The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1919, Page 20

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1919 “Servants of the Future _ Will Be Employ ty . Uniforms, and Caps, ewe . - years ago, has family life. Tost important future have help, for what we get. and the domestic servant ts | “Tt i» certain that In the future ‘there will be different servahts, ser- “yants who aro really equals, women gently born and bred, with whom = housekeeping Is « fine art. These wil! © have their hours, their responsibii- [Py ttes, their social standing, and their pay. And that pay will at least equal “If American women of the past should pay responsibil- @e you say to that?” I asked @avell Croy. Mrs. Croy is an- "Home," “1,000 Things « Mother M pheaia Know," and ghe, too, ts wife, “omether and home-maker in her own When I talked with her she fm her office at No. 130 West 424 where, she is in charge of the Housekeeping Exhibit of ving Devices, “@LD-TIME GERVANT GONE, NEW > @NE AN IMPROVEMENT. a “A woman should put her home as- on exactly the same basis for years and is nearly, if not T think that ts an excel- ‘thing. She almost always an unpleasant atmosphere How often we have stigma upon domestic labor: er’s Equals” --KATHLEEN NORRIS | “Home Assistants Should Be ‘On Basis With O ffice Help” . ‘With Ail the Old Rubbish of Relative Positions, and and Aprons, and Respect, and Titles and ‘Keeping Her Place’ and ‘Taking Her Orders’ Swept Away, the Servant Question Really Might Be Solved, and Finely Solved.” ‘By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coperight, 191%, ty The Pree Pubtishing On (The New York Brening West). B never have bad « servant class, and as a democracy wo should never have desired one. “We have come at last to the knowledge, hastened by the great war, that American girls of all classes and conditions absolutely refuse to do domestic labor. “The servant question, difficult enough a few mow become an absolute menace to “The women who are doing the Government's work in raising the citizens of’ the & really serious problem. They ow and there fs no help to be had. ‘ “Woe have made domestic labor insufferable to refined, ambitious and intelligent women, we demand ine unthinking end unawakened woman, and we have only ourselves to ‘thank >. “The own work before hiring, another ‘girl? “Personality, I ain quite willing to live through this period of transition from the old domestic service, be- cause I am looking forward #o cag- erly to the new.” “What is the new?” I, asked Mrs. Croy, feeling that she should pass along her beacon of hope to more dis- couraged housekeepera, “Phe intelligent home asvistant,” ed. The woman whose food keeps us well we should respect as much as the nurse who cares for us when sick. “\A well-paid private secretary in a downtown business confided to me recently that whe would be so glad to xive up her job and enter domestic service, if she could be sure of hav- ing regular time to herself and tf there were no social handicap at. tached to the work. Sie actually Hkes cooking and housekeeping much better than offico work, and I feel sure there are many others like her, Tt tan’t a question of money; house. hold workers are paid now detter than most other women.” BEST WORKING RULES FOR THE MODERN SERVANT. Then Mrs. Croy suggested an ar- Tangement of hours for housework, which seems to me more practical bee the eight-hour-a-day-and- sleep- -eat-out plan urged in many ters just now. biws af “I eee no reason why women should not be willing to live in the house, if they are given « pleasant room, reg- ular hours off and a place to receive thelr guests,” she sald, “Also I think they had better eat where they are employed, as many of them would do oo anyway, oven if they also went out for meals, “ince the woman who lives where she works need waste no time going back and forth, I think in many a family she might work nine hours a day—the equivalent of eight hours in an occupation where she must spend time in travelling. She would get up , | St atx, get breakfast and work until For preparing dinner and serving it two hours ®oould waice, In some household: as in my own, this programme may be cut half an hour. In any event the worker has both afternoons and evenings to herself. “I always tell my maid, however, that @ woman cannot go out oftener than three or four evenings @ week and keep strong enough to work. Tho other evenings she may have com- Pany in my house, play cards, make Coffee and enjoy herself. 1 never ask her to answer the door evenings, but another argument for her living in is that the children can be left with her now and then. Why shouldn't she spend two or three evenings a week in her employer's home, if she can en. tertain there, as well as spend them in @ boarding or rooming house?” “And how about the social stigma?’ I asked. “How can that be removed” “Women, housewives, must take it out of their own minds first,” abe re- plied. “Then let them nse propa- |wanda to its fullest extent. Why | should not such+ an organization as the Woman's City Club devote itself to @ great work for women, such as the honorable solution of the dames- tle service problem? I would Ifke to see these women take It up, dignity it, and I th they could accomplish & tremendo!)) amount of good, “The old servant ts gone, but a new ‘--MAE SAVELL CROY and better one may take her place if ‘women only will it 0,” ‘The kttohen queen i» dead, long Iive rdymup « eeinn wing a ‘ Advance Notes From Paris These Coat and Suit Models Show Trend of Styles For Autumn Wear i ) TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Courricht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Rvening World), Sports From the Species. Herman J. Stich ‘ ‘D © you smoke?" he asked. “No.” “Drink?” “Not a drop.” “Play poker?” “Never!—nor any other card game.” “Chew? “Ugh! Lmpossible!” “Ever fly off the handle?” “Oh, no! I have myself perfectly in band always, I have no vice “Well, let me tell you,” quirped tue questioner, “that anybody who bas no vices has darned Zew virtues!” Dame Fate balances the scales evenly, Average men are neither dwarfs nor giants—and most giants are simpletons, Geniuses are Proverbially Deguliar. Eocentricity is the running mate of talent, very rose grows thorns. Boauty and folly are often fast friends, Greatness has its cares. When we would pluck the most gorgeous flowers, fear of lurking poison stays our hand. Where there's much Praying we suspect little piety or reason to atone. The handsomest shoe often pinches the foot. Fuilures frequently prove fertilizers for success, Nature's set programmes are not with tmpunity disarranged. Loose lives are short lives. Dissipation doesn’t stay in the clothes, There are striking cases of people who for a long time defied Destiny, set up thelr own laws and lived according to their own lights. “Bports from the Species” they were wonderingly dubbed by satellites who sought and envied their apparent invulnerability, Yet in the very dawn of thetr contempt for the rales, Dame Destiny chuckled as she . ee, SAMY H enrtoay ang abou 4 . TUESDAY, J What to ef the rifle, revolver, shotgun and shrapnel. In civil life the bullet te usually eoft lead; the chief danger ties in penetrating a vital or end emall shot cause lacerated wounds that demand immediate treat- ment of shook, hemorrhage and sub- sequent infection. (Severe shock will be taken wp later). In shock the pa- tient is cold, pale, shivers and com- plains of feeling chilly. ‘The condition is serious and de- mands a physician, Meanwhile apply external heat by means of hot water bags or any glass bottle Gilled with hot water and wrapped in flannel. Never apply a hot water bottle di- rectly to the patient’s skin. Keep the patient flat off the back. Give hot drinks unless the abdomen has been injured; give no alcohol. A splendid stimulant is a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in an ounce of water. Pistols containing blank cartridges can inflict very wounds. ‘These are the wounds mogt apt to be followed by tetanus or lockjaw. In former years this condition coming on acutely after an injury was almost always fatal. Within recent years it has been treated with antitoxin (anti- tetanus serum), and thus many Lves saved. Woundg inflicted by a blank cartridge always demand a doctor's care. Surgeons advise that in every case of penetrating wound, antitoxin treatment must immediately be re- sorted to in addition to the most thorough cleamsing of the afflicted parts, The strictest antiseptic treat- ment of the wound is imperatively demanded, even if it has to be en- larged to do so, and this can only be. done im some cases under anaes- thesia, No matter how thoroughly done it must be followed by the antftoxin, In the absence of a physician never probe @ wound for a bullet, as much damage is sometimes done in this way by carrying tnfective matter into the wound. ‘Turpentine will re- move grime and grease; other for- eign matter such as shreds of cloth- ing or wadding must be picked out. Use a needle, a bodkin or even @ pair of pincers, mado sterile by pasving through a flame. The parts should be made as antiseptic as possible, Do not use carbolic acid, It is not as destructive to germs as we once severe The Doctor Comes By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Series of Articles Written Especially for The Evening World —Cut Out and Save in Your Home. Coprrtent, 1919, by The Pres Pubtihing @o. (The New York Rrening Wertd). GUNSHOT WOUNDS UNSHOT wounds tnctude those UNE 24, 1919 Do Until stances st has done « great deal harm, Compreases wrung out of this tion and applied to the wound ag! dressing ts good treatment, In absence of sterilized gaure or old linen, cheesecloth, old flour am salt bags that have been wash sweet, clean and soft are excelle! for these emergencies. 6x6 and keep it on hand. When no antiseptics of any cha: acter are available, hot water @alf Solution (one teaspoonful of table salt te one pint of dolled water) proves a valuable remedy. The wound should be thoroughly cleansed with the hot solution, then covered with emel! compresses that have been wrung in the hot salt water and kept in place with a clean bandage. It sometimes happeng that @ pistol or other form of firearm will explode in the hands of an inexperienced per- son and cause a very ugly, wound. The tip of @ finger may’ be blown off or partially torn away, Plunge the parts at once into the! antiseptic solution above mentioned Your own hands must be clean and) thoroughly antiseptic before youl touch the wound. If it is on « finger approximate the ragged edges and bind up with sterile gauze (or soft, clean cloths mentioned above) soaked in phenol sodique. Over this bandage LIGHTLY with a one-inch bandage » It is surprising how perfectly eames of these wounds heal {f properly treated. Tf the injury ie upon a flat sar face, such as a hand or limb, ex cellent results are obtained by bring ing the parts together with adhesive plaster, The wound must be thor oughly cleansed first with liquid soap and absorbent cotton, and then with the antiseptic solution. Resin Hlasterts the best. ven an extensive wound which looks as though it required stitches, heals beautifully and more evenly when plaster is used The strips should never completely encircle'the limb they shoukl be long enough to reach beyond the wound, and the ends turned under upon themselves, go that the edges are free and can be grasped readily when re moving tho strips, In doing this both ends of the plaster are taken up and pulled together toward the wound, There ts mo danger then of reopening it, In explocions of this kind blood vessels are sometimes severely torn, and if an artery is injured there ts’ believed it to be, and in many in- Dr. Southard of Boston Says Every One Is, at Least a Little Bit—Dr. Quackenbos of New York Says Most “Odd Streaks” Are Only “Psyasthenia,’’? Which May Come From Overwork or Brain Fag By Fay Stevenson Oupyright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) AVE you a fad or @ hobby or @ habit which makes you “just a little bit different” from your next-door neigh- bor? Are you per- fectly sane on some questions and per- fectly | nsan®on others? If you are a trifle “odd,” cheer up; it isn’t any disgrace to pe crazy, nor is it an insult to a man to say that he is crazy, Only it would sound better if you said he “Is suffering from either a minor or a major neurosis.” Dr. B. 8, Southard, an eminent psy- chiatrist from Boston and President of the American Medico-Psychologi- cal Association, which held a thre day session at the Bellevue-Stra ford, in delivering the annual Pres!- dent's address, asserted that all of us suffer from various forms of psychic disorders which can be classed as varying forms of insanity, Bolshevism, Dr, Southard sald, is most certainly a form of insanity that may heve ‘ts origin in the past ages, and {s in all Mkelihood a product of evolution. If this is true, then how about the pacifist, free verse poets, cube artists, women who carry pet poodles about with all the devoted maternal tn- stincts of a fond mother, and men who pay hundreds of dollars for an an- tique table which bears the marks of an ironing board—are they 100 per cent, sano? Cevan soe great danger to life from hemorrhage. Who’s -Looney—and Who Isn’t? sane and the insane it is Dr. Smith. For a number of years he was the State Commissioner in Lunacy of, New York. Upon assuming his du- tles Gov, Alonzo B Cornell advised him to keep constantly in mind when visiting an asylum the question, “Who Is Insane?" Hence the title of his book published in 1916, which starts off like this: “Who is insane? No one, or every one, according to the persons ques- tioned. No one fn an asylum will admit that he or she is insane, Each in turn would resent such an insin- uation, Certainly no one out of an asytum will assent to the charge ot being insane, And yet the sane and insane readily recognize the insanity of others, An intelligent old lady, once the head of a Ladies’ Seminary, wished to be discharged from an asylum, alleging that all the patient: In the hall believed her sana Seven women were privately asked their opinion as to her sanity, and all de- clared she was very insane, while asserting thelr own sanity. When informed of the result of the test, the old lady accurately described the special pecullarities of each of her accusers, but could not realize her awn condition, “So it ts in every community, The privata gossip is much concerned about those who are called ‘strange,’ ‘peculiar,’ ‘deranged,’ ‘unbalanced,’ “ight-headed,’ ‘a-tittle-off,’ ‘out-of- gear,’ ‘wrong-in-the-upper-story,’ ‘cranks’ Few, if any, escape for a Nifethme one or the other of these epithets, Without, as within the asylum, no one recognizes bis or her own mental deviations, but readily detects the aberrations of others. It is an apt illustration of the old pre- tae mote oul of thine eys,—and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye.’” But perhaps the private gossip ts insane! How are we to be sure “Who's looney now?” Are we all slightly “touched?” “Is it true that all of us have & little touch of insanity? I asked Dr. John D, Quackenbos at his home the other morning. “If @ person has some peculiar little habit or way of, doing things, which makes the rest of the family laugh at him, would you call him @ ‘nut’ on that ques- tion?” Dr. Quackenbos shook his head em- phatically on the negative side, “No he would not be a ‘nut,’ ‘in- sane,’ ‘crazy’ or any other name we g.ve to people with pecullar habits, |hobbies or fads, But he might be | suffering from psyasthenia, This ts |@ disease which many people we term ‘looney’ often are suffering with. And | it is simply @ case of a tagged brain working too long on one idea, Any subject can be exhausted and over- | worked. For instance, I know a man who has always been afraid of being asphyxiated, he feels quite sure that | some day the stop-cock of his gas jet lis golng to be left open and he smothered to death, Hence he makes a nightly tour of bis house and holds on to each fixture for at least five minutes, Of course he is very miser- able when there is company in the house, but he always warns them and makes them promise to go through the five-minute investigation, How- | ever, this man is not a ‘nut.’ He is simply over cautious on that one sub- ject. He darts between autos, jumps aboard moving cars and risks his lite @ dozen times a day other ways, but bis brain le full ef wtaxtes of peuple 4 dying from asphyxiation, it ts fagged * out with things he has been reading for years on the subject. “Wot long ago I had a patient who | complained that be dreaded to ge to his safety-deposit vault, He had a! good many valuable papers, jewelry | ana trinkets there which were the! Joy of his heart and somehow or other he feared that every time he! opened the vauit some one, if not more, of these valuable things would | * be left outside, Hence, after looking | carefully around and putting the box | in the hands of the keeper, he bad, to return four or five times to satisty | himself nothing was left out. ‘Nat- urally this caused @ good deal ef} talk,’ he said, ‘but I couldn't steep or eat or be happy if I didn’t go back again and again,’ “Now many people would term htm/ crazy just for that,” said Dr, Quack enbos, “but if I were to disclose his name and his position you would | know better,” “Aren't temperamental people, | creators of art, literature and those holding positions which cal forth all | their brain-power more apt to be} called ‘looney’ than those who have 4 more mechanical turn of mind or are employed in some practical work | where the physical comes into play quite as much as the mental?’ I asked, “Well, Byron was ‘erratic;’ Wil- ¢ berforce and Garrison were ‘fan- atic, and a French authority saya, “ s is a neurosis,’" was Dr, { Quackenbos'’s reply. And as wer shook hands he added, “Dryden wrote, ‘Great w are sure to mad- ness near allied. Therefore if Y one does class you among the “looney"—brace up! tana? you are & genius op some es aren ms eau