem out beaut jas a personality, apart from him, and Riches in Uruguay little exercise, Housework is not ex the musele bolt? using their old belts for trunk : 1 Up ; j A ; Mhat fact In the future we must n Is smiled at him, n lex | Plain bla or here at ast we © to Mary Jones. | Jook to household Aasistanta, noune- [¢Feive wnlens it is done in bloomers iT notice the man w aad Woy Weetrolat HARA iar SPs Bugler enae ney eae Pn he e{ Wien, John Smith marries Mary Wait for Development @orkers, home experts, and we must plea basal kehyapriet Dy pong n Ph Ny thinks f They've the physical training de him mittens and chocolate| spacd between t a Jones how long does the idea of FNTEREST in Uruguayan manga MA call them su On Mary, but | HomesmeKen shows im Nn K homay be ow truc ame somehow and are asking their |< and Dad talked travel and|and add ‘kick.’ {Mary Jones a separate, distinct nese is being reawakened among > Mrs. Jones or Miss Brown. ald oy ot nari fer and be Houle events, Mr. § 1 depo: for Vsometh he, smart Aldlanance tne year youn Mr. Got “Plain brow And there }equal, different individugl remain i capitalists of Great Britain and | “The feudal relations between the a hn 0 ea oe Sls Ja W exe Paunch nes are passing, | diffidence vanished 1 , wivolcahel Sou i snap- | his consciousness before it is smoth- | the U nited ta and there ts @ 4 istcess and her household al DI er eed F tag I TN Pe nd the help of a ve inch collars are in the|before the sur stead pier rig. And in that rig you couldn's {ered by the all-obliterating Mrs, John | srowing belief that reconstruction aes ; } + pming down from the days when the pers Fecha! inten pane f \tallor, oven blessed Papa J © could va nd the man who can't! mering and w Sihelp thinking snappy. Yet the suit{/Smith? Not the two minutes it takes | ivities 16 weste hemisphere Goprentice was literally bound out,| When attacks t) . lly Lesylph or lever its| fasten the lowest button on his | t steps lin made of the same kind of plain{Bim to sign tho marr ister! | Will require development of the vast ¥ rained to his work bench so he | handling i should not eat be) trivalent . wilatcoat without look’ as though | M ats pee ee ait it he is busy and preoecupied.| deposits of this valuable metal exa‘ Ai . twe eals or e at ate meals, 1 , ‘ 1 mus ! . * 4 ‘ t ne t unt ‘ F wouldn't run away from it, must be] LOO Mi etter te | the war hea is 1 swallowed a watermelon ought | Hi hut [reer ras For Mrs, John Smith, as a new- |{sting in this country f oe abolished he home-maker must gels sbeiese vlad nin t world that to be ashamed to look a Marine in| Do you sui he is ‘Get the - is how. the! bern human being, has to be initiated | Manganese jy largely used in mane Re ‘compromi: a pian whereby her| health sho will look and feel like ans} easy and ev © clot eye. Tailors are making c thes | » clod-hop around C low leans Nan oratiemt ‘ans figure, |into the art of living, must be made ufacture of glass und chemicals, Hi assistant wolks only a specified num Bid di nve you ten d f you a to fit the new figure and! again in the old way? A back clothes and viewpoi to benefit by the accumulated wisdom | German and British capital has done t ber of heurs and has the time out foe a - . -—— land experience of the universal ex-| «bout all that has been done in the i side of thom free use as she | pert she hag married, manganese exploitation that has beem i chooses without catechism from her | | Sho must be taught the care of a| Cirfed on in this country and pags i i role | e€ W or ar a i es | nome, the proper uttitude toward) ically, ne ane { I thinks has taught the jservants, the correct way for a mar-| k « facilities * t | , 1A x 1 to dress and 0. been the greates ¢ ' by ican housewife “the importance WHO WILL HAVE TO BE INTRODUCED O THEIR FATHER: ried woman to dress and to comport | ee ne eee ht Raye i of point 3 on my reconstruction pro- | | herself toward other men, the precise) SoCttured mang : eyed i gramme, but she must not forget the | deg intelligence and information) production, This handicap has kept 1 it leason she has jearned. It is a lesson! The Inspiration Which Comes | t becoming for her to dispiay in| unproductive two large } atmos | HF of fewer and simpler dishes, with a] From Outside Interest. | | pubic, how to shop at the butehor a} sotld manganese ore Urougnout, alts better balance of food values, of the! «1 do not wish the last point on my | jand grocer's, how much the laundry | titi a at 81,000, ons of the Importance and desirability of many] reconstruction pr ih inders | bill should be and just what to give) yvajuoble 1 ould removed ft Y espayindisg oP igusindtoiayesh cig) th baby when his “tummy” ache from the deposite by « mew f hrifty avolda: stood. In advocating a career outside | 7 . Hih sieam waovele, Hog i i waste on the table and in the kitchen, ‘i I | All these things take time, and quite| WIth steam shovels islish capital the home for the homemaker at aie site toon AGI baat MIA: | intereated in the ‘comp iny not urge that a woman with severa ; b i concessions covering these we Luka” tes wera ta 4 el arly backward in learning them, and hills. Coranany Wee i es ‘ : ; ‘ doll | even questions the authority of her holdin tory for seven or ten dollars a week fag tp Vor Aus N t prerss h en t na ¢ hat is preposterous, But all these | Ail husbands are not like that! In-| has been unabl vor is women who have bee war| A F : | dicaps imposed by lack ' is aie Hema barpe t une leed they are not. But on the whole} the deposits pnamOn ran ri ie pan Lp the universal instructor ‘n| scarcity of timber Ce ee ee ees aris and sciences to the equaliy in- 1 ae are they going back inside their own genucus male who regards his wife! EVENING WORLD four wall W that the war |p over We Should Simplify Food, Clothes | ang content thomacives with an - . ; st as a mystic “medicine woman,” and Furnishings. ; i vs | KATHRYN READON ELEANOR CARROLL BAN F MORRAY JOS Ne DON OG¢ cepting and quoting her most ie PUZZL “We have the finest food of any a Hie froth i antes think | mentary platitude on the subject of A Butcher's Profits, country in the world, but in the past| they should lose the broadening and NG by the War Raby E " Which Keeps the "War 7 months ago to await Dadd New York City D4 alth and Routekeaping aa IF Be. wer | By Sam Loyd the American woman ha nthe the inspiration which come from an ph ' k at ‘The Evening World full, there are | No. 415 West asth Btreot summa Is Laie He custodian of a new Sphinx’s PR worst cook in the world. She has | outside interest of thelr ch When New York babic ‘ roduced to their daddies when | RSA J - bes O vag nifamtyinie’ i rane known least about the possibilit f|they went to the Red Cross work me from overseas tt ty w © w bumper crop Pt ihe mirik Mail nob Have ail the honors in will never go out of for $100, He patd the material which she handled, Our | 1001 so many sa week nobody} of pr new 5 Sant At aR dist ante Ee cunt BU diene Gk at bo hte Bastio @ nion so long as boys continue to! ehickons, $1.02 f true national emblem bas been the charged them with 4 their | ‘ t aan n aroed ihecanent 1 cava Dove nie anit nm too and ho wants to t Robinson ¢ Tasos.” Crusoe w Nuch nnd: fina frying pan. I have beard the Ameri-| homes, Why should such a charge; wat any dadiy, no matter how critical and exacting, could possibly x never had a chances to meet daddy n was | y and miserable, as we all know! toy turkey i a cam man blamed for demanding al-| be brought against them if they con-| wish for E . Noa ete eae ite MaMa ET Mirae ane gt Gor Cs 4 euiginte ia) ine (azad) ot mia eco ee ways chops and steak at the family| tinue to give @ part of their time a . Infantry, 27th Division, had sailed for France, rt island led him to track} ohicken ' dinner table, J think he has done it| every week to some form of social nt Tak He Kathryn Reardon, for instance, daughter of John and And little Samuel's motion for attention ed by ano down man Friday and begin a] cach duck and Lie because of his knowledge that his| professional activity not directly con-| Kathryn Reardon of No, 416 $4th Street, Brooklyn, When Daddy Brooklynite, Baby Joseph, in the fourth pleture PR oe OR us unending orgy of teaching) 5 each turkoy wife could not season and cook prop- | cerned with their homes? | heard that on May 8, 1918, just six days after he had arrived in France Sergt. McDonough cond U Caves oop Cia not Wis) | | bin things Now, he was erly the goulash or the cimop suey or) ‘They can do it, and the home itself . other appetizing ‘made dishes’ he) wiji not suffer—if only it is recon- ted,” Mrs, Frederick ended, with ay a meinber of isattery B, 06th Field Artillery, a little daughter had Inasmuch as little Joseph was not born Desert islands belng scarce, and| clever enough to arrived at his home, could he possibly have formed in his mind a 1918, Daddy will have to wait until he gets home to No, | transportation to them difficult and/ invest that $100 to the best possible brighter, prettier picture than the one we've printed above? 266 Jay Street, Brooklyn, before the two can shake handy and say, | expensive, the only way a boy really| advantage, so how much profit did he ‘ And Qe same applies to baby Kleanor Carroll, who came three | \"Pleased to meet you.” i can be Robinson Crusoe is to walt till| make? vi ep