EVENING LEDGER-HlLABx PHIA, FEIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1917
WHO'LL KNIT SOCKS FOR SAMMEES
IF SISTER SUSIE KNOCKS OFF?
jWomen Patriots Stirred by Charge Hand-Made
Work Is Uneconomical Should They Toil at
Home or Labor for Cause Outside?
ttAS Sister Susie been blundering nil this
Jl time?
Philadelphia women have not yet recov
r.d from the stinging blow administered by
i mere man. backed by a long array of
hard unfeeling figures to the effect that
Slier Susie's knitting Is all a huge, eco
nomic mistake, that Instead of pegging
way 'at her socks and sweaters she should
ha out In the kitchen systematizing her
household to the great benefit of her family
nd nation
"Cut down our household staff one-half,"
read the charge, "thus saving JGO a month
In actual money outlay from each maid re
leased for more products e serlce."
Before the war. It was stated, maids com
manded from 1B to $25 a month The
same maids and otliera less competent now
command 3S to $46. nnd are flagrantly In
different to household waste nnd extrava
gance, for which they do not have to pay.
Bet your brains to worlc. Save this waste.
Eton knitting Start the knitting machine
lolrig the present work of 100 women. You
will thereby be rendering your country a
vastly greater service."
But will you? Tho pros and cons are
being hotly discussed among Philadelphia
women who have given most lavishly of
fcoth labor and money.
NAVY LEAGUE AnOUMCNTS
Tie up such natural leaders as Mrs.
Alexander Van Rensselaer and Mrs. Krnest
Law by seeking to confine their activities
to the limits of their own households? Such
proposal Is viewed as scarcely less than a
detecratlon by many of the women asso
ciated with these two generals of the Navy
Leigue work
"These women are doing a great work.
for which they are eminently fitted by na
ture, and their families are patriotically
revising them for It." seems the generu
"Then, too, machine labor will never take
the place of hand knitting," explained Mrs.
J Wade Dumas, at tho Navy League Shop,
speaking for the tadles of the league "Tho
' machine-knit hose are not nearly so soft
r pliable as those we send out. The sol
dler boys ery quickly know the difference.
Bend us more of the hand knit,' tho com
manders of the battleships aro writing us
constantly. Then, too. the expense of the
machines' Even a small one costs $20. Not
(try woman feels she ran spend that, while
every woman can knit -or donate a little
wool. Just as soon as you put th work
on a machine basis you standardize It
and drive hundreds of women away."
"As to greater economy In our own house
holds. I know doiens of our members who
have given up one or two maids. In addl
tlon to denying themsehes all amusements.
It Is months since many of us have en
tered a theatre. We feel we need all our
energy for the executive end of the work.
Surely we are far more valuable directing
that than we would be sweeping the floors
at home."
THE MAIDS' SIDE OP IT
"And what of the maids' side of It?" cut
In eagerly Mrs. N Myers Fltler, the former
Mary Diddle. "I'd like to see mine, all of
whom have been with me for years, told
they were turned out of their home and
would have to go work In a factory Why,
my maids, cook and all, are knitting vigor
ous. y nt this moment by hand, though not
one r them would make an even passable
factory worker Many of the machine
knit socks sent out aro abominably knit, by
the way. After one washing, the unfor
tunate wearer can neer get them on again.
There Is no comparison, to my mind, with
the hand-knit article "
"And yet f-ome of the hand-knit garments
are pretty c.ucless, too," contributed Mr
Alexander Brlnton Coxe to the discussion
"And the price of wool Is so terribly high
If the money could be given outright In
many cases It would be much better than
unskilled work, to my mind I would cer
tainly agree that the home i tho place to
begin with wartime economies Sixty dol
iiiH a month, you say, for the cost of each
sonant! That seems to me excesslely low
Why, In my own household," Mrs Cox esti
mated, "the expense of the maids' table
alone runs up to a hundred dollars a month,
and the wages asked are constantly advanc
ing. The waitress who once got $7 a week
now gets $45 a month Personally, I know
no way to reduce such budgets, but would
welcome any suggestion to cut down waste
at home and keep women In their homes
Some of my friends are getting hardly to
know their own families."
Meantime Sister Susie Is still knitting
and the sailor boys keep begging for the
socks. If she knocks off. dismayed, wb I Is
going to knit them?
HUSTLING LITTLE WAR BOND SALESMEN
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Some of the Liberty Loan canvnsscrs nt the McCall public school, Sixth
nnd Delancey streets. This school is well up in tho front rank in tho
campaign, its pupils having disposed of more thnn $30,000 worth of
bonds. The group shows, left to right, front row: George Mngcc, Jacob
Kattleman, Morris Cohen, Ronnld Fricdenbcrg: middlo row: Sylvia
Lichtig, Adelo Axelrod, Molly Samuoli, Reba Winepole, Celia Martin;
rear row: Fanny Geffncr, Ruth Millen, Mildred Cohen, Notbcrt Wcin
trnub, Sam Packer.
"MA" SUNDAY'S INTIMATE TALKS
The wife of the famous evangelist discusses everyday topics in
a helpful and wholesome way.
The Girl Who Did Not Require Introductions
A DISTRACTED mother came to me not
long ugo for help about her daughter
"Jean Is a good girl In man ways '
she said, "but she has got hold of snme
LET CLOUD OF SMOKE
BANISH SAMMEE'S WOES
Bombardment of Cigarettes,
Pipes and Cigars Will Re
move War's Gloom
Enlistments In the army of contributors
who are raising a harvest of Miiokes for
Hammees are increasing dall They are
volunteering In all sections of the city, and
many Intend to continue the good work.
The price of two good cigars and a bag
ef tobacco Is never missed. You can holp
make some Sammee happy by follow lug the
ern'jd Plans are under way to bombaru
the Sammees with all kinds of tobacco am
munition There will be a charge of ciga
rettes, followed by re-enforcements In the
way of pipes and a. final attack with cigars
The chief idea Is to give Sammea to much
imoke from home that he will not see any
of that loneliness gloom which creeps
around one when absent from the family
fireside
If u hae been away from home a
long time yourself you know what It Is.
Therefore Jcln in Ue cheer army and help
to'boost the present total of $13,550 until
It gets to just twice that figure.
And It Is well to remember that your con.
blbutlon should be sent to the totacco com
mittee of the Emergency Aid. 1423 Walnut
Itreet.
Bonus for Western Union Men
The Western Union Telegraph Company
lias announced a special bonus to employes
for the first half of 1018, the amount to be
determined by conditions then obtaining
'
SONS' LETTER GLADDENS
SILVER WEDDING JUBILEE
Boys With Pershing's Forces Congratu
late Mr. and Mrs. George
F. Voelker
A Joint letter lecelved from their two
sons, who are In France with Pershing's
forces, added joy to tho celebration of tho
Bllver anniversary of the wedding of Mr
and Mrs. George F Voelker, 632 'West
Chew street, Germantown. last night The
two boys, Harold J and George V. Voelker,
In offering congratulations In the letter,
wrote, "We hae derided to defer the cele
bration of the annixersary until wc arrle In
Berlin."
Voelker, who Is a detects e. has been
stationed at city Hall for a number of
year?. His wife, who before her marriage
was Miss Mary Harold. Is well known as a
contralto, having rung In arlous church
choirs for more than a score of years In
addition to the two sons, they have ten
other children, six of whom aro girls
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Girard College Alumni Club
The Girard College Alumni Club ai or
ganized at 1502 Poplar street, comprising
all the men and classes that left the col
lege between 1000 and 1900. The following
officers were elected- Charle3 A Bothell,
ptcsldent, James K. Trimble, vice president;
Allen H. Kdelman, secietary; Charles II.
Walters, assistant secretary, and Robert
U. Frey, treasurer.
Ideas that are going to make her a bad
girl, although she
will not see her
danger Jean goes
to high school, and
some of her friends
there tell her that
a girl need not be
afraid of letting a
strange young man
speak to her They
tell her that nil
the boy and girls
today are disre
garding the old
idea that an Intro
duction between
oung people of op
posite sexes Is ncc
cssary The worst
of It Is. that once
nr f tt'lfA .Tear, tian t
allowed oung men j yJ
to speak to her on I .
her way home from MA. si'NDAY
school, and they hae turned out to be
worthy young men In every way. and now
Islt her at her home In a perfectly proper
way"
"But It might not always turn out that
way," I said.
"Thafp exactly the point." tho mother
replied "Jean will not believe that tho
men. who speak to young girls on the
sticet are usually bad When I tell her
that decent young fellows are making a
great mistake In following a tilck of bad
men. she s that I am old-fashioned, and
do not understand the young people of
today."
"Pray for her," I said, "but try some
thing else, too Take Jean down Into the
streets where a certain kind of women
parade at night, and show her tho danger
she Is In Take her into the evil parts of
town and show her the women, old and
wrecked, who are staggering In and out
4:l4,
mm
whispered around the town. But they de
termined to make the best of It.
"The old man wants me to settle down
and run the store." the young husband said,
airily, "but this little town would Just about
kill me in a few vore months. Jean and
I are going to see something of life"
Jean was not quite so flippant, but she
agreed with her young husband.
It was Just a year afterward that Jean,
a broken-hearted woman, came homo to her
parents with her little baby In her arms
Her husband had deserted her.
"It took me only a month or two to find
out what I had done," khe sobbed to her
mother. "We lived In a hotel In the city,
we kept late hours, and my husband drank
all the time. I don't really know how he
got his money, but I think he was a gambler.
"As soon as he knew that I was to have
a child he was furious, and began to stay
away days at a time. And then I found
he was Interested In another girl that he
had met as he did me and and one day I
woke up to the fact that he had left baby
and me and gone away with her
So poor, unhappy Jean's life Is broken
Her parents help her with her child and
try to comfort her, but I am afraid she
will be one of those person who, like pale
gentle phantom, walk nmong us, bearing
the signs of secret sorrow and despair upon
their unsmiling faces.
It is so hard. so. so hard for girl to
learn that mother know bet ' If thev
would only larn to trust God moie and
the world less!
(?oprlsht. 1917. by Tho Bell PvndUatf. tnr )
Monday The Call to Womanhood.
JERSEY WOMEN START
FOOD SAVING FOR 1918
Chnrles Lathrop Pack Urges
War-Garden Planning Now
for Next Year's Crop
of the backrooms of saloons. That will
awaken her, perhaps '
'Oh. I don't think I could do that!"
she objected "Whv. Jean does not even
Know that such things exist"
Just as I had anticipated. Jean's mother
did nothing to instruct her daughter She
told the girl that she must never allow an
unknown young man to speak to her but
that mm all The result, as It nfterward
was shown, was that Jean began to de
celve her mother She would say that she
was going to study her lereons at the house
of a girl friend, when. In reality, she and
that girl were arranging to go to the
theatre with n couple of men whom they
had met Soon everybody In town except
those vitally Interested knew that Jean
allowed men to "pick her up" on the street
Meanwhile, Jean had graduated from
Khonl and had taken a position In a
Jewelry stpre on the main street She told
her parents that the hours were much
longer than they really were, so that she
could have time to herself without having
to account for It
But rems Instinct, surviving, kept her
...... u.ici .urn .-,ne grew to nave a repu
tation among the worldly men of the town
of being -wise 'She knew how to take
caL of h,rs'lf' ' she sometimes told them
The son of her emploer had beeh away
to college while Jean was working for hi
father. Now he came home, a very dif
ferent boy. indeed, from the young fellow
who had gone away
He at once began paying Jean the easy,
going, half-patronizing attention of the tvpe
to which she had grown accustomed. He
was handsome, but there were llnv In his
face which no young man should have, and
his father looked grave when he was men
tioned. Jean's mother and father were shocked
one day when the girl came in with the
oung man and announced that she had
Just been married to him in a neighboring
town by a Justice of the peace
Aside from the Godlessness of such a mar
riage, tho patents were distressed, because
the character of the boy had begun to be
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The tatting of
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1-4 Carat, $16.25
1-3 Carat, $23.10
3-8 Carat, $26.60
la h J'UUr. WIIITK OEMS. And Im
porting mitKCT from abroad permit! ui
to 1t nlndld valuei at low nrlcrt. II y
Juit adding a mall profit ourselves, you'
can pay at practically wholesale prices.
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We bring It out
k tn utmost
PRESS&SQfiS
troubles
are unsightiv!
Resin ol
heals and soothes
Only those who have undergone
them cm reiliie the mental and
Physical dijcomfortJ which miny
Un affections cause. The distress
V? appearance and the intolerable
Sptlnjr and burning: too often make
Je really miserable. Yet Reslnol
Ointment, aided by Resinol Soap,
generally overcomes these troubles
promptly, even ii they are severe
"nd long-established. The Resinol
treatment stops itching; instantly,
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BONWIT TELLER. &, CO.
One Specialty Shop ofOrkiinaiion6
CHESTNUT AT 13 STREET
ANNOUNCE FOR- (Tomorrow) SATURDAY
SPECIAL SALE OF
WOMEN'S SUITS
We have taken three hundred suits from our regular stock,
where the size range is incomplete and materials cannot be dupli
cated. All were higher priced and are marked for one day only.
Featured are the Season's best models in Surplice and straight line sil
houette tailored suits. With long or short jackets. Some are
accentuated with rich and luxurious furs, others have fur trim
ming. All are exclusive Bonzuit Teller & Co. models, in
the newest shades, materials mentioned below.
61 Suits pf plain velour, silvertonc, rayner cloth serge
ana wool jersey.
104 Suita of ailvertone velour, gabardine, rayner cloth,
plain velour, Poiret twill and broad cloth.
59 Suita of tricotine, silvertone, rayner cloth, trico, Poiret
twill and plain velour.
76 Suits of Poiret twill, rayner cloth,
de laine and plain velour.
35.00
39.50
45.00
nilyertonc, duvet) CC flA
Included in the entire lot are all sizes and colors.
.SATURDAY DRESS SPECIAL.
Afternoon and Street Frocks
Specially priced for 35.00
We have taken from our stock, ninety-five smart afternopn and street frocks,
made of material that we cannot duplicate to sell for these prices. These frocks
show all the features that the name Bonwit Teller fie Co., conveys.
Materials are of satin, crepe meteor, crepe ) For Saturday only.
QC CI1IIIC, YtlW, MbUigfatlB VICpC, 0C(C OIIU ( VI K 1111
yyivv
gabardine. Full range of sizes up to 46,
THE CHEERFUL CHERU5
I ho.te to lie t-wrxke.
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Of cta.rkne.ss I un
not cwfre-id
But tJvays I remember
then
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SEW YOrtK. Oct. 19.
ntprentatlvs of two hundred organi
zations amilatrd with th New Jersey fed
eratton of Women's Clubs had a conersa
tlon luncheon here today nnd heard some
flrKt-hnnd pointers on the need of food con
servation next year. This year's great
record will he put In second place If the
wonun of the country continue working for
food production ns Charles Lathrop Tack
says they will work.
Mr, Pack, whose home Is In Lakewood,
Is president of tho national emergency
food garden commission, of Washington
which campaigned this year for three mil
lion food gardens The drive, of the com
mission is alnicil at the city farmer In order
to raise mora food f. o. b. the hits
(uor Mr FacK eaiai
"You can wear last year's clothes 4
look fine, but you cannot aat last yaw's
food. Therefora the thing: to do, and ye
have done It nobly, was to be In a. poslilw
to eat this year's food next year.
'Tut every vacant lot to work next yea,
by building trenches for the seed, MM)
your garden produce will come over ttee
top and help rout the enemy,
"We hear a lot about camouflage, 'fewt
you cannot camouflage a soldier's stoma.
He mu-it have real rood If he Is going (
stand up under the hammering he has te
take In the trenches to defend you ana
jour homes.
"Be sure to buy a Liberty Bond and then
be sure to grow enough food so you can live
long enough to clip the coupons.
"The way to Increase the food produette
next year 110 organize for the effort now.
Appoint food production and food conserva
tion commltteca now. Plan to plant every
home garden and every vacant lot! prepare
to preserve vegetables and fruits: contrive
to conserve consumption of foods; work
against wastefulness.
"You don't have to be a soldier to shoot t
each pound of food you produce will pro
vide ammunition for our men, and that Is
what they oxpect of the home guard.''
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Furs - Millinery - Coats
A brilliant showing
for particular people.
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TXFEETS Fashion s demand for
slender lines; comfort's demand
for fit without-a-wrinkle; health's
demand for cozy warmth -without-weight,
and economy's demand
for durability at a price to fit every
purse.
In Forest Mills you may choose from
the lightest weight in cotton to heavy
wool as individual needs and fancy
dictate, and in models designed for
evening as well as those for general
wear.
Model 3 1 80 WomensmcAium weighl
white cotton union suit. Flat seams through
out and finely woven. All shapes and sizes.
Model 393 1 Women's heavy weight
white cotton union suit. Fleece lined, finely
woven and flat seams. All shapes and sizes.
Model 3398 Womcns light weight
union suit, rlat seams and hnely
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merino
woven.
All shapes and sizes.
Model 32 87 Women's medium weight
silkalcen and merino union suit. Flat seams
and finely woven in high neck, long sleeve
ankle ; low neck, sleeveless ankle ; and Dutch
neck, elbow sleeve ankle. All sizes.
All numbers mentioned above may
be purchased in vests and tights if
desired, in various shapes and alb
sizes.
Go to the merchant who features
Forest Mills Underwear, He has
the style and size you desire, and at
the price you wish to pay.
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