The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1919, Page 18

EDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1919 | oar eres 0 Can Help the Housewife Bring Down = ~ High Cost of Living ‘S MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK: oy ‘Boycott profiteers, buy only in’ season, buy in ‘quantity, learn substitution, hang up the frying pan and use the double boiler more—Learn from foreign-born neighbors how to make potpies, goulashes and stews; cereals, breadstuff: how to take rice, spaghetti, season them, spice them up.and make a dish fit for a prince,”’ By Fay Stevenson Coprrixt, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World), HE housewife can do more than any one else to put a stop to the high cost of living, says Mrs. Christine Fréderick, author, lec- ‘turer and noted authority on household problems, “but he must go at it with the samo vim she used when Hooverizing.” 1 fount! Mrs. Frederick in her “office” over the garage in the back of ly lawn, L. I. been working on er bungalow “Applecroft,” at Green- It was at the close of the day and she had & 3,000-word article, but she was as eager. to talk on the subject nearest her heart as if at carly dawn. "In this HL C. of L. problem we have three conditions to meet~tood, clothing and rent profiteers,” she bégan in a baginess like cn summary. “Of course. the housewife ly’ only have her say over the first two, although 1 4m greatly In favor of the “own your home” propa- and live’ part of ity good American housewife ‘What she could do to Hoover- but atthe signing of the armis- ny of us were inclined to wallow in butter even stop there. Our HMooverizing was ly a preparation, a more training. omen must learn the art’ of Boy- at out of season, | buying tn hieven if they te store it under the bed, of tution and actually doing with- right in ymhore than half a house for ve and boycott all) clothes which are beyond; if the housewife will take care of the oldthing questions perhaps her husband oan settle the ‘where the normal purse and you will see how we can meet this H. C. of L. @on’t like to find fault with the American housewife, but I can’t help won't buy it at that price,’ and her| natural ‘inelination to make the frying If she used the double boiler and the frying pan lees her bills would be reduced about one-third, | “Before lowering our prices we must lower our Standards. We must using the dearly ‘little the double boiler into action more. living to come own to normal with such @ record as that, All the Euro- pean countries know how to take rice, | Spaghett!, in fact, all kinds of cereals and breadstuffs, season ttiem, spice them.up and make a dish fit for a prince. We all know how the busi- ness man will sometimes go to the Hithiest, most dilapidated little hole for his luncheon simply because he can get a dish of spaghetti or a dish of ravioli and it tastes good. . ‘ “Hungarian, Italian, Chinese or an; of those foreign restaurants oan take & little*meat, cut it up and make a potple,or a goulash or stew that will melt in one’s mouth, and it has the nourishment ofthe food cooked in the frying pan. Of course takes | longer to cook such food; {t must be watched and seasoned and tooked aftor * for at least half day, while the frying pan requires but twenty to thirty minutes, But if we are to put prices; down we must expect to work and plan and scheme. My suggestion to the housewife who has drifted back to steaks and chops and butter and egg cakes since the signing of the armis- Vice ts to visit those little iunchrooms and ‘sample a few of those tasty, nour- ishing dishes cooked with cheese and telling her to do so and she is) con- stanUy walling that she has no place im her 2x4 kitchen- rt to storing under in her hatbox and in every watlable corner, There: is something New Yo \ rk’s rod Roy U. Canger, New York Business Man, Boards Airplane at West- hampton Home at 7.45 A. M., Flies to Sheepshead Bay in 1 H.10 Min., and Is in Manhattan Office at 9.30—Flies Home in Afternoon / ND now we have our first “air cemmuter,” a New York business man, who makes the daily trip, home to office in the morning aud office to home in the afternoon, with the aid of an airplane. He is Roy U. Conger, Treasurer of the United Aircraft Engineering Corporation, who has found that by taking the “air line” he can save an hour and a half twice a day, which he previously has been wasting on trains between New York and Westhampton, Long Island. ' For ten days Mr, Conger has been making the experiment, inter- rupted only two or three days by inclement weather which made flying inadvisable. thus far made: And this is the daily schedule, based on average time Leave Westhampton f™ airplane 7.45 A. M. Arrive Sheepshead Bay" Motordrome 8.55 (elghty-flve miles covered in one hour and ten minutes). Leave Sheepsheaa Bay !n automobile 9.00 A, M. Arrive 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, 9.30 A. M. With an hour and a half saved, and his day begun that much earlier, Mr. Conger ia able. to leave his office in the afternoon, some- times at 3 o'clock, sometimes later, according to the demands of business, and via automobile and airplane be at his Westhampton home in an hour and forty-five minutes, again an hour and a half earlier than he would have arrived had he taken a train. Sometimes ‘Mr. Conger makes even better time. With favoring wind and weather he one day shortened the air trip by twenty minutes. But never has this part of his journey taken over an hour and a quarter. This most modern of New York's commuters does not fly the plane himself but employs an experienced aviator, his “air chauffeur.” He has not taken up this mote of travel as a “stunt” but as a business proposition to save three hours a day, and, having proved its practicabil- ity, will continue it as a fexular part of his daily, programme when- ever weather perm(ts. As a by-product of the experiment he already finds himself ‘arriving at the office invigorated by his morning trip through the fresh air and ready for a bigger and better day’s work than he has ¢' been prepared to face when travelling in stuffy trains. First ‘‘Air Commuter’’ FLIES 85 MILES TWICE A DAY—SAVES THREE HOURS TRAIN TIME LEAVES ST- L455 | trical authorities. The managers and } those of our women, These men show What Dame Fashion Has Decreed for Autumn Wear By Margaret Rohe HAT @ long tail our hat has! All the new perky. little Sul- tan turbans of crushed velvet, bape Oe reals ee eg abana. | round velvet sailor shapes with rolled bag od is that his wife tl up prims agd, im fact, almost all the Storing in, he will use his hammer | early autumn millinery models have and build some very attractive cubby) _ long swishing tassel of vivid silk holes and hamly sh¢ives. Glass bot-| qangling from their midst. ,Whether ae ca cae, bomen tom druggists, tin|it be of the self-name tone as tts nr from grocers, many @ space parent chapeau, as is the case usually und corner filed which would mean | where the hat is of black, dark brown oliare to the good to the housewife. | or henna, or whettier it bo a striking “But the food problem is not any| contrast, the sprouting tassel bobs more sertous than the clothing prob-| about ubiquitously!and also about “What is it and why? it have we peace? Have ‘ters pertaining to peace. of jem just at present,” laughed Mrs. Frederick. “And here again we shall have to change our standards and our ideals. Yes, they say shoes are go- ing UD, Wat what kind of shoes? Shoes with fancy tops and high French teen buttons and dia- ! Well, I can still get & pair of shoes—not dress boots, just shoes, that's all—for $ @ pair and ‘I dare say any little housewife can, \ foo, without going very far, We have got to learn to draw the distinction Letween luxuries and necessities, Tne moment we gut out these luxuries jto a large d@gree and put men to ‘manufacturing necessities we shall have cheaper clothing. ‘At present we have 95 per cent. of our men making furé, fancy boot Jewelry and ali the hundred and one iknickknacks we have on the market to 6 making actual necessities, Now if we could arrange it so that only 10 per cent. were making luxuries and $0 hs ities conditions would pretty ears and about six or.cight inches long, Under the head of the contrast class, but hound to be on the head of the classy, is a sultan turban of the vividest Chinese vermilion velvet, with a tasse) of the vividest Chinese green silk. Velvet is already very much to the fore and the forehead, and brighter even than th® afore- mentioned Chinese vermilion is o new shade of orange called capsicum, which brazenly rivals for very brill- jance the rays of the August sun, It is one of the most popular of the new shades which run the gamut of jall the yellows and browns. Fall fashions are fruitful and you must either be an orange or a citron to be {truly chic, So pick your fruit and are used on the sults and frocks merely as highlights in embroidered touches here and there, but for eve- ng gowns the entire costume par- ror the vivid hue, Suits and frocks are rather of some golden tint of brown or creamy beige and in the fal) Paris models it is amusing to note the multitudinous names used to designate varying shades of tan, They vary only by a branch one from another and yet each boasts an entirely separate and exclusive ap- pellation. Ecru, beige, mastic, putty, clay, old ivory, bisque champagne (alas that and a new shade called boc fill only the glass of fashion nowa- days), and going a bit deeper are bronze, wood brown, tobacco, a few red echoes of ast season's red brown Pall Mall Mariebille Marquis $4,000 Pekinese Owned by Mrs. Vincent De Mee of London Judged the Best All Around» | Dog | at the Newport color your hat accordingly. Dog Show $4,000 Pekinese Newport’s Best rust, henna and mahogany and, lastly, the deep dark depths of tete de negre. Black has been worn go persistently aul summer in the ebon satin frocks und gowns so dearly loved of the Pa- meian female heart that a blossom- ing out into the vivid yellows and warm browns this fall will be a wel- come chameleqn change. We cannot shake black off completely, however, and its sombre hues will still ewathe us willy nly in both satin and véel- vet lengths, just as our penchant for having the blues will always stick to us in the form of navy blue serge till the millennium, Then only will the emancipation from any clothes at all free us from the blue of serge forever surging around us. Fine feathers also add their orange and brown tinted hues to aid our Au- tumn millinery and the all feathered close turbans of the orange-bfgasted and bronze-toned pheasant is a symphony of color tones, Paradise too flaunt their yellow beauties au naturelle nor lonker droop under the black fear of premature dyeing, Dame Nature is certainly going to put It all over Dame Fashion this Fall, for it is unmistakably upon the glowing glories of the Autumn foliage that our sartorial color scheme will be based. Every discarded leaf that falls from Ceres's bounteous lap with be eagerly snatched up as a first aid (0 taahion by Madame La Mode, emenreoonm ‘WEDNESDA Of Course American Women: ’ Have the Prettiest Ankles In the Whole World!. . Modern Fashions Have Exposed That Fact, Modern Ilustrators Have Seized Upon It and Spread Its. Fame and Proven the Superior Pulchritude of the American Ankle When Compared With the. French, the English, Italian—Yes, Even the’ Chinese and Hottentot! 3 By Will B. Johnstone Goprright, 1910, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) ‘cc MERICAN Worhen have the statement, dropped like @ prettiest ankles in the World.” This bombshell by an American in Paris, the ‘most beautifully populated ankle centre of the universe, will set the League of Ankles shimmying with rage and precipitate the’ war all over. * The moot question should be Jmmediately settied once and for all and the verdict incorporated in the covenant go it can be ratified, otherwise the ' discussion will not permit tlie Senate and masculine const{tuents ‘to keep their minds on less interesting but more important affairs. ‘With all the stress of business, patriotically sacrifice their time to serve for less than a dollar a year on any oF all commissions, commit- tees and oficial or unofficial bodies appointed for investigating the ankle question. This devotion to duty, goes without saying, as the only qualifi- cation required of ifivestigators will be the passing of an eyesight test that ought to make a blind man re- gain his vision, ‘ ‘Who's who in ankles is a, vital and moral-wide topic. It sowed the germs of discord in the Garden of Eden; precipitated the Trojan war, when Helen out-ankled a large field uf com- petitors; started Samson in the house-wrecking , business and has sunk the world in gorest tribulation Jan down the ages, upsetting cold, calm judgments—through supreme grand councils to Betty Inch jury trials, American’ delegates to the Inter- ‘natignal Ankle Conference should be selected from among Broadway thea- actors could get together on this. There's no disagreement over striking ankles. They could mobilize enough underpinnings, to uphold America’s claim to the prettiest in an inter- national ankleship. . The artists who make the hosiery advertisements know — something about ankles too, and if their draw- Ings are not tmaginations thén our models could out-leg all foreign rivais, Coles Phillips, the American ad. artist, should be interviewed on why American ankles are the best. He is a foot specialist,’ and his hose pic- tures mae you stop, look and loosen. ‘The late Raphael Kirchner achieved fame portraying the pedal’ extrem!- ties of French and English beauties. and Leo Foutan has taken his place 4s press agent for the feet that rival the ankles, calfs and knees of repre- sentative types. Kirchner and Foutan, however, are quite impressionistic compared with Phillips. They merely show @ glorified shapeliness, exagger- ated and idealized. The intensity of their oversealousness “protests too much,” whereas Phillips gets some- thing of detail in the ankle he paints, The former show oply the insinuating threads of the enveloping sjlk stock- ings going in one direction, Phillips millions of tired merchantmen will‘ thfully pictures the threads run- ning up and down, crossways and di-* agonally, showing eyery delicate pet-' fection of contour and line, ' Phillips speaks in hig pictures thusly: “The American ankle i# slender, patrician, Benvenuto Cellini-" like in flowing line, dignified and per~ fectly balaneed, It hasn't the puffed- up instep ending in the stubbed toe of the French nor the hideous con- traction of the Chinese tootsie, It is flat on top like the English nor bowed too much in front like the Hottentot shins. It has athletie strength, while still delitately grace< ful.” At any rato Phillips's anklo pictures are typically American, 19 may be seen by comparing them with those’ you are forced to gaze upon on Fifth Ankleview, and they compel you to purchase whatever they are boosting, whether it be automobiles, hose, col- lars, silver spoons, mops, toot paste or other things appertaining to feet. You see the famous American ankle gets into all pictures as a powerful barker to attract attention, Some fine examples of American ankles are always exhibited by the women spectators at the Piping Rock or the Morristown Horse Show. (See Photographs of society at any horse show.) These are bluestocking’ an! The judges would be pardoned f conferring the ribbons on these in- stead of on the horses, for they easily outpoint the finest of fetlocks, The national ankle has been highly commercialized in the movies because of its beauty. It has saved. many a wabbly reel. Without a doubt there is abundance of plot in an ankle and it's full of human interest, If the other nations dispute our! supremacy in the production of ankles we would have a hard time picking the all-American team to defend our! title in open competition. And when they stage the contest I' should like to have the boxoffice amd ; movie rights to the matgh. f Imagine the crowds that would cheer our girls to victory: If the meet does’ come off, the govérning rules should prohibit silk stockings and padding. Let it be on the level and may the best ankles win for the honor and glory of the land of the heel and the home of the toe. i Ignorant Essays ‘By J. P. McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Brening World, TURKISH NB never really knows how O much excitement he can survive until hahas taken & Turkish Bath. It is Jike being gassed, torpedoed, shell shocked, bastinadoed and poached all at once. If, as the name implies, BATHS. locke in again, Without being accused of unnecessary profanity I can truthfully say the-hot room is one hell of a place, Here*your Faw, quivering carcass is soaked So full of heat you could crawl into the fireless cooker at home this is the kind of bath the Turks take, they must be gluttons for punishment. The process of taking a Turk- ish Bath differs, depending on whether you‘like to be fried on ‘both sides, or whether you pre fer to come out rare, medium or well done, You can «algo be and run it for a month. After you have died three or fqur times and are sufficiently boiled (hard or sft, denending upon’ your tastes in the matter) the attend- ant puts on his asbestos gloves again and drags you out, You are then put on a rubbing slab and your parched flesh is shirred, poached or brolled, de- pending upon your individual taste in the matter, Usually, however, the first step after the. shower is in the direction of the steam room. Herg the attendant Jocks you in and turns on all the nice live steam he can find. In a minute you cannot see any- thing; in two minutes you can- not hear, taste or gmell anything and in five minutes you are 50 thoroughly steamed you cannot feel anything. About this time, syou die and the attendant comes in and drags you out. He puts on asbestos gloves, however, as you are much too hot to hold, ‘After you are revived, you are i pushed into the hot room and pounded until yod.are utterly in- sensible, Salt is robbed into your wounds until they are com- pletely filled and the surplus carefully wiped off to be.used on the next victim. After the salt has been firmly tapped in so it can't fall out, you are given a cold shower that feels just as if some one had slipped up behind you and hit you on the back of the neck with a club, You are then carried into bed, where you are kept awake all night by the moans and cries of other Turk- ish bathers sobbing themselves to sleep. A Turkish Bath is a great im stitution if you don’t weakes, But you Se Ua hy