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EVOTKD women who have been wonder
ing where the pathway of constructive
and beneficial service would open now
thnt the war Is over may very easily
llnd tle signpost pointing out the rcrnd-
In the program sot for itself by the
National League for Women's Service.
This organization was formed In 1917,
and naturally at that time found its
particular field In war activities. It
now sees before it a broadening of its
activities and u scope of real helpful
ness that will go even beyond what it found to do
while the country was waging conflict.
It is(the spirit of service learned better than ever
'before in time of national stress that Is the watch
word for this nation-wide organization of women.
Its purpose, as set forth in the constitution and
l)y-laws, is to provide organized trained groups of
women in every community to meet existing needs
nlong social and economic line3.
The earnest women who make up the motor
division of the league might have thought that the
end of the war would curtail the scope of their
activities. Northing of the sort. The work of trans
porting the sick and wounded nnd the convalescent
soldiers, sailors nnd mnrines will be continued n&
long ns the need for this work exists. The motor
division has demonstrated the vital necessity of
continuing Its work as an organized, trained serv
ice in peace times to meet emergencies. Thero Is
o much work to be done in tho wny of social
welfare and henltfi nnd Industrial helpfulness that
the motor corps, lnstend of diminishing, sees before
It growth nnd expansion.
Especial attention is being given by the motor
division to tho opportunities found In service for
tho ainicted. Ono of tho concrete examples of this
is to bo seen In tho work being accomplished by
tho women of tho city of Jamaica, who formed n
motor corps In that city. These women motorists
liave already been of grent service to the city In
transporting crippled children to the hospital for
treatment. Not all of these children are per
manently crippled, but many of them hnvo lost the
use of an arm or a leg after having suffered from
Snfnntllo paralysis. Sometimes thero 13 only ono
llvhib parent, who Is away from homo ull day, so
there Is no one In tho family to tako the suffering
Jtttlc ones to the hospital for treatment. Tho
workers In the motor corps bring the children from
their homes for treatment and then tako them
Imck again as soon as they are tit to bo moved.
Helping the Helpless.
One of tho most pathetic cuse3 of this sort Is
that of little Gertrude, only three nnd a half years
of age. She wns taken to tho hospital nnd a pins
ter enst was put on. There are six children In her
inmlly nnd her father Is unnblo to work owing to
a severo attack of influenza. Tho oldest child In
the family suffers from epileptic fits. Another
child had broken her arm Inst November and It
lind never been set. Tho driver of tho nmbulnnco
took this child nlso to tho hospital so that her
crippled arm could be rebroken by the doctor and
properly set. So much suffering in ono family
was relieved and n great deal of future tragedy
was averted by the helpfulness of tho motor corps.
One little bov, whoso poor little legs wero abso
lutely useless enme near to being the cause of an
accident on oi.i of the Journeys to the hospital.
Putting his head out of the front of the nmbulnnco
lie jerked the nrn of the driver nnd said: "Seo
that guy that passed riding thnt blcyclo l Geo, I'm
olng to he like him soon, and how I will rldo when
iny pnddles work again."
A three-year-old Italian girl had been very shy
on her trips to the hospital nnd at first had re
sented being tnken by tho driver. Finally nfter
lior fourth trip she snuggled up ngnlnst the lieu
tenant on the homeward trip and Bald something
which tho olllcer could not understand. Ono of
tho older girls explained.
"She says that her mother is dend and her
fnther doesn't want her and you can keep her If
you want to."
Only three years old nnd yet thnt bnby realized
that there wasn't n soul in the world who wanted
Iter.
Thcso children, whose cases nro duplicated times
without number throughout the country, aro In a
dlro need of friendly sen-Ice. Tho parents have
tho greatest struggle In most cases to provide a
living for them, and when any of tho children are
helpless they are not wanted.
Such cuses are not Infrequent, nnd although the
work of driving a car nil day from house to house
In the poorest parts of the city, aver broken nnd
rough roads, Is nerve racking, the members of the
motor corps have never thought of stopping. The
vital need of continuing their work Is measured by
tho amount of good done hundreds of children.
The faith of the children accustomed to wnlk
and run it bout is much shaken when they are
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crippled by the tragedy of lnfnntlle pnralysls. That
faith Is fast coming to the top again, after they
have been given tho much-needed attention.
The women of tho.motor corps feel thnt If thero
Is anything they can do to make these children
whole ngaln they are going to do It. A largo per
centage of the treatments given the children is
successful, at- most of tho children nro young.
Another fon of servico rendered by tho women
of tho motor co -ps, still using Jnmnicn ns an Illus
tration, takes Uie district nurso all over the city.
This nurse follows up tho enses of the children
who have been treated at the hospital and does
good work In Hndlng out what tho other needs of
the children are. In some cases It Is nourishing
food, in others shoes, In others clothes.
Thero Is only ono district nurse In Jnmnlca nnd
her salary Is paid out of the proceeds of a second
hnntl clothing shop which Is run by tho well-to-do
women of the community. This shop Is patronized
by the poorer people of Jamaica and has proved a
source of great help to them.
Ono day n shabbily dressed woman walked Into
tho shop and looked around. Sho saw two liolinnd
shades on tho counter nnd paid three cents apleco
for them. Tho woman who waited on her was
very interested nnd could not Imnglno what sho
wnnted the shndes for, when sho was evidently In
grenter need of other things. A few days Inter the
woman renppeared at tho storo nnd proudly dis
played a whlto waist nnd n pair of white pants hor
llttlo boy was wearing.
,T blenched tho shndes," sho said, "because wo
have in opportunity to go away to tho country for
n week. We were told that we must have n chango
of clothes, o I was able to make n change by doing
this. Wo nro going away tomorrow."
Tho giver of tho shades would feel glad If sho
could know what good had been accomplished by
her act.
Jamaica Is not tho only city where the peoplo
have realized what tho word "service" stands for.
In New York stnto alone thero arc ninety-two
branches of the Nntlonal League for Women's
Service, and the league has n national enrollment
of three hundred thousand members and Is estab
lished In thirty-eight states.
Plenty of Opportunity.
There Is plenty of work for ull these members
nnd more today. An Americanization conference
of the department of tho Interior wna hold nt
Washington the other day. Americanization seems
to Includo many activities.
"Tho Americanization movement Is the flrst
grent activity of peace times In which overyaoo
can unite, regardless of any other nfllllatlons," de
clared C. H. Paull of Harvard university. "A rcrn
munlty about 'o Interest Itself In AmerlcnnlzotWn
should bring its resources together under a single
purpose with a willingness to pool their Intercuts
for the common good."
Dr. Peter Itoberts of the International Y. M. 0.
A. described the work of tho association to help
immlgrni.ts get settled In their new homes.
"Agents of the association, in prewar days, wero
stationed In fifteen ports In Europe," ho said, "nnd
hero ten secretaries wero employed at ports mln-
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lstorlng to Uie Immigrants In
n hundred ways. At points of
distribution, such ns Detroit,
Chicago, St. Louis, San Fran
cisco, there were other men to
glvo udvlco to the bewildered
foielgners nnd protect them
from exploitation.
"The war demoralized our
work in Europe, but opened
new Holds for service among
foreign-bom soldiers In can
tonments. The work of Amer
icanization In tho develop
ment battalions wns Intrusted
wholly to the association.
Sinco tho armistice was
signed the association is again
ready to extend Its aid to tho
Immigrant."
Factory schools organized
by the Council of Jewish
Women to reach girls unnblo
to attend other classes wero
described by1 Miss Helen
Winkler. Sho told nlbo of
how the council had repre
sentatives meet unprotected
girls at immigrant htatlons,
interpret the rules to them
and enable them to reach rel
atives safely.
T. A. Levy of Syracuse, N.
Y., snld his city encouraged
constant meetings of foreign
ers with native citizens and
supplied rooms at tho cham
ber of commerce where racial
groups could gather.
Mrs. Frederick Schoff of
Philadelphia, president of the
National Congress of Mothers
nnd Parent-Teachers' Associa
tions, asked tho conference for
aid In bringing out tho foreign-horn
mother. She said
tho mother too often was left
at home. Ignorant of nil things concerning her
new Innd, whllo tho father and children became
Americans.
"Widowed fathers" nro a new problem since
tho Influenza epidemic robbed thousands of homes
of tho mother nnd homemnker.
Almost any woman can mnko n homo for her
children, given tho dollars and cents to buy bread
and butter nnd shoes; but It takes so much more
thnn dollars and cents to enable a father to make
a home. Women engaged In administering moth
ers' pensions funds nnd other forms of welfare
work have found that funds were totally Inade
quate to solve tho problem of tho father left n
widower with several small children.
Mnny men whoso wives wero stricken during
tho epidemic nro hardworking, home-hving fa
thers, who cling to tho children with a tenderness
that Is beartbrcnklng. it Is our mission to find
homes for tho children near enough so that the
father can seo them every day and keep closely In
toucli with their little affairs. Tho father can
often pay for tho children's board. It Is tho extra
things that women must do for tho children that
mnko It Impossible for him to keep them at homo.
Tho milk problem alono Is large enough nnd
complex enough to keep thousands of women
busy. It Is stntefl that for ovory American man
who fell on tho battlefields of Europo nine of, our
bubles have died. Thcso nro tho startling figures
of tho bureau of child hygiene. Tho war porlod
total wus 4.r0,000, against our casualty list of KJ,
000. Of every three deaths ono Is of a child under
three- years. Dr. 8. Josephlno linker, director of
tho bureau of hygiene of tho Now York city board
of betillh, frankly brands us as a nation cureless
of humnn life, and figures fasten her charge on us.
But the experience of tho New York Diet Kitchen
association (and no doubt of other kindred
groups) has been that when theso facts nro really
brought to our consciousness helpful response Is
Immediate That this response falls ho far short
of tho neeil can only mean that the full weight of
such figures Is not visualized as It should be.
If tho horror of n hugo cltyful ff llttlo slaugh
tered baby bodies were really brought homo to tho
parent heart of our great-hearted nation It would
quicken to ono mighty effort tly determination
that such thing should no longer .!.
Dr. Harvey Wiley, long head of tho nathnul bu
reau of health, says of the wprkers for child con
servation Hint they nro "In tho very front lino
trenches of humanity, on duty without rest, fight
ing against terrific odds, Lut as certain of ultlmato
victory us tho forces of tho nllles wero against
tho devastating nun."
Can It be possible that our charity must have
tho perspective of dlstanco7 It would seem ho, for
no unusual difficulty wus found In financing wltli
American money flvo milk stations In London re
cently. Yet figures showed that whllo tho per
centage of malnutrition among I,ondon bubles wns
12 per cent, thnt of Now York bnbles during tho
same period was 21 per cent. A speaker lately re
marked thnt "Now York needs to bo three to llvo
thousand miles from Itself In order to be nri:nod
to a sense of its crying needs-"
AFTERNOON FROCKS
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When costumors have busied them
selves for weeks tinning out numbers
of beautiful and giuceful afternoon
frocks they come to n plnco where
they tuko lime to explore occasional
by-paths of fancy. Then wo nro trent
cd to a few odd and sometimes amus
ing Ideas In frocks of varieties qulto
different from those thnt havo gone be
fore. Tho late arrivals lend spice to
tho styles nnd sometimes prove to bo
tho forerunners of new models. -After
n survey of this season's afternoon
frocks tho two models pictured hero
nro moro thnn likely to bo pronounced
"odd," but with the concession that
they aro pleasing.
Satin and georgette wero mnde for
each other and Join forces In tho
quaint-looking frock on tho flgure at
tho left of the picture. A plain satin
skirt Is tho foundation for n sh6rt, full
tunic of georgette, which In turn sup
ports threo' bumls of satin. In tho
bodlco tho order Is reversed and the
crepe provides tho under portion nnd
furnishes tho long sleeves. Tho
short-sleeved peasant waist worn
over It has n double row of small,
round, sutln-covered buttons down tho
front, set very close together. All lta
edges nro piped with sntln-covcrcdj
cord. This frock must stand or fall
on Its own merits, ns It has nothing In5
tho way of precedent to lean upon In,
tho season's showings.
Tho dress nt the right stnrts out
with n plain skirt of satin nnd finishes
up with n very short tunic nnd bodlco
of tho samo material. For onco geor
gette crepo plays no part In tho story.
The tunic Is shorter nt tho loft sldo
thnn nt tho right nnd manages to
mnko place for three bands of satin
and also contrives to look frivolous.
A full bodice nnd wide, crushed glrdla
lend such a flavor of youthfulness to
this frock that Its frivolity Is taken as
a matter of course, and tho deep flnr
Ing cuffs that finish tho blcoves prova
so unexpected us to bo amusing.
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Capes and cupcllke wraps have
taken such hold upon popular tusto
that designers contlnuu to offer new
models In them. II Is something of u
tusk to avoid duplicating styles nnd
to preserve u lluvor of Individuality In
wraps uu simply constructed us the
enpo Is, bu; the Ingenuity of their
makers keep them from being tire
Homely ulllr?. Thero Is a better
chunco for variety In dolmans nnd In
combinations of capo and dolman, and
un occuslonf) model thnt Is n cape,
puro and slaiprc, mukes a success
merely by contrast with these.
A capo of this kind n a black and
wldto checked wool fabric Invites
study as u pratlcnl summer wrap, an
shown in lio picture. For young
women and for misses Its simplicity
recommends It. It Is u snappy and
youthful model, with plain black satin
collar and lining of gray foulard.
Capes made of tho lighter weight wool
ens arc usually shorter than thoso of
duvetyn or other heavy weaves; tho
capo In tho picture, about three-quarter
length, Is a good example.
The cnpellko wrap with dolman
aletrrfts, shown on tho figure nt tho
left of the picture, Is mndo of black,
satin. It follows tho fnvorlto of tha
two silhouettes that have governed
tho deslgnors of capes md similar
wraps this season, in being very full
nbout tho body nnd narrowing toward,
the hem. Tho satin falls In a sort of
cascado below tho sot-on sleeves, nnd
a very wide slmwl collnr adds to tho
iippcaranco of nmpleness In tho
wrap. Llttlo buttons nt the top of tho
ftleovo muko n handsomo finish, nnd
un unusual fcuturo of this model ap
pears In tho narrow girdle of satin nt
tho front. Every woman knows how
useful a black satin wrap proves to be
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So mnny times wo condemn nn nr
tide of npparcl corsots, gloves,
stockings, veils and similar things
that Phould bo carefully handled
simply because our own poor, reck
less, shiftless, absolutely unintelligent
use ct them mars them quickly, mnkea
them unfit and unsightly in too short
a time.