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, : pet inet aaah A A 4 It Has Come at Last; _ Evening World Reader Calls for Husbands’ Union HBRE’S A UNION SCALE OF DEMANDS HE PROPOSES HANDING WIVES One Evening Out a Week and No Questions Asked—The Right to Smoke All Over the House or Flat—Fifty Per Cent. of the Clothes Closet and the Hangers—No Burnt Biscuits: No Leathery Beefsteak; No Hash; 4 No Brides’ Pies—Overtime Pay for Work on the Furnace or Lawn Mower—Fifty Per Cent. of His Own Earnings After All Houseffold Bills Are Paid. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, ty The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) | ey ‘will join me in organizing the Hypebands’ Union, Local No. 1?" ‘That is the impassioned beginning of a letter I ha’ received from a married man who reads The Evening World and who ts mightily aroused over the recent proposal from a woman reader to form a Wives’ Union. “The main purpose of the Wives’ Union,” this walk- ing delegate declared, “should be to cope with the tyranny of the capitalist—otherwise, the husband. His control over the family funds, his ability to cut off supplies, too long bas given him an unfair advantage.” And she presented, you may remember, the minimum demands of unionized wives as follows: hats @ year, an O—————_—————————_ RA RRA SRA AE eA DE just i fl The Atlantic Has 126 Feet Wing Spread, Four at E s6 BARR AR OR a A I once a month, of husband's earn- 8 HS i “84 strike and the other recent disturbances have not diverted attention of our readers from that married women je the plan bas won & there a strong feeling among men whose letters I have received pfthat’ it is the HUSBAND, not the sig WIFE, who needs the protection of the union card. I shall be glad to fear what other readers think about “the Wives’ Union and the Husbands’ ‘Union. ‘The sentence introducing this art- fele is quoted from a letter signed ‘Mere Man.” He continues, force- f oe ~ m ver If there is a downtrodden slave in the labor market to-day it is the American husband, To speak of his ‘eontrol over the faiily funds’ is @ . joke, He's lucky if he controls his own carfare. If he doesn't turn over ‘unopened pay cnvelope every ees night he is considered a ybariah and a child-robber. The {unionized wives are going to ask for pewo new hats a year; but Dad is » Wieky ir he gets one new hat in two Years. And he wears the shabbiest eight-hour day and extra pay scale of domands for which they for overtime, a laundress, free | ought to hold out: apecch, two weeks’ vacation, “One evening out a week and no questions asked. fight to entertain mother for one “The right te emeke all ever “Month, the movies every week | the house or flat. “Fifty per cent. of the clothes closet and the coat hangers. o> Inge after house bills have been “No burnt biscuit, no leathry paid.” beefsteak, no hash, no brides’ ‘Pho steel strike, the dockworkers’ strike, the ferry strike, the laundry- “Overtime pay for work on the furnace or the lawn mower, “Fifty per cent. of his own rnings, after household bills are ai “Husbands unite!” =~ of New York, Other letters discussing the Wives’ Union follow: “Dear Madam: “It 1s about time something was done for the housewife. Things have gether now, and j 'the woman, yet nobody appreciat ‘her, nobody tries to make life happ; for her. of it is that the-husband, who is union man, will do. only what hi been very hard for her for the last few years, and f think she should get a little credit, Women must get to- let the world see what they are. Since the beginning time mission, of time, everything bas been up to, machine 375 Hp. Motors, a Speed of 105 Miles per Hour, Gasoline Capacity of 2,000 Gallons—Carries 50 Pas- By Gerald C. Smith (The New York Evening World.) the white flag and called quits Mitchel Field, Mineola. It is the e the British Ait Ministry just before | sengers, or 3,000 Pounds of Bombs. (Late First"Lieut, U, 8, Air Service.) (Coppright, 1910. by the Pres Publishing Co., NE more reason why Germany threw up the sponge, hung out is reposing heavily on its four wheels, occupying miost of the landscape at huge super-Hapdley-Page bombing aeroplane which was completed by the armistice for the especial pur-| pode of bombing Berlin. | its war-| Having been robbed of this enormous flying was christened Atlantic .g,and sent to Nova Scotia as one of y;) England's aspirants for the first transoceanic hop. Here again, Fate “I cannot see why a woman, be-|was unkind, for, while the Handley- | cause she is married, should have to) Page crew was making ready for the drudge all her life. The funny part|dash across the Atlantic, Commander @ Read in his Yankee ship and Alcock 18 and Browne got safely across. Now loca! calls for, yet he expects his wife!the Atlantic has arrived at Mineola to work without wages and without|to begin an aerial cruise of this coun- protecting regulations—she must just cook, sew, wash, iron without let-up, and obey his orders in every detail. I for one um in favor of a wives’ unlon—I think it’s a very good idea, and trust many others will write and say they agree with me, MRS. MARGARET M'G, elothes of anybody in the gamily. ‘ “The Wives’ Union is going to ask free wpeech, It is to laugh! Does " Bhybody in the home EXCEPT the enjoy the right of free speech— ty-four hours of it, or as long as “Dear Madam: “L approve of the Wives’ Union, if in tee. ewenet on oe it could bé" carried out successfully. walonise, they’! But when a man js making $50 per enough to keep off that free speech week, by the time the eats are paid for, the coal and gas bill paid and the family clothed and shod, how much is left for the husband to spend—to say nothing of dividing the surplus in half? Then imagine the housewife going on strike because something does not suit her. ‘The old way is best—quarrels in every household, to keep married life from being too monotonous, and then the best part of the quarrel—the making-up. That’ why a Wives’ Union can never be. AEP, atutt, “The conditions laid down by un- organized wives are hard enough. But if they get together, compare = notes and wogk out a union schedule, _ “there'll be nothing left for husbands "to do but to claim the right to collec- bargaining. Here's the union GOING DOWN! Gossricns 1810, Yiatbclas Word) My Dear Actors: If life is a stage, as Shakespeare used to say, and we are actors, let us keep moving, for the success of a play often depends upon action. I asked a very nervous “Dear Madam: “I read with much interest your article on a Wives’ Union, but regret to say that I really do not see how a union of this kind would be beneficial to the housewife, when it is taken into consideration that if she ever went on strike, hubby could call in the blonde next door or bring up his stenographer to act as @ strike- breaker. Now tell me, how long could She was not too busy to be nervous, but too buay to KEEP A MEAT SUBSTITUTE, AKING a complete bot dinner M for five people, One and one-half cups of lentils souked in cold water several hours or overnight. Put them on to cook in cold water: Cook three hours—salt to taste. Chop one green pepper, two tomatoes, two onions, clove. Fry until done in the grease obtained from two amall slices of bacon, Stir into lentils a few min- and if it can be gotten, one garlic} Since the start of the great war, when the German began his cam~- paign of frightfulness by bombing Paris, London and other open cities, the Allied Governments worked in- cessantly on an airship which, carrying @ goodly supply of bombs, could fly to Berlin amd back, Karly in 1914 a Frenchman in a light pw- suit plane had flown to Berlin, He was able to carry nothing but propa- ganda, though, and after dropp'ag his documents, kept right on for Russia, where he landed in front of the German lines, What the Alles wanted was to pay back the Bocne in his own coin—with good, healthy bombs, And so the air services of the En- not practicable. Zeppelins in the German raids aeroplane. Page aerial dreadnought was biflt. horsepower Rolls-Royce motors, fel successful in the cities ag Frankfort, Cologne, Stutt gart and Karlsruhe, but it could no quite make Berlin with the load of bombs that was required, The Allie: had to look further, ‘Then, searcely a month before th signing of the armistice, England an nounced that the problem had bee solved. Four super-Handley-l'age had been built, each of which, carry to Berlin and return. the base for these ships was not t \be in France but in England itself, ‘One of these marvellous aeroplane is the Atlantic, She has a win, spread of 126 feet and ts propelle enginds—two tractors and two push utes before ‘serving, Place in a nest It makes ul meal.—The ft Mag- of shredded lettuce leaves, ors. speed. is 105 miles per hour, gavoline tente worked on, Machine after ma- chine was developed and discarded as ‘The failure of the on England had taught the Allies that the success of their purpose lay not in a lighter-than-air ship but in an Finally the first Handley- Even this plane, with a wing spread of 100 fect and propelled by two 875 short of the mark, It-was eminently bombing of sugh ing 3,000 pounds of bombs, could fly Furthermore by four 375 horsepower Rolls-Royce With the throttle full on her Her capacity is 2,000 gallons, amply sufficient to keep her in the air for twenty-four hours with her 3,000 pounds complement of bombs. Binge Alcock and Browne made the hop across the Atlantic in sixteen hours it can be seen with what ease the Atlantic. could have made the flight had she been ready in time. Tests made by the Atlantic and her sister ships before the close of the war showed that with them Berlin could readily have been bombed. When the aeroplane now at Mineola made her first public ap- pearance after. the war she carried Giant Plane to Carry Fifty Passengers ROLOING Soor, CROSS SECTION OF WING forty-one men in a flight over Lon- don. Her human carrying capacity is fifty persons. When the Atlantic landed at Mitchel Field upon her arrival from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, it seemed as though she filled the whole air- drome. In the cockpit in front of the huge flyer, where the pilot and navi- gator hold forth, are instruments enough to make the skipper of a transatlantic lineg wild with jeal- ousy. In a compartment petween the two wings is the engitf® room, With a Base in Eng- land, This Machine Was Capable of Flying to Ber- lin and Return — Fate Prevented a Transatlan- tic Flight. OPIS PROTO~ GRAPAER, to a large space which might be termed the smoking salon were it not for a sign hung there reading: “NO SMOKING.” From there to the end of the fustl- age are a series of openings through which machine gunfire might be di- rected to protect the most vital spot of an aeroplanc—the tail, Despite the largeness of the At- lantic, it can land in a smalier area, even, than a emall scout or bi- place machine. This was demon- strated when, on the trip here from Nova Scotia, Major Brackley, the pilot, brought he- down after night~ fall in a small field at Greenport, L. L, without the slightest accident. The following of the Atlantic: comprise the crew Vice Admiral Mark Major H. G. Brack- ey, ‘pilot; A. Arnold, engineer; Arthur Harrold, engineer; James Stoten, rigger; John Donaldson, rig- ger, and Charles Clemmons, rigger, Besides this crew, there were four while ffom there a “cat walk” leads passengers, with all their baggage, aboard during the trip here. ID you ever as a little boy suf- D fer in silence from an over- grown bully—stand his gibes And jeers in tears—mutter dire threats and ungodly vows and unchristian resolves—till one day enraged to des- peration and sretaliatian you struck back, fought widly unthinking of handicap of size and welght—fought till you tottered, till’ your hands re- fused to remain outstretched, till you gave or took a terrible trimming-~ just which as you shall see, cuts no particular ice? Did you ever on a stumping tour face an antagonistic, hostite mob—a raving, shrieking mob of .anatics— whose mouthings and revilings and protanations merely kindled and {fanned the flames of your determina- tion till you said what you had come to say—and some more? bd Did you ever run a mile in seven minutes? Then learn that Tom or TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM On the Level Uphill. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (Tow New York Evening World.) Dick or Harry had done it in 6ix— decide to do it under five—train, sweat blood, deny and apply till each second you clipped from your record seemed to clip @ year from your life— till you did what you had set out to do? Did you ever have pneumonia or some such i!lness—where a thousand imps of Satan hammered spikes into your spine, where spasm after spasm wrecked your body and wrecked its resistance—till from the agony of your * unrendurable torture sprang your cry to die? Then—perhaps from sb shame—you cursed your weakness, burst from your writhings of pain and despair, determined you would live, you would not give up as long as there was still breath and strength within you? Did you ever start out to do some- thing—it may not have been very im- portant—"juat for fun"—find unex- By Herman J. Stich | pected obstacles cropping up—appar- ently insurmountable difficulties de- veloping—and finish the job “on gen- eral principles"? i If you've done any or many of these things then you know wh. it is that the world’s heart goes out to the man who is rowing against a contrary sea, to the fighter with his back to the ropes, to the swimmer with his head upstream, struggling against the tide, laughing . at’ the counter-current, striking out harder and harder in the face of stubborn, growing odds. There are many ways of life in which man can distinguish himself, many pursuits, professions and walks. History boasts its magnificent, spec- tacular encounters in which millions of men have clawed at one another's lives, But the greatest, grandest, most inspiring battles of all time are those being waged about us daily by discouraged men and lonesome wo- men—they who are doing their level best on the level, uphill. Mr. New Yorker, Do cientific Jottings From an Inventor’s Note- You Know How to Live ? | © you have the proper attitude towar¢ things in general, and particularly towards your work? ‘Two years ago a New York university a 4 student who * carried everthing before him alike as a 1 | scholar, an athlete and a leader of the student bedy, He on top of all this, voted the most popular -|man of his year, His record was so was, t|extraordinary that a writer for ¢| Forbes Magazine asked ‘him to s]eome and tell him how he had done it, He found him an upstanding, e{elean-cut, alert, ambitious young “|fellow. He said that most young nen regarded their years at colle simply as preliminary to their lif work, whereas his -|that his four years at college were just as much a part of, bis life and his career as any subsequent period could be, He made up his mind, therefore, to develop the best that was in him and to live a full, well- rounded, dynamically active life all through’ his college course, He did not put off doing this, that or the next thing until to-morraw or after he went out into the business world, He was gonvinced that the showing he made at college, not merely as a student, but as a man, would be and should be taken into account when be came to make bie way after e d reasoning was | book. | Designed for piano makers to test the resiliency of felt, a new machine also can be used to test rubber and leather, The pistons are stationary on a gasoline engine invented by a French- ‘man, the cylinders moving up and down along them, | A Boston man is the patentee of | pulleys and tackle to enable a person in bed to open window or close a | without rising. \ Clamps for the feet and hands “n- vented by an glishman ! enable persons to climb irop poles or similar structures easily danitary advantages prompted thy invention by a Rhode Island man of a detachable and easily cleaned soap holder for shaving cups rubbs nake 8, air cushions and mat- Lacking water \ tresses from a strong bamboo fibre known as leather paper. Japanese Too and salt are Poaded at the op- posite end from the cream in a new ice cream freezer to prevent them ac- tally entering the oreans, London Housemaids Get Weekly Wage of $3.17. 'G Square housewives, to the following information from our Hanover} correspondent in London, England; “Housemaids here. demand a minimum weekly wage of $3.17. They refuse to don the cap and gown, but suggest overalls, They ask for two hours off each day, and fourteen holidays during the year on board wages each year, They refuse to sleep in basement rooms and demand regular meal } times, They ask’ for social clubs in eyery town and village. I say, Mr, Editor, what bally rot is this? Do they expect to shine in leet Deucedly bold, 1 Bay. The point re, to caps and gowns is | well taken, but such audacity as to k $3.17 weekly, Wh: the poor, downtrodden maid. who ekes out a Copyriah UY that said two can live as cheap as one meant two goats. Only way two human beings can live f-r the price of one is for the hub to b> in j One egg ain't a breAkfast for two, even with a double yolk. Just one article that’s as cheap for two as it is fomone, and that's love, But love ain't cheap anywhere. Grocers circulated this cheap-as- one dope. Sounds O. K. till you try it, One trial convinces you you're wrong, and it takes a court trial to get a fresh start. Any chump can‘ figure it takes more beans for two than it does for one —any chump but = guy in lov Even takes more snowballs for two than one, Only thing that marriage cuts down is liberty. Only two birds that took married life easy were the Sultan and Solomon, Sultan took it very easy—like the Allics took Constan- tinople. And Soloraon was thd wise guy of his day. Married seven hundred girls and lived happily ever after with every one of ‘em, Sol was the first guy to belong to the Four Hundred, and later he added three handred more —put marriage on a large scale basis and assembled brides the way they do flivvers. Reason two could live as cheap ag one in Sol's menage was the shortage of clothes—not on the market, but on the wives. Sol would buy fifty pounds of mos- quito netting and his fall shopping was over. Skeeter netting was satisfactory to the girls—they did not have to dress behind a screen. When it came meal time, Sol’s head cook pushed out a vat’ of milk and a ton of honey, and the girls went to it. Never got fat on that diet, but Sol didn't like ‘em fat. Milk and honey didn’t cost much, either. Sol happened to be king at the time, and the natives furnished all the entrees, That was before the bees got extra for over time buzzing and before the cows organized for an eight-quart day. Food and clothes never bothered the Sultan. When the H. Cc. L. ‘went up, Sult’s wives did without food. Did without clothes regard- less of the H. C. L. When the Sult came to the throne, official statis- ticlang told him two dozen could live as cheap as one dozen. Statis- ticlan showed him the figures to 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Prove it, Sult took a look at the figures and ordered four dozen. Sult commanded his four dozen to eat little and dress the same way. That made the harem a suc- cess, artistic and financial, Sult claimed all's fair in love and war, and the fare he gave the harem certainly kept ‘em in form. Only mistake tho Sult made in his whole career was in warfare. Al- lies doped it that two could be licked ag easy ne one, and that's where the Sult and his Turkey got it in the neck, That good-cheor stuff in Amer- fea, though, should read, “Two Can Live as Cheaply as Three.” Guy that contemplates commit- ting matrimony should first double his salary, He'll have to halve it after he's married. Commences to understand what “better half” means when he works on the fifty-fifty basis. Swain that raves over his fiancee’s clothes continues to rave over ‘em after they're married. Only he ves in a different key. Simp that gushes over his girl's golden hair ciscovers it takes his own gold to keep it that way. Complexion comes from the word “complex"—meaning up of a lot of things.” And the husband pays for the “things.” Yes, friends, it's true the parson “made makes ‘em one, but the butcher and baker. and rouge lip-stick maker refuse to accept the par- son's count. Marriage is one of those \ergers where the feminine stockholder gets away from pa Minority holder discovers a bull movement f to work after the honeymoon's over. He's gotta pro- duce dividends every week or the whole corporation goes on the curd —to wait for the m ng van. Poor zobs that think the two-in- one can be accomplished are still applying for marriage licenges. There's one of these zobs born every minute—and two or three aris to catch him. Girls use cateh- as-catch-can rules, and the guys only have to fall once to lose. Guy always thinks his girl's a winner, and as soon as the first pay-day comes round, discovers that the winner t:kes all Marri: man that says two can live ag cheap as one is blooey. He furnishes the flat, he furnishes the clothes and he furnishes three very- meals a d thing but 5 He furnishes oof, What Shall the Cir! Do To Earn Her Living? BEING A LIBRARIAN Fifth of a series of articles in which Beatrice Barmby, an ‘ex perienced business woman and writer, discusses briefly the different jobs open to ambitious young women, and sums up the case for cach job in qualifications and training required, averaging salary, advan- tages and disadvantages and, possibility of advancement. By Beatrice Barmby Copyright. 11 ce S Melightful library in a town not @ great many miles away | from New York City, and our talk was interrupted by an assistant who came to ask for advice, and by a ‘elitnt’ or two who wouldn't be sat- isfled with anything less than her personal ald, “You seem to be a walking encyclo- pedia,” I said laughing as she came back again apologetically. “Is the training difficult?” “Tt is hard work because it is very thorough. I went to Wisconsin Jni- versity, where the librarian year's IVE heed, discouraged New York course may be included in the grad- | uation course.” “Is a college “It is very education essential elpful, for in the case of beadships and in th we 1d the demand for college gradu- ate librarians is becoming more strin- gent, But a girl may qualify through fhe library school course which is open to high school graduates,” and then again there are apprentices at the Jibraries who enter after high school and gain their knowledge by technical experience plus some tul- tion.” “IR the sala ‘ork must be wer am afraid it is not. But there is every reason to hope it will be im- proved in the near future, for the Kmerican Library Association is do- ing big work in this direction. Tho is sometimes paid a small nd train- ing she receives are set against her services. For the library school grad- tate the present salary is about $70 month, While for university grad- tates with the jibrary course it would y ag interesting as the apprentic sum, otherwise the tuition living in this city merely receives $30 | weekly, higher, probably $100 a month. Of betes tho salaries of head librarians by The Press Publishing Co, (Tue New York HE was head librarian of a) commercial | Alas, alack! New York housewives fn. important libraries—for which business skill might induce the London wmaids to posts experience and come here, if it weren't for such ab knowledge of are as necessary as surd things as 25-cent movie ticke’s ft 40 cents the copy, $6 shoes at $15 while there are well-paid jobs as librarians in big pooks—are higher, {the pair and $1.50 ladies’ silk stock. | ‘ings at $6 the tubric, commercial companies. These, in creasing re, ere ng World.) graduate librarians fer tho collection of data, events of current interest, reference, classification of adverti pamph &C ri hours?” 7 atic, aver two per Week and arran to ul mea ing forty- d accordilig ad librarian; 2 apt to be most libraries therefore al erratic, and, though have kitchenettes, cold lunches or cold dinners are likely to rule two hree mes a week." i “And against these disad what privileges do you s¢ “An imnfense interest, the privilege ot being able to do such iunportant welfare work, the delight of living nd the human element, antages t important, Our an right book to the right person and I hardly think the public realizes what an immense amount o * tlous librarian, There is also the business interest in the work of head and commercial vibrarians who need organizing and financial ability. Then I hold child pn's classes for hing the use of the encyclopedia and rete erence books, besides which I a several hours a week a e 01 severy t extension “What's that?” “A library for the use of the ems ployees in the factory at R. When 't found nothing being done for them I obtained p Missi c to start this extension library, the books for which are partly supplied by. th library people and partly by the Age This is direct welfare work and worth while as evidenced by th are: shown by. the employes," osname “What kind of girl Would you recommend to take up this career “One who is interested in books, nate urally-—but al in people If she hag ability f Utive Work and finance she will be able to work her way from college to a job as head librarian either in a public :ibrary or ingone of the big societies like the Engiheering So¢iety, or into commer. clal work. There is 4 demand greater than the supply for trained graduate Mbrarians, with the p®ospect of im. proved pay fm the near future,”