The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1919, Page 13

FRIDAY, AUG mm Can’t Mrs. 1919, by The Press Publishing $j utterances of those Solomons of taste for housework. cribed for the black It seems for “help, Recently in The wih cS Mae ' hare.” First catch your servant—then | Hut what if you cannot oatch her? It_-was while I was crossing City Hall Park the other day that there j @ecurred to me a solution of the ser- ¢ vant problem—revoluntionary, it is {| true, but not in the least Bolshevik- {tam Workmen were pulling down | the timbers that had supported the # pleasant. Uttle soldiers’ canteen in ‘ charge of the Mayor's Committee of i] Women on National Defense. I knew that everywhere these canteens are j ' being dismantled, with the muster- } | ing back into civil life of thelr uni- | formed patrons, Large numbers of women canteen workers also are be- , ing mustered out. , “Why,” 1 asked myself, {not every woman—at least, every = servantless woman—run her own yanteen? Now that the canteens for " j soldiers are closing, why should not { the wife and mother open a canteen (at home for Tom and the children? { Why not cook and clean for them, as ‘Well as for the men in khaki and } plue?” «It is a fact—tsn’t it?—that during! {fhe war such humble tasks as dish | twashing, doughnut frying, floor Vecrubbing and waiting on table were }ittaken up” by our smartest maids Nand matrons. Mrs, Vincent Astor) \gerved as waitress and fried eggs. ‘rs. W. K. Vanderbilt sr. cheerily ‘pleaded guilty to scrubbing floors. | ihre, ‘Theodore Roosevelt jr. presided | Héver a sizzling pan of doughnut-fat.| MMthen why should Mrs. John Jones if Riverside Drive or Montclair, N.! i should , hesitate to go and do likewise?| Wit is more than likely she learned) jow to prepare simple food, serve It,| lean up after it in some one of the Heanteens or clubs opened for soldiers gpd sailors. Women who used to b) Hpride themselves on never woing into| {j# kitchen except to give an order are| jjnow familiar with the rules and jipractices of simple housewifery, and ies discovered these are not so | @arkly mysterious, after all, Why peeowla all this new knowledge and experience be wasted? Why throw “MODERN SEA NYMPHS TAKE TO AQUAPLANES pt eeeom - BESSON ES Bh eae se SsBSee HE modern daughters of Amphi-| if \ { trite, goddess of the sea, have \ taken up a new sport, Aqua- average small properly simplified—put on @ canteen basis, if you please—it is not beyond the strength or skill of a normally healthy woman, of such canteen short cuts as table UST 8, 1919 on't Worry About Servants; Just Runa “Home Canteen” © For Hubby and the Family! if Mrs. Vincent Astor in War Time Could Wait on Table and Fry Eggs for Doughboys, and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Sr. Could Scrub Floors, Why John Jones in Peace Time Put Housework on Canteen Basis? By Marguerite Mooers Marshall (The New York Brening World). Coprrieht, cy HE shortage in servants is growing shorter, according to the recent the domestic service situation—the managers of New York employment bureaus, Lack of immigration, the wartime migration of Bridget and Olga and Jane from the home to the factory, the growing dis- —these ure some of the causes a cloud of servantiessness, which even now is shadowing the vacation horizon of the wife and mother and making her nervously eager to start back to town from sea or mountains and begin the desperate hunt to be a fact that not even Senatorial approval of the peace treaty will restore to a peacetime basis the old and famous industry of home-making. Evening World Kathleen Norris and Savello Croy suggested that the servant problem be «solved by making the home safe for democracy by treating your home as- sistant as an equal instead of as a capped-and-aproned inferior. ;oplan, though excellent in intention, must remind certain harassed house- (Wives of the old recipe for jugged hare, which begins—“First catch your But that treat her like e sister or a rich aunt away the canteen apron, when you can hang it on a@ nail in your own kitchen and use it every morning? If the cooking and housework of the American family 1s She may make use “linen” of oilcloth—they have charm- ingly decorated oilcloth doilies in the shops now—and Japanese paper nap- kins. and thus cut the cost of living. She may eliminate all elaborate detalls of service and decoration in her home, She may simplify her menus Yes, I know it will mean many changes in the sacred domestic arti- ficialities and splurges considered es- sential in apartment house or con.- try club circles. But for many women the problem of home management is now resolving itself into giving up |the home altogether or giving up home frills and flourishes, really add nothing to the health or comfort of the family. which Through her canteen experience the hitherto idle American daughter or young wife knows she CAN wield a broom and rule a gas range. Knowl- edge is power. And though canteening at home may have few thrills, no doughboy was ever more grateful than that father or Tom will be for a per- fect cup of coffee and a superlative doughnut. “Try and see! TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich | Copyright, 1919. by The Press Publishing {ihe New York Evening World). = Cause for Congratulation ISTORY is a chronicle of H carping but unavailable attempts to impede the forward march of men at whose ‘feet the world later knelt to learn. Every man who rejected anti- quated school tests and in- adequate tool chests was a vic- tim-of unreasoning, obstructive criticism. Our greatest bene- factors were no exception—they simply had to do their best and Jeave the rest to Faith and Fate. Many a man makes a brilliant beginning, but @s opposition in- creases his enthusiasm de- creases, He never becomes eligible for Posterity, for that arch chronicler makes no note of a splendid start that does not culminate in a corresponding finish. The hill is all the more promi- nent among molehills, the tree among thistles, As achieve- ments show, sour grapes grow. Whenever a man gets bigger than his community his towns- men strive to minimize the dif- ference, Greatness is a multi-itemed composite, its most important In- gredient is courage — moral strength to strike harder in the j{planing, which has become popular f{fat resorts ull over the country, i) The modern water nymph dashes flover the waves at ‘a tremendous Rlepeed. The “aquaplane” is really $fonly a board towed by a motor boat. | $iOn this Miss Water Nymph rides. firhe idea was adapted from the natives of the Hawalian Islands who | nave long ridden the seas on surf boards. i J face of the ignorant, contemptu- ous, detracting criticism which is the meed of every man who quits the crowd or tries to rise above the mass, The only way to escape criti- cism being through obscurity, the moment you begin to be “panned” you have cause for congratulation, Keeping New York’s Kiddies Out of Mischief By Giving Them Something to Do Wonoicearr REST PERIOD stl | By Zoe Beckley Copyright, 1919, by The Pross Publishing Co, (‘The New York Evening World) | AMMY tied pickled herring can to the cat’s tail, The cat, being even | S poorer, thinner and mangier than Sammy and having worse nerves, ran frantically under a pushcart. The string got tangled round the Drop and down went the cart, upsetting everything and everybody and spilling Mrs. Blumberg’s onions in the slimy gutter. It all happened because Sammy hadn't anything to do, and he had to do something Likewise Anna, Anna was ten. She would amuse the baby if she lighted some matches did, mother being out buying tripe. The matches caught a curtain and a gust of wind—— Put why be tragic? The whole thing happened because Anna had nothing thought it She LR to do, nothing to amuse the baby with, no place to play be. road and nothing to play with. She had to do something. Zor Been There are 640,000 Sammies and An~ | oo tg door, “the milk-and- nas in this place which we 80 10VINE= | crackers hour.’ ly call “dear Uttle old New York.” I! Mr, Longfellow would never have have the figures direct from Dr, Ben-| placed “the children's hour” os roe jomin C, Gruenverg, Supervisor ot | teen th, rk and the carla Ee vacua. | he could © glimpsed the » Summer Play Schools of the Federa | ¢, Mivanuas Malarnecd’ At OI A tion for Child 6tudy: trying [IRS queue of small and famishod “In a nutshell, what we are try!ng | youngsters, underweight but overjoy- to do," says De. Gruenberg, “is give ; H ware lined up with cups for the some of these half million something | i) and grimy little paws held eager- to do, When the schools close for t8€ |} out for'crackers, If you have ever wummer bundreds of thousands Of|ti.seq a biscuit to a half-grown pup poor kids are let loose upon the! yo got some idea of the speed with streets with*nothing to do—thousands | nich that refreshment disappeared. without food enough in theirstomachs| ang the “More! look about those even to do nothing in comfort.” kiddies’ eyes! lt seemed a pity there Through the back door of the vig | were not tons of crackers and lakes building of the Emanuel Bisterhood, | of milk. at No, 818 East 824 Street, where hove But the Fed:ration cannot do mir- of the seven Federation play centres|actes, even with the co-operation of is established, I heard a great pande-| ay) the chure charities, hospitals, monium of shouts and bangings. sisterhoods, leagues, boards and s0- shoes to cobble. Nor rags to weave |into rugs. Nor any of the other enor-' mous lot of material, intellectual, spiritual and temporal, that goes into tho wellbeing of a child who never knew what it was to have enough of anything since he was born. But they do wonders with what they have. At all seven of the play- Seven Summer Play School Centres of the Federation for Child Study Each Day Give Youngsters a Place to Play, a Bath, a Job to Do, Some Music, and a Nap There aren't enough teachers, Nor | enough money, Nor enough play- thin, Nor wood to carpenter, Nor school centres of the Federation they give each child each day: 1. A bath, 2, A nourishing lunch at noon, 3. A rest and nap afterward. 4, Some sort of work, 5. Some music; and dancing when Crackers or bread and milk at 7. Games and play, A doctor visits each centre dally, A nurse is at each centre always, to take care of ban heads, cut fin- gers, punched eyes and other inei- dentals of a lively day. A play in- structor keeps things going, Miss Cohn manages the office end, Dr, Gruenberg goes his rounds and, over- sves everything from the best method of weaning Tommy from his habit of “batting” all comers to the problem of occupying 210 pairs of hands with one-tenth that number of toola and playthings, The noon lunch costs each kiddie a dime. It costs the different organi- zations that furnish it fifteen cents. If a tot hasn't the dime, and poor mother cannot possibly find it out of her meagre house money, the lunch is eaten all the same, For the Fed- fo a AS DINNER TIME. fed him straw, that no body can function without at least enough nourishment to keep life in it, And they can furnish you figures on starveling children that will set your nerves a-quiver, “With enough to eat,” says Dr, Gruenberg, “and enough occupation, we figure that 90 per cent, of the children in this town who ultimately become charges on the community could be made fine and fit citizens, “The city could ship every one of its 600,000 children-of-the-streets away to the country for the summer vacation and make it a profitable in- vestment, They could be taugh', boarded, entertained and cared for physically for jess than they cost the State in the end, as things are now. “I met a boy in the street yesterday who was on the brink of doing some- thing that would eventually land him in an institution, ‘Why do you do that?’ I asked him, “‘hw, what's there to do? I gotta have some fun.’ 2 “Come to our play schpol.’ “What do they do there? “*Play, etudy, learn how to cobbie shoes and make benches and’—— “Do youse have tools there? He fairly jumped at me in his eagerness, When I told him yes, and that he to, and hear stories told, and get into a chorus, and join a club, he yipped with joy. Health charts and weight charts are carefully kept and anaemic little girls and boys who hadn't ambition enough to climb on @ sandpile when they came in at the beginning of the session on July 7 will go out at the end of August, after eight weeks of healthy feeding and occupation im work and play, pounds heavier and uncounted degrees better in every way, By the way, if you have any old shoes please send them to the Fed- could play on a fiddie if he wanted) Transfers — Transfer Has Made New York a Cross Town—Car Riding ° Now Costs More Than a Phone Cali and the Connections Are Just as Bad. By Neal R. O'H Comrviaht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). UR favorite morning pa~ Der's gone up to 2 cents * copy, but it’s still got the largest circulation in Greater New York, Evening edition alse coats 2 cents. Not worth it, but you can't get very far without it. We refer to the Daily Transfer. Only thing you can say in favor of this paper is that it's got « punch tn it. Transfer has made New York & cross town. Folks used to be easy going till the company stuck @ 2-cent tax on the col- ored slips, Now the 2 cents | comes hard. Nobody Kicks at the initial cost—what's @ nickel to anybody ?—but it's the 2 cents for the company's up-keep that makes @ growl where nothing grewl before. Traction system's got it planned like Billy Sunday, If @ guy's going straight, he travels for a nickel, If he's an off-and- on guy, costs him more. What could be farer than carfare? ‘Transfer hold-up occurs where the public gets off. Public wouldn't mind that if ft could only find where the company gets off. Big secret of the com- pany’s success is that it doesn't get off. Nope; it goes right throigh—the public's pocket. And the big joke is that the public COMES through. Joke is on the public, as usual. ~ . Conductors are crazy about T-cent fares. Some of ‘em are so crazy they're rabid, Company says T-cent schedule is Heaven- sent, but what the conductors say of it makes no mention of Heaven. Two cents extra does please the conductors in one way, though—it gives em change in their dally routine, 80 much change that when a guy gets back to the car-barn he’s got How Clouds Make Lightning In a Summer Thunderstorm IGHTNING! The mysterious and | trical forces are here at work, L vivid electrical flashes that startle us during a severe thunder storm sometimes carry as much as 20,000 or more amperes at a pressure of a mill- fon volts, It is not too much to think that the future will some time see man Harnessing and making use of this tre~ mendous source of energy, says the charges Electrical Experimenter. . as seen in Figure 3, Lightning, because it presents such become Pett aigntatag te 4 great basards, cannot be safely exper-|""Pny theories. of soore re! of an order for everybody to up for the seventh cent. Seven in crap-shoot-. ake as lucky. ing is called q pass, but railway doesn't recognize crap shooters’ — York. Gay life is doesn't cheapea. readily about negative tons than itive ions. Air currents litt drops to the clouds, The ni charged drops are carried to of the cloud; the heavier ones fall with, Little of scientific !m-| back that static Iigh Lawyer pean leaned of light- | result of dimoapherie ton ning since Benjamin Franklin made |*Unk Inte jon. ' his crude demonstration with a com- mon door key attached to the end of ‘a kite string. | Many theories have been adi anced to explain the causes of lightning, but many of them are vaguely insufficient. Electricity is universally recognized as being one of the important factors in} the determination of weather condi- tions. Rain sometimes produces elec- tricity. Sometimes electrical phe- nomena cavse rain. <A thunder storm is where rain and elec- tric! are closely related. Here the Fain drops condense primarily about small electrically charged parti- cles called ions, and then causo the growth of the lightning charges in a manner to be explained in detail, Large charges of electricity are often generated in a short space of time in thunder clouds, Lightning often is discharged from one cloud to the earth, but this is not necessarily the case, Lightning discharges a mile in length will frequently take place in the In- terior of a single cloud, But how does a cloud receive a charge, you ask. Clouds are charged by induction. Figure 1 shows a cloud that has ap- proached the earth which may divide | in two parts, The charge of the op- posite sign which has been attracted to that portion nearest the earth may be carried away by it at the time of division, The other portion of the cloud may carry away a charge of the same sign as the earth, | Figure 2 shows a smaller cloud | visible on any warm day. The larger | cloud is the result of intense local eration for Child Study, No, 2 West 64th Street, for distribution to the seven play centres, And cigar boxes, too, which make foundations for lots of things. And clean rags for weaving into rugs, A thousand kiddies will eration finds, as did the man who “It is," said Dr, Gruenberg, throw-} cieties that help itin ity gallant labors, put green spectacles on his mule and \ thank you in deeds, if not words, For an idle kiddie gets into trouble, heating. Its height may be a mile| from base to top. The smaller cloud may only be 100 feet high, The bulging tops of the larger clouds are thunder caps, These will roll' to- gether quickly sometimes and elec+