The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1919, Page 20

ollege Bred Cooks for Hire, i f f To Aid in the $4,000,000 Smith Girls Will Prepare | | Meals and Entertain Guests Endowment Fund These | Girls Will Enter Your Home and Serve a Dinner | from Soup to Nuts; They Will Work in Groups j “) By Fay S tevenson Copyriant? 10tgy, by The Prom Publishing Co. (The New York Hvening Wort) days ago Mrs. Crosby J. Beakes of White Plains told of a plan to! ; y" we afe still talking about solving the servant problem. A few, organize a nebo! for household assistants, She spoke of the good, | old-fashioned Irish, German and Swedish immigrant girls as a thing of the past. She said that the next | * beat thing we could do was to employ a higher class of American giris— high school girls preferred—pay ther | man pays his stenographer or| , office assistants, Rive them eight hours a day and ® forty-feur-hour week and call them household assistants. Put this time we { are going to even he higher than “household assist- fever How would you like to have dinner served by a waitress who Tetites Omar Khayyam's “Gate this Universe, and Why not know- énce, ‘like Water willy-nilly Re } ‘ing: ie And out ot Mt, ax Wind slong the pos teow ne not Whither, willy-nilly biow- | ing.” the cook in the kitchen mum- ' @8 she scours her pots i “there was the Door to which I found Taare rae vin tine tg through which 1 i, litle talk’ awhile of Me and ‘There w Re DSgch® then no more of Thee ‘Well, ali that can happen in your _ household if you just know where to Braduvatos are simply to cook a dinner for entertain | Bars a whtapert if in any line, And whisper! erthe feal reason they are so willing you out and enter the field p Mot exactly domestic ser : or household assistants—but sim, tide you over for a pleasant “or evuriihg’s entertainment, is every penny you pay them is to the campaign for the $4,000,000 eadownment fund which the institu. on: is King to raisi “I it actually true that one may obtain a college-bred cook or wait- Hannah Dunlop | of the Fund Committee, at the temporary oftice, at No. 17 West Ag Sireet, “ime, 1¢°18," repli¢d Mrs. An. drew, with emphasis upon the last! word. » Our graduates wiil . “OF vou t @ out,’ that is, they for any length of timertiy th k or by the mont! but Mois porter true that the -#ef¥g & O1C4) froin “oup to nuts, a 8 olen e s party or a bridge lunches: dnd assume everv bit will t Aiess \ ‘i root esponsibility for the evening, juphas a-oateree micht.” Ww perfectly lovely!" I exclaimed nach women have ean G6 a fo01 patt. if not all of the'r ownavhousework, \but nearly ev Dousewlie buiks al servin, use iP a dinner for company ok And walt upo: Abors | P ~y Rr own Intmediat but) learned that they Bho | on the same basis an | Miss Finch, Women have a little bit of pride left, and then a hostess cannot talk and entertain her guests if she has to ki boing up and down from the table to attend to salads and ices and coffee, So the Binith girls are con ing to the resoue! And may go back to the good old days of entor- taining!" “You sea, Lyf are going to work in a group-—of three,” explained Mra Andrews; “there will be a cook, an assistant and a waitress. Tho ansi«- tant cook, sort of a second assistant ‘cook and bottle washer,’ will also wait upon the table. These three young ladies will enter your home, suggest an appropriate menu, or fo low out your suggestions, prepare the food just as caterers, werve it and clean up every\eingle thing for you, @o that the next morning you wilt hever know you gave a party the | night before!" “And the food will be properly pre- | pared and everything performed in a very scientific manner, I'll wager!" | I laughed. “Well, of course, we don’t wish to throw bouquets at ourselves, adver- tise ‘Leave tt to us,’ or “It can't be done at all if we t do it,’ but all our proapective cooks hold diplomas from the Northampton Institution, and they ought to know how to do things.” “{ suppose the table would be just right, the flowers arranged ai tisticaily And many a hostess abso- = sponsibilities that evén the best of caterers do not assume,” I volun. teered. “Pray, tell bs what the wages of these young ladies will be?” Andrews replied that these de- n settled and ad- 0 see two of her assistants, neh And Miss Norris, Both ladies said that the “fly x corps,” they are called, mt yet decided upon the exact wages to be paid for an evening, but the average caterer or cooks and aitresses that one hires for evening or afternoon affairs like this. “In fact, the whole idea of this, that Is obt#lde of our plan to ralas money for the endowment fund,” said "is to reduce the H. C. of solve the servant ques- I. and he juon, “We want to make It poss ble for a@ hostess to entertain at the least powsible cost and wtill do It gracefully tistically. ‘erhaps, one of our mort, impor- tant {eatures of the fight to’ reduce ‘ it comes to having guests to j x oor giving # party—well the} a wives aren't doing tl, that is ail. | Is It Boots or -For Milady these days, besides royaltios and ks t foot foremost down the ganger pair of honest-to-goodness regular Ru well qurn¥d head. And it does seem ‘Novertheless are doing it—s there be many who me because they fol / ie Yealously every vagary of mode, whether it mean: ing their | backsvor booting their tootsies, others {and naturally all bootee devotees | rest under this suspicion) because their ankle lines, or rather lumps, make boots the lesser of two evils, There are lots of boot styles to chase from when it comes to color schemes and ornateness, though the general cut of all the boots is about the gnme. are emert lowers v pray be Dlacte potent kKid.on their turn over cuffs at their tops All gray or light tan boots of suede e fare softer and more form-fitting, as it All over patent kid one ard those of patent kid light cid uppers, either or ton, have designs of the were, and a few sport tassels with fur trimmings even go elaborate Mmif’of n° bit of hend tooling here n edition de luxe. We tinve been threatened with this BY, boot*fed ere this, but it didn’t atick % tly to make a deep boot print de of Fashion g golden anklet that gleamed seductive! »* her gossamer silk Lose and the other swaggered down in a dashing little You ean take your choice betwee: ing to your temperament and the turn of your ankle. remember, however, that where there’ |high prices will be through the medium of thrift recipes to be sent by povt cards to college women throughout the country. ‘These are exeolient ipes, which have the proper ca! and food proteins, but are beyond one's means." Oo You see, these college bred cooks ind Waitresses thelr Business, In fact, among » who have vol+ unteered for this Kk are women who have seen service as cooks for the refugees and wounded in the Ar- gonne while in France with the Smith Ce Unit Anklets This Winter? By Margaret Rohe ICOMING ships are bringing heaps of exciting things to our shores Dolsheviki, Not the least of these ‘were worn by two dashing American matrons when they put their best he other day, One wore an alluring ly through the transparent mesh of uasian ballet boots, n these two divergent styles accord 1's always well to 's a weil turned ankle there's many a such a wicked waste of short skirts, shevy, issiery and slender shanks to go and drag boots on the scene, very fact that the price of leather ia the | 80 high nowadays as to almost make | these high boots prohibitive except to the most expensive and exelusive trade may put the stamp of approval on them now that they lacked when | the hoi pollol could afford to be boot- |ed with the best of them, | The high cost of booting makes | rather for the anklet as @ more popu- | ar foot adornment of the season, however, and especially does it go ‘| well with the Oriental trouser effects |so prevalent among our best skirts \these days, The skirts puffed in around the hem do their worst to |stimulate haremesque effects and | there is a return to this fashion of a |sepson ago that bids fair to exceed even the success of its debut. In that wicked Paris more blatantly bifur- eated garments have been flaunted in the face of convention and if this sort | of thing keeps on and up lovely woman may be able to tuck her trousers jn the tops of her boots like # regulat wild Western fellow when she to cast her vote at the Bestion by, baie lutely relieved of many of the re- | that it would be less expensive than | xt ‘Ravi a f axe Ginanae eactarin, 00 foot and on the als, | | MARION Ie MOFFMAN TWO MINUTE OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich _| Coperiety: 10:9, by "Che Prew Lublisring Oo, (The New York wvening World.) Too Wee. ATTLUSNAKES cause few fa- talities; they advertise too loudly, Farthquakes do not forewarn, nel- ther do yoleanoes, neither does) lightning; it is the unexpected that fchecks careers and wrecks contl- nents. Implacable enemies arrive, unher- alded; the more show they make the lem show they stand, Worth-while competitors do not threaten; their activities and their tacti¢n are unannounced. When the time Ia ripe the man you need fear will loose his oN and if you aren't ready and If yhu aren't heady you'll soon be greeting the sheriff, Slander is the weed that from the seed of Jealousy Slander never avails; it always has an ugly rebound, Envy shoots at ally hits itself, » man that keeps blowing in the dirt inevitably fills his own eyes Talk cannot balk worth, Whispered Hes and foul mouthings occasionally take a man by surprise, grows others, but per H but can never withhold his prize. If you're going to pelt every bark ing cur you'll spend half your life throwing stones. Nothing short of @ cataclysm can ground an oak, All the doddering muckrakers, all the twittering seandal-mongers, all the sour-souled blatherskites in the world can't keep one strong man down, Merit will climb and climb and clin till from its pinnacle it looks down wonderingly upon the jabbor- ing, ape-like masses that would claw nd rend and sunder, but are too wee te matter. aincanitates INTERESTING NOTES OF SCIENCE, | A new cabinet for phonographs and Jrecords 1s mounted on two legs and two wheels so that it can be moved | easily | Bread made with sea water instead of fresh water is recommended by a French scientist for invalids and children, ‘Tests made in Ireland by scientists sbown that the wind carries American Girl Must Have $32,000 Annually To Support a House and French Husband Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World.) NSTEAD of swearing at the rent profiteer, moaning over the theatre | ticket hold-up, having cold chills at the price of @ pair of shoes, roaring at the upward leap in the bill for the matutinal milk bottle, gritting your teeth over what you have to pay for everything—from coal to canned peas, from the baby's underwear to the Christmas tree—just forget for a moment the constant effort to procure your simple necessities and pleasures and look at the cost of living from a new angle. Consider the high cost of being a young lady! Miss Frances Alice Willing Lawrence is the latest in a long line of truly pitiful efforts to solve this ter- org rifle problem, Just the other day Miss Lawrence, Who lives in Paris with her mother, Mrs. Francis C, Lawrence, ‘petitioned the Surrogate's Court here practically to double her present di- minutive Income of $10000 @ year. Miss Lawrence, you see, is bout to beecome the bride of Prince Andre Peniatowski, whose income is even | §25,000, more insufficient than her own, ‘Then there is the sad case of Miss amounting to a mere 20,000 francs an-| Lorena Carroll, whose father, Joseph nually, or $4,000, and not even that!p, Carroll, horse dealer and Tam- at the present rate of exchang®bmany politician, left an estate of Naturally, when you add the cost of 0,000. A debutante, and nine- being a Princess to the cost of beins|teen, Miss Carroll decided last sum- a young lady, you find that even) mor that she simply could not worry $10,000, plus $4,000, is nowhere ne@l through another year on a meagre in meeting expen: she received a special payment of $120,000 from the surplus income of her mother's es- tate, the same sum going to her younger sisters of sixteon and sev- enteen—also victims of the high cost of being a young lady—although they each enjoyed an annual income of Lees ia So yt Pre ay sens $15,000. ‘This annual income from a paid to her ap additional income Ot} trust gund already had been in- from $9,000 to $10,000 annually, WhICh | Oi asog by the wien first from has been accumulating from a trust created by her grandfather, Francis Cooper Lawrence, in order that her- self~and her future husband may be maintained in the style to which ‘she is accustomed, He will be released from service with the French army next year, This is Miss Lawrence's budget for the first ycar of married life, as she furnishes it to the court (divide each sum by five if you want the amount n dollars, When exchange rates are wornial): Francs. 30,000 7,600 42,000 24,500 Rent Servants Food and household suppl Doctor nd dentist Clothing (including luxury tax) Automobile and chauffeur 2,600 Summer vacation and trave 12,00 Recreation + 5,000 Incidentaly + 10,000 Total 160,100 Another young woman who has sought to solve the high cost of being a young lady with a foreign-born husband of allegedly noble birth is Mrs, Nils Florman, porn Olga Kohler, daughter of Charles M. Kotler, multi-millionaire piano manufacturer, Miss Florman was a minor when her marriage was announced; greatly to the surprise of many friends, to the young Swede who had been ji'ted by Miss Helena Stallo, and who had been called variously the son of a noble family and of a masseur, A little over a year after her marriage Mrs. Florman, atill but twenty, told the Surrogate’s Court and her small son could not live on her in- come of $25,000 @ year—it simply couldn't be done, Her apartment cost $5,000 a year just for rent, her cottage at Sands Point $2,000 a month ior every month She kept it open, and she $7,500 to $12,500, then six months later to $15,000, Here are some of the things Miss Carrol] declared she absolutely had to have—and their price: Share of rent of apartment.. Sport clothes, evening dresses, auto coats, jewelry, furs, hair- dressing, toilet articles. Householdlxpenses Insurance Maintenance two automobiles. Education and church Pleasure, theatres, dinners, dances, sumer cottage, travel, hotel bills .. soantacees Physicians, opticians, dentists, medicines ....+5 00 8,000 4,000 850 5,000 2,00) Total ... Yet th inconsiderate Surrogate—wasn't he the thing! — decided Miss Carroll would have to scrape along somehow on her $15,000, instead of the desired $20,850, Sevent -year-old Marion K. Hoff- man has rather more leeway, how- ever, She is the daughter of the late Charles Frederick Hoffman jr. Presi- mss LORENA SARRouw he died recently {t was found that in his will ne had authorized the exeou- tors to devote $50,000 annually to the education and maintenance of his daughter, in order that she might keep up the state of life suitable to one in her station, When she twenty-one she will receive the prin- cipal of a trust fund, said to be more than $1,000,000, left her by her grand- father, in addition to from her father's estate, But the youngest poor little rich girl is the richest of all, Eleven- year-old Adelaide Brevoort Close, fdaughter of Mrs. K. B, Close, will have an income of $60,000 for the cur- rent year from her father's estate. Adelaide is the little girl who cele- brated her seventh birthday by hay- ing a private matinee of a real circus clowns, monkeys, pink lemonade and all—for herself and her little guests on the lawn of her mother's home at Rockridge, Greenwich, Conn, How do poor people manage to live, anyway? How does a poor littie rich young lady, with or without an expensive foreign-born husband, manage to keep the wolf from the dor, the profiteer from the drawing room? er —~s— {POPULATION OF THE CANAL | ZONE, ONSUL DRE according to R reports that, vensus of the Canal Zone tr a by the Police and Fire Division, : .¢ total civil pop- ulation is 21,759, of whom 7,031 are Americans and 14,728 of other nation- alities, There are 10,517 men, 4,814 women and 6,428 children, A year |ago the total civil population of | Zone was 21,707 and two years 1go it was 23,295, The total number of Guv- ernment employees is 9,698, of whom 3,817 are Americans and 6,381 of other HIS is the Mystic Book, It is ‘i cut in half, contains a ques tion, hieroglyphics and funny figures, It is customary when seeking In- formation to open a book, but the Mysti¢ Book will answer the question only when joined together, HOW TO JOIN THE MYSTIC BOOK, Cut out the picture on the four heavy lines, fold across and back on dotted line No. 1; then foid this over furniture. until dotted line No, 1 just meets dotted line No, 2, At first her claims were dented, but after more petitioning, bolstered| Th8 Joins the book and reveals she had just bought $20,000 worth of as alxty feet into by the plea that her husband’s|t itiary at b's wes was at Uda ‘ip! Kop the peture for refereney, dentof the Hoffman estates, When] nationalities. ® An The Mys tic Book Educational Copyright, 1019, by ‘The Freee Publisins Co, (The New York Bvesing wor) Puzzle THE MYSTIC Book WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF aPARADISE Lost is} the millions | MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1919 Fables of the Fair By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Rvening World) The Fable of the Chicken end Moreli You Can’t ‘Teach an Old Dog the New Woman. Ho had freckles On his bald head: A dyed mustache; And rheumatiam—although he never admitted it x Still, he had a busy eye | And an imagination working the sixteen-hour day. For such as him*they put on the “none-of-'em-twenty” chorus t&! the musical shows; He was a chicken hound. But as he grew older—and thriftier— Joven to the youngest, most baby-biue-eyed chorus girl He preferred the pretty, silly, intense, hero-worshipping flapper, To whom it wus SO BASY to appear a “Master Builder,” An anient, all-conquering—albelt unappreciated—GRBAT MAN, Instead of a little, old, shriveled, dried-pea soul Rattling in the pod of its own agotian, His method Was aimple. First, he was fatherly; He called her “little girt,” ’ Let his hand rest protectingly on her shoulder, Listened with flattering interest to what she thought were her thoughts, ‘Thanked her for listening to “an old man like himself; (How he licked up her swift, whole-hearted denials of his senilityl) He gave her an expurgated—dut not too much expurgated—edition of his life! “Yoh are a Woman,” he said, “not a Child; you will UNDER- STAND!" And the child colored and thrilled and said it was wonderful to have @ MAN for a friend— She got so tired of silly boys. In the final scene He always assured her that she was driving him mad, that her eyes were stolen from some dead queen (he stole that line from | Richard Le Gallienne), that if he were ten years younger—but of course he could not spoil her life——! Pleasantly thrilled, Without a stain on his character, He left her sobbing, shaken by forces she did not comprehead, And as spoiled for normal young love as an absinthe sipper for @ diet of bread and milk. Because he never played with #trens, widows and others trained tm the art of emotiomal self-defense, Not a thing happened to him, Till he met the brown-eyed little ingenue— Nobedy at the summer resort dreamed she was a college graduate, Already writing analytical fiction for thé magazines, A clear-eyed, cool-blooded, ruthlessly “new” young woman, Who didn't believe 8. P. C. A. regulations held for men. He staged his favorite drama With gratifying success—4ill the last act. Then, in the midst of his impassioned, impromptu (for the thinty- eighth time) curtain apeech, He heard a strange sound. The girl LAUGHHD! In his hush of horror, she sald rapidly, “Oh, I bes your pardon! But I had heard you were such a heartbreaker! 1 need one for my first novel, and I just had to see you in action Besides, I wondered how it would make me feel, and If I should forget the freckles on your head— I can’t, and they're funny, and I don’t think I shall ever fall in love— At least, not with an OLD man Thus, by one operation, without annesthetics, He lost his time-hallowed technique, his gay-dogg ean, Gay-doggishness, his | And he slunk Away, muttering savagely, “The first blamed woman evef to use ME for a‘test-tube!” | Again Somebody laughed— This time it was Nemesis! What Would You Do? By Helen Cramp Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) A feature, semi-jictional in method, designed to point outy 1, Mistakes made in choosing careers; 2. Particular qualities neces- sary to particular vocations, and 3. The danger of haphazardness. The questions assiat in bringing out the point of the story, and tm stimulating thought about it. The Lure HO'S that chap? the chief asked, as a long-limbed Americah youth in uni- form disappeared in the elevator. “Oh, that’s an old. chum of mine just back ffom overseas—a Lieuten- ant who has seen some pretty active service." “Humph! Send him in to ses me the next time he comes in." “All right, sit.” ‘The chief was a self-made man of the old school who knew selling from end to end and had a shrewd way of sizing ap people and literally lining up men whom he spotted as possible good salesmen. He had noted Lieut, Seward's easy grace, his strong, clean- cut features and frank smile. A smile {like that was worth many thousands a year tothe house—it was a matter of cold dollars and cents, Seward was duly interviewed, The old man got right “down to brass jtacks.” He looked into the deep blue | eyes that did not flinch and knew that he would get the truth, “What do you want to do? jasked, ' “Well, I've had some experience with boys and I.thought I'd like to have a school or a camp or something of that sort,” Seward felt apologetic, he didn't know just why. “There's no money in that,” the old man remarked disdainfully. “Now you get into the selling game and there's real money for you. I started in the same as you and now I have a couple of millions, You're, let me see, how old?” “Twenty-seven,” “Well, it's time you got down to something. You come in here Monday | morning. I'll make a place for you,| T'll teach you the game, I won't ex- |pect you to sell anything for a year he \ of Selling Seward with a gleam of fatherliness. Seward, who had never known a father, warmed under the glance, “I'll consider it, sir,” he said. “You are very kind.” } “No ‘consider’ about it. You're coming im on Monday morning. You're not married?” “No, sir.” “Well, what you want to do is to marry and settle down and get this roving fever out of your blood.” “Thank you, sir. I'll let you know Saturday before noon.” And Seward was gone, ‘The shrewdness of the man had not escaped him. He realized as never before why the married man was pro- ferred to the single—he was gon- tented, as if any one wanted to be con- tented! Still he liked the old man; felt already @ sort of attachment for him, Perhaps it was time for him to set- tle down, A newsboy thrust himself into his y, mister? All about the big pee-rade!" Seward's eyes rested on him for a moment—the delicious boy- ishness of him, He drew a quarter from his pocket. ‘ake that and have a treat,” he said, and passed on, QUESTIONS, 1. Did Seward accept the offer? 2 What qualities of the successful salesman did Seward have? 3. Granted that he did accept, would he be happy? 4, Should every man be free to choose his own vocation? ADVERTISEMENT, anne CEMENT. jor two, but I'l pay you a salary~$80| "To gether Hands la week to start—my loss—and when) Qi stner the |you begin to sell I'll pay you what| Wwashtub, use V 5 ga softens ‘the skin as w you are worth—ask Langdon; ask any ub it in while the han \na-the others whether this is not my|moist from washing, VELOC . ponte that gomteriabl slang td man's eyed rusted) om Tonia «Ue: