The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1919, Page 20

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1918 How to Do Housework Without a Backache | MRS. FREDERICK, HOUSEKEEPING EXPERT, GIVES RULES FOR KEEPING FIT AND WELL AND FOR MAKING HOUSEWORK EASIER Trouble With Most Tired Housekeepers Has Its) Source in the Way They Stand, the Food They Eat, the Clothes They Wear, the Exercise They) Don’t Take, and Their Mental Attitude Toward! Their Work—And Here Are Mrs. Frederick's} Remedies. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Congriaht. 1918, by the Prom Publishing Co. (The New York Rrening World ) OW can the homemaker keep herself physically and mentally fit? How can she avoid the aching baok, the tired eyes, the worn skin, | the dull and narrow point of view which so often characterize the | woman whose work has lain for years within the four walls of her own house? Is the woman who docs her own housework, or who has the aid of only one more or less competent, more or less permanent, assistant—the ‘ mistress, in short, of the average American home essarily a drudge I took these questions to Mrs. expert In sclentific home management homemaker, because in her most recently published book, | “Household Engineering,” she has a particularly effective | chapter on the hetlth and personal efficiency of the home woman. i Somebody is always telling men and children and business women how! to keep well, but comparatively little attention 1s paid to the problem of | physical fitness for the average wife ibaa ? H Christine and Frederick, practical and mother, Of all the constructive | promptly “Women working with} suggestions made to this woman in| food, smelling it as it cooks, are, “Household Engineoring"—most of | tempted to overeat, to ‘pleco’ between them have been tried out tn Mrs, | meals. The home woman, on the Frederick's own kitchen at Green- {other hand, 1s likely to make at least one meal hone seems to me day, ber lune! instead of a regular time. many s' The proof of all this jis that she usually is overweight for | her age and height “She must make her eating habits right. She must have plenty of fresh alr-in the rooms where she works. It is particularly important that the lawn, Long Island of th more valuable than her advice to the|@ stand-up ‘bite homemaker on such points as pos-|dish served at a ture, food, clothing, exercise and men- | {8 inclined to eat tal attitude toward her work. and starches. “Homemaking,” Mrs. Frederick as- serted flatly, “need not be drudgity- ing. It is fully as possible for the homemaker to keep well and keep in- telligent 4s for the woman or man ja most other vocations. Housework is hot Sho, vets | ime mat far less monotonous than running an elevator up and down, or stamping dies in a factory, or writing form letters over and over, Housework, properly done, is less phyrically ex- Kitchen, with its food odors, be well ventilated, Tho sleeping porch, wher- ver possible, is the ideal night ar- |rangement for the housewife, After j® day in confining rooms it is ex- pecially helpful. “Then, too, the homemaker must hwusting than work in a laundry or in any occupation requiring constant standing. take regular exercise.” “The chief reason why the worker! “But she thinks she gets plenty of outside of the home keeps young and| that in her normal routine!’ I ex- alert longer than the worker inside | Clalmed. the home is because the former has| “Housework te done more outside interests in the hours| relatively slow, when he is not working, more con-|Drisk walking or sports," explained tacts with the world. The home worker| Mrs Frederick, “The homemaker has had so little incentive to do any-|Particnlarly needs to exercise the leg thing except sluinp into @ round of| Muscles, She ought to walk Quickly dull duties" at least two miles every day, and if My own conviction always has been |*%¢ Can play golf or tennis, go to a that the home woman's trick of slump-|*¥!™Ming tank or exercise in a gym- ing physically and mentally 1s due to|%4#/U™, so much the better, Let the ‘the’ fact that she cannot be fired from | busy young mother slip outdoors and ndoors and Is red with as comp (aa (aim ma Cn C net) (mite ow AND AN UNUS ALL DAY FROCK of TAFFETA. BLOUSE IS RDIAN PLEATED PHOTOS @ UNptawoon ¢-. Snpmawove » ° *3 ° = ae. For Miladi’s Late Spring Yard AN “ALL DAY” FROCK OF UNCOMMON UTILITY, AN EVENING GOWN WITH DISTINCTIVE FEA- JALLY SERVICEABLE WRAP FOR BOTH AFTERNOON AND EVENING WEAR. Xe. THE LONG DRAPED LINES, TRANSPARE HEM and BEADED BODICE ARE THE DISTINCTIVE | FEATURES of THIS GOWN WHICH IS CARRIED OUT IN ROSE and FRENCH THIS STUNNING WRAP of BLACK VICTORY SATIN and BRETON EMBROIDERY IS SUITABLE FOR. EITHER AFTERNOOW OR EVENING WEAR. . robe ¥ her job. In an office, a profession or | P! nf ball with her children, They ° ° e than they could be taken to Sia ree the D. 8. O. he miacaredl me i Bre gorse erie Cemeemnee Ox wll Jove tt a04'tt will be the dances Bowling Green—Where New York’s History Begins Directly ahead was a. sreteh of] trace of Justifable content. Standards of strength, competence, | ‘Ping In the world for her, woods. Beyond the woods was a hill.| told I had been recommended for it and appearance, unless. ae ie to|, “Incorrect posture tx responsinle| The recovery of Bowling Green's | In 1771 an iron fence was erected '«pye company making the advance|T hadn't heard anything more about . /eqeiaee pratles posed pye| fF Much physical strain upon home-| Pre- Revolutionary iron fence, jaround the green and an equestrian! wos headed straight through thelit. Perhaps it is not true, I've had wage of the homemaker may be no|W°Tkins Women, They stand stouchily| “lost” since subway contractors atue of King George Ill. set up '9) woogs, shells were falling from all| no official communication—but here's more than board and clothes, but no|“t "ve oF eink, they hold the abdo-) removed it flve years ago, gives jthe centre of it, This fence and its) sideg, Then it was discovered that| what she says was published in the matter how incompetent or how|™*" felaxed and their weight 1s| timeliness to this first article in stone foundation were still standing | tho pil beyond the woods was honey- | paper in my home town.” pe wrongly adjusted, giving th until five rs ago, when subway 1 machine guns, A bar-| He extended a slip of paper, on slovenly in mind or body she cannot! » Riving them back-} a@ series which will tell the his. “4 a nites ‘ A 4 Jaches and fiat feot. I wish the pos: iss contractors removed it “temporarily 1, Instructions were red the following news be discharged for unfitness, | tory of New York's famous | . Walia Gohion (nea diic: : ee ta Mee BrgAasiona. “abi [ture leagues would get after the! souarcg but the iron balls nce deco-{ratanhoned from headquarters: : ir, ‘ Mrs : ¢ pl pes *|housewives. And I wish kitchens a . | rated it were broken off in the first Send runners, Halt the company] “Private Thomas A. O, Miller, A. 8, Remenal ing “ puniness suffers] might be designed with their turn, By El cl |year of the Revolutionary War by|at the edge of the wood to await| No, 206422, 49th Company, 5th Real- i & lock of cotmpatition, And !/ture at the right height for women y Eleanor Clapp. |the mob of prominent citizens Who] further orders, Hurry." ment, U. 8. M. C.—For extreme hero- Be, eee’ St: RATIOS WH Aland that more women Woild use the| deere, 1019, we feo tee Fabtihing Co, | pulled down the leaden statue of the| ang Capt, Hamilton, wha was act-|ism in action near I'ane Mont Ridge, smile, “just how we are guing to 1D-| iabor-saving devices which eave steps (Tie thew York Borenibg World.) King and melted it up for bullets. ling Major, called for volunteers, All] France, Oct, 4, 1918. Private Mil troduce it into the home. But other | ind stooping ag 3 |For,” sald a patriot, “the British) a viiapie ru in his command re-| volunteered and carried messages stimuli the homemaker who does! “Tnere really is a great deal P| HIE history of Now York really shall have a moited majesty fired at) .ionded, A few were chosen, Each| through terrific shell and machine not wish to be jaded can and must! variety in managing a home. rere ins af Rowllag ve which them." And all that was saved of the |i nuw he was to race with death.| gun fire, In the performance of this find, Vevhaps the most important of | mistress of one has, more than ult is the oldest of all the city Jornate gilded statue was the horse's |s:.ch know that the lives of his com-| mission he suffered the loss of a leg these is a vivid and intelligent inter-| most any other wor Worker, tng) uares, for Battery Park, the open |tail, which is now in the possession of) pages in that advancing company de-|from an exploding shell, Home ad- mething outside housekeep-| chance to arrange ner tasks to suit |*PAC® t the south, is much newer, \the New York Historical Society. I nded upon that message, If tt{aress, Kau Claire, Pennsylvanta.” u like, a piece of} her own convenienc If whe is wisy | PCN® mostly made-land, dating onty tn septs | In 1790 the fort was pulled down|fajjeq of delivery, if the company] The boy, who had been inclined to soclal service, a big movement. The| she will sit down whenever possible |{2™ 188 + oo Wap ‘ land a Government house was ere eted | ——— — a douht if the world estimated its busiest homemaker will have time |qnd alternate gitting tasks with stand. | It was in all probab: in the in its place, which was demolished tr heroes at their true value, forgot for for something of this sort, if she|ing ones, Sho will le down Rowling Greer ld D M | 1812 ‘ f jock of he moment his disc ! . g ones, She will lie do id relax wiing G “ r Minu 1812 to make way or a ck oO! Th the moment his discouragement, arranges her work properly andj completely for at least ten minutes! bartered) with the. Indians for the houses, long known as "Quality Row,") e€ eart Language)", guess folks do remember," ha scientifically. During the war didn’tlevery day. She will simpit island and put over one of the most Jbecauss for many years they were + observed to the boy in the n ol phify he y t be find time for Red Cross work or | work to its lowest common denom{.| profitable real estate deals in his the finest in the cit Commodore ola olu > &@ canteen or something of sort? | nator will wear clot inl thie wean ena Ttouene At oe peta peer ete A . | ’ hing tha ory when b ight Manhattan for Vanderbilt had a house here and epee ae , ISG can (ake tisue tor some activity | ot too tight thes aver tec mete ltr acd three. bere okie, thus later aa fice, “overt Goel alma! FXRENCH ts an expressive tineuage. | EVENING WORLD Tying in routine, if only she thinks | Poet too heavy and that ts easy to ad. |Ameriea at the time he paid about | Washingten Irving, Long before th use } de a ag a eg ! oe By S I | 80." val t was worth. At the lower ond la algn of amity betw Peind) for the youths and maidens while the| steve! Capt. Archibald Kenn wes Eeean eros ani y sam Loyd, jow please tell me about how the| “Ifa homemaker will take the t the Duteh built Fort linhabitants of Mana 1 and|clders smoked or gos ang | built a great mansion in the square, [PY an America ed © roa pam Two Gentlemen of Leisure homemaker can keep fit and well,” nauk A te ipa yy poaseee rans “ah Ne eta the. pretty” mortia|wh{ch afterwarda Washington used {T° Wit teonlyed al i ae 1 requested Mrs. Frederick. | uk t fir tb reat Jas his headquarters, and here during |A™*! yeadqua s H i r nial W cnil “ ting n d ¥ nerc of two gent Improper eating often is respo “4 ' ane surrounded by @] 1 1964, when an Enelish fleet a Soon after this the square began to! the British occupation of the ne a manie eturned from sible for physical weakness and dis- or but later ltacked the Dut tae HOG Oldvk be called Parade Ground,” be- | lived Lord Howe Guy Carle. |e" ie write you th We W comfort which she attributes t . ql 1 and wit aii cumEant t an é vu t was t m ienlent | ton, Major Andre a y |, “Tam & Renna Mian overwork,” the } expert replied | minds and t r the house of thelthe ¢ ngrily stumped t ind) place for military drills and reviews, | house at No, 3 Broadway, and | . er nee longtime a Blew v er i lirector ¢ r, the Church of|forth on hin famous wooden leg In 1732 the City Fathers determined | Daniel Webster lived not far away. ORY To ac sine for learn English ‘ntulikan eee Billi D II f. R Dye Nicholas, a barracks for soldiers of the fort It make a ple re ground of St, but | Many were the famous v ors th ie 4 n being present at me one “bs Nlion Dgllars for Rebuilding Rheims | mre, winiimillss wisin outside A ai [tion too earctul ot the city Anances| old square hax seen. In “Quality |AM4 occasion Dein resent ak me om ay 4 f A 5 " the stockade the huts of the villagers |the while he would rath apend the people's money for such | Row," where now the front of the] i sol, I follow it each evening onan BE total cost for the reconstruc. {of Paria Rheims und other French Jed for a short distance along ed A corpse to the grave than{a frivolous purp ney announced | custom heuse stands, Garibaldi was| yey ee ie was more disvom- Rai Hon of Rhein Ording to C8 leit the city will nek i be adopted, | the East River nder the city." Yet for all tha: |that they would lease It to publelentertained, and also Louis Napo-|MMN oO en oe root yout vat aaa Seoaten ust comy 4, is placed | features t oars ov. 6S : | port, or entrance to the|he was « 1 to give way to the 1 citizens to be laid out as a/leon, long before he became En rate Yanks on the road without to inged = tthe at 6,000,000 francs, 0,000,000. |and cata 1 plan wh with le : Jirectly upon the square | Wishes of the citizens, who ha wling green, for bowling on the] peror, when he was but a poor young} eye in. ty address a word. The onl avg ae ‘This iv the figure of t nde 4 ved ‘ t Ma |tillery heavy enough to inflict m rass was thon the popular - | man with a towering ambition, . well, sometimes, to trans- which the Germans imposed on ty ' iy t kyelt o : , aha , Jlooks seem well, ies, wher ‘ 1 un >» and who t nt, Three the prominent men} ‘The first fashionable “mercer ; lesnap that wa ria at the end of the F Prussian w ; i f {Market I t y| ‘ 7 Jlate a few of kinde tha teen miles further @nd which t ‘ a ffi. |t " ’ ; D big ; ud f saya bed hy f LE ee roan Shain i Peter| shop” whieh we Row ent ar lave for them, but that is not con- jan affectionat meprern wnee Rare 4 1 the Duten ¢ nm eve much and I 1, leased it for 1s store, was situates we AVatentlan ie Ralianl thirteen and 1 ciently large to r I H 1 Pa : t 1 60, the converaare at asantvil r My | ee f : 4 } Saran eet ir for tho|t flaht ugainst overw n years a nual rental of | side of the square, and hore also was |“siy jy now a great Joy in all French | Pleasantville elally and indus nF " 1 Gann, rd) per square now be-|the first ott Which afarmy that news of A moricane success | SOM"s, er tiuusanevilie io dovtowa? come. en a mid ircle and Jevery year Bowling Green was filed] After the English t ty the|came a fashionable quarter of the| post boy on horsebs 1 mails |in Cree. ce Aw In spite of this terrific cont, & i" a wit , no Rut in 1645 {name of the sq was changed vn and tho rich began to bulld|to Albany twica a week, while an. [thls litte Wie nett een ive ul- [ANSWER TO PLAYING THE SYS. part to the increased cost « that that the | very different k place, tor|"The 1 end of it stili| their homes around it, When the fother one took the mails to Boston at|%uys haa for my wife and my little TEM qaierialy resulting from t wa are now in a com. |here in a great circle sat the Indian} served as a market, but the remainder| tirst lease of t tiny, park ran out it| first once a week and afterwards as|son, Believe well that your ahadow ae ie one fit dont BA. Rheims is losing no time rising from Diets wate of i molition, "will bel chiefs with the Dutch Governor and] Was now used as a meeting place ana! was renewed for a rental of twenty | business increased twice, and for a mex Raine GORE BON abe ther tiie | tied leaving 0199, and of this he lane ap vain, For the reconstzuction of (Catedral may Diode atenonen his doughty captains, each in turn|place of entertainment for the popu-'sbillings by John Roosevelt, Col,| consideration would take also allie you will well write to me, He-jone-fourth, leaving $144, Staking this” ihe city twenty complete plans have | square where al 0 y po [solemnly smoking the peace pipe as}lace. In the spring a May-pole was Frederick Pbilipse and John Cham+| woman passenger mounted on a p: *4 where all of its beauty may be P submitted by leading architects \seen (roin any polat, “ 4k wes passed from hand to hand as erected here to provide amusement bers, 4 The Story ot New York ’s Squares Von behing bis saddle ___ TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1919 PAGES FROM A BOOK OF HEROES ‘Marine “Ran His Leg Off” To Save Comrades’ Lives; D.S.O.Heals Deeper Wound Private Miller Raced With Death in the Battle of Champagne to Carry Message to Company in Danger From Barrage—Death Lost, but Private Miller Lost a Leg—In Hospital, He Wondered if His Sacrifice Had Counted—An Orderly Brought Proof That It Had. HAT girl ever fall would| was not halted on the edge of the in love| wood, it would run into its own bar with a one-| rage Enemy shells w falling legged man?” thicker and faster, There was littl The words were|chance that any rur would get spoken with an| through safely, yet none hesitated effort at dry hu-|No thought of self marred the beauty er mor, yet the head| of their heroism. At 4 o'clock in th of tho speaker| morning the word was spoken: turned wearily “ao!” on his pillow. It} Like flying Morcuries they went, required strong|M€ by one, at reguiar intervals, And Will to. repress |!ke Nemesis on their track came the the tears which] Shells with torrible frequency. 40 vivid was the picture that the boy in involuntarily h dimmed _ big| the hospital lived his experience ove Miller, Sth U.S. Marines. brave, undaunted eyes. Less than a | 2#4/n. With cach hairbreadth escape week had elapsed alnce bie arrival in |Came the recurrent thought that the | Americ Less than a week! And | Co™ing shell would be more accurate Ihere he was, back In bed again, laid | ae ae vada tity a a Mies low by @ second operatic ably the next one will.” jou ae help fe Ne a pane He) ""It was that thought, always, which The operation had been necessary. | 2AMmered in bis brain. Again and He realized that, But it had been {S12 he threw himself, or was tfrd to give up more of his leg. The | tBFOWN, flat on the ground, Again ery thought sickened him, Not that}#%¢ “gain he was up and dashing he pegre:ted his sacrifice, Of his own | 22M. He was nearing his goul. 1 ommenced to look as though he we destined to make the run un- Then, without warning, the free will he had volunteered, not only for enlistment but for the special | *ctuall | harmed duty which had resulted in his dis- crash came. ability, Yet dark moment sis ark momenta Deraisted | «tean't exactly say that I felt any in coming when he wondered if his! " thing,” he explained later. “I know efforts and sufferings had been of| 1 sexed peed tice wah ae any avail, He doubted if they haa |! !00Ked around, an 8 leg, ali trailed out behind me.” He smiled when he said it, They all smile, that peculiar, amiable, muscular contraction generally ac- opted as unmistakable evidence of even been appreciated. When he had left his home to enlist with the marines he had been strong and robust, proud of his health and vigor, and now—he sighed at the! oo Gea hero's gay and blissful I vista of a future, down which he ie state of mind, Only\when that smu pictured himself moving with halt- p ing steps, and again his eyes grow | {% Contrasted wi-h he joyous, cares Rae pene ree free rnile of a chuid does the fact be ; come apparent th much more ha With that thought a picture Mashed peen Jost on the dattletields of Franc to his mind, The scene was that of than can be supplied by artitici: the battle of Champagne. Boys like means, The runner who literally himself were fighting that battle. his leg off smiled, but the soul of t They, like himself, had taken part in smile had fled every engagement in which the! ‘Then an orderly came through th |marines had fought, and so far had) warq with a letter. The boy extend come through unscathed. Not once ed his hand for the missiv jhad he known one to prove unequal| “Tt js from my mother,” he said, ]to the task assigned him. All the! eagerly, Then he opened the en events of that last, memorable day|yelope and slowly scanned the del in action passed in review before! cately penned words of the letter. As | him |he read, a surprised, incredulous ‘The advance had been terrific, The| light of happiness filled his eyes Germans were endering faster ve been—she says I've been given Ml | ieve, doar doktor, at my better senti-/at 4 to 1, he won $678, which was St ost jas amount of bis previous losses, ‘