THE . BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918.
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Love and -1401116 Making
Part of the Duty of the Modern Girl to Knoy About
, Cooking and Housekeeping.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"A curious case occurred the other
day in Chicago, and as the details
' recorded in the daily papers might be
"called "Why men5 come back after
leaving home," the story will bear an
other telling.
,;"It seems that a Mr.' Tohn Franz
used1 to board with a lady by the
name of Mrs. Geraldine Cade, who
wis an excellent housekeeper. Her
cooking was such that not once was
Mr. Franz driven to tender retro
spection concerning his mother's pies
or coffee. The pies and coffee, of
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create new standards of their own.
" Mrs. Cads was soon treading the
old reliable, well-worn footpath to a
man's heart the stomach. And Mr.
Franz was going the way of all men
he was falling 'deeply in love with
his comforts. They became engaged
and everything seemed as 'happy as
..the final act of an anti-problem play
when something went wrong.--
Perhaps Mr. Franz took a meal
downtown and contracted dyspepsia;
perhaps he wanted to go to France
and become a soldier; perhaps as the
day approached he got a plain case
of church fright the details are
' ague what he did was to flee Mrs.
Cade's house.
' - Mrs. Cade was a sensitive woman
land feeling keenly the aspersions cast
on her chicken a la king, Irish stew
and biscuit Tortoni, she sought heart
balm. to the tune of $25,000.
The Old Reliable Route.
" In the meantime, Nemesis caught
Up with Mr. Franz, who had taken to
"eating 'round lunch rooms." How
different everything was, now a
grimy; bus-boy slammed down cut
lery, ana a waitress, wun tne piercing
note of a calliope, called for "beans
and There was no pie to be had,
bnt the less said of that pie the better.
Mr. Franz began to realize how bless
ings brighten as' they take their flight.
He called up Mrs. Cade's lawyer
and said he wanted to go home. He
married the lady, and they are pre-
. sumably enjoying those final chapters
of romance, which in the fairy stories
of childhood, are summed up in:
"They lived happily ever after."
- There, is a -whole library several
libraries, in fact on the subject of
domestic happiness bound up in this
story from the daily news. Where
good, meals abound, there the heart
of man lingers. Something may
drive him away, temporarily, but, like
the cat, he always comes back.
- Keeping House Well.
In the face of this truism, why are
UUl ail iO. 11 I t Ul 1U31L1U11
or prospects taugh to keep house
well? If they can't be taught at home
because their mothers unfortunately
belong to the great school of delica
tessen and "ready-to-serve" house
keepers,, why can't schools of domes
tic economics be established in every
United States?
I know some attempts in this di
rection have been made in the pub
jic schools, and it is well enough in
its -way, but it doesn't4 go far
enough. Domestic science courses
should ' include marketing and a
thorough knowledge of meat cuts, and
how to get the best results from each
"In the way of nourishment and flavor.
But So rjiany' women are lambs or
rather sheep led to slaughter, in the
hands of the butcher.
Girls should be taught to market
systematically, and taught to buy
everything-meat, fish, vegetables-'and
then keen cash accounts atterward
It is the telephone, and that fatal
"line of least resistance',", that, are at
the bottom of so much of "the high
cost of living."
The war has brought American wo
men fact to face with their short
comings as housekeepers as nothing
else could have done., They want to
save, but they don't know 'how. In
the back part of their brains .there has
always been a little contempt for this
quality: now they discover it to be a
fine art.
For it is a fine art as understood by
the French that. intelligence that gets
a full value for every penny-expended,
and at the same time produces results
so excellent as never to suggest the
sordid. American women I am
speaking of the -traveled class have
always admired this Quality in the
French but they have also felt that
it was not for them to emulate. They
were too busy with large affairs
which they were always a bit vague
about, when pinned down for details.
Now with husbands, sons and
sweethearts ''over there," they are
confronted with a problem that finds
them a little awkward and inept. I
am not thinking of the womeq on
farms or in rural communities, but
the city woman who skims through
her housekeeping and gives the finest
flower of her energies to some phiian
thropic project away from home. For,
like the poor, we always have our
Mrs. Jellybys among us.
Something Lacking.
A woman who can't make a home
has some vital ingredient lacking; she
is as defective as if she were color
blind, tone-deaf or like the heroine of
that lovely parody on the' Blessed
Damosel who "had three fingers on
one hand."
Home-making is far more neces
sary than much she acquires at
school. Doubtless she will be taught
the name ofhe capital of Persia, and
in the time of Caesar, "all Gaul was
divided into three parts'useful in
formation, certainly, but hardly as
valuable as how to make a cup of
good coffee, or the best method of
preparing a pot roast.
Let the girls knit, by all means, and
dance and play the piano, and study
Greek if they want to, but do not
neglect to teach them the difference
between a rib and a chuck roast, and
that the best way of cooking one
would mean the destruction of the
other.
Advice to Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
He Should Inform Her.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Baa: My
fiance, before ha met me, used to know
a girl In bla school. Laat June ahe Invited
him to her graduation, In a letter, which
showed ahe ittll hoped to win him back.
I forced him to go, -as I felt sorry for the
girl. Even how she shows she would like
to have him back.
One I felt sorry for her, but now I
am beginning to think that she must be
very foolish. Ought I to write her a note,
saying we ara engaged f (Our engagement
has not fceen announced.) JOY.
In mercy to this silly girl, your fiance
should write her a little note telling her
that as an old friend he wants her to
be one of the first to know of his great
happlnesa In his engagement. Perhaps she
does not deserve this consideration, but I
am sure you ara generous enough to want
to save her from hurt and putting' herself
In absurd and humiliating positions. You
are not the" one to tell her; ha is.
, Nothing to Talk About.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I expect to become
engaged to a girl I have known for some
time and am about to visit her people, but
Red Cross Chairman No. 21
Women in
Wartime
MRS. E. C. TWAMLEY
Mrs. E. C. Twamley is chairman of the Happy Hollow auxiliary, which
worked at the summer club last summer and will take up its work again
this year,
A meeting has been called for June 5, at which time plans for the sum
mer will be formulated. At the close of last season's work, I sum of money
remained in the treasury to the credit of the women. Decision will be made
as to the manner in which the money will be spent and whether the workers
will take up surgical dressings or hospital garments. '
Mrs. Twamley spent a great many hours doing Red Cross work with
the Nebraska bass hospital and First Presbyterian church auxiliaries during
the winter. She returned recently from two months' trip to California
and the south, where she visited all the army posts and cantonments.
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By MRS. L.C. HEATH, Brayton, la.
When you elear the dinner table
It you re well and strong and able
Don't throw away the scraps of bread and
meat.
Save the bits of canned tomato,
And the boiled or fried potato.
Anything that may be used as food to eat.
Soften these wand mix together.
Beat an igfs light as a feather.
Place a half a pint of cornmeal In a pan.
And a spoon of baking powder.
In this roll the pats of chowder.
Brown In grease, and make it batter, If
you can.
There's no wonder that wa mutter
When wa pay such sums for butter
And there's aubstltutea that answer just as
well.
Buy some Oleo and try It,
And I'm sure you'll not deny tt.
That the difference twlxt the two, you
cannot tell.
In the cornmeal mush you're making,
Stir In meat scrapa from the baking,
From the boiling and the frying
All the lean and all the fat.
How aurprlsed you'll be In trying
when the mush so brown Is frying,
Not a small morsel left to feed the dog or
cat
In the fall when kraut you're making
Don't regret the time you re taking.
Just to can and seal It tightly;
When at last Its good and sour.
In' the winter' time of toasting
And lean sparerlbs brown are roasting,
There's sauerkraut and aparerlba
Ready at the dinner hour.
Other things we might be saving
while the people now are raving
am at a loss aa to what is proper for me
to do. Her mother baa no objection to
sheltering me for the night, but the girl
would rather have me stay at a hotel. The
reason ahe gives la that women might
talk, and that would put her In an em
barrassing position. C. A. M.
With her mother's consent It will be per
fectly proper for yon to aecept the hos
pitality of the young lady's family. There
la absolutely nothing In the altuatton that
could cause the most "gossipy" woman to
make any comment
"John, I'm ashamed of these"
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course she is, and so are you every time
your wife speaks about that old-fashioned
bathroom equipment in your home.' -
Many a time you've looked them over and almost
decided to rip out those antiquities. But you.
haven't dorle it
Why? Probably because you've thought of it only
. from the standpoint of pride and comfort and con
cluded that those reasons were insufficient
But there's a bigger reason for your HEALTH'S
sae and the health of your family. No considera
tion on earth would delay the removal of those old '
- eyesores if you knew hat tomorrow their unsanitary
features would strike down some member of your
household.
Then why wait until it happens? The installation
. of modern, sanitary, Thomas Maddock bathroom
. equipment costs so much less than you think, that it
will be worth your while to have us tell you about it
Ask 1i to tell you about the Maddock way.
- Se Your Plumber or
UNITED STATES SUPPLY CO.'
. Ninth & Farnam Streets
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O'er the cost of canned and cows' milk that
extenda beyond our means.
With the flour browned and ready and
a hand that's aura and ateady
Try this recipe for gravy, mora delicious
than It seems.
Save your drained potato water
There's your chance to be a plotter
Pour It In the grease and flour, stirring con.
stantly the while.
Juat aa good aa chicken gravy.
Thla you can Imagine, maybe,
And the very thought et tt will make you
smile.
When wa realise we'rs falling
And hard tlmea wa are bewailing.
Let us think about that soupbone, that wa
uaed to throw away.
Throw away with Juat one cooking, all
ths lean and fat o'er looking.
Could we juat recall that soup bona.
We'd be cooking It today.
What care we If bread Is dingy
"Tie so Jolly to bs stingy
While we're saving wa ara helping TJnole
Sam.
We're not Ilka dumb driven oattle
For we know the boys in battle, need the
strength the food provides
To make a better fighting man.
Let us then be up and doing
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Let us realise what this great atrlfa la for.
In the world'a great congregation
We must strive to save our nation.
Wa must help the United Btatea to wla
the war.
Delta Gammas Collect
One Mile of Dimes for
The Belgian Children
A mile of dimes to save the Belgian
children is the slogan of the Delta
Gamma sorority, whose members are
beginning a nation-wide campaign to
raise $10,000 a mile of dimes to
give to the refugee children who have
been brought into Franca since the
allies have gained the parts of Bel
gium occupied by the enemy since
the beginning-of the war.
Local sorority sisters have up to
the present secured $194, which they
have gotten from their friends, ask
ing each one to give a dime for each
of the children in tha family.
Mrs. A. D. Peters had the affair
in charge. Each member took a
yar of card board on which were
places, for dimes amounting to $170.
Children WiUGive
Benefit for Red Star
Children of Holyoke-Dox school
will present an operetta, "The Rose
and the Pearl," at the close of the
school year for the benefit of the Red
Star animal relief. The date and
place have not been decided upon.
A voting contest was held among
tne little pupils to see how the money
made by the entertainment should be
spent Out of the list of patriotic
organizations, the Red Star appealed
most to the children.
The school is 100 per cent in the
Junior Red Cross. Novel ways have
been discovered by the children to
bring in extra pennies for war relief.
All have small gardens at their
homes. .
Little Miss Helen Meisten has al
ready brought in 40 cents from the
sale of radishes, and small Natalie
Dale proudly donated $1.40 which she
earned by picking dandelions from
the lawns of her neighbors.
CONSERVATION MEETINGS
POSTPONED.
Conservation programs which were
to have been given at the Dundee and
Lake schools on Thursday will be
postponed for a week because the
schools will be closed for Decoration
Day.
RED CROSS NEEDLEWORK
After three months of close appli
cation, Mrs. F. A. Wenninger has
nated an exquisite piece of Hard-
inger work to the salvage department
of the Red Cross at 1409 Harney
street. The work on the piece is a
triumph of needlework and it is esti
mated the piece is worth $50. It is
to be sold for the benefit of the Red
Cross.
NEW OFFICERS.
The Carter Lake Kensington club
met . Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. C. G. Scott. Officers for
the cominsr year were elected as fol
lows: President, Miss Terra Tierney,
secretary, and treasurer, Mrs. Arthur
Schwartz.
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Announcing for Friday at 8:30 A. M.
A sale of the first magnitude
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We have made great preparations to make this the
star event, so. you may have great expectations.
Utterly impossible'to give you detailed information
or adequate description of Qualities, Styles or
Values. A few inklings, however, may be helpful
and here they are.
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At $3.98
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and daintily trimmed
with lace or embroidery.
This lot contains Blouses
which you will fin'd hard
to match for less than
$5.00. Many are colored.
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adjectives could very
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Onrandy and Crepe do
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At $6.95
If we asked you $10.00'
for these you'd pay it '
without a murmur. In
deed if you are a buyer of
Blouses, you must have paid ten dollars for Blouses
of less merit and not nearly so attractive. .' ; , V
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About the last word in-
beauty, the acme of style,
superb in quality, silky
fabrics, with no camou-'
flage, no libeling of the silk worm here. Real silks
and beautiful Voiles with appropriate trimming. ':
We might mark them $12.50 and even $15.00 and
get away with it, were it not that we desire to make
this Blouse Sale Town Talk. Read ad again please
let it seep in, and then be prompt in attendance.
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