The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1919, Page 12

_ Modern Wife’ Hark to Pioneer Duties Of Buffalo Bill's Sister Mrs. Julia Cody Goodman Ran Her Husband’s Ranch Home Alone, Without Modern Improvements, Fed Family and Thirty-six ‘‘ Hands,’’ Mothered Twenty Children and To-Day, at Seventy-six, Hasn't an Ailment and Never Has Had One. * What Maidiess Woman Has pared to What Pioneer Women of West Did,’”’ She Says— “‘ When a Few More Women Are Forced to Do Their Qun Housework There Will Be Divorces, Happier Homes.” A few days agb The Evening ‘Pioneer Wives’ to Make Modern Marriage a ‘Fifty-fifty' Success.” it Sugreme Court Justice Giegerich discussed matrimonial problems of today, Mrs. Goodman's story esting as supporting testimony. By Fay ‘Conrright, 1919, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The New York vening World). 8 the servant problem spoiling your disposition? Are you losing the if in your cheeks and the lustre in your eyes because Bridget and left you ALL BY YOURSELF? Do you go if because you have to prepare three meais uab a little vacuum cleaner over the rugs and life ‘bas lost all its sweetness? harken to a few of Cody, Wyoming, sister of the late Buffalo Bill, did 4 eee if you still think the present day servant brob- of the East seriouf compared to the problems of the Pioneer woman of the West. “ “What the mai ; irons, telephones and many that would have made my fife @ perfect fairyland seem like house to me, Just feel my i Hy ; keen blue eyes has every bearing of & “hor soft silk gown and mode of “I have worked all my life, ever ‘was Qve or six,” she con- “and now I am in my seven- ty-eventh year, but my health is perfect. 1 have never been tn a hos- pital, had an operation, suffered from _ Bervous prostration, melancholia or _ any of the other diseases which the ey tile finds time to have. I do © Bot lieve hard work hurts any woman, and I think when a few more =: worden are fo.ced to do their own Nousework because of lack of help © there will be fewer patients in the © hospitals, fewer divorces and we shall have healthier, better, happier homes. ~* “All the paysical training courses ® and gymnasium stunts in the world © cannot develop a woman piysically ) ap well ag plain, every day house- © work. Suck exercise can develop cer- | ® tain muscles, but no woman can get the benefit from such courses as she © cap by making ber own beds, dusting + © her own house, reaching up in high | & cupboards, bending down over @ dust yan, baking and mixing and hurry- img from one room to another. condition. 1g ie . mapie syrip, ‘The woman who goes through the daily voutine of caring for a home end ber family has perfect circulation of the ' Mlood, her liver is active, her appetite @ ood and her whole body in excellent ~ “When I was a young matron I ‘had to carry water from the pump, “thake my own fires, raise all my own Sogetables, make my own clothes and ‘those of my eight children, make soap, preserves, bake | Bread enough for my own family and| As the top of a dish invented by a six men on my husband's Frenchman is pressed down it cuts and kncad tt al] myself, make butter into individual portions, s Job Hard? to Do To-Day Childs Play Com- Fewer Hospital Patients, Fewer World published an article “Wanted, In and views are made doubly inter- Stevenson few little “chores’ like these do you Most overworked. little wifey in the Well just the things Mrs, Julia Cody Goodman EMT IGE idiess woman has to do today is just my own rag rugs and teach Sunday school. I never had a minute's time, but Work never hurt me. I observed two good rules. I slept eight hours and I always ate plain food. If I had) eaten midnight suppers of rabbit and ‘Housework is @ matter of point cf view, it isn’t a matter of liking to do it, No one likes to do it from day }to day and year to year. We are all alike, but perhaps no man likes to 0 to business every day or to do his chores on the farm, and yet it must be done. If a woman makes up her mind she will make the best of her work and is bright and cheery, she will find that it actually agrees with her. There is nothing so healthy and invigorating as doing one's own work, and I often wonder if that is not the Fearon we see #0 many sleek looking old widows around. Their men folks wet off early, but they keep in such perfect training themselves by car-| ing for the home that they gain far superior constitutions than the men. “Then there are the children to take care of. I know what that means, for { not only brought up eight of my own but I always had two or three others with me, children of the ploneers whose parents were poor or died. Altogether I have mothered twenty children, and | know that no ebtld can be brought up properly with nurses and maids. I hope the modern mother will be obliged to spend more time with her own little ones, No child can develop into a fine man or @ splendid woman without mother. love, and mother-love means that the mother must care for the child her- self, By caring I mean she must actually spend @ great part of her time with it every day, she must give it its bath, feed it its food, take care pf it physically as well as mentally, Mother-love can only be felt by a mother actually doing things for the child herself. We can- not pay & nurse to perform these rites which belong to the mother, In order to help form the character cf the child the mothér must oon- stantly with her child, they must grow side by side as @ rose and a bud. “The hands and the head must com- bine to make a good home, and bring forth healthy, happy children,” the} silver-haired pioneer of the West concluded, “and when woman puts forth every energy she has it is sur- prising how much she can accomplish and how strong she will feel, I don't like to see 80 many pale little women sitting up in tea rooms and theatres and tango parlors. I would rather see them home with a big bungalow apron on and @ fat bouncing baby in. their arms. And if they only know the joy of motherhood and the health and glow of housework I believe a lot of them would run home and flud what they are looking for but cannot jfind outside of their homec, @ ling life, health and real bappiness,” pataatinmcsteen WITH THE INVENTORS. Woven wire poles for electric wires or lights have been invented by a Chi- cago man, Folding covers, easily put Into use, have been invented for protecting plants from cold, ‘ im oe Od: New York Women in Society Spectacle . for Southampton Hospital Some of the Unique Costumes Worn in Gorgeous Tableaux, Biggest Social Event of Season at Society’s Long Island Summer Resort Petrik MRs OREN ROOT as QUEEN AMESTRISE? Tiss serie Moser Ignorant Essays By J. P. McEvoy by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World) Copyright, T is no longer necessary nor | even desirable to own an automobile now that so many others have them. After all an automobile fulfills its mission when it has given you a ride. Why worry then to whom it belongs? And when it is so easy to get free rides, how foolish one would be if one were to buy one’s self a car, To get a free ride stand onthe curb until you see a car coming along with only a driver. Step out in front of him and as he approaches give him a nasty look, He will think you are an officer of the law and will stop. Come around then and ask him for a lift. He will be so over- Joyed to find you are not an off- cer that he will do one of two things: He will get out and kick you thoughtfully upon your rear extension of else he will invite you in, Once inside the car and seated beside the driver you should en- gage him in sparkling conversa- tion, The complete conversation will run somewhat as follows: You—Nice car you have here. He—I'll say it is, You—Sure does run slick, He—I'll say it does, You—What kind is it? He-—(Deleted by advertising department). (Pause). You—Nice day, ain't it? He—I'll say it is. (A longer pause), GETTING A LIFT IN AN AUTOMOBILE You—Sure having a lot of strikes, He—I'll say we are. You—We sure are, He—I'll ‘say go. You--Strikes’ is the word, He—I'll say it is. (You have both disposed of this subject very thoroughly now, so there is another, though very much longer, pause). You-—That there, now, League of Nations is some stunt. He—Some stunt is right. You—T'll say it is, He—It sure ts, (You have now disposed of the League of Nations and have probably reached your destina- ton). You—Well, this is where I hop off. Thank you very much, He—You're welcome, (He stops the car). You--Thank you very much. He—You're welcome. You get out and slam the door and as he starts away— You—Thank you very much, He—-Thass aw'righ pra Cee nae EXONERATED THE GIRL. ME young man crawled into the “I should like to spetk to you on an important matter, sir,” he sald. “Well, what is it?” growled the fath. er ofthe girl, in no encouraging tone, “I—want to marry your daughter, sir!” fort, and He Explains By Zoe sister Sue—“na' police are asking are too lenient,” open,” suggests Only Congested Districts Of New York Produce City’s Delinquent Children — Clerk Lambert of Children’s Court Says No Cases Are Reported From Districts With Parks and Play- grounds Where Folks Live Decently and in Com- Why Kiddies From Other Areas “Get Started Wrong.” Beckley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). HAT ails New York's children? scarcely pick up a newspaper without seeing headlines in ever- growing numbers like “Child Kills Baby,” “Youth Murders ‘Em- ployer,” “Hold-Up by Boys,” “Youngster Shoots Policeman.” @ realization of those hideous fantasms in verse that used to be popular about Little Johnnie cutting up his ighty Johnnie so to do.” Attorneys, probation officers, teachers, parents and It seems gs though we can And District one another the reason. “Parents says one. “Schools should stay another. “Too mych prosperity,” hints a third, “Too much poverty,” groans some one else. “But the real reason,” ii ts Dennis A. Lambert, Clerk of the Children’s Court, “is congéation. Look The map is ,of Manhattan Island blocked off into streets. Red and biue headed pins are stuck in at the locations from which the children are sent to the court—each pin @ child. . Certain spots are #o thickly stud- ded that the pins can scarcely find fvot room. These spots afe AL- WAYS the blocks where 5,000 peo- ple are jammed into an area fit to house 1,800. Not a pin is stuck in the blocks where folks live decently and in comfort. Never a pin from a district with parks and playgrounds. Hardly a pin where families have an average of four rooms and bath for themselves. Now, then, what makes this hide- ous congestion, acknowledged to be greater than ever before? “The cost of living,” promptly an- swers Clerk Lambert. “ four offshoots of this hig! which tend directly to cause what you call ‘the crime wave among chil- dren." “1. There is no building going on. “2. Boarders have to be taken ‘in. “3. Mothers as well as fathers have to go to work. “4. Weariness and despair lead to dissipation on the part of parents. “The Marriage License Bureau will tell you there are thousands of couples each week who seck new homes.» Where are they to find them? Families who oan pay fair rents can find no quarters. What are the thousands who can only pay small rents to do? ‘ “They double up. Where four rooms were used, now two are used | for the family and the others are | rented. Many families who had but | two rooms are now compelied to live in one room and rent the other to a, boarder, Oftenest this boarder is a man, & young man who has no par- | ents, no home of his own. The fam- | lly who takes him in cannot afford to be particular. The first thing you | know, this outsider corrupts the young members of the family in ope way or another. I have known dos- | ens of cases recently’ where these boarders ‘completely broke up the| home Ife and directly caused the wrongdoing that eventually brought the child into this court. “Persons who lay the blame for child delinquency upon the mother | should bear in mind that mothers | who never worked for wages before | are now forced to do # by the out- rageous cost of necessities, How can @ mother who spends six or eight hours of her day in outelde tofl keep a proper eye to her children, no mat- ter how she longs to do so? “Again, there are parents who grow discouraged with trying to keep up| against the ever more diMfoult strug- | gle, and take to drink or drugs or vicious ways from sheer despair, Our improper guardianship cases have increased ‘of late. These are cases where children, through no| fault of their own, have been brought to this court in an endeavor to keep them from crime. We elther try to mend vonditions at home or have them committed to institutions where they will get decent care.” m Figures, Clerk Lambert explains, throw little light upon causes and effects in child delinquency, Dospite our constant reading that another little girl has poured poison down the baby’s throat and one more lad has used the blackjack on his em- ployer, the actual figures do aot “What?” The old man's face grew|show a@ rise in the commission of purple. “Marry my dau astonished! t on earth do you mean, sir! You" —— “Now, now,” soothed the youth, see- ing defeat looming near and wanting to get some sort of satisfaction out of, the interview, “don't talk that way, You are prejudiced against the Bhe's all right, really."—Chicago News, child crimes. These are peculiar and sporadic cases. As a matter of fact, there are fewer children fed through the Children’s Court to-day than there were a few years back, when congestion and the cost of living were not such poignant plagues, ‘Twe reason ls not that conditions at that’map on the wall. It tells the whole story.” are better, for they are much worse. But that preventive checks and ameliorative measures are now the order of the day. “If it were not for what the pro- bation system has dome and is con- stantly doing,” says Clerk Lambert, “and what dozens of other organiza- tions are helping us do, things would be practically beyond all control. i “In other words, if crime had been allowed to increase in normal pro- Portion to the conditions that actu- ally produce it—high cost of living, with its inevitable congestion—wo would be reading far more ghastly things in the papers than those that are shocking us to-day.” Mr. Lambert discards the theory that some children are just naturally imps of Satan and take pleasure in killing babies, murdering old gentie- men, holding up good citizens and plundering houses. He insists they @re just what environment makes them. If thé parents have to take board- ers into their three-room flat, John- nie is logically cast upon the streets. It it happens to be near the “Car Gang” or the hang-out of the “Hud- son Hustlers” it is a safe bet that Johnnie will land in the Chikiren’s Court before the week is out. And if Susie’s mother is dead and Suste’s dad works nights and there's no one to teach Susie right from wrong, is it any wonder she takes the wrong turning and lands before that pathetic rail where kiddies un- der sixteen are taught the lessons they should have learned in a decent, uncrowded home? —— ALFALFA SMITH, Sincerely, not mix them! to avoid “brain storms,” do nor to fruit in season, but to bread, potatoes—starch— There is no objection least effort. our stomaghs with the ever will get Gown into whatever is eastest and what. preparing and eating of The result is the we get for that high cost. is insignificant with what Are high cost of living put the soda in the vinegar, that which occurs when you produce the same effect as that is sensitive to gas, you bread, and you have a stomach pastry, that ie, pie and When you eat created by a gas. immediate sizzling action This gives you an soda in it, some vinegar and put baking stand what I iaean, take If you would under. queer as the people themselves, ure queer—almost as Some people's stomachs to eat,” is the slogan to-day, || “Easy to prepare—easy past understanding. animal called man which are devised ways of feeding the names unknown, have Modern agencies, | foods which shall be chewed D has wisely provided certain (The Now York Kvening World.) 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