The evening world. Newspaper, November 8, 1920, Page 19

= =]] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1920 Would So've Servant Problem By Co-operation OVER AGAIN ERE on, By Maurice Ketten After assisting ban wae tilted at precisely the right angle of be- oomingness, @lipped out, I suspected, in order that I might have a moment to say good- bye to this intimate setting of my Girlhood. A Kittle pain of parting shot through | ™y fast-benting heart as [ gazed Mngeringly at the charming rose and Wvory room where I had dressed for wo many happy occasions from my ‘entrance into soolety to this, the cl! max of my Kit s00d days, the cardinal ore, much as I had loved it, happy as ¥ had been tn it. That was a pi ture I had bought years before, a knock at the dc ry gone away after helping me out of my bridal gown, which lay in shim- mering folds of satin and frosty festoons of tulle and lace on the bed where I had slept !n happy security since childhood. from which I could look down into a to the younger members of the com- beni d whose faces reflected my own omantic excitement. “Oh, doesn't everybody look as happy ae Hugh,” I exclaimed, “why ding as at a funeral, But we'll give them a demonstration of a really hap- py marriage, won't wet” Hugh rushed me down the staire and through the laughing throng thet pelted us with flowers and confetti, into the arms of mother and father, who were waiting on the veranda to say good-bye, Mother was try- ing to look just as bright and cheerful as possible, though there was @ little catch in her yoice as she said: “Well, my dear little Alma, I oan y hope that you and Hugh will be and then turned and wrung Hugh's hand. 1 As we wer driven swiftly through long time and had told me that when Can You Beat It SOMEBODY WILL STEAL THOSE PRECIOUS Nor t_ GET RID OF HIM AND GET COAL A NIGHT paaalics MAN ! CAN'T SLEEP WITH THATAWFUL Nose £ morning for thia time of the year,” GO AND SEE WHAT ITS NOW WE LL BE ABLE TO SLEEP TO NIGHT BLER SNORING ie NUISANCE Then immigration stopped. cupations—there came @ shortage in the servait market. Then Mrs. Smith went to the employment agen- cy--or maybe she talked directly to Mathilda in Mra. Jones's own back yard—and sald, ‘I'M give you $30 a month if you'll come and work for me.” Which Mathilda aid—unti Mra, Robinson lured her away with the offer of $85 a month. Finally, Mra. Moneybags and her friends practically #vont of iny life, | just aa happy as your father and I ended competition for all the Ma- : ve been.” rr rey I found 1 could endure saying fare- | "“Y" Bee ea on my cheek an pein WATCA THE, ‘a coe tals side Oe the “AUAsibe ‘weil to every object in that room save | father embraced me rather nervously y going 6 employment agency and promising “ANY wagee—only get me SOME ONE!" And that's why the servant problem is now graying the hair of every housewife who ts not a member of the celebrated Money- bage circle, servant problem. And co-operation is the only sure solution.” 1 obtained the details of co-opera- Street, where she is now busy prepar- ing for the national convention to be held on Nov. 1, 12, 18 and 14 In Cla- cinnatl, O. \ “Competition among housewives,” {| explained Mrs. Warbasse, “has sent the wages of domestic employecs soaring and cornered the supply until, ua one woman put it to me the other day: ‘My family, which can afford only one servant, cannot obtain any eed homes, according to the oo-operative the members of the club and by the BY HDITH JOHNSON ® = age Housewives to Combine on First Instalment. ‘ Pp. GETA Now WE'LL BE ABLE ' CAVE THE HEGT PEKEVER | CANT SLEEP ) WATCH DOG TO SLEEP TONIGHT HOUSEWORK OOD alone in the room that was to be mine no more, ‘They had | | AM AFRAID To WATCH ouR | HAVE ADO® To CAFETERIAS LAUNDRIES me to don my|Cconfusion of upturned, expectant, Convention to Work Out Details = smilin faces, bated rie ae Quickly 1 turned from them Kd STONES | HAVE ume and seeing| «mile back at my bridesmaids, w' Ue, eer SHEL SET RT A ea Me SAEHEN T Ty eee ray a ere rah. : thet my amart| were crowding clase to the stairway, ‘ Copyried, 1800, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Rvening World.) ATHILDA earned $25 « month working for Mrs. Jones before the war, Because her sisters and her cousins were coming over by every steamer, wages pald each of them remained a fairly constant quaiity. we feel™ With the naturad decrease in the number of Pond Boa mother and Aunt! “They can't help that, Most older Mathilda—some of them committed waa ve encom Fannie had|folk are about as cheerful at a wed- matrimony, some turned to other oc- Citas Or, as Mra. James P. Warbasee, at a co-operative laundry aetually educational director of the Co-oper- boobs Llibcnd ud A {be ative League of America, pute it: would receive 6 cent. Interest om Competition Hes at the base of the the sharos of ock held by them, and the surplus, if.any existed, would be divided on the basis of @ fixe entage of their patronage. pe In Western State tl Uon’s “contribution to the wervant wig” patronize a, certain. ereamecy problem when 1 talked with Mrs. jaye arranged sucha laundry fOr Warbaase in the ofc of the Co- choir wives, run in @ bullding at~ operative League at No. 2 West 138th tached to the creamery and operated > by {ts power. In a co-operative apartment house in Boston three hums a families have such a laundry if the basement; they also have a co- operative playground on the roof and Ruy shade milk co-operatively in ‘grova pull.” ° Then Mrs. Warbasse told me of “Our Co-Operative Cafeteria, Inc,” which has clea 16 per cent. on its capital stock in six months at No. 58 servant because the rich couple Past 2h Sirect New v. needing not more than one servant are over two bundy ty ery coe monopolizes the services of four.’ of them. busine and professional "I do not believe that we can ever women in the vicinity, who boaght go back to the day when each tndi- shar The prices’ are decent vidual housewife could get all the in- meat orders from 29gto 38 dividual workers ghe needed for her cents and salads 15 cent# 1é Miag individual inds. We have got to Mary Arnold, the man formerly solve the problem of Imbor In the connected with the Departmemt of home by the co-operation of many Child Hygtene of the Hoard of Health, serves only the fnest quality oF food. slogan, “Each for all and all for | ‘Thin local instnnce of co-operation each," as done so well that it is about to ” ‘ . esi ‘And how—how—how? 1 asked, take over another building in a west ROD PME exclaimed, TG eey neues, osentiseny 68) a “How can housewives, in their pres- side restdentia) district and send qooked ent dilemma, begin to apply co- meals to the apartments of the mem« charming little print of Polasek’s the brightly lighted streets, my hand oitow ‘ operation?” bera from the co-operative kitchen, marble group, “The Hternal Moment,” | resting in Hugh's, [ recalled my moth- {C4 ’ a0 ‘There are several wayn” ex. “Cun co-operation be applied to the ntrasting the strength of man with|er’s words, "I hope you will be just ———— pees specs er =— = = —= plained Mra. Warbanse; “ways which rest of the housework besides the » grace of woman and symbolicallas happy as your father and I have < y are not merely theoretical but have laundry and the cooking?” I asked, of th {rit of young love. The man’s | been.” 4 ) iy, 4 4 been tried successfully here in New ‘Certalnly sald Mrs. Warbasse, err atly encircled the waist of{ Why, what did father and mother York or in other parte of the coun- “There is a woman right here in t th. woman, whose head was thrown|know about such love as Hugh and 4 Lv) ‘SIDE SOD ey try, building who Is doing something of the back as her lover pressed his ipa up-|I bore each other? Thelra was Just °o BY Roy i. .M¢CARDELL « ° > Ls “One plan of domestic co-operation sort.” So she vent me four stories on her brow. | iov ay day for yeare/a placid ftection. mnioh permitted Coprrisght, 1990, ty The Pftas Publishing Ca, (Tho New York Evening World.) Coprright, 1910, by The Press Publishing Co, (ho New York Evening World.) which has been found most practl- up to the offices of the Home Makers vad gazed at that picture, wonder-| them to spe n 58 to- i if i ‘0: 7 Serti cal is the co-operative laundry. That, ; ng if the love it #0 exquisitely di er in silence, father reading his 667 HAT was the mailman although at times your language—but HB Women's Betterment Lenguo Cox. Mry. Bilsha Q. Tortie, the te ee ey aor ond De ecceclall? . "At present thie lea clumecain Picted ever would come into my Iife.| paper or magazine, mother sewing or whistled. Wille, run down to never mind, I don't wish to think of of Delhi, made up almost wholiy league's Promptress, in her ope0- helpful in suburban communities, plained the manager, Miss Alice H. Now 1, too, was about to experl-| mending or perusing a novel. From the door and see if there are it,” said Mrw. Jarr, “But I will say of Democratic women, met ing address waid: where families live near each other. Gotkin, “but we wish to make It a co- @xce the eternal moment in all its|imy earliest recollection, father had a ” remarked Mr. if you were a little more dignified Wednesday evening in Hugus Hall ‘There is only o® thing to do, Why shouldn't the woman's olub of ‘operative undertaking. ‘The details of beauty and fullness. Yielding to a| had a habit of calling mother “Mam- Sy letteys for papa,” remarked Mr. : 1 th it f sh operation would be #imilur toewhat @udden impulse, I swiftly took that|/ma.” Could anything be less lover- Jerr. around tis house, you'd command amd decided to ablde by, the will of Indies, und that iy accept the ver- fhe community organize wuch a ser; operation would. aller (oem vu ‘ i | “ 20) and rec ct of the majo ° 1 f hit c I pic from the wall, pulled out the / like, more unromantic? I never had Yoy go seo,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Willie more respect the people of this country and rec- dict of the majority of voters and Pont 1) Ode purchase of electric this: sending Mra Smith's mala, oe fow faatenings that held it in the] seen them kiss each other except WROD sist washed bis face and neck and he “I'd look nice trying to stand on my ognise Warren G. Harding as Pres- permit Mr. ilarding to become Pres- Washing machines and mangles to be Mra, Browt, wien Mee Smith dpeemtt frame, and tucked {t into my open| father went away on business or renga nis dignity wien all you do w# to belittle ident. It was indeed a graceful thing ident, We might put up a@ fight, of set up at a central point and run by need her, and perhaps letting Mere Rravelling bag with all its beautiful | when mother took a little trip to the Das a bad cold, and It’s chilly this y ¥ . - ‘i nt the © . since some of the course, us 10) - © Doct canal Fitiiner Ain Pankie'a | ceaulde: on miomatatnenin Coae morning. in tront of tne cnildren!” repiled to do, especially since some of the course, but this ls not @ political a group of employees under a man- Hobinson have her part of the time. @ tai to wa, when there was W quidh| A tow aye eters Se wedding «rt isn't chitly; it’s rather a nice “J Willie, go down to the ladies had dropped little wagers on organization and i would only be a S&0F These expenser would be paid Mrs. Smith, that js, tells me she wants fl Tinngn's volee | Aunt Fannie iy see ils | isn’ ly; it's a nice oor this instant and see If there ls pi black mark on our record were we ff by the issue of capital stock to a maid for two hours every morning and two hours every night at. dinner, h rel't Harding from being in- e “Ready, Alma, darling s !a man and woman truly loved each aid Mr. Jarr. ie whireiyous ore! sald GAARAARAA~A;AAnenernnrrrm, Barret cor oe Ea Fd her Hea ane janis capers Be ha aciy hand, ‘ thet y Or evenact Mrs. Jarr iy to the child. a . ete e sche x sr asuatne wouch to tay fat and | quiet affection and steadfast trends (“WHY do you contradict mo in fre hhscap snd go get 2 THE HOUSEWIFE’S “i bes your pardon, Madam © y efficient management this might then goea to Mrs. Brown, who wants dast adjusting touch to my hat and {qu affe and ro ni a . pela i ; i " opened the door to Hugh. In another| ship after they had beén married °% the children 60?" asked Mrs. Jarr, (hc 1," ventured Mr, Jarr. 4 ptrees,” sald Mrs. Cutey Boggs, D€ much leas than the individual maid for two hours just before lunch; minute he was saying in my ear, a5| several years, I knew right then peeviehly. “How can I get any good “lies going to take castor oll'— SCRAPBOOK. ‘upUng, “but 1 move that the WoMm@n Now pays for her Individual perhaps from there to Mra. Robinson, if he were trying to be quite keenly | that Aunt Fannie had no idea of the owt of them and how can they have Des! Mrs. Jarr, ' laundry. For tnstance, I pay 13 cents who wants help for two hours in the Susinoas<iike: kind of love Hugh and I gave each ie _ a if gel the letters, maw!" cried Sergeant-al-Arms be empowered a pound for the work I have done, but early afternoon. “We must hurry a little, dearest. | other. Despite the fact that we were “2¥ respect for me, if you do? Master Willie, “I'd rather do any- T behooves every housewife to $ Pul the Hugus Hall cat out of thie Where is your traveling bag?” | not extraordinarily young people, our ‘And how can I get any good out of thing than take Seaton oth as Rare ‘she: Gaus of cara ob her meeting. She appears to have the I suppose I might have forgotten all | love, 1 felt sure, was something unique them and how can they have any "No, you < right here and take fuange. about it. for my head waa swimming | In hmtory. tt wana wonderfal, glow. respect for me if you forbid thom to ‘his!’ suid Mra. Jarr firmly linens tn these days of high sg to th happiness. As Hugh waa closing | Ing, transcendent pagsian. How could 4, st ie . bh I be s And followed an hour of of- prices. It is not advisable to le motion was ourried and the oat it for me I picked up iny gloves and | 1 expect that it would be understood. 4° every ttle thing I ask them?” for of promises and ¢ trust linens to a public laundry 2 /¢cled. ‘The Promptress ten con- bouquet, Clinging to Hush's arm, we | (To be continued to-morrow.) retorted Mr. Jarr. threats of } Buplabmenta if he nid evacin’ dome clay aueulalt tinued opt throu " o the stairwa right, 1020, by ‘The Rell Byndience, “It ten't hat you say, ‘dn’t nk it own, and the is ¢ 4 3 RB SDE THIOUREA he Hall ee she's Be tie ¥, bes me) Jeni 92 much what you say, ‘sual distressing walle of provest and @ laundered with care. Never use J suggest that this body ratify the commands that mark the strong washing fluids or chemi- election’ Mr. Harding and raed adm ing of ths wholesome but @ cals in the washin, 3 him to attend our next dance, to i! ‘a ® water and LOEB pg yd his nose, papa, that's Use a reliable bluing--an in what!" said Mra, Ja “And his legs fate 3) Sepa sii A motion to thut effect was put 6 TAT have you been doing?” people want to exist at all Usually he had nothing but time, and did grmi he takes tt, and no t “ath + fs py igiiey Boggs, O'Brien i friend of mine they are the most unhappy and rest- POthing in tt. I would like to talk to more fo 0 Une IFOnE that Bre AOS Be mint to re- I asked 4 her and some of her kind something ly force of might this programme § scorching may ruin the Inen. ect on. the oo: whom I had not seen for less people of all, They have noth- jie this was carr nut, And Wolie got half $ Do not fold in the same creases sit and see that bis ® long time. ing to look forward to—nothing to What do you think you were put « ‘ gown his throat, and § ovory time a ; rograimme is full “I have just been hibernating,” she lose—nothing to gain, on this earth for anyway? Do you th all over Mr, Jarra ¢ every time a piece Is ironed 5 Brombtiane: Bala, ‘answered me. “No ambition, no ins Life moves along in @ serene and Sei ei alas eae eu i “1D exclaimed Mr. Jarr. ig rontean aie ae terest—nothine. sleepy sort of way, and they move in neighbor or your brother at large? “Nov Wha give him’ an It is a fact that many house read original poem “But are you happy?” I asked a serene and sleepy eort of way with If you have .no sense of res, othe or wives do not know how to serve 9. ¥)« w the kingy attitude “No, I am the most miserable it. t illty for your human brothers or Oh, he always spills it that way," grape fruif or do not care to of the toward Mr Harging.” woman in the world.” often wonder what would happen iyo inces which rut Necemlerily Co WATE THRO orn ati tte for tints @ take the trouble to serve it § watcr trimmed in little imitas And in these few words the Ife If such people were suddenly bereft of fect on those about you? eling as if he had been victim properly frult should be tion hinky em, Bt 1 forward story of this woman of wealth jg their livelihood, They would be panic- Come out of It! DO SOMPTHING! fred me than the Ud in the mat cut In hdives, crosswise. Kun @ and read owing rhyme: iba You h idea } told stricken, They would never know You have no idea how much fun you Jarr withdrew to put on an sharp knife around inner cir The returns ind Harding won a t h r e “ 5 t only a delicious bever- bat has comfortable means, who ts Not unlike these almless Hves are Gf your hibernating webs aint fied ee sabrina cal ? 3 and akin. Likewise divide the Ths amen they voted at the poll, ailing eee oe in exactly the same position as this those who make pleasure their dom: frecdom of the world. fe mail brought the same deep Q fruit tnto sections, Remove the 0 Gor wis defeated but ta. ¢ Fi rr ‘or was defeated but ta not sad, t, wit — it will delight you woman inating existence, I know women I know a woman who all her }ife and lasting joy it always brings to 9 core and skin !n one piece. Serve He fought bravely, indeed Drink iy Bake. with i cook mith hes ie Goncec 4 He 4s just hibernating. Somebody Who are most unbappy unless they TA. pected And ‘pampered. until ahe the uverago houwehi ler. it wane with or without sugar. A few § Let's checr victor and vanquished, It fella cou Aprats 4 left him a little bit of money to are attending rome social function— ji1and saw somethin of the suffer. wus not paid in two days the supply t@blespoontuls ot j:rape juice None of ua have cause to yrieve keep him working, and he does noth- @ luncheon, dinner or supper—where ing of others in a hospital. She never would. be : poured over the fruit is consid- 2 My sist id, Teeney Ricketts, RUNKEL BROTHERS, Inc. 450 West stb Stowe, Yow York City ing but Hve—exist. they see folks and can be seen. knew there was 90 much work neces There was also a dun from the in- ered delicious by some. Laughed D in church, Makers of tunkel’s dimond Hors and eiles ” All of these hibernators contribute aary in the world to save suffering, stallment plan book people threaten- Dow't do such gs, little dear, I can think of several fumillee— nothing to this world's work. And Her whole scheme of life was changed. Jug every form of legal torture from mer Heaven may leare you in the lurch, t many of them—-who are hibernating, truly, they are the “take all and give She went to work with a will a i nent to the garnisheeing of hi The water in which But, 9 » the eluction, ” j ch pared ; Life in just one filling in of hours, ®ething’ in the scheme of things, This woman sees a different world, wires and also there waa a samp! tat Harding 1 to be happy. i age details are the big “events . WDat & woeful waste in thie hu- Sho said of baking powder and four ciroulara, @ VoOR*tables are cooked contains Qo pais wai would yive hin « pote ater Rae : nan game! “For the first time in my life I am Mr. Jarr returned, tearing up his much food value in the form of Work har tn PRL Ree ', of the da: wash aa What time do The tragedy of it all is that be- really living. ‘There 1» nothing that correspondence mineral matter and it should Phe beaut h Ne, we eat?” * en do wo drive?” Such cause they continue to hibernate, gives one so much joy as to know Where'a Wille?” he asked. nase 0 * ance ; m entranced litue things are, the big moments in Mebody cise must be on the job. that you have played your little part “I sent him out on an errand,” saia @ never be ie We omey,_ Biiher earat Ast WF porteas COCOA yf e aise limes They are worse than parasites be- in the big game of life." Mru, Jarr sweetly, ‘end t gave him ¢ 0772 it with the vegetables or @ did 4 cule! uoaabey to, Ren ea . F pip epee cause they ure miserable themselves, People who hibernate hurt them- ten cents to get candy for taking hia @ use it in soups and gravy. seat the ladies applauded with great - =e . y Drinking. Baking«=d Cooking Somnemnee or why uh Twice my woman friend, mentioned selves first, last and always. castor oil no nicely, WT abe Siaasaa Nis 4 reo