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?ack to Nature Colony in
Berkshires Bars Bourgeois
aiiiily Tree Is Principal Requisite to Belong to the
"Hyper Exclusive" Community Which Will
??o Built in Hills; Ban Prosaic Housekeeping
By Hilda D. Jackson
In MMsachusetts, right in the heart
?f the Berkshire hills, a now summer
eolonv is to be starte?! within the next
vL davs. It will be an experiment
to test community living. And in order
that the idea may have the proper
?tart in life?the colony will be
SSmer-exclusive" ? only those who
have a well-developed, deeply rooted
fami'v tree wil? be eli?ible- If any
of the branches of your family tree
need pruning, Madam, you need not
*PMr Kate Elinor Wilder, nti archi?
tect connected with the Long Island
Building Company, and, moreover, a
woman with ideas, is responsible for
the new scheme. There is too much
sameness in houses, she believes, and
sumnur colonies have become too
?tereotvned-people are yearning for
?ooething radically different; but as
thev don't know exactly what they
want, Mrs. Wilder now proposes to
?how" them. .
Recently she acquired a large tract :
of land near Great Barnngton, and ,
it is there the new colony will be
located. The tract is to bo land?
scaped first. Rustic bridges, gurgling
brooks, mossy rocks, ferny glens, cool
shadows and flecking sunlight-all of ;
which are essentials in a real honest
to goodness landscape are to be cor
raled and distributed with effect cal?
culated to make the blase millionaire ;
sigh "Here at lust is Nature," and !
decide that he's found his summer i
haven.
Be Different la the Basic Thought
Mrs. Wilder plans to start with ten
or a dozen houses, each one to be a ?
variation of the Maltese Cross, each I
to be specially adapted to its particu- ?
lar setting -and all to be entirely dif?
ferent from the usual sort of sum
mar home, whether modest bungalow
n pretentious palace. Every house
itouid be in perfect harmony with its '
IWWSefidingS, says Mrs. Wilder, and ,
Xk? ?-ole should present a pleasing ?
Ifctur?.
And so she has already selected lo?
cations for a number of the summer
nemes. One in particular - and she is
most enthusiastic about it?-is to be
built against a huge rock which will
form part of the porch. In the center
of the house there will be a "camp
fire" instead of a tire place, over which
a mammoth flue will be suspended on
iron chains chemically treated to a dull
bronze.
The walls will be sealed with silver
birch. Plaster, you know, is very or?
dinary and bourgeois! One of the
wings will be built around the trunk
of a tree, now standing on the
??rounds. The stump will be fashioned
into a tea table with places for cups,
teakettle and the rest. The bedrooms
will have beds that may be drawn up
on chains, so that when Mr. and Mrs.
d? Luxe wish to give a dance?presto,
l&mes merely touches a button and
the beds obligingly fold themselves
aj?\nst the walls, and drapery entirely
?aaou?aK'os them. The windows also
will be o: a retiring disposition -slid?
ing into the walls at will.
It will be the next thing to living
out of doors, Bays Mrs. Wilder.
Odd lighting arrangements and un?
usual doors will be in all the houses.
In^ one house, Mrs. Wilder is using
?hip lanterns, and plank doors with
great heavy bars on the inside, like
the old time iog cabin doors which
protected great-grandfather- from the
Indian?. .-.her house, a little
purling br to run right through
the pore.. .-. ? there are to be mossy
Stepping st".- i a'-ross it.
"mag ? tig there in the moon?
light with that brook babbiing right
at your feet!" said Mrs. Wilder.
Will Put Nature to Work
As far as possible Mrs. Wilder plans
to use what Nature has provided in
creating the correct atmosphere in
"?'ese charming summer homes.. Fur
']V?? rgely fashioned of
tre?3 cut i the grounds, fountains
*"] P- naturally grouped
?rock3 obtained from the fields and
**terfal] ? 1 into existence from
the many brooks. One house will be
s? bu: ta porch will cuddle
n?ht under the leafy shade of an im
a?nse old maple.
"Whenever i can," said this orig?
nal architect yesterday, "I create the
tcenerv first and let it be an inspira?
ron for the type of house to be built.
A house out of harmony with its
wdicape ai abomination!"
S,? Pi romantic a thing
w no- . will not obtrude itself
BP,n * nt? of the new col
w*3r- It i Mrs. Wilder's ambition
. ?>>ta real home environment
?s&ua the nces of housc
?orK.
Since pro; e insist en food as well
?? ecenery, and since beds have to be
?m* and motors cranked, ?she expects
w develop a community service house.
He?
.'.?ill be assigned
*> each dw< g, ? nd one expert
?WMnician , garage. They
*-d ??ve at the Community House. Jf
*?"? and Mrs. do Luxe want more
Hrvar.'?, they may r.ave them, but all
wrvant-, whether provided bv Mrs.
wi.der or her clientele, will be
R*???d it. the central headquarters.
Private Dining-Rooms? Ye?, Indeed
All meaij v. ill be served in the
J^ttraur.ity Cuisina at the central
?gdquarters. A chef wlll be in
""*'-? In addition to a main dining
_*m, then will be individual dining
*?*> *?> that famines desiring pri
**? may have it. They may also be
an ?y thair own servants.
I*'1 mattrr:) relating to food or
?"??work or laundry will be handled
V c*pah,.r: executives here, who will
***Pt?i wheels running smoothly.
?tindr&d? of people want Just such
ST,!**," ,ay? Mr?. Wilder, "but they
j?ot ?aov/ Just how to get them. I
?????T* P*opie ought to live nearer
;, '^ *r-d I'm sure my idea Is go
' Km to wondertu!!y successful!"
L <"*? Wilder experta to have ten
F??* BnUhed by May 16. Reqac
?%*?? already have been made.
?i*U *? thc ""???on Mrs. Wilder in
'tfV i?nt.an D?M*??|l*hed family his
j^ '? beefc'jie she is so proud of
^- own. fihe can trace her genc
jTjp back to 1085 on four sides. Old
?uTJL. ?)X}**TI- the first Episcopal
?*? *n in Manhattan, Is her great,
_-*? ftft, great Hnr??i oncc more,
%?re!hT''ir??t'':r U" '"??V'? Andrew
t-a o. , *n h'y,['i th" np*t church
?>**> l,1*f'd from rocks ?which they
Efa rn '''"" I'?U*ades across the
m?/" T an ,A<] *r'''"- H'r ?n*t?nw
WilK?, ?*'? ? ?" times removed, is
fEEt ?"' Chlppenham. William the
<?T\rr,jr appointed him to March
mlZ^?'*''' ftt yAy- v"r i"-'liticHl
*? t't\ '.Hun-, was later changed
?f ?/^"??m At.ri ?id AWiassey ?Stone
?'?t * ' v'"'*'" *'""'?- half was the
Ife )''Trill! "'? '?'?-' " package of tea
it?*.:* *>*rbor, ?//?? ?nother of h"
mjCt > ,i*'r "?other was a ?> A U
^?-?"'.r.iki U*?.? *,. ,,,,? ,,,.?') ,A?rn
Mrs. Wilder very rrtuch for making '
sturdy New England ancestry the;
card of admission to Tier pet colony.
A friend has said about her that j
"she knows how to mix up a batch j
of mortar, can frame a building, and ?
is the most feminine looking woman
I know." And thai describes hor.
Asuie from these things, however, she [
is a landscape gardener?wild gardens
are her hobby. And she is an interior !
decorator.
Her right-hand man is A. I. Wilder,1
who also is her hush,and. He is an I
expert tree surgeon and a lecturer on i
plant life. When Mrs. Wilder is |
planning her scenic effects, friend
husband analyzes the soil to find out
just what plants and trees are best
adapted for that particular section.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilder have pur?
chased a grca':. rambling house up in
Massachusetts, which is to be remod?
elled for their own use.
In Profession Eighteen Years
During her eighteen years in tho
profession Mrs. Wilder claims to have
reduced architecture to a practical
basis for speculative building. She
has ideas about window frames and
doors and things which give her
houses a distinction and lift them
from the passive state of being merely
a house to the realm of individual
homes.
Labor difficulties she has overcome,
says Mrs. Wilder, by the simple device
of having always on hand a picked
group of thirty-four workmen, each
one an expert in his line.,? She person?
ally supervises the building of all her
houses.
Mrs. Wilder has thus far been justi?
fied in her opinion regarding the im?
portance of a pleasing landscape. It
has been her practice to buy a tract of
waste land, beautify it, draw up the
plan of a home that seems to belong
there, and then sell the land, taking
the contract for the erection of the
house.
Should her latest project prove suc?
cessful, it will be enlarged and similar
colonies established elsewhere.
What Republican
Women Are Doing
Helen \ ?trick
Boswell
Debates and dis?
cussions on various
matters of current
interest are being
held by w o m e n
voters throughout
the state, according
to reports received
at the office of the
woman's section of
the Republican
State Committee in
New York. The new
voters are evincing
an active interest
in present-day problems and are
knuckling down to the task of inform?
ing themselves thoroughly.
The Women's Council of Yonkers, of
which Mrs. Arthur L, Livermore, a
nu mber of the Republican State Com?
mittee, is chairman, is one of the wom?
en's organizations having weekly de?
bates on the direct primary, the exclu?
sion of German goods from America
and the alleged underpayment of wom
e i in skilled occupations in comparison
with the compensation of unskilled
women workers.
"Resolved, That the Federal prohibi?
tion amendment is expedient," is one
of the topics which evoked warm argu?
ments pro and con at ?the meeting of
the Yonkers women. Mrs. Livermore
declares that women are taking a keen
interest in organization. "It is only
since obtaining the vote that women
have realized the value of organization
and have determined to have a definite
place in it," she said.
New York City women show an ac?
tive desire to become paying members
of the New York County Republican
organization, according to a statement
made yesterday by Helen Varick Bos?
well, chairman of the woman's commit?
tee of the New York County Republi?
can Committee, and second vice-chair?
man of the regular Republican organi?
zation in the county.
The Republican Club of New York,
for the first time, had women guests
at its annual Lincoln Day dinner. Mary
Garrett Hay, who represents the wom?
en of the East on the National Repub?
lican Committee, Helen Varick Boswell
and Mrs. Arthur I. Livermore were
among the women guests.
Albany County Republican women
had a luncheon Wednesday, when they
reaffirmed their belief in the G. O. P.
The name evening the men of the
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For the first time in the history of
j tho state, a woman acted as leader of
the majority party in the lower house
at one of the sessions last week, when
Mrs. Ida H. Sammls, Republican mem?
ber from Suffolk, served aa majority
leader. Simon H. Adler, of Rochester,
who has been the majority leader for
several years, delegated his job to the
only Republican Assemblywoman in
this state, during his absence.
For the first time the Assembly has
i a woman clerk, Miss Lilly M. Conklin,
i the first woman notary of Suffolk Coun
j ty, having been appointed chirk to Mrs.
Sammis. Miss Conklin was indorsed
for the position by the Republican
, Committee of Suffolk County.
Anti-Saloon League
Has Array of Data on
Effect of Prohibition
One of its most important depart?
ments, say? the Anti-Saloon League,
has D??tn its information bureau.
Quietly and unobtrusively it has been
piling up evidence in favor of prohibi?
tif,/, until there is hardly any question,
from "How much was spent for cock
tall* last year?" to "What effect will
prohibition have on tho plato glass in?
dustry?" that it believes it cannot an
Y.-Nt-r. And now, caught in the aval?
ancha of national prohibition, tho In?
formation bureau has doubled its lm
portanc?-, and the materiel that ha?
bcon ema-Md i? in greater demand.
'),,,? bureau i* located at Boa Broad
way, the headquarters of the Anti
Saloon League. Queries for informa- ,
tion are referred to Miss Anne Bart- !
lette Tubbs, the league's encyclopaedia ;
of prohibition information.
Ever since the United States began
its ratification scramble, Miss Tubbs
has been busy answering all sorts of
questions regarding prohibition. Some
of them are posers, but they don't seem
to bother Miss Tubbs, who is literally
saturated with "dry" information. If
she can't answer the question right off
the reel, she will take the 'phone num?
ber of tho inquirer, look up the neces- \
sary reply and call up again.
"Is it true that liquor dealers put
brandy in candies to develop the drink
habit ?"
"How many square miles of 'dry' ter?
ritory are there in the world?"
"Who was the first prohibitionist?"
These are samples of what M?S3
Tubbs has to answer.
Probably the most frequent inquiry
concerns ,the problem of who is to get
the money New York will save on its ,
drink bill. Nobody seems to believe I
that the American people will save this [
money themselves or put it into war j
savings stamps or Liberty bonds. Man- i
ufacturers, wholesalers and retailers j
believe it will be spent, and are plan- j
ning to get their share of it, according
to Miss Tubbs. Business men, she says,
call up to find out the effect of local
option in the dry territory of the West
and South. Real estate dealers want to
know its effect on real estate. Cloth-j
ing manufacturers want to find out the'
percentage of increase in business in ;
dry states.
Trades People Interested
"The trade papers are digging into
the subject and we are helping them to
get up statistical reports showing that
prohibition has increased trade an4?!
promoted general prosperity," said
Miss Tubbs yesterday. "Only recently
a tea, coffee and cheese journal
called up and asked for information for
its readers. The printers want to know
if it is going to help their trade. The
clothing industries are showing special
interest and enterprise in preparing
for an influx of trade after June 30.
Even the hotel men are taking the atti?
tude that they might as well make the
best of it. We receive innumerable re?
quests for statements from hotel man?
agers in dry states showing the effcet
of prohibition on their business."
Visitors and searchers after infor?
mation include lecturers and students
| who want material for debates on pro
I hibition, writers in search of copy, men
I and. women who are getting up "dry"
I scenarios, and who seek inspiration,
i ministers and "dry" missionaries to
?other countries.
Soldiers on their way back to their
home states stop in occasionally to find
I cut what the fuss is all about. A big
j New Zealand army officer was deeply
i interested in a similar movement on
| foot in his country and wanted news
? of the American situation to take home
I with him.
I Frantic inquiries come over the tele
! phone asking about the "smokes" situ?
ation, and a sigh of relief reaches Miss
Tubbs when she offers the nssuranco
! that tho Anti-Saloon League is not in
| terested in tobacco and doesn't intend
I to try to curtail its use.
Victory (?arden Drive Planned
Among the workers to boom victory
; gardens is Miss Grace Taber, landscape
; architect, of Huntington, L. I. Miss
i Taber will leave Washington soon for
a tour for the National War Garden
Commission. With motion pictures she
will first present her propaganda in
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
and New England.
The commission reports that organi?
zation work of the garden army is
well under way.
"I am doing my bit in the war for
food now," said Miss Taber recently.
"The potato patch will be a fine look?
ing landscape in 1919."
Type of architecture for speculative building developed by ?,Irs. Wilder at
Hempst ead, L. I.
City?State?Nation
(State Suffrage Party Bulletin)
?n the Board of Aldermen
Milk Emergency Measure
The board adopted a resolution ask?
ing the Governor to send an emergency
message to the Legislature urging the
repeal of the law passed at the last
session exempting cooperative associa?
tions of farmers or dairymen from the
provisions of the gene-al business law
?elating to contracts for monopoly.
Voto of 40 to 9. Negative vote cast by
Aldermen Bostwick, T?raunstein, Cal?
man, Falconer, Held, Lee, McGarry,
: Squiers, Yladeck.
The hoard also adopted a resolution
requesting the Legislature to enact
laws which will authorize the City of
New York to establish n city depart?
ment of milk supply and distribution.
Passed by a vote of ?11 affirmative to
negative vote of 7, cast, by Aldermen
Alwell, Atwell, Buckley, Falconer, Hen
nessy, O'Rourke, Squiers.
Alderman Lee tried to substitute for
the two preceding ordinances a meas?
ure appointing a commission consist?
ing of the Mayor, the Commissioner of
Health, the Commissioner of Public
Markets and three members of the
Board of Aldermen to prepare legis?
lation to be introduced in the Board of
Aldermen to provide for permanent
municipal ownership of milk distribu?
tion within the greater city. Defeated
by a negative vote of ?Ifi and affirma?
tive vota of 5, cast by Aldermen Braun?
stein, Calman, Held, Lee, VTadeck.
For Cardiac Children
The Board of Education asked the
Board of Aldermen for special revenue
| bonds in the sum of $25,000 to defray
| the cost of renting and equipping
rooms and operating classes for cardiac
children. Referred to the Committee
on Finance.
In the Board of Estimate
Public Milk Markets
The board referred to the Committee
on Finance and Budget a report of the
investigation of the milk situation in
New York City from the Assistant Dis
| trict Attorney. The report states that
?a fair test of milk markets could be
? mado in the Borough of Manhattan.
where there is an available building
for such a purpose. The report
that provision is made under existing :
law for submission by the Department
of Markets of a site for the public mar
ket an.l for state aid to the cx'in; of
one-half of the cost of the site and
building.;.
In tlie State Assembly
Children's Courts, Etc.
The Assembly passed the concurrent
resolution (A. Int. No. Uni providing
for the establishment of child]
courts and courts of domestic r?
<::? separate courts or paris of other
. courts.
Measure for Women Prisoners
The Assembly passed the bill (A.
Int. 135) providing for temporary re
- moval ?.'?-orn prison of women prison?
ers about to give birth to children.
Hureau of Women in Industry
A bill (Int. Xo. 515) would create a
bureau of women in industry in the
?Labor Department. Referred to Ways
and Means Commit tee.
In the State Senate
Restrictions on Drugs and Alcohol
Int. No. 372 would extend the pro- i
visions of the Public Health Law 'to
apply to the manufacture, sale, distri?
bution and administration of all prep?
arations, remedies and patent medi?
cines to bo taken internally coi
ing opium, cocaine or alcohol in exce :
of one-half of ! per cent. To Public
Health i ?mniit I ce.
Conditions of Labor for Women
Int. No. 358 would amend the Labor
Laws by making the regulations as to
elevators in factories and mercantile
! establishments apply to all elevators,
freight or passenger. A new section is
added covering the employment cf
women as elevator operators; such
women operators must be eighteen
years of age or over, may work only
nine hours a ??ay or :.;':;. four hours a
: week, a seat must be provided in the
i elevator, etc.
.Measure for Female Prisoners
The bill (Int. No. 113) providing that |
nmates of penal institutions atout to ,
rive birth to children may be removed
to some suitable accommodation at the ,
. her of the person or of friends
:r of tho county until a suitable time
sftcr the birth of the child, was ad- '
,'anced to third reading in the Senate.
-
in House of Representatives
Citizenship of Women
II. R. 15,624 would enable an Amer:
in w man who marries a foreigner to
retain her American citzenship by fil
ing a declaration, under oath, of her
desire to re'tain it, in any court, au?
thorized to naturalize aliens in her
judicial district, or, if she resides
abroad, in a consulate of the United
. tates. To Committee on Immigration
and Naturalization.
?_-?
Margaret Christie Tel?s
What Army Morale Means
Miss Margaret Christie, of the New
York Girls' Division of War Camp
Community Service staff, addressed
nearly 100 members of the Yorkville
S ci il S? rvice Club m their club rooms
at 331 Fast Sixty-eighth Street recently.
The members of the Yorkville Social
Service Club realize the importance of
being told things, but they prefer to
dance, so they awaited the ordeal of a
speech with a trifle . i impatience.
Miss Christie's opening sentence was
a startling one, and in spite of them
?selvi ?; the audience laughed. Who
wouldn't? Why. Miss Christie admit?
ted that she likes boys better than
anything else in the world, and what
was more, she said that she was sure
e girls she was addressing like
boys and there was not a single pro?
testing voice. A little fat girl wlio sal
in the front row of camp stools chewec
lu r urn and locked skeptical, but n<
... ni' avoirdupois or gum coulc
entirely blunt her interest in real in
formation on good comradeship to th<
returning soldiers. Miss CI ristie said
"As yen all know, War Camp Com
munity Service has been working ver;
hard to hold up the morale of our men
You hear that word pronounced ever;
way, inn u ling 'more ale,' but the i ea
way to define it is 'fighting pep.' V. ? i
our : ion wt nt into the service the;
gave up many things including jobs
habits, and clothes. They went pre
pan d to die if necessary, and they hav
seen very real suffering. They hav
seen, also. Knglish, French, and Bel
gian women whose bravery beggars de
scription. And now these men iir
to find their own worn
enkind just as true and as fine as thus
wt nderful women of the other conn
tries. Our men think there is nothin
in the world quite so fine as an Amei
ican girl, and we must be worthy c
the sacrifices they have made for us.
Miss Christie is an English vvoma
by birth, becomingly tall, and ver
much in earnest from the crown c
her sailor hat to the toes of her ta
oxfords, and as she talked the girl
ened eagerly; the little fat one i
the front row even forgot her gum.
The Girls' Division of New York Wa
Camp Community Service, of whic
Mrs. Prank Anne is director, is rur
ning a comrade campaign. All over tli
city, in Statcn Island and in Brooklyn
girls are being invited to the comrai
rallies where they hear all abo.it ti
campaign. They are then invited to
comrade mix of all girls where th<
may become acquainted with one at
? and exchange ideas and ideal
There they learn not to say "A
(,. ? e" i'' a soldier tells them of ;
all ni :'? I experience in a shell hoi
ni ? to I ? ? k in horror at the sight i
a boy's mutilated limbs or face, an
but not least, they learn to 1
ified hostesses and "rattling" got
comrades.
National League for Woman's Service
The Motor Corps this week answered
115 calls and transported 600 men.
The Hayward l.'nit Colored Motor
Corps met all three of tho transports !
this week carrying negro troop-, and
helped take many of the wounded to
debarkation hospitals.
The Genera] Information Bureau has
answered eighty-four questions this
week. The telephone inquiries are in?
creasing daily and are chiefly con?
cerned with the arrival ami destina?
tion of troop units. Many women who |
do not wish domestic employment in
private houses appeal to the bureau
for work in other linc3, and, accord?
ingly, a letter has been sent to twenty
five New York City hospitals asking if J
there are any paid positions open for I
women. So far three hospitals have ;
replied giving lists of vacancies. The ]
bureau is ??suing a .small booklet con
taining n list of special shops and
places of unuBifal interest in and.
around New York. The booklet will
be ready about March 15 and may be
obtained at headquarters.
The canteen at 70 Manhattan Street
and the navy canteen at 4!) Broad
Street close to-day, as the need for
these canteens no longer exists. A new
canteen will be opened at Trinity
Church. All other canteens are giving
the same service as usual.
The Sailors, Soldiers and Marines'
Club has huA a large, attendance this
past week. The Yanderbilt Dental
Clinic, at 35 West Thirty-ninth Street,
is cleaning and raring for the teeth of
t-ailors and soldiers without charge.
Ten thousand cigarettes have been
given by W. W. Buchanan, of the
Melachrino Company, for free distribu?
tion to the men. The club still is in
need of blankets, and also cake and
cookies for the afternoon tea, which is
so thoroughly enjoyed by the men.
Current magazines and 88 note records
for the pianola would be appreciated,
as well as up-to-date sheet music.
Twenty sailors and soldiers were reg?
istered at the branch of the United
States Employment Service Information
Bureau in tho Sailors, Soldiers and
Marines' Club. The men were referred
to twenty-six positions, and twelve
wero placed. The volunteer committee
of canvassers made lifty-four calls this
week, but found only nine openings.
The committee now is working in the
financial and wholesale districts of the
ci?y.
As the demands for clothing by sail?
ors and soldiers discharged from ser?
vice have increased during the week,
arrangements have been made for
slides with an appeal for men's clothes
to bo shown at several moving picture
houses. Special posters asking for do?
nations of clothing havo been put up
in the Stock Exchange, through the
courtesy of a member. Cards were
placed at the Woman's Exchange and
distributed to many clubs and indi?
viduals. Branches of the league in
Brinrclif?, Bronxville, New Rochelle and
Mamaroneck are collecting men's suits
and sending them to tho shop. The
shop is cooperating with the American
Sailors and Soldiers' Protective Associ?
ation and also with tho British and
Canadian War Rolief organizations in
helping to outfit men mustered out of
service.
Volunteers are needed by the health
division for v/ork In civilian hospitals.
? '/'l.e hospital* are short of worker?, and
' with the aid of volunteers supplied by
the league it is hoped that paid nurses !
can be released from small detail ser- i
vice for more important work. Volun- :
teer clinical secretaries, hospital aids
and social service aids are needed. This '.
service does not require experience, but ;
the workers must lie steady. They :
must give at past three da;, i of service
a week, either in the morning or tin?,
afternoon. Women who wish to werk ;
mi the hospitals should apply to Mis.:
R. G. Conreid, at the headquarters of
I he league, L'57 Madison Avenue, be
tween 10:30 a. m. and 1 p. m., except
Saturdays and Sundays.
Twenty-eight bales of clothing and
supplies have been sent overseas by
the Home and Overseas Relief Di?
vision of the Seattle branch of the
league. The luncheon room of the
Whito Elephant Shop has been en?
larged and a lunch i-i now being
served there daily for business men.
Mrs. Caspar Whitney, New Yori
Slate chairman of the league, has bien
attending the conference of the Farm
? ". ' Week at Cornell University at
?the invitation of the home economics
departmeni
The Buffalo oranch of tho league,
together with the Red Cross, is sal?
vaging wamste paper and using the pro
! ceeds from the sale of the paper for
relief work. The bulk of the waste
paper received by the Red Cross comes
from business firms in this city, while
the league has opened a small shed
in the downtown district to receive
newspapers and magazines. Both or?
ganizations send out trucks to all
households that cannot send in their
contributions.
The genertrf service division of the
Omaha branch of the league, during
the year has knitted and distributed
more than 10,000 garments; 1,800
pocket kits have been made and pre?
sented to soldiers; 1,400 garments
have been mended and returned to the
army and 5,000 bandages made and
shipped for domestic and foreign use.
At the Liberty Bank, operated by the
league during the third and fourth
Liberty loans, more than $1,014,000
] worth of bonds were sold. The social
and welfare department for the year
has supplied 1,100 bars of soap, 800
towels and 1,000 boxes of cigarettes
? to quarantined soldiers at Fort Omaha,
and installed six shower baths in the
Army and Navy Club. At tho cost of
nearly $1,500 thirty-three instruments
for the brass band at Fort Omaha
wero given by the league. Twice a
week since August the league has col?
lected and distributed flowers to tho
sick men at the post hospitals. For
Christmas 1,000 boxes wero prepared
and presented to tho soldiers sta?
tioned at Fort Crook; 100 boxes were
sent to the post hospital at Fort
Omaha and 300 given to returned
wounded soldiers passing through
Omaha at that time.
Advertising Women Meet
Tho New York League of Advertis?
ing Women will hold a meeting follow?
ing a dinner to be given at the Ad?
vertising Club, 47 East Twenty-fifth
Stroet, next Tuesday evening.
J, D. Ellsworth, publicity manager
of the New York Telephone Company,
will speak on "The Telephone in Recon?
struction Work." Other speakers will
be Major W. J. Pock, vice president
and director of Foreign Marketing,
und Nat Olds, sales manager of
Julius Kayscr & Co. Miss Mabel
Graswinckel will be chairman. Pl? n?
for a victory ce ebi ?ition on I
evening. March 18, arc being made.
Washington's Birthday Celebration
Tl c Aul - or ' Club will give two
"'Ladies' l'en . ' I : lirsL on Sal urday
i''1 bruary 22, from ! to G p, ,::.. and
I he second on March 22.
Washington's birthday will be
observed by the Daughters of the
Revolution, ;;*;r't- of New fork, with a
meeting on Friday, February 21, at 3
o'clo k, at the Holland House. Hon.
.lam-s T. McCleary, for fourteen years
a member of Congress, will discuss
"The League of Nation
The New York City Mothers' Club
will celebrate "Founders' Day" on
Monday at the Motel A. tor at 2:30
o'clock. -\n entertainment will be
given for the Child Wei far? and
Layette Fund.
Jewish Women to Raise Fund
Plans for a drive to raise $20,000 to
carry on the work of tho New York
Section of the Council of Jewish Wom?
en are to be discussed at a luncheon
on March ?!, at the Caf? des Artistes.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will give his
"Impressions of Cue Peace Conference"
at a meeting of tho council to bo held
next Tuesday at 2:15 p. m., at Temple
Israel.
The Junior Auxiliary will give a sub?
scription dance at the Hotel Plaza on
April 5.
Dances for men in uniform are con?
ducted twice a week by tho New York
Section. ?
The Committee on Educational Experi?
ments will act as hostesses at the third
conference and open meeting of the
Federation for Child Study, to be held
on Thursday afternoon, February 20, at
3:30, at the homo of Mrs. Jessie W.
Ehrich, 393 West End Avenue. Miss
Helen Marot will speak on "An Edu?
cational Experiment. In Industry."
Dancing and Parties Once More
The Daughters of Indiana, Mary
Garrett Hay president, will ho!-! a
card party for war relief at the Astor
to-morrow afternoon. On Friday tho
club members will be guests at the Na?
tional Association of Women Painters
and Sculptors in the Fine IfLrts Build?
ing.
A reception and afternoon dance for
men in uniform will be given on Sat?
urday, March 1, by the Athene Club
at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mrs.. Frank
K. Brewster is chairman.
The Women's Health Protective As?
sociation, Mrs. Ralph Trautman pivsi
dent, will hold a directors' meeting at
the home of Mrs. J. Hedges Crowell,
10-1-1 Fifth Avenue, Wednesday after?
noon. Plans to raise money for the
philanthropic fund will be considered.
The next meeting of the Association
will be held at the Hotel Astor on
Tuesday, March 4.
The Emerson College Almuni Clan
Mrs. Elise West Quaifo president, held
its February meeting at the rooms of
the Twelfth Night Club, 47 Weal
Forth-fourth Street lust evening.
At a dance to be given Friday even?
ing at the Hotel Plaza by the Amen
[can Criterion Society, Mrs. Leonard L.
' Hill president, each member is grant?
ed the privilege of a soldier or sailor
guest in unifoi m.
Memorial for Miss Florence Guernsey
Mr: . Albor! ( 'anfiel ! B ige was el t
? ?il to lili ; he um xpired term of I
[jss Plorenci ( u 4i ey a ? pn
den | of tli '? dec tic ( i at a meeting
held ' ' Wedne ?day. A memorial
committee, Mrs. Frederick R. Lee,
. has been appointed to se?
lect an endowment in memory of Miss
Guernsej .
The Da ighters of Ohio in New York,
Mis. William J. Cauthers pr?sident,
i ?? rtained club presidents at a meet?
ing in the Waldorf last Monday. A
"peace and victory" luncheon will be
I. Id at the Waldorf on Friday, with
Mrs. W. F. Ilessel as chairman.
\ course of three-'lectures has been
arranged by the Federation'for Child
Study. They will be given by Pro
r. Patty Smith Hill, director of
primary education, Teachers'
e. Columbia University, at the
Meeting Mouse, 2 West Sixty-fourth
.-? ? ??-. (in Wednesday he will dis
? iss "Education in Self-Direction for
Democratic Citizenship"; February 2n,
" Hygiene of the Emotional Li fe' ;
I March 5, "Direction of Chilren's War
i Interest in Times of Peace."
_
Life as a Fine Art Club, Mrs. Mil?
dred Manley Easton president, held its
monthly meeting at the Hotel Astor on
Wednesday afternoon.
Only Woman Official of Peace League
Mrs. George D. Hewitt, of Carthage,
president of the New York state Fed?
eration of Women's Clubs, was in New
York last week attending the conven?
tions of the League to Enforce Peace
and the New York City Federation of
i Women's Clubs. She was the only
woman placed on the state cabinet of
the League to Enforce. Peace.
Officers of the State Federation, in
addition to Mrs. Hewitt, are: Vice
presidents, Mrs. Walter S. Comly, Port
Chester; Mrs. Asa Wynkoop, Albany;
Mrs. Albert Canfield Bage, New York;
recording secretary, Mrs. Edward ('.
Wh il ce. y ?i4, Schcnectady; corresponding
secretary, M"rs. Charles J. Reeder,
Carthage; treasurer, Mrs. Julius 11.
Potter, Buffalo; general federation sec?
retary, Mrs. John Francis Yawger, New
York; general federation director, Mrs.
Jeanette I'.. Sherwood, Cortland, and
the following directors: Miss Gene
; vieve K- B. Sherwood, New York City;
Mrs. I. Sherwood ( offin, Brooklyn; Misa
Charlotte Bogardus, Coxsackic; Mrs.
John H. Booth, Plattsburg; Mrs. M. S:
i Wilder. Watertown; Mrs. J. Sloat Fas
sett, Elmira; Mrs. William L. Howard.
Rochester; Mrs, E. C. Sornborger, Buf?
fs!.', and Mrs. Everett Fowler, Haver
i straw.
The Woman's Forum will meet on
Friday morning in the Music Room of
the Hotel Biltmore at 10:45 o'clock.
Dr. William Henry Slocum will talk on
"The Constructive Work of the Ver?
sailles Conference." Miss Helen Va?
rick Boswell will preside.
The annual breakfast of the Woman's
1 Press Club was held lust Wednesday
i at the Waldorf-Astoria at noon.
Y.W. CA. Seeks to;
Aid Soeial Welfare
Of Women in Bronx
Survey Shows Borough Is
Neglected Area ; Appeal
for Funds Aimed to Im
prove Conditions in City
That The Bronx is a neglected area,
so far as social agencies for the wcl
fare of its women are concerned, is
the assertion of workers in the Y. W.
C. A. of New York city who are making
a survey of women's needs in that
be-rough.
It is partly in order that Y. W. C. A.
work for Bronx women and girls may
be extended to meet these needs that
thi association is asking for funds in
its "Annui? I Appeal for Regular Work."
Of the $600,000 sought a considera! li
amount remains to be secured during
the five remaining days of the drive,
which closes on Thursday.
"There are approximately 20
women and girls in The Bronx, scat?
tered throughout its enormous area,"
said Dr. Fanny Cook Gates, general
secretary of tlie New York Y. W. C. -V.
"and up to the present time compara?
tively nothing has been Gone for them
in the way of organized recreation
and vocational or industrial trailing,
or in providing them with the
some social activities which should
surround the growing girl.
Community Efforr Lacking
"With the exception of one settle?
ment, Bronx House, a small industria'
school, and rather widespread work
done by the Jewish Welfare organiza
Mrs. Henry P. Davison, Treasurer Local
Y. M. C. A. Drive for Funds
tions among their own people, thero
is practically no community effort
being made to reach this large number
of j lung women, most of whom are
foreign born.
"There is one branch of the United
States Employment Service and a
branch of the Charity Orgai
Society in The Bronx: but there ar?>
no trade schools, no recreation except
the streets and tire movies, and no
facilities for handling the great
of girls who need gymnasium woric,
swimming, educational and club
except a few cent res, which are en?
tirely inadequate.
"The 'Little House on the H
The Bronx Branch of the Y. W. C. A.
r 5 ca lied, is straining at its wal
is only an right-rooin
gymnasium i nnex, crowded to tin
attic with girls. They arc litera
tttic, 1 oo, r'';!' in a small i
.- icf there are three cot
ing for th? trans
a nighl ' - si elter I he
foreign girl, the girl who is lock? 1 >ut
of her r. une, the gi rl w h ? is ill a: i
care.
Gymnasium Too Small
"Last year the gyms ?: care
of 5,000 girls. It cannot begin ?
care of all who want to use it. '
??I young gills storm our doors every
?lay, begging for a room in which to
meet. We have to turn them away, {,.r
every corner is full every momei ?
two groups cannot meet in the
room.
"The Y. W. C. A. needs a commo.iio : ,
well-equipped building up in The
Bronx. It should, be aide to give th i
second generation of the foreign ele?
ment a chinee at physical *?
cational, as well as educational work,
and plenty of fun under the right aus?
pices.
"Already our Bronx International In?
stitute is meeting a need by es;
ing English classes in homos among
ng mothers. Rut the Am?
born girl in The Bronx needs all the
chances tha' are given to her Man?
hattan and Brooklyn sisters.
To Make Industrial Survey
"One of the first tasks the Y. W. C. A.
has set itself is the making of an in?
dustrial survey. Bronx is a borough rf
wage-earning women, for the mo t
part.
"We shall try next to provide all the
facilities for which girls arc i ?
clalnoring. We estimate that we had to
say to 7,000 girls last year, 'We aro
sorry, but we haven't what you
''Our 'Appeal' for funds to sun
port the pressing needs of the \
ation up in The Bronx, as well as in
other sections of the city, is made be?
cause the organization has prai
doubled in size and, service during the
past year. We hope that New Yor is
will help us secure the full ???
asked."
Mrs. Henry P. Davison is the treas?
urer of the fund.
-.?*-1
More Milk for Children Urged
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.- A study of
the use of milk in families where there
are small children, made in three cit e
by the Children's Bureau, United
States Department of Labor, has in?
dicated that children are not getting
sufficient milk for their healthful de?
velopment. In a report on the inves?
tigations, the Children's Bureau em?
phasizes the need of public action to
place clean milk within the reach of
every family having little children.
In New Orleans, where the most re?
cent study was made, children were
found to be getting less milk to drfnk
than the children of Baltimore, Md.,
and Washington, the other cities
studidi. Seventy per cent of children
under eight not breast fed, wer?' get
ting no fresh milk at all; in Baltimore
Bixty six p?>r cent, and in Washington
forty-live per cent of children under
eight and not breast fed were getting
no milk.
A chilil under eight should drink at
least three cups of milk daily.
Army Nurses Ask
Congress to Accord
Them Official Rank
Dili Conferring Title and
Rank May Be Added to
Pending Measure; Need
of Change Is Explained
? Ciirrc-Tnnrf*???
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. The Lewis
Raker bill providing rank, title and
i r army nurses, has been
referred to a committee, but it is
expei ted that Representative Shepherd
will move to have the bill attached
as an amendment to the Military
Appropriations bill when the latter
c< me - be House.
A 10 rseas nurse writes as follows
to the Natior il Committee on Bank for
; rj ing to get it out
.1 at this session
of Congress;
"Bet has ce-'.'.Q please do
' ; to .' icure rank f?t?
us. .V mded no longer
il g our fullest attention
v. e are able to p time on t he
wards. This
us into close com
bat with corps men. And
let me here that many of
done a great v?, ork. It
.? -a :th tie ignorant
?it wur. The
sed and
tea is a special pro
"In tl rted effort t?i
i more effective
: an t 'i?- in
' nk we are asking for To
" W fficul tient Is
.... i to nave
atory a receptacle of
?..: ? i d - orderly to
in t after u so. Keturn -
ing from off duty I
found 1 hal my precii
I out. Upon inquiry as to
? ? ??! !?>' what
tig with the
care o ' I of army
i -.- necessary
md a bar on my
shouldi
Offic? r Vpplauds Nurses' Spirit
; he spirit of our nurses," ?..ivs a
d army otlicei. "has
been beyond all praise. They have
submitl the creature discom?
forts that the - have
known, short the t ronches.
Their expi sure \n the fortunes of war
I that of the
men. Under shot ell when the
?' the wounded was in ques?
tion, i ? magnificent
personal ifety and have
- to seek cover.
"They have worked unceasingly and
gn at odd !
They have endured long hours uncom?
plainingly. They have shivered in the
cold a: nud of Plan
ders. They have stood the rigors of
army life without grumbling, and many
them arc wi ical ely nur
turcfl.
"Their spirit of helpfulness and
their ' i ?? a un
p a r a 111 t h e i r sk i 11
dril 'I he;.
ought to have a recognized status. It
difficult situa
tion. I4, will !" -rale and it.
wi] I si ' have been
ugh Tardily.
"11 i? matt r of great regret to
i noble
work that they 'oct to
? eg of none
endure."
Man> Potential Edith Cave Us
V. i 1 French" officer, !n
1 "Every
I as i*s po
?
Kempli
? b !y. We,
worthy
lia and
i ' i i ?. e m !
'-: ^o -
S'utting, of
swell, of tii?
it sup
o, aro Miso
ra Noyes, ot
c e i n
Pora.
army nurse
? are f>H members of ?he Na
Secure Rank for
: i ?ward Taft
"?I ?? T i t support of the b'll is
ce while a
an army ho pital in the.
e, says Mr.
need that
lospitals was im~
ptness interfered with
the lack of the insignia of
rity that could be seen and ira?
tely! al I concerned.
On the New York committee are,
hers, Mrs. Harriot Stanton
. Mrs. IT. 0. Havemeyer.
Dignity of Service at Stake
The Army Nurse Corps, it is con
those who approve this
a permanent service which
b so attractive that it will re
ti rest of the high type of
ne into i' in the war
at it should
? membership
in :4. : twice, would
of the highest
' - profession.
Ar by the army and by
defects of the present
to correct
rfranization
on a si it nd rous ad
rank is es?
to such reorganisation, it is
ed, are the means by which the
type of nurses can be retained
by the ntenance
of the Nurse Corns on the high plane
of efficiency which it should occtipy.
League To Re Formed at
Woman Suffrage Jubilee
An invitation has been issued by the
al American Woman Suffrage
Ass<^cia;ion fer its jubilee convention,
to he held in St. Louis, at the Hotel
Statler, March 24 to 29, inclusive. The
convention will celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of th?? enfranchisement of
women by Wyoming. It will also cele?
brate the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the National Ame-rican
Woman Suffrage Association and suf
victories o1* the past two years.
? tiding memoria] to a half
cert cry of progress," says the Asso
?' ' ? i'.. "the women voters of fifteen
full suffrage states are invited to the
convent on, there to join forces into
a league of women voters, one of
whose objects shall be to speed the
I suffrage campaign in this and other
countries."