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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1910)
TIIK liTO: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1010. 7 as joistfloLD worries 00';,,; i .null home-like conditl Joyfal Features of a Co-Operative Kitchen that Works. MISS0UE.IAN3 SHOW THE WAY law Fifty People tared the Cotit la tart has Re ef Sylvias; ul Troanle from 1 Maar Hhk Kairer a Mlssourlsns I V F,aer a Mlssourlsns ere to be "ahown," they are even more Mirer to ahow the reat of the country when they have aometning worth ahowlng. Among the latent ex hibit la a co-operative kitchen In active operation at Carthasre, which la detailed by a writer In World'a Work as follows; The woman called a. meeting of the In tereeted people and organised a Co-opera tive Kitchen. The men took charge. The kitchen was atarted with a memberahlp of alxty people. The houae we rented la nearly a mile from the bualneaa aectlon, but street cara run within a couple of blocks. The bouae la a fine old residence, with wide porchea and a big lawn. The first floor had a long munlo room on one aide of a deep hall, while on the other aide the library and dinning room could be thrown together, thua giving two large dining rooma. The table I pot for each family was determined by lot Sufficient apace waa left between . tablea to Inaure privacy. V In the bearlnnlnc. each family provided and eaulDPed Its own table. Dlnhee and silver were brought aa needed, each woman attending to her own table linen. It waa agreed that eztraa canned fruit. Jelll eta should be provided by each table for its own uae, and that occasional assess menta of five cents per capita ahould be itaade for breakage of glassware. Baalaess Methods. Our manager has entire charge and re reives 135 per month, plus rooma and board for her family. The aecond floor la , jthe family home, though two extra rooma .are rented and the Income la added to the .1 finances of the kitchen. The third floor i provides rooms for the servants. ' An advisory committee of three audita the books and determines all matters of general Interest. In case a member wishes to withdraw during the period for which he has pledged himself. It is expected that he will fill the vacancy he creates. HI substitute must be approved by this com mittee. Two cooks, two waitresses, and a rtlnh waaner constitute the . working force, but an extra waltreaa la necessary In serving dinner. Oddly enough, the dlah washer la tlia moat difficult to keep. Our dlah wash- era, with most discouraging unanimity "gave notice" on the second day. A sub stantial Increase In wages finally solved the problem. All the aervanta have two hcura off every afternoon, and this goes far toward reconciling them to long days. They aay, too, that It Is much pleaaanter to work In the Kitchen than In a kitchen, There are enough of them together to prevent the isolation necessary In a one family home. Their relations with the members are more nearly those of a alen ngrapher with her employer. One absolute rule ot the Kitchen la, no tips. On alter nate Sunday nights the waltreasea are off duty. The children of the Kitchen help serve that night, and It la an evening looked forward to by th-sm. Coat Fla-nrea. The Kitchen started aa a three months experiment at a per adult member per week. After the flrat quarter It waa de cided that by Increasing the price and re during the memberahlp to fifty, a reading room could be provided. The co-operative aplrit atill held. The room waa artistically furnlahed by voluntary contributions; books and magaslnea appeared without waiting to be called for, and a apot waa ready for the guest of any member awaiting a hostess. The Initiation fee la now 3.60 per adult, and half-price for children under 7 and and . over I yeara of age. Servants or nurae AnaJds are on a two-third rate, If they not served by the waitresses. Guests for alngle meala, ordinarily 26 cents. On Wednesday night, "guest night," tht charge la IS cents per guest. The Initiation fe A-arrlee with It a life membership. Come back when you will, your place la there - if there Is a vacancy! When a member has a guest for tha period of one full week or more, the rate Is that of a member. The hostess sees, too, that the table la fitted for an extra. The Htaas. The menus planned by the manager are aurprlalng for the price. She buys In quantities, of courae, ao la able to command wholesale rates. Even that fact, thought, In this rslgn of high prices hardly explains the Kitchen bllla-of-fare. For Inatance, Mils la what we had yesterday: Break fa at-Cereala, tea, cocoa, coffee, hot cakea, dellciota broiled ham, lyonnaisa po tatoes. (Children may have egga. milk or r tresis at any meal. Eggs and bacon are frequently aerved for breakfast.) Luncheon Chicken salad, macaroni and cheese hot blaouita, apple aauce and ginger biml, tea, chocolate, coltee. (Aa a rule, luncheon Is planned with particular thm,h, for the children. Dessert la rarely aerveu . imiinfvil.l Pinner broiled porterhouse ateak. stuffed baked potatoes, home-madt Boston baked beuna, home-made Boston brown bread lettuce. French dressing, blano-mange. or ange aauoe, coffee. ' We have, of course, the southern, habit of warm bread three tlmea a day. Light bread, raisin bread, nut bread, and rolls are made at the kitchen, and salt-rising I f ta maoo lor me xitohen twice each, week v uur nuHr nee maae a atudy of the nutritive quality and combinations of m.ii. to be aerved. economical managing of what might otherwise be food-waste has had full consideration. Fiaaaelal R remits. Tha financial side of the kitchen Is, of course, the vital one lor those who would go and do llkewlae. January waa our hard eat month! INCOME AND EXPENSES. JANUARY bergenia tUi.vb Manager salary ,, js.ov ;nl ). Ugtit. heat, loe . Sjj.tio To telephones j fl,eat lta.ou Milk and cream , 64 0 (irorerlre M.bQ Incidentals 5 iw uu uaua seoruaxy 1st .j6 1796.00 are regarded to an extent hla except under tha ona. One perplexing problem waa that of the man whose bualneaa takea him away from home periodically, and for a week or more. Ms pays hla Initiation fee, then paya a slightly increased rata for the meala he takea In the Kltohen. The problem haa not yet found a satisfactory aolutlon. It la bigger than the flrat glance auggesta. We prefer the atay-at-home members. Our social evenings are Impromptu, as a rule. A dance for the children of the Kitchen and their little friends wss one of our record events. Birthday dlrners are celebrated, and evenlnge for friends prom lee to grow more frequent In tho future. 1 One Carthaginian turned fli light of hla wit and hla keen power of sarcasm on the Kitchen while It was a more toddling, stumbling thing In Ita Infancy. With sin emphaala quite indescribable, he christened It 'The Home ot the Help-less." But at tha beginning of the last quarter thia gen tleman applied for memberships far him self and wife. I-sst night he was hea-d to say, with a depth of moaning i.ot to be limited: "Think of It. Think of It I haven't heard a word about the aervants-wo-couldn't-get for three, long, 1-o-v-e-l-y monfha." He tipped back on the wide veranda and bit off a cigar emphatically: "I'm down as a life member, lot me tell you right now. The meala may be plain, but they are balanced. The quality makea up for any amount of frills and trimming. Besides, they keep a man In shape. Ha forgets what- he haa eaten when It leaves him comfortable. Tou couldn't get me out of this thing. No more caressing the stomach for mine." EIGHT-YEAR-OLD A LINGUIST California Girt with Tea I.engnagea Jostllas; at Her Toogae'a Bad. "Cherle can apeak only English, French Spanish, Latin and Esperanto," aald the mother of 8-year-old Winifred Sackvllle Stoner, Jr.. "that la, aha can apeak only thoae languagea fluently and think In them, She can also speak Japanese, Russian, Qer man, Polish' and Italian to the extent that she can carry on a conservation in them, but she can't think In them." While Mrs. Stoner was talking the child played about her home at 466 Melville street, Palo Alto, Cal., talking to her dolla, frisking from room to porch and from porch to room, Uke any healthy child of t with but one language to Ita credit Little "Cherle" Stoner la William Jamea Bldls' only rival in Infantile precocity, and the sole reason that her fame Is not yet so great as his la that she is but 8 years old, while he la 12. The girl progldy la now living with her mother In Palo Alto and will be to Stanford university what William Jamea Bldls Is to Harvard. Not only Is the child a linguist with a stock' of tongues In her head that aur paasea the vocabulary of the most as siduous savants, but she is a poet and haa published a book of her verses. She is a reader of the classlca and would be per pectly at home at Dr. Elliot's five-foot shelf of books If she were tall enough to reach up to the row. The father of little "Cherle," as her mother calls little Winifred, is Col. J. B. Stoner, - of the United States marine hos pital service, at present In oommand of the United States marine hospital at Port Townsend, Wash. It was from Port Town send that the mother and child came to Palo Alto, In aearch of a better climate. The 'mother la a daughter of Lord Sack vllle- West, British ambassador to the United Statea during one of Cleveland's administrations. , Mrs. Stoner Is president of the Women's Esperanto association of North America and is an authority on Es peranto. She also has trained her small daughter to speak the linguistic panacea. and little "Cherle" not only speaks the language but writes poems In It. The gift of verse Is one of the child's moat re markable charms. It was aa a recitt of her own verses that the child first appealed to a re porter today at her mother' a home In Palo Alto. Winifred Is a sturdy little girl, with the baahfulnesa of a child. She came Into the room half concealed behind her mother's skirts. She appeared to be a bit larger than children of 8 usually are. Her eyes shone big and brown. She wore a simple checked pinafore and a dainty gold chain and locket about her throat. She had white stockings and sandals on her substantial little feet, and she was not still for a moment. The book of "Jingles, hlch Miss Winifred Sackvllle Stoner pub lished at the age of C la a book of fifty two pagea and nearly 100 selections. San Francisco Bulletin. I Membership duea .... r.ant for two rooma. Guests ....1700.00 .... 15.01 80.0(1 I795.0f tne ito cooks are paid 7.M per week earn. The waitress receives 13 per week Under the Item ot incidentals are Included - he extra waltreaa. work of a woman acrub- lleg the verandas, and laundry for (ha a, rented rooma. Much of the suceeaa of our Co-operative Klu-hen la, due to our manager, a lady of personal cnarm. bualneaa ability and trained mind to bear on the problema of (he Kltrhon. Many dutlea fall to her that were not nominated in the bond for In stance, the oversight of the, bachelors tablea. Tlia extra bills are gladly paid by the bacneipra Spirit ef re-Oserallsa. rother large factor of our aucceas tr the true spirit of co-operation that prevails. If a light or a grate fire la burning use lessly, a member turna It off with never thought that such lesks should ba watched by somebody. In the matter of meala It Is accepted that the food requlremenla ot the We Announce Our Opening Display mi chaffner Tailor Made Clothes for Men greatest number must control; yet the per-1 inglon Herald LURE OF THE GOLD BRICK i Publicity, Experience aad Age Pane. tar the Game la Vain. Tha great aecret of the gold brick bust nesa, ao far aa the selling ot that article la concerned, la that It must be sold in a man ner Invariably suggesting to the purchaser that he la getting something for nothing. At least, that Is what a government official who has looked into the matter says. For Inatance, It la well-nUit Impossible to sell near-gold mining stock at $100 per share well, vary extensively, any way But if It be offered In shares ot tfi each at a price ot U per ahare, "to be advanced to par within ninety days," it Is generally ac cepted among near-gold mine experts that a sufficient quantity will be aold to make the venture a suceeaa from the near-gold mine expert's peculiar point of view. A great many ot the subacrlptiona to thia aoon-to- be-advanced stock come from small Invest ors, of course perhapa the bulk of them. Nevertheleaa, enough of them come from comparatively well-to-do persona to warran the aaumptlon that not a small part ot the eaay money reaching the promoters of near-gold mines cornea from people of means. The entire Idea upon which this swindle rests, therefore. Is the promise to give tt value tor a fl bill to give aomethlng for nothing. It matters very little. It seems, that history bulges with recorded failures of attempts to get something for nothing whereas It is all but silent with respect to ventures of that kind that have proved to be worth while. Men gortght alon buying gold bricits now, just as they did thousands of, years ago; and Just as they may be buying them thouaands of yeara hence. Specific 'Methods of separating the eaay mark from his wherewithal may differ with the paaalng ages, hut always and in evitably the basic principle la approximately the earns! ' It may be, perhapa, that through the In fluence of the press and the platform the gold brick bualneaa will be eventually iemollahed In all ot Ita possible phaaea. Wc are optimistic enough to believe that way during tha laat few yeara We ean remem ber when the Louisiana lottery flourished and dispensed gold brlcka by the millions, and without legal hindrance or restraint. That baa pasaed away, at least, to come no more. And tt waa no worse, morally, than soma of our near-gold mine enterprises. Constant hammering killed the Louisiana lottery In time. It may yet become Impos sible to exploit a near-gold mine in this land of the trve home of the brave." Wash- 3) The clothes that have ihaken the world of fashion from center to circumference. We do not insult your intelli gence when we say: Buy no fall clothes until you see what we have to offer. Every man with a spark of thrift in him invariable trades where he can do best. That's why we invite your inspection of our line of new Fall H., S. MVf. Suits, Top Coats and Raincoats, prices $18 to $35, other makes as low as $10.00. The Mayden "Wonder Spits" at "iMbBsVstteasS 71 In presenting our "Wonder Suit" to the buying publio of the city and vicinity, it is with a mingled feeling of pride and satisfaction that we announce our "Wonder Suit" as being all that the name implies. Nearly twenty-five years we have merchandised in your midst and yet this offering signals our greatest achievement in the way of clothes value-giving. ; ., i The untarnished reputation of this "big store" is back of this assertion: "That our 'Wonder Suit' takes its place as the biggest money's worth ever offered in Omaha in the regular retail way." These clothes are manufactured under our own direction, from cloth we buy direct from the New England Mills, and our contract with the makers means an output of several thousand suits per year thus you save the middleman's profit. First of all we say pure wool and worsteds always; strictly hand-made buttonholes; hand-padded collars, hand-padded open shoulders and up-to-the-tick-of-the-clock styles. For every garment that does not turn out as represented, a new one in exchange, or your money back. Standard models for conservative dressers. University models for young men. The utmost in suit or overcoat for $14.50. They are lionest $18.00 values. Watch our windows. It pays. Send in orders by mail. Guaranteed Clothes srv v"! yi Best TT-JT XvTnTTT'FsJ TFRTkPfTT wiaj iss Lawmakers Have : Opportunities . to Speculate Books of New York Brokerage Firm Show Numerous Dealings with Members of Assembly. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. The banking and speculating facllltlea extended to lawmak era by the brokerage firm ot Elllngwood & Cunningham during the period extend ing from April, 1900, to February, 1906, were brought out at today's hearing of the legls latlve graft Investigation. Former Assemblyman Louis Bedell, who, during the period in question was chair man of assembly's committee on railroads, was shown by the evidence to have been apparently particularly favored. The books of Elllngwood & Cunningham allowed that while hla stock operatlona dur ing the seven years consisted aolely In the purchaae of 300 ahares of New York Trans Donation stock, the money for this stock, together with some 120.000 additional, had been advanced by Elllngwood & Cunning' ham. Moat of these advances had, according to testimony, been made by II. H. Vreeland, president of the Metropolitan Street Rail way company; H. A. Robinson, general so licitor of the company and Q. Tracy Rogers, president of the New York Railway association. Maiithly Clearing Sale We have placed on sale 20 magnificent bargains magnificent because few of them have not been used to any extent They were received in exchange from peo ple who purchased Piayer Pianos because of their inability to play the ordinary pi anos. Therefore,' they are almost new. We have other bargains in pianos that have come back from rentals. These have 'a)) gone through our factory and are as good as new. These pianos are now taking up the space needed for the display of a shipment of new 1911 models and must and will be sold at once. The unusually low price marked on each one removes all doubt as to their bargain quality. This is not a big sale, but shrewd, economical and careful buyers will find this the real piano op portunity. of the season. Dont fail to call and investigate. A partial list as follows: A Viper la the Stomach Is dyspepsia complicated with liver and kidney troubles. Electric Bitters help all such cases or no pay. 60c " For' sale by Beaton lrug Co. Stop Diarrhoea No case of DIARRHOEA. DYSENTERY, CHOLERA INFANTUM or Summer Com plaint Is ao serous that WAKEFluiLLi'S BLACKBERRY BALSAM will not quick ly relieve It. For yeara WAKEFIELD'S BLACKBERRY BALSAM has cured these bowel troubles in their worst forma, and In many eases after other re me d lea and doctors had failed. If every wife and mother had a supply of this time-tested medicine la the ..suae ready for sudden attacks (which very often come at night) she would have absolute - protection against these diseases which claim the lives of tf.000 babies and more than SO, 000 grown people each year. WAKE FIELD'S BLACKBERRY BALSAM la a grand, good me.. cine that la free from tha dangerous drugs that other diarrhoea remedies contain. It Is safe for the baby, and In larger doses Is the beat remedy In the world for grown people. It Is the favorite with all classes and all ages because It Is delicious to the taate and never falls to cure. Aak your druggist for WAKEFIELD'S BLACKBERRY BALSAM and be sure you get . tha original, genuine Wakefield Full sis tie or S bottles for tl 00. W. W. Kimball, $350 ebony $75 Pease & Co., $350 ebony $85 Emerson, $400 ebony $85 Harrington, $400 "ebony $100 Mansfield, $400 mahogany $115 Vose & Son, $400 ebony $125 Kohler & Chase, mahogany $125 Laffargue, mahogany $140 Steger & Son, mahogany .$145 Smith & Barnes, oak ....... ......$150 Lester, mahogany ;, Chickering & Son, rosewood Schaef f er, oak Price & Teeple, mahogany , Price & Teeple, oak Ebersole, mahogany ..... . Knabe, mahogany ...... . .' ... . Weber Grand Weber Grand Knabe Grand $165 $175 .$175 $185 .......$200 $225 .......$250 .......$300 :. $325 .......$400 Every piano we sell is sold under an absolute guarantee. We believe a satisfied customer to be the best salesman we can have. All pianos sold on easy payments. Free stool: free scarfs. HAYDEN BROTHERS THE OMAHA LOAN & BUILDING ASSOCIATION cred ited to its members on July 1st $89,000 Dividends. It has never paid to its members less than six per cent per syf I annum lor 21 years, baving accounts calling ft O I toT a montllly payment of $1.00 to $25.00 may I Via rTknts anv lav e-t In m rt on ma tisvfr rtrA S V V Sw-e Vtu J WU W UUi D iiVb V V V $5,000 received. Ask for Booklet "A" and other information. Assets $3,600,000. Ueserve fund $G7,O0O. Address, S. E. Corner 16th and Dodge Streets. The Thing To Do If you lose your pocketbook, imbreUa. watch, er gome other article of value, tha thing to do ! to follow the example ot many other people and advertise without delay In the Lost and Found column of The Bee. That ! what most people do when they log articles of value. Telephone us aud tell your loaa to aU Omaha la a single afternoon. Pat It In The Bee aa z To Promote our Irrigation Pro ject Containing 16,000 Acres CAREY ACT AND STATE LAND Thia In On of tho Best Irrigation Projects; In Southern Idaho See F. H. DROWNING, Rome Hotel City ID) FISTULA Pay When CURED All Kecul Diseases cured without a surgical operation. No Chloroform, Ether or other gen eral aneasthetic used. CURB GUARANTEED to last a LIFE-TIME. K"kxmimatioh rn. WRITS FOR BOOK ON PILES AND RECTAL DISEASES WtTH TESTIMONIALS PH. K. n. TAKRV. 224 Isa Building. Omaha. Wefcraska . jj2J2222233522aaiK2B5Bs3i