South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 152, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 June 1919 — Page 9
srrv. .ww 1, um DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WOMEN What Should a CookBe Paid? Organizations with A. E. F. Standardizing Wages of German Servants. Some More Old English Initials
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CORLKNZ. Th employment situation la troubling even thp army of occupation. Take Coblenz for inutance. All the hotels In the city have been requisitioned t,y the American army. ?ome of thm have remained under German management. An attempt toward standardizing wases is being: mane now by the various organizations In Coblrnz which employ German help. A definite wage fccale hau been determined for all kinds of service from icrub wom- . en to head waiters. No tips are allowed and an employe in one of the American-managed hotels who leaes without notire r-annot be employed in another. This is a very necessary protective measure taken as a safeguard against the constant shifting about of employes due to the prevalent industrial unrest. Orchestra prices also are htandardized as in most of the hotels the German orchestra was retained. An interesting incident showing the general attitude of German serants toward Americans, whose policy they believe to be more or les-s lai.-.-ez faire, occurred the other day in the Y. W. C. A. hostess house. One of the maids from the kitchen went to Itutn Wooilsmall, director of the house, a a ppecial envoy from th rest of the kitchen personnel with th information that German law rrjui'res that the emplove .shall hae II days' notice before being dismissed, that the employer shall .pay hin or her expenses in lh hospital in case of illness and that one day off is granted every week. Miss U'oodsmall waited until the information had been completely delivered and th-n mad ver c!-ar the fact that she knew ver little about German law and cared even less as the army of occupation, being American. recognized only American law. She assured the envoy that the American would be fair and just but not according to German precedent. The answer seemed fairly conclusive. Nothing further has been heard from German servants. Practically all of the servants are German in these hotels. At the Y. XV. l". A. hostess house", though, an American cook was needed "in addition to the German ones and Mi.1 Woodsmall requested of the commanding officer a cook who knew how to make the American pie which every doughboy and officer expects at the hostess house. The next morning an experienced army cook, long known by the colonel, appeared at the door of the hotel with his pack on his back and full equipment prepared to May. The order was put through by the ame colonel who objected to the Y. W. C. A. taking the hotel they iid and "spoiling the be?t saloon in Coblenz."
No Shortage of Work for Women Vith the minimum living wage now equivalent to that'hich was formerly the average for a stenographer of three ears' experience, it is easy to discern the difficulties ahead. as Miss Louise McMaster. employment secretary for the national board of the Young Women's Christian association, in speaking of opportunities open at present to women workers. "Educational and employment secretaries have a task at hand in convincing girls of the importance of finishing their trainin'. So Ions: as an employer can argue that he is not getting the service he is asked to pay for so much harder will be the tlKht to secure even liing wages for girls who work. "Girls who left school without finishing their business courses and easily obtained work at got.d salaries during the war are now entering the field with an inflated idea of their own commerial value. They should finish their training. On the other hand experienced pirls who have been dravins government salaries are rightlv unwilling to accept the smaller remuneration offered by business salaries w hen it is less than their proficiency should demand. Thu far the transfer cf women from war to peace Industries has been carried along smoothly, and the latest reports show, even disregarding th ever present shortage of domestic workers, a greater number cf opportunities for women than qualified .irritants to fill them. This is especially true of higher grades of clerical work." THorsAxns or yaki OF MTW SIIiKS. -ru -r-it June silk Kale starts Tuesday morning at Prandon's. 1 I-:. Warer. florist and Undcape ctr.lener. Coquillard Park. Soutn P.en.l. Ind Hose banne., trees and hr abs famished and planted. Flowrr bed made, gras cut. yards and lawn- taken a re of. Satlf.iction t:...r..nt.-cd. Mail "j.ieis to 7 4 4 N. Notre Dame a. l :s r:-i D.tnre at Haa' resort. Hudson tr.e i .irk. S.iod.iy evening. .lune 1. 1 funnji.urn .r lu--ti.t of 1-ipo-te OOOd rod to hotel dour. 37-1
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Wednesday Club Rounds Out 30 Years Activity
BY HULIIN LANG. Powerful in its influence yet unassuming in character, the Wednes day club of this city has been con ducting excellent programs in So ;th Fiend since 1SS9, programs from which its members have derived benefits which it would be difficult to satisfactorily measure. Organized with three charter members: Mrs. Clem Crawford, of Pittsburgh. Miss Clara Dunham and Miss Mary Walworth, both of this city, the club ha expanded to a membership of 15. to which the roll has been limited for several years. In keeping with the policy of several other others of the limited membership literary clubs of South Hend. the Wednesday club has never federated or taken any active part in the organization life of the city as a unit, although its members as individuals are without exception factors in the civic and Intellectual activities of the community. Horn on Cold Night. On a cold, raw nii;ht of the late winter. March 8, lSS'J, the Wednesday club was planned and organized, with the three charter members together with Mrs. Howard Stantield. founder of the Woman's Literary club and sponsor for the succeeding one, in attendance. The meeting took place over the register in the "parlor" of Mrs. Crawford's home on XV. Wayne st. Decision was reached at once at to the policy to be adopted by the body in regard to study, time of meetings, membership and activities in general. Miss Walwoith was chosen to act as the first president. Mrs. Crawford became vice-president, and Miss Dunham accepted the responsibilities of the secretary-treasurer-ship, an office which she held for seven successive years following tho institution of the organization. Meetings Held Wcrkly. Several members were added to the club almost immediately and the existence and activity of the body was thereby assured. Weekly mating held at the homes of the members were scheduled, and a curriculum of study in regard to the life, conditions and customs of foreign lands was instituted. Travels in all nations of the world followed, with especially prepared entertainment features being presented at intervals to vitalize and visualize the subjects. loiter in the inevitable branching out which the club studies under
Adele Garrison 's New Revelations df a Wife
"Their Second Honeymoon
WHY MAlKiU DETKHMIM-:! TO CHAMPION KATIIVS CACM. I had hard work to draw my face down in proper disapproval when Kau tearfully told me the retort she had made to Cousin Agatha, the unexpected guest who had come to our home with my mother-in-law. and who had brutally quizzed Katie concerning the girl's secret, accusing her of deceiving me. Katie had called the woman 'vim old liar" and had tied to me in a perfect paroxysm of tears and sobs and demands for Jim, her husband, our man of all wijrKis. of whose -Isteace Cousin Agatha evidently did not know. "Don't yu see how hard thoso speeches of yours make it for me. Katie?" I asked reproachfully, although secretly I gloried in the irirl's grit in thus facing her tormentor. "I could defend ou. if you simply had walked out of the room without answering her- Put now shn also h.s a grievance." "1 no care." Katie's ton was sudden. 'I link you say same ting yourself if strange vomans ou never sawbefore talk lilxe dot to you." "Well, it i.in't be helped or unsaid now." 1 returned briskly, 'but I want you to do as 1 tell you. Will ou ?" "I not go ask her forgive nit if I never see ou again." Katie littered the words as though the or! punishment she could receive would be banishment from me. "I don't wish you to g-o near her." 1 said. I want you to stay right here and finish the dinner. Yoj nia lock the door if you wish, so you'll sare no one will disturb you." "Do I hue to w.tit on :.'!' ; inju:r d. Her hand were tiemhling pitifully. Will Toil-in Agatha sKak'.m "Not if you don't feel like lt." I
go, emphasis was laid upon foui phases ot cultural development -art .history and literature, and ever broadening programs schedules were adopted piuviding ir consecutive study oi these different
topics. During the year of the j United States initial participation j in the world conflict, all of the late) war books, both history and fiction, and the new poetry formed thu nucleus around which the club Jear was built. Study lliiory in Making. During the past season, 'History in tile Making ' has been the keynote of the club's work. In the an- ! nouncement of the year's schedule, the following quotation was contained. "We have- believed and wt still belue that liberty contains a magic healrtig power for many of the woes of man; that if wecan turn Us rays upon those troubles which have caused bitterness between peoples, the world will be made sweeter, safer and saner.j Thus the members through their club were kept in touch constantly with the trend of national affairs dtjrir.g the past year of successive epochs. So, in the coming season do they plan for' another equally vital survey that involving the reconstruction measures throughout the world, which will be studied from all angles by' the presentation of literary works on the subject and by the following of current events. Pi-oml of War lteconl. The war record of the Wednesday club is one of which any organization may justly be proud. In addition to the work of the individual members who held manv responsible positions in the various war time bodies of the city, a great deal of Red Cross work was accomplished by the club as a unit, and the members are possessors of a government bond. . In the libtnry belonging to th rlub. wh li has Leu rich'cved by the app'ication of the oues to the library func. sure .o ie fcuml mor than -375 olumes, representing a great deal of the finest that literature has produced within the last quarter century. Those who have headed the Wednesday club during the year. 1 9 1 S -191. are Mrs. Home Stephenson, president. Mrs. Charles K. Rosenbury, vice-president.. 99 answered, and tbum I urn l sioopeci anu i i kijsed my woe-Vegone little maid with a feeling of hot indignation in my heart against the woman who had caused such needless suffering. She clung to me convulsively. "h! if only all' do vimmen in vorld vere like you. Missis Graham," she breathed gratefully, and foolishly extravagant words went with me as I climbed the stairs to my mother-in-law's loom. I felt that I would a million times rather b "too eay'' than to have caused the suffering Cousin Agatha had inflicted in the last hour. I had no hope that I had heard the last of the encounter. I was morally sure that Cousin Agatha was only awaiting the earliest opportunity to demand reprisal for the insulting words that Katie, maddened by her unjust accusation, had fluns: at her. Put I was firmly resolved that she wouid have to make her own opportunity to sp-.ak. I would leave her t.o opening th.it I could possibly keep closed. I went into my own room nr.d h'ut the door softly, lookir? 'ir.-vnd :ne with discouraged y.s :n trying to get everything possible, don before the aotu.il moving day--for I detest having a wildly confusing1 time at t?ie last minute, if it possibly can be avodied I had dismantled my room, even to taking up the rug and tying up the furniture. I had packed the draw-ers of my chiffonier and dresser and locked thm. had the bed tak n down and for two nights had slept on an army cot. a comfortable enough bed. but one which I knew I r.ever couM offer to Cousin Agatha. Onl One Thing My mother-in-law had announced upon the unexpected arrival of tho two women that each must have a sepa'ate room. Th( it were only two habitable bedroom now in the
house, Irlcky's and his mother's. But the impulse that came to me to ask Dicky to give up his room to his mother's cousin and let me make up a temporary bed for him on the couch in the library died almost before it was born. I recalled previous domestic crises and Dicky's selfish behavior when I acked him to share any inconvenience with me. I wouldn't risk a similar rebuff now. My nerves were in too raw a state to wish any further unpleasantness. There was enly one thing to be done. I must call Jim and instruct him to put up the bed he had but recently taken down, lay the rug he had taken up. had Jicaten. had cleaned thoroughly and had rolled up, and gring back to its accustomed order the room 1 had fondly imagined was all ready for moving day. There was work for me. too, scarves and draperies and toilet articles to take from the places where I had packed" them and to put hack into tht room that it might b habitable for a guest. ' I had just risen with a sigh and had opened my door preparatory to summoning Jim, when I came face to face with Cousin Agatha, who had come from my mothei -in-law's room. HOW MAlXii: "MITT AM) (UNQl'i:iti:i" COt'SlN AGATHA. That Cousin Agatha was in the state characterized by Dicky as "being on the war path" I saw by my first glimpse of her as she emerged from my motber-in-law's room. I knew that she must be furiously angry at Katie for the language the girl had u?ed to her. and had wondered what course she would purS'lP. Before she began to speak I saw wl.ut her ta'i c: would be. Years of posing hau enabled her to conti ol her erpotious to a remarkable degree. She meant to preserve her usual martyr air when speaking of Katie to convey the idea that her only motive in coming to me was to do me a :::ndr.esy, io wan. m.- of the viper I was encashing in my bis-.m. I w ndered if she had toIJ Mother Graham of her encounter anu .juickly decided that she hadn't. I had seen that for some ref.son Cousin Agatha stood somewhat in awe of her autocratic relative. Sho probably ha-Jn't cared to inform my mother-in-law that she had become involved in a vulgar controversy with my maid within half an hour of her arrival in my home. She evidently did not stand in the same awe of me. A mt.vj of remembering bitterntss, tinged with sardonic amusement, swept over me. Katie's verdict of long ago was a just one. I was "too easy." Even this hanger-on of Dicky's family, this "Cousin Agatha." had seen this in her quick survey of me and meant to take advantage of it. "May I speak to you alone. Mrs. Graham?" she said purringly, as she came up to me, and yet there waa in her voice a note of authoritative expecta nee. "You may," I returned, and I didn't put any cordiality into the answer. I threw open the door of my room and beckoned her in, closing it after us. "We- are moving, as you see," I said, "so you will have to excuse the appearance of this room. Will you be seated?" "No. thank you." she returned, and I saw that she had caught the coolness of my tone. "What I have to say to you will take but a minute or two." She paused, evidently to iet me make some rejoinder. I saw that she knew the value of letting an antagonist do most of the talking: but as I had the same knowledge I kept my lips firmly closed and she was compelled to go on. "A Painful Duty." "It is a very painful duty I have to perform, Mrs. Graham." she said, and I recogr.ied the whine of the professional philanthropist in her tone. 'l have been in your house only half an hour and yet I have discovered something about your maid which I am ure you don't ' k:'Ow. The girl h is been deceiving ; v. a shamefully. When I taxed hr ! with deceit .-he turned upon me in ' the most offensive manner possible J and railed at n-.e with terrible lan- j guag. Personally. I could overlook ; it Uut I knew that you couldn't! iountenar.ee such a person in your i home if you knew of her actions, so ' I felt it my duty to come straight to j you and tell you." , She had all the smugness of the j cat that has just succeeded in a raid on the cream dish as she finished. I j almost fancied I could see her lick- ! ing-her lip. A sudden desire to; pierce her self-satisfied armor seized j m. When I spoke I didn't reeog- j nize my own voice, it was so frigid, j "Well, y ou have discharged your J duty.' I uid, "so your conscience' must be at rest. And now I mustj
ask vou to excuse me. for I must get this room reiy for your Qccupaney. If I don't hurry, you will have to share Mother Graham's room." Surprise, outraged petty authority, vindictive anger gleamed through her suddenly narrowed lids. Her 'tones lost their purring smoothness. were harsh, temperj'i as she answered me. "Do you realize what you're doing. Mrs. Graham? Vou are insulting me, your husband's cousin and guest, when I have only wished to do you a favor. You haven't even asked me what the girl has done." Madgo's "Liist Word. " "And 1 don't care to ask," I returned steadily. "Katie has been in my employ ever since my marriage. She has proved her fidelity to me in numberless ways. Do you really imagine that I would discharge her, or even reprove her. because of a tale brought to me by a stranger?" "Vou allow your servants to call guests in y our home "old liars'." " she asked, her tone fairly dripping1 with malevolent sarcasm. "It is not my usual custom." I returned, "but I can imagine circumstances where a girl might be justified in applying such an epithet." FIFTEEN Y. W. HOSTESS HOUSES IN FRANCE On the first of January' there were soon V. W. C. A. nostess houses in France. .Now there are 1 r such houses and the one criticism of the work, according to Margaret Cook, of Troy, N". Y., director of thia branch of the Y. W. C. A. overseas, is th inadequacy of the houses to cure for all American women with the A. FT. F. The mosth pretentions is the hostess houso at Chaumont in the chateau which was formerly Gen. Pershing's headqu.ua rters. The chateau was taken over by the Y. W. C. A. as the only suitable p!ace a mailable for a hostess house. The smallest of these houses id the one at Neufchateau, which has done more emergency work in proportion to its size than any other in France. Sleeping accommodations for six guests hae heen expanded to take care of as many i as 20 when that many nurses were unexepctedly forced to spend the night there. THK WW, SUM SALI AT lUlAXDON'K Begins Tuesday morning. See to- ; morrow's papers.. 55 1-1 A NT I CLIMAX. Central America might as well quiet down. Nobody is going to pay any attention to a one-ring ur. li - 'i-V ' A, 4. WW 1 Ours is a Piano Service for Everyone Our piano service is not designed alone for the man who wants a hich-grade instrument. Nor is it for the man uho wants merely a practice piano for the children. Ours is a universal service. You'll tind here the finest piano-values and playerpiano values obtainable anywhere. Herman Elbel and Sons 229 N. MICHIGAN ST. Opposite Orpheum Bell Phone 2860
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