The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1919, Page 16

a a ee to ES mo ree ae. pee SS A Sey etre pe = Pe ie ty eneneade ety Green nn Bren ‘ . Wt ae ae ee aes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 It Has Come at Last; Evening World Reader | Calls for a Wives’ Union HERE’S A UNIO} | SCALE OF DEMANDS | SHE PROPOSES HANDING HUSBANDS: Two New Hats a Year—Services of a Laundress and a General Houseworker—50 Per Cent. of Hus- +3 | band’s Earnings After Movie a Week and One Theatre a Monfh—Right of Free Speech—Right to Entertain Mother One House Bills ArePaid—One Month Each Year—Two Weeks’ Summer Vaca- | tion—Bight-Hour Day, With Pay for Overtime. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coorriatt 1919. by The Prem Publishing Os. (The New York Eventag World). HO wants ¢o join the Wives’ Now that the doctors, the actors, the policemen and most other groups of hitherto unorganized workers are forming them- | seiyes toto unions overnight and planning how to increase their pay and decrease their working hours, tt is the time for the oppressed and downtrodden wives df New York to look after their neglected rights. “Why not have a union of married women™ asks @ married woman reader of The Evening World. She presents a wide array of facts in support of her new suggestion. She “There are ever so many good wives’ union. @ unorganized trade is a downtrod am worm and grounding. Therefore, wif. must bea worm. But need she ge on being & worm? Answer, sho peed not. She has only to organize, Presto! she will be treated as she toe @ wives’ anion would be stifle to meet on equal terms such as the Janitor’ Union agd Laundreasev’ Union, who now Proceed to grind ander their orgun- the poor, lone, unprotected wife. When the Laun- Union demands % a day, ‘amie and the une of the family car te Wives’ Union can counter with a leckoet, then dip into the union teensury and buy an oloctrio wash- ing maohine. “The main purpose of the Wives’ UWaton, however, whould be to cope with the tyranny of the capitalimt— the husband. His control 2 the family funds, bis ability to with a scale of demands establisting aanintmam standard for the trade of baing @ wife. In the matter of these demands 1 should like to hear the opinions of other readers of The Eve- Meanwhile, here is a ANEW DESIGN FO YOUR WINTER CLOAK In the fret place, women must be in the fastion. K used to be sufficient if the would-be fashionable matron could display a towering family Union, Local No, 1? writes reasons for a . list T have complied. What do you think of re? “Beery member of the Whes’ Union show d receive “At lent two new hate 9 year. “The services of a Jaundrem and, if poneftie, of ome general house. worker, “Fifty per cemt. of the husband's earnings, after house bilis have been paid, for her personal use. he is to receive thin allowance regularly, and abe is not to be asked to account for It “One visit to the movies every week 4nd one theatre ticket every month, “The rixbt of free speech. “The right to entertain her mother for @ period not exceeding one month of each year “Two weeks’ vacation every sem- mer. “AN eigyt-bour day, and extra pay for overtune. “Other demandes, such as a desire for diamond earnings, a now car or ® keram! coat, to be settled by a committee of arbitration “Most wives, however, would be satisfied at the start with the eight points 1 have outlined, At least, 1 think #0. What have the husbands to my to them? It in “Just well to have a peaceful consideration of the Wives’ Union and tt# probable demands, Wives, 1 am Aure, would he most reluctant to enforce thelr simple requirements by Tesorting to stern measures, Wives, 80 far as I have sounded their senti ments, are not in fuvor of a walkout from the home. Nor do they desire to stay in it and practise sabotage as a method of bringing to terms their lords and masters, Domestic snbotage, dt is trae, would be particularly effective, A course of meats badly cooked and served will make @ man promise almost any- thing if he may receive some real food in return. However, a really affectionate wife, even if sho joined the Wives’ Union, would adopt such savage tactics only If all gentler methods'of persuasion failed. Watch out for the Wives’ Untan, m ® unionized world the wife ehoukl be Protected as much as the teleptone operator or the garment worker. If not, why not? ‘The Wives’ Union is jin the air, Perhaps, even now, your own wife ta a walking delegate for |it. So bo careful not to get on hor black list, and dont try any high. handed capitalistic taciios! But if you want to tell me what you think of the idea of a Wives Union—-even if you want to fight it I won't give you away by printing your name. —<——— | i} lcan RUN WITHOUT CARBUR- | j ETER GIVES SURPRISING i} | MILEAGE. RED CROSS chatiffear mm Paris ts reported to havo driven his car nearly forty-five miles on one | pint of gasoline, using no cartureter, | but condensing and spraying the fuct directly into the cylinders | method not disclosed | astonishing rate of 360 miles to the | gallon by Oneness & wrenswore er FT camel's hair cloth is the material used for this very mation as to the weight of car or the al ‘This is at the} In the absence of any infor-| MARION = (1 Ny | ~ Start Teachin Eitan ga Child at Two With a Typewriter ; New Idea of Training With Amazing Results Seven- Year-Old Statler Twins, Educated by Methods Devised by Their Father, Have Mental Efficiency of Children Twice Their Age, Use Typewriter With Touch or 1% Sight System, Can Write, Read and Translate Two Foreign Languages, Play Piano and, Perform Unusual Feats of Memory. Bd Oe oT toran? NURSERY WALLS WITH EDUCATIONAL GBoROERS ing b child's education Ouprright, 1010, by ‘The shing Oo (The New York ing World.) | WAY with the pen and the pencil, the grammar and spell ok, as foundations for On with the typewriter and play as substitutes, ‘These are the rules laid down by E, M. Statler, President of the nsyl vania Hotel and owner of several other large hosteiries throughout the | country. You men who are not able to re member those first Jove notes you wrote your wife were all brought up wrong. I ty ou had trundled €Lva (9) from | your ertb to a man sized typewriter E.M. STATLER ORESSED THEM ~ Two rv | Sual system of education by which Mr. and Mrs, Statler are bringing them up and which has made them he equals in m efficiency of} children more than twice their 4 and played with its keys when you] When for some facts as to h were two years old, you might now|system of child training, Mr. Statler recall those first intimate notes. Was loath to talk f ublication, bu ff you had been taught that filling | finally consented when it was pointed up the wood box for the old kitchen] out that it might be of interest and stove was @ Kame and not a task the | 4M aid to other parents. world might have presented a rosier| Some pf the mental f performe huo ever sin Instead of taking,| bY Mis children before a few guests perhaps, an utter distike to stoves in| consisted of Ellsworth reciting from general You might have early in your | Longfellow's “Hiawatha” at random youth become an inventor of woodless|Tho guests held copies of the poein stoves or such like, in their hands, they read and Mr. Statlar did not give forth these) skipped Jong paragraphs. ‘The boy predictions, but nevertheless they| picked each of the skipped para-| might have been so tf you had been| Kraphs up and recited perfectly until] epell, pumetuate, s brought up as his ebildren are being trained ne Dw. No better proof of the soundnoss of his system visit with his children. Mr Bven damental child the Let the typew pr the ¢ stitute f | book. “Teach the child how ru foll is needed than a ghort Statler, in an interview for The i World, guve as his two fun s for jowing. bringing up a ter become the sub- ninar and spelling to play to a purpose, #o that work becomes a joy | nature of the road traversed, comment or eMclency of @ gasoline engine wit imventor appears to have attained and not a drudgery.” on this extraordinary figure is more! hey were called forth through an leas futile.® © © If the thermal) impromptu reception givon by two of his children, Kiva and Ellsworth, both carbureter is around 20 per cent. this | seven yoars of age, at the Pennsyiva. nia Hotel a fow days ago, when they stunts wi Popular] perfarmod several remarkable brain the next break, where he again per formed the singular t. Both the yoy and the girl then read long ar jeles with big words of the capitals of the named the flowers of t Bates, ‘The lit 1 sat at a typewriter, turned her head from it and using the correct fingers, by the touch system. remarkable speed na . Rave the es and wrote with and wccuracy, different sentences voted by members of the reception party Mr, Statler said that his system mainly the Winif, Sackville Stoner system, with some of his own deas mixed in, He said that by ehance he pickod up her ‘book on Natural Education” and evor since | has boon educating his children! along the line of making thetr work ‘their play, wi WHEN THEY WERE STUDIES MADE INTO MRS. STATLER SELVES TWINS GIVEN TYPE WRITERS AT TWO AND A HALP YEARS OLD iJ two and a half years old," he suid I bought them both a full A tyne writer which they have been using ever since, Within four months Elva | was reading. 1 remember e rea the story of “The Li and the Mouse.” Ever since then I have in isted on weekly reports from thor overness telling what they had eared and what progress they had nade, ‘The first week's report read Elva can pick out her own name from the building blocks.’ Asked as to why he placed so much | Importance on the typewriter for a child's education, he said it was a child's natural plaything, While playing with it the child, if properly ead, directed, can be taught how to dl more ak § much | memortzc quickly | n by the drudgery of the school m, “Pver since and th re | and Ellsworth Elva were two years old," Mr, Statler con- | tinned, “they have been surrounded with construc stead of destruc tive toys, so that when their agg of! reason arrives around twelve, they will have something upon which to} reason. In their nursery the walls ar covered four feet high with figures, pictures of animals, sentences, art ob jects, pictures of different objects, so that while at play picking out the different objects they ate constantly learning something, “A fow years ago © magazine print- od pioturos of the flowers which rep- escnted the different Btates, .I out MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1919 By Neal R. O'Hara. Copyriawt, 10919. by The Press Poblishing Co, (The New York Evenine World), NLY one reason why Raphdel,| the paint a chance to dry over te Rembrandt and Van Dyke died | week-end, Painters are already ary | poor, They didn't belong to) by Friday—week-end gives ‘em 's the Painters’ Union, These guys| chance in the other direction. worked eight hours a day and then! Corot was the greatest sunset |worked eight hours a night. That| painter. But they don't have sunset | left ‘em only eight hours for sleep,| painters now. Nearest they get te soup and suds And yet they died | sunset is 4.30 P. M.—then they qait But poor. for the day. hapry | ‘Those were the days when walking | delegates had to go barefooted, the same as the chaswic dancers, Walking | delegates now put on shoes and clas- House painter is one of the busiest guys there is. Always at the top of the ladder; then he works dows. When it comes to using the brash, house painters the same as a golfer. sic dancers put on shows. Simply proves the union is getting stronger. | Last thing we knew, union was strong | enough to walk out. . Painters didn't organize soon |enough. Three hundred years ago a Van Dyke was worth only $2. with | | the frame. To-day a Van Dyke costs you $40,000, whether you get it ata |barber shop or an art gallery, And the ain't trimmed mueh | customer Considers 16 atrokes a good day's work, Painter takes only a strokes, with @ neat wrist thovememt, on the green—which is when he paints the blinds. Sign painters belong to another eet. ‘They and the bilfboard trest are the only ones that believe in signe. Work chiefly in the open air, and ¢! side of @ building is where a sign painter's at his best. Or his worat— EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN MARICED With, Scien iFic these out and had them pasted on ant B) MILTON (13) \4 CM M PRINCIPAL POINTS IN MR.STATLER’S SYSTEM EACH child to play to a Give child construc- tive instead of destructive toys. Interest the child and his mind will never be injured, Give child, at early age, typewriter, building blodks and dissected maps. Put important facts in nur sery rhymes. Train child and observe. Every normal child is blessed talent. It depends on parent to discover this tal ent before child reaches sixth year. Take children to art seums ag often as possible. Encourage the child to draw, to bring out expression of original ideas. Train children in plant life. to concentrate with some mu | either way. ependil nt of view, , Sign Painters in the old days recogninea | Spending om the pol me | painter has done more for cigarettes only one sti and that oo sibs than Paderewski hae done f1r Poland base were weds _ " their a iodas | and pianos combined. thing wrong with the painters to- ay | Signs around the outfield femee |—they must have to pay alimony or |something the way they charge. | When it comes to wages, they want more, more, more. Make Oliver Twist }iook like he'd lost his appetite. make one ball park (he @me as ap- other, So the sign painter's the gay that makes a ball player feel at jhome, even when he's on second bawe. Fences at the park are now the same Lucky for the guys in the olden ity ai pall players, including Babe |days they didn’t have unions then.! yi), ‘ j Aa it I : There's just vue other bunch ot | —and that's no eight-hour day, either. | winters they're also well organised, | And it wasn't painted ina day, either. irase set of painters belong to the | Point is, if they’d had a carpenters’ |Stenographers’ Union, j Perea | Stenogs do an local in Rome, it wouldn't have been | sent-hour day of painting—from 8 A. built up in time for Nero to burn it} af. to 10 A. M.; from 12 to 2 P, Mi; |down Jand from 4 P.M, to’ P. M. Every- Painters are all the same, whether thing’s exterior painting, they paint the outside of your house| 'gtenogy Union now locking for ar- or do an inside job. In either cas¢|puration, Girls want ehort 2 | it looks like robbery, Painter always jong tate breakfasts, Ask for a i lays it on thick, especially when he isso, ang open-work stockines. De- makes out Dis bill, ‘mand higher wages and lower necks | Painters get paid by the hour. And) Employers are willing to arbitrate. |¥ike alt other guys, they want ®/Only hitch is, employers are willing shorter day. In fact, as we see it! to concede too muoh, | the only guys that DON'T want ®| painters in the Stenogs’ Union con- shorter day are the night watchmen.| ict with the house-painting Tape | Latest demand of the painters is a Stenogs are wiling to paint seven five-day week. Claim one day of rest| aayy a week and work nights at may have been O: K. in the earlylaneyit ray round the rouge, days when the world was created,|,., tue o day. They're willing os but two days of rest are needed now., fight for the colors tall the last ave Want to paint from Monday cape ck eae ine to Friday night. That leaves day Saturday—and Saturday night— ok he ee eee to paint the town red, only ones that paint on @ rainy day. Monday to Friday, Huh—that'’s when they paint the day—that’s their progr most, What Eve Said ABOUT MEN . -By Sophie Irene Loeb HE man who crawls in bis shell never bas any room to laugh. 1 A perfect man is never interesting. The horribly dignified man never did have a good time. Men are known not only to “hitch their wagons to a star,” but their ate. ' mobiles, houses, money, too h day to fish mme, A real “good fellow” is one who never misses an opportunity to be ome. A gentleman i one that does not have to prove it. | When a fellow thinks he is “on” to the town, the town is usually “on” to him. Rachelor—As you sew, so also shall you rip. | A man would fight if called a “puppy,” but is flattered at being termed a “gay dog | Most men who think they are educated crackers are only gingersnaps. When a man tells you he understands women, clear your throat and close one eye. Many a man has greatness thrust upon him, but he does not know how | to catch it, | he man and the mollycoddle are like unto the live tree and the telegraph pole respectively; the first sends out his messages and the second only carries those of others, In competing for the crown of minuteness the molecule must yield the capital of the State, Then their palm to the mollycoddle. governess had them play cards and jsee who could get the most pictures | PLMINL.. «0 by telling wl State they repre-| care of their personal belonsings.|TWENTY THOUSAND TRUCKe) sented. At five years of age they| Their study hour has always been} TO BE GIVEN AWay. were able to write on their typewrit-| called their play-work hour and has| WENTY th ‘ ers in proper sequence the names of] never been over an hour and a half in | he ousand trucks, found i the States with their capitals and| length. Their physical training hay 4 ee i” i) the War Department, } the flower that represented each] been along the same system as their!) | are to be given away by the tate. mental.” Secretary @f Agriculture to the Highs” ate a eee ther| ¥@¥ Departments of the “In our garden at Buffalo all the} Mr. and Mrs. Statler have two other! .1 1) Rage e the various | rees. and plants and flowers are| children, Milton, thirteen, and Marion, 4 ie " nly to pay load- j th th tifte | twelve, who also have been trained and freight charges to acquire J marked with their clentifi© names. | the machines, according t { en they step to look or play with| along the same lines as the two young-| )\° 0 q & to August When th r k or play h 8 j Popular Mechanics Magazine ! themethey are taught to call them by| est but were not started until much| | ag Tho | a value of the trucks ig ¢ ve their right name older, thefoby loosing the greater part Ev evpegun'y er $15,000,000, | “0 tem," Mtr, Statler conctuded,| Of the benefits of the system. While| > 4 hg Al number, 11/000 are new has t were gst ra a Hee all four are exceptionally bright for| ,000 have been used. ‘All @ Te dr ig aggre Pe eguaas oad have( their years, the earlier application of |‘ **tViceable condition, ‘The capae- correctly from th ave! the system to the two youngest shows| !tY of the trucks ranges trom two made books, magazines and papers 48) sq penefits, as they are able now to|to flve tons each. Under the lew much their playthings as their toys. 0, read id commit to memory| which author! spi Nae Seeaae | origes the distribution ef They have been taught to do bvery- ud an their older nruther| the trucks, the Bta 8 to which they ‘ rt , thing for themsolvom since twapyears ‘Elva and Ellsworth enter school for] *T¢ S!ven must use them ingthe com, old that wan possible, such as di ng the struction of roads for si ia eae i ir Bama,