South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 280, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1917 — Page 22

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I 3 1 W i Devoted to Women and Their Interests Hats to Wear With the Evening Gown The Soldier Woman Writes Why is Monday Still Wash Day in the Average Home?

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V.'ashinptu:. I . I. iitli tl'.'ir: I was nf r life a.- I h uv I 1 C . J f which taken l.M mv 1 :f"il.lt the food fwft'l thtiou his a.-kl every hoii.-eke-jer to . ! g : i . I 1M nt get a. rani. I IM not s'-e a cifl. I !il not want to se a, raril. I hal a notion that it lemariJel all kinds of skim ping. We skiinn enou;h as It is." I told Jack. He did not answer too at once Hilly, clamoring for hi.--, morning kiss, was fxeuu' enough. 'They Hand in line with their Jittic an, over there in Uelgium, waiting hours upon hours fur their .vmall portion of milk tiny codier like Hilly," he reminded me quietly. That settled it! I pot ready right after breakfast and went down to thp headquarter f tin- foo.l administration. I asked to .see th pledge rnnl. And whn I hacl read it my harne deepened. It asks nothing that any American woman would not tie proud to do. The pledge rf. ids: "I am glad" to join you ii; the service of food conservation for our nation and 1 hereby accept membership in the 1. ti. food administration, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the food administrator in my home, insofar a.- my circumstances permit." Following that is room for the sipnature and address with questions asked concerning occupation; number in household; occupation of breadwinner; if joti have a Karden, and if you are willing to take part In authorized neighborhood movement? for food conservation. Tho card further states: "There are no fees or dues to be paid. The food administration wi.-hes to have as members all of tho. actually handling food in the home. All womn ever li atw elinibl." "Is that air.'" I asked, ashamed of the id. as I h.id had about it. I slnd it without more ado. Vhereup I was givt-n the "Home Card" designed to be hung in the kitchen. It tell clearly and in few words just how ever woman can "do her bit" in winning this war. I :lnd that thfi propra m is not one of skimpinp in any sense of the word. It is merely a request that we substitute food.-tutfs that call and must b sent. I Fhowed it to Jack when he came home and told him that I had hetome a soldier woman. "For there is nothiup In the food pledpe that is not ne.-es-ary if America is to be the bi ead-ha-ket of the -orld. Moreover, it asks no hardship of anyone," I said in honest i onfts.ion of my fault of the morn li.?. Your letter tellinp me that you had i-.ot had a food pledge reached me today and clinched my decision if finding out about lt. 1 am enclosing one for your signature. Tell anyo.it you know who has any such iaea about if as I had jiit-t what I have found out. Also tell them to d.-op a card to the food administration at "Washington for the food Pledge ami sUn it today. Of course there are going to he food administration headquarters in every state after a ''it. where the vledpe card may be potten at nearer range Hut whv wait for that when they can be had ft;;- the ask ins: in Washington today? The T. food administration will Fend you the "Home Card" when your slcr.ed pledge is received. In the meantime, dear IMy, I'll write to you more about mire later. T.ove fr von all from (slpr.ed FHANFS. Pf äffst r.dy A neighbor of mire told me this morning that ?he didn't see any use v.--ei-Lr the foo.l pbMge now because she didn't do it when ministration first publi th.e food addied th" car-i month or so In the newspaper a DM voq e. er hear of such an absurd -; use? Suppose snrne soldier sh.ould decline to tight because he wasn't in the hrst draft! There would be Juct about as much sense in it! Of course, the ripht time for every woman to have signed the food pledge was when the food administration r'.rt asked it. for the request was r.ot made until thrt need wa vital. Fut that does not affect the fact that th. need ;rows very t'.ay. It will never be too late to cooper ate with the fed administration a s !omr as the burden of feeding the worbl rests upon America. That's go ir.r to be not only the length th war ut throuph the years of of re ccr.strartion after the war. t"nles every hou.-Keerr does licr 1 art. the world is co:ng to actually ruff er for foe I. ther Is uuite rov without ad.ding th vaticn. To j rcv eu' I: Seeo-jv; me suuVnmr now rrors of star:ch a thing we ha' e p-t to study th "Honte Card" .ugge"tior.s and follow them as ftio?:y as possible. livery toiy they are

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rntn h of a hard-hip to economize in !ie. I ynu think so, Kdy dear? Specially since we must have the-., five thinps to feed our soldiers in France; to feed the soldiers of our allies-, to insure the liberty of th- world. The new "Home Card' tells the . hole sti-ry in its iirst parapi aph which says: "Our problem is to feed our allies this winter hy sendinp them as much food as we can of the most cor. ntrated nutritive value in the least shippinp space. These foods are wheat, !er.f, j.rk. dairy products ami suar." The food administration makes it clear at once that this is to he ficcomplished not by hoarding or by skirnpinp hut, by substituting food products that cannot be sent to the soldiers in the trenches for those that tan be sent. We are not asked to limit ourselves in any way that will affect health. Neither are we asked to greatly chanpe our food habits. Heft rrmp to our problem of feedlnp our own soldiers and our allies this winter, the new "Home Card" says: '"Our solution is to tat less of these (wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and supar) and more of other foods of which we hae an abundance, and to waste less of all foods." The schedule for doing this hrings no hardship to any one. To begin with the wheat. We must send more wheat to our allies because "England. France, Italy and Belgium taken together import. In peace time, forty percent of their breadstuff s. Hut now with their reduction In harvest they must import sixty percent. We must increase our normal export surplus of S":,000,000 bushels to .20,000.000.000 bushels." The food administration goes on to remind us that it can be done in but one way by economizing and substituting. The plan for this is to have one wheatless meal a day; to use corn, oats, rye, hurley, or mixed cereal rolN. muffins, and bread in place of white bread, certainly for one meal and. if possible, for two. We are asked to eat less pastry. In the case of ordering white bread from the baker it is urped that we do so a day in advance that he may not bake beyond his needs. We are told

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For further emphasis on the evening hat question. we recommend this bridesmaid's hat of royal purple, lined with moss pink silk. All hound round with an amethyst ribbon of the new glycerined material called cheerfully "shoe polish" is the crown, and more glycerine ap to cut the loaf on the table and only as required, and to use all stale bread for toast and cooking. If everybody in the United states uses just one pound less of wheat tlour per week the food administration assures us that there will be no dirlb-ulty in meeting the wheat need of our allies. Well, dear girl. I can do "my bit" in the wheat conservation plan without much trouble to myself, and w ith certainly no inconvenience to my family. Tomorrow I'll write you more of the new "Home Card." In case you do not understand my' use of the word "new" let me tell you that the new card differs in no essential from the original card which was distributed by the food administration in the early summer. The need was at that time presented in "six saves." Some women construed "save" to mean hoarding which was not. and is not, the idea at all. The When our

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pears on the pwirl tips, pink, blue and of tiny ostrich amethyst nestling under a camouflage of black. Paris says gown with a "Top your hat, milat y." evening And milady obeys, as who would not obey a mandate with such charming amnew "Home Card" tells Just what the American woman is asked to do to help win this war, and tells it so clearly and helpfully that no one can fail to see that the whole program is merely one of substitution, without any necessity to skimp or to hoard. In every instance the substitution ahked is simple, and makes no hardship a mighty good thing for every woman to know, war or no war! Love to Will and the babies, from Your devoted sister (Signed) Frances. ritosTi:r ;uaifs. Frosted grapes make an attractive tlecoration for many a festive dish, and it is not much trouble to prepare them. First of all. choose the clusters carefully, then wash them thoroughly and let them drain until dry. Next dip them into the whites of epps and then into enough fine granulated sugar, which has been

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i brim of net and chantilly, and a tor toise shell ornament arranged with a dash and aplomb of a Spanish comb, and behold the first and last rtason why ha is bhould be worn with evening gowns. heated, to cover them, them out to dry. and fpread I) H 13SS ()Ti:S. I Dre ses win be seven or eignt in ches from the Uoor during the com j ing season. t Uelts are high and narrow, or of the draped tash effect, straight from the neck. J There seems to be no indication of economy in the gowns; ir anything, elaborateness of the trimming and material is more apparent. Ribbons are being used more and more. The popularity of the crepe chine, georgette crepe, foulard and voile wanes not. The new Kodier material, with gold stripes on a satin ground, holds its own. Kmbroidcred hems and panels about a foot deep are among the smart effects at September gatherings. who prefer the home and a self-lighter yet

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Did you ever climb by elevator, of course, the "o'.imb" being a mere figure of speech up into the tower of a high buildirg in any large city say the Metropolitan tower in New York, for example on a Monday? If so, did you not remark that Monday was wash day in NewYork still, just as in the tiniest old village in" Maine, or in :tny other place where the Inhabitants hold more or less firmly to old traditions? Why is Mondiy wash day? Of course, not every family has its washing done on that day; but enouch still clinjr to the old fashion to make the exceptions prove the rule, as we say. Who first set the fashion of gathering the used household and individual linen to-

r am T--l'v ..-..-1 (KCLiiri uuuua juui Hins cleansing it? And why? Perhaps some early peoples, after six days of labor and a seventh devoted to rest, decided to begin the next week or whatever they first called such a division of time by cleaning up everything that needed it. beginning with clothes and such things. The house, probably, was -"till quite clean. haing been made as immaculate as possible for Sunday. And the clothes worn and household linen in use was pro! -ably also clean, but there was the accumulation of such thinps used throughout the week before and discarded when Sunday came around, which, of course, must be refreshed and rrepared for further use. So, probably, the Monday washing habit just came into being naturally, somewhat like the oldfashioned .Saturday night bath, which was so important a function before tho days of modern plumbing and bathing facilities. But there is, of course, no reason why washing should not be done on any day, according to the convenience of the individual housekeeper. Washing, at least in the city and town where there are plenty of modern conveniences, is quite a different thing today than it was long when the people took their clothes down into the brooks and streams and washed them in the running water, treading them up and down with their feet or using convenient rocks and stones for the necessary friction. To lie sure, peasants of France and other European countries still employ that this new s PC - comfort it gives a on yoar own fixture

method in many places today. Then, in these lands, there- is often, too, to be found tho community wash house, where the women of the town or villapc carry their linen at certain times and wash it. The-e are, as a rule, somewhat of an improvement on the more picturesque

outdoor washing, because there is often some means of heating water and sometimes even of boilir.P clothes where that sctins desirable. The housekeeper of today in the larger places, howevrr, does her washing according to much more modern methods, no matter what day she selects for the doing of it. he may have an excellent reason for discarding the traditional Monthly and choosing some other tlav in i ify Ttt-j rft Hut one tiling she probinsist upon, and that is . i ably will some deauite s.hedub. She kau found that the machinery of he: home runs mu-h more smoothly if she has a systematized plan cf action, HexiV.e enough to be changed when chin$es seem i-t-t, but firmly enough established s i'.iut there is nothing ha pi:H'.ari ab.-.t the doing of the rogirlar ivou-aw o: k Thole, is a certain a'nour.'. of prellmimu-y work winch the w;e; woman will do or huvo don.-., before beginning on the washing pro; er. And is there not some ancient luw to tho effect that work well beun that is, Avell prepared is half done? It is certainly true, when applied to the duties of wash day. First of all, is the collection of the clothes that are to be washed. Certain fixed receptacles for such articles, in various parts of the house, will facilitate that greatly. Incidentally, the jrood housekeeper will impress upon the children and other members of her household the necessity of placing whatever they want washed in the proper places. Then, when the clothes have been assembled in the laundry, comes the sorting. First, naturally, coaies the separating of the colored articles from the white; then the cotton from the linen; any woolen articles, of course, are put in a pile iv tnemseives. nanoKercnieis nelong in a elass of their own. table linen in another, toueN. sheets and pillow e.ises and s:H !i thin-'s in still another, articles of clothing in another. Stockings, ,, eouise, should Ä5f h(i r-j 4 When Light Is Installed You Pay

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a : art and washed bv th selves. Then coir.es- the soak;:-.: and loosen the dirt. It rule to soak as many of to soften ood a bite th. clothes as practicable, and chuel ones in which the colors are fast. "Water alone accomplishes th:s purpose to a great extent; but. thUse of a soap solution to which has been addtd borax, ammonia, or ae.-oth-r alkali, and turpentine, kt i -"sene. or benzine, makes the washing process Uoth ea.-ier and quicker," writes Flora ive. in a buüttr. of the t'orneli rt idlni; course. "It is well, before I inning- t.e washing, to make a. .roap solution, as it gies a quul; sads and n mere easily handled, am! i: use w.'l, therefore, save time. "Ail the clothing should u: i put to soak in the same tub. I t hi-tubs a to available, toak tnt!c men and clean towois in one. bed ; ih:; :;:n; body linen in a se"oU'i. Cl i MiileJ tOWC's ago Cloths in a i h . i ;) able. owl If only two ta. s .'ir aai'ile linen and clega ;u eli.v.inat y .o.ak wash ta' v ithout ivg. SOi'ed towels i . loti.f rhoa'd ul'-vajs '. soaked ! ef r . :i:c jj'urmenT.s .e soake .;. r b the more s lied part with v .-Odilia.-., and fold that pait in I'M e.nd roll each garment st-pflr.at ! and pack it into the tub w:th lie other garments. Folding and ie.ing prevents the dirt in tin. soi'.-d parts from spreading. Cover t! clothes with warm soapy water. ' . which may have been added au alkali such iü borax or ammonia, and an oily substance, perhaps turpentine, kerosene, or benzine Cover the tub. and, if pos;ble. let the clothing soak in it during several hour.- or over nicht. If colored clothes ate to be soaked, cover with warm water or with wafer very slightly soapy. No alkali should be used with the cobued clothirur. ' No ai leeonmieiM but ill mi ' o l'ei ! o o i a i a t el c. a itiary order can bf .! for washing clothe-.-s. white goods, and ('. should l e washed s li as the wahinp pro . .-$ omewhat for each cae. u simple explanations ma-.' dif; e- s laid t he hoasekenper 111 solv-ln-H' .TIXFi:t N F.c,i: sHYFNt w 0 anB SOc per Month For Three Months

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