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By HAZEL DEYO DATCIIELOH
CopirioM, JPJ. ty Putllo Ltdoer Co.
I 4 iS ENOUGH TO CLOTHE R390.000 TO AID
STAUT THIS STORY TODAY
rpiIE drlvo homo after Natallo had
" settled the bill was conspicuously
silent, f Onco or twlco llita started the
conversation by remarking on something
or other, but Natalie and Ruth replied
in monosyllables. Itlta's attitude had
made, them disinclined for talk.
Natallo trying to spenk naturally
mentioned dropping them at tho apart
ment and rushing right homo as she had
nu engagement, and Ruth nnd Rita
went upstairs in" silence. For two days
Ruth saw nothing much of Rita nnd
Dan. She missed them, but she mado
no effort to seek out Rita. After two
days, however, sho began to make ex
cuses for Rita In' her own mind and to
wonder If she hadn't judged her too
harshly.
Ruth hnd .not entirely confided to
Scott tohdt had happened that day when
Natalia had taken, them out for lunch.
Sho had said, however, that they had
met n crowd of Ttita's frlnnds riud that
k sho didn't caro mucn tor tucm.
I 'TJrtlinr.a ltV AVtllfllnU vh V ftlll
docsn'twant her old friends around,"
Scott suggested; "sho may realize that
they aren't the people she wants to
know.'1'
That sounded plausible and went a
long way toward making Ruth eager to
make up. That did rot explain, how
ever, Rita's attitude toward Natalie
that day, her cheap makeup and every
thing about her that 'had been most ob
jectionable. Some things could not be
explained and those wcro thV: things
that Ruth had not confided to Scott.
Ono'nftcrnoon at about 5 o'clock
Ruth came homo from her mother's blue
and unhappy. Sirs, itowland had been
prostrated with one of her sick head
aches, and Ruth, who felt It a, duty to
go over and sec her mother as often as
she could, had been forced 'to sit in a
darkened room and to listen while her
mother enjoyed being miserable, for that
was what Mrs. Rowland delighted in
doing. She would make herself -as com
fortable as she could and Ruth felt that
hcY mother "must suffer a great deal 6f
pain,, and then sho would Ho in the
bed "with a baudago over her, eyes and
talk.
Ruth's henrt had sunk when Martha
opened the door nnd signed to her what
was wrong, but Mrs. Rowland had
heard tham whispering, and poor Ruth
was dragged into her mother s room.
Mrs. Rowland's topic of conversation
that nftcrnoon hnd been about the
change since" tho war. Change was what
she deplored, and Ruth with her
thoughts set in that direction began to
work out on the way homo just how
many things had changed since that
night long ago when Jack had proposed
to her. How happy sho had been then.
Of course she wouldn't have had things
any different as far as Scott had been
GIRL FOR YEAR, SAYS EXPERT
concerned, but thcro were so many
other things, Helen Townscnif, for In
stance. She didn't like Helen nearly as
well as sho once had, and now Jnck
was married to Natallo and awfully In
lovo with her, and even' sho nnd Scott
wcro not quito tho Bnrac. They hnd
looked forward to life as something very
different, but wasn't it just tho samo for
them ns it was for other couples.?
Weren't they now just married?
RUth turned Into tho familiar street
and eyed tho apartment house with cold
dlsrtpprdvnl. She turned in nt the door
and climbed up the stairs, and on the
inndinc stood Rita and Scott talking.
It was tho first time that cither sho or
Urntt. liml no IHtn. nnd Ruth was
clad, it cheered her up.
"Aren't you homo early dear?" Sho
jiciinl Xcntt- nftpr thov had all said
Imlln. nml matters teemed to bo nd
justed.
"It Is early," Scott returned. Ruth
did not think It necessary to ask him
why he was so early when ho made no
effort to explain; instead she slipped her
hnnd Inside- his arm. She was child
ishly glad that Rita and sho wcro once
more to be friends. In that moment of
relief she cared not nt all for the fact
thnt Rita had made herself unpleasant
that day. Perhaps it she wcro tactful
enough she might Influence Rita for tho
better. After all, every human being
had some faults, and had to beUlkcd in
splto of them.
It was ofter the Whitmores and
tni Tnftnnnil wpri once more very in
timate, in fact shortly after Ruth had
come on Scott and Rita talking in the
lmll. thnt. Ruth licc-nn to notice things
Hnvlng once made up her mind nbout
Rita, Bhe made more excuses for her
than ever, she tried to avojd noticing
things Rita did thnt she, Ruth, did not
like in an effort to be entirely loyal, but
it became quite obvious that Rita was
employing the same methods with
Scott that Ruth had employed with
Jack Rond. At first Ruth refused to
admit this even to herself, but finally she
ms fnrppil to admit that it was the
truth. nita did everything with ap
parent Innocence, but nevertheless she
ivnnlrl mnltn herself as attractive to
Scott ns possible. And Ruth was forced
to admit that Rita certainly was at
tractive. 'Womanlike, Ruth did not
reason matters out at all, she did not
trr to upe thincs from Scott s viewpoint
She had excused herself any number of
times for permitting a friendship with
Jack Rond when she knew very well
that Jnek had loved her nnd was still
attracted toward her nnd that Natalie,
hts wife, was made miserably unhappy
by it, but this timo the shoe was on
tho other foot.
(In the next installment, Bridge ver
sus Poker.)
Consumers League Official
Systematizes Expenditure of
Salary of $15 a Week to
Prove Point
Can Spend $6.20 Weekly for
Meals and $2.50 for Room;
One Pair of Silk Hosiery Is
Permitted
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READER CLAIMS HUSBANDS OUGHT
TO ACT ON SERVANT-GIRL PROBLEM
To the Editor ot the Woman' Page:
Dear Madam Mrs. M. A. T. Is
right in much that sho says. Some
housewives do make excessive demands
on the maid of all work. But even
thongh tho mistress "does her part"
thcro, is often a servant problem to
discuss. Who has not seen and known
personally cases of the greatest ingrat
itude on the part ot servants even
after, such kindness on the part of the
) mistress.
Observe how frequently servants
leave after Christmas, nfter just having
'received generous presents. And
where is tho housekeeper who has not
suffered from the thefts of servants t
Money and jewelry should certainly
not be left about to tempt them, but
,ono cannot lock up nil' tho food and
clothing.
Surely the servant should have a
decent room and ample food. But in
niost of the best households the same
food is not given put for tho servants'
table where four or five are Kept, and
they themselves are satisfied with pork
and cabbage rather than more expen
sive dishes which they do not really
like.
But any ono these days who is being
given food is a fortunate creature.
Teachers who have room and board as
part of their stipend consider them
selves lucky. So why should not ser
vants? , '
. During tho war, when excessive, ab
ly -?nrd and even criminally large wages
hi., tinan nnM'tfl itntrntnl.il labor Tnnnv
1V M.U J'M.1. .V uua.t ., . rf
people have lost all sense of balance in
regard to labor problems. Do we
'really want to bo ruled by labor?
And shall we have- a democracy then?
The professional- claese's aro simply
being driven to. the wall. They are
crushed between capital nnd labor. We
are coming perilously close here in
' LjjsAmerica to being ruled by labor. And
Uon of our people?
AVq shall soon bavo no ministers or
1,, teacucrs; no one can auoru lo lane up
yf theso underpaid professions. So I
should like to ask my fellow house
keepers what will happen when they
pay a maid .$18 a week?
If tho American husband, generous
as he'ls, gives in to this demand, ho will
If certainly have less' to givp his wife for
If- ' hr awn 1,A Itfan .wont a linmn rnt,.
IV. WI.W UDUj AAl. Mfc C UV.I.f AUtJ
used to whimper nbout suffrage driving
women out of the home. And now it
,turna out that the casting of a vote
requiring a half an hour, perhaps is
not going to break up the home, but that
the servant problem is.
Men who. are so anxious to keep the
home Intact should give real moral sup
port to their wives and mothers, sls-
Ife, ters and daughters, They' hold, the
parse strings the men, not the wives
Former President Taft has some
ideas on the servant problem. They
are quite pointed.
He was asked about this phase
of the modern labor problem today
just before he left to speak in Tren
ton tonight on the.Iiengue of Nations.
"A house is run well when it is
run by HER," Is his solution.
A Phllndelnhln plrl mnv plnlhn t,r.
"Rolf on ?14i a year. At least, that
is what experts on the .subject say
after careful investigation ot existing
prices nnd of the essentials in a wom
an's life.
But, to do this, sho mustn't nay
more than 4 for n hat ; she cannot have
more than one pair of silk stockings n
year, though she ii entitled to eight
cotton pairs at fifty cents each; nnd
her lingerie mustn't go over $S.G0 a
year.
"I know rlcht well that It Is possible
to live in Philadelphia on $10 n week,"
said Mary Smith, "because I do It, nnd
1 unour henps of girls who get less than
that nnd support their mothers and
families. It just means that our tastes
can't be extrnvagant, nnd that we have
to get the ordinary, practical things awl
let the wealthy enjoy the frills."
Mary Smith is not her real name,
but she is a real Philadelphia girl.
With several companions she was nt
the T. W. C. A. today when tho dis
cussion of living expenses was intro
duced. Spent Only $27 for Clothes
"The nnnual budget for living ex
penses made by the Consumers' Lengue
of eastern Pennsylvania. 8howingjiist
what a girl should pay for each essen
tial, is very good," she continued.
"But most of us enn't follow it exactly.
"hast year I spent only $27 for
clothes. I wanted other clothes, but
there were so many other expenses to
meet I just didn't have enough money to
go round.
From questionnaires filled out by
more than n thousand women in this
city, nnd n careful study ot existing
prices, Miss A. IMelle Lauder, execu
tive secretary of the Consumers'
League, has figured just how each dol
lar should be. spent if a girl earns $15
a week.
"I find,' said Miss Lauder, "that it
is possible for her to live comfortably
on that amount, if there nrcn't any
emergency expenditures and she re
tains her health."
Allows 10 2-3 Per Cent for Rent
Though Miss Lauder recommends
10 2-3 per cent of the income ns
enough to pay for rent, some of the
girls-pay ns much as 40 per cent of
thoir earnings for that one item. One
girl bliowcd she paid 25 per cent of her
salary for clothes.
Miss Lauder shows that a girl earn
ing .$15 a week should spend nbout 20
Here Is How Miss Lauder
WouldSpend $15 a Week
Small, heated, ' single, furnished
room, $2.50 n week. .
Meals, ?0.20.
Carfare, ten cents a day, sixty
cents.
Clothing, $2.77.
Toilet articles, ten cents.
Laundry, sevenfy-flve cents.
Health, thtrty-ntuc cents.
Stamps nnd stationery, six cents.
Amusements twenty-fivo cents.
Money not spent on regular meaU
or carfare, 15 cents.
Papers und magazines, fifteen
ccuts.
Dues, five cents.
Church nnd charity, fifteen cents.
Christmas presents (on a basis of
$3.05 per year), seven cents.
Insurance, twenty-five cents.
Loss of wages, ono week's Illness,
twenty-eight cents.
Loss of wages, one week's vaca
tion, twenty-eight cents.
INSANE APPROVED
Measure Reported to House
With Reduction of $210,000
in Sum Asked
By the Associated Press
Harrisbitrg, Juno 0. The bill mak
Ing thcapproprintlon for tho care and
maintenance of tho Indigent insane hns
been reported to the House with $4
300,000 for the two years covered by the
appropriation bills. This is a reduction
of $210,000 In the sum asked. The
money is apportioned ninong the Instl
tutlons caring for the Insane on n per
capita basis. Deficiency bills covering
the last period have been passed and
approved.
Tho House appropriations commjttec
has also reported out the following
bills:
Tor continuance of the state old age
pension and health insurance commis
sions each $15,000, reports to bo made
in 1021.
For continuance of the stale bank
ing law commission $10,000.
Stato slinro of county, school nnd
road taxes on forestry reserves $107,
GOO. Navigation commissioners of Phila
delphia $03,000.
Prison labor manufacture commis
sion $75,000.
Purchase, toll brldgo between Penn
sylvania nnd New York $15,000.
Nautical school ship $100,000.
Krle basin improvements $20,000.
Bars Wax of Wllklns
New York, June 0. On application
of counsel for Dr. Walter K. Wilklns,
who is awaiting trial on the charge of
killing his wife nt their home at Long
GREEK KING REWARDS
PHILADELPHIA NURSES
Medals Given Clarissa Blakes-
lee, Drexel Hill, and Edith
Glenn, Bristol
Two young women whoso homes pre
near this city have received the medal
of military merit from King Alexander
of Greece for their heroic work ns Red
Cross nurses in Macedonia.
Tho honored nurses are Clarissa
Hlukrslee, Drexel Hill, nnd Kditli
Glenn, Bristol. They helped to fight a
t)phus epidemic in Macedonia Mips
Tllakeslco contracted the disease, but
has entirely recovered.
Other Red Cross nurses honored at
the samo time by the king were 8h ,
Addison, Baltimore; Marie ClauW,
Chicago; Alma Harts;, Davenport, Ii,t
Isabel Martin, San Frnnclsco; Emfljr 4j
Porter, Bridgeport, Conn., nnd Florence J'
Htono, rininuf-iu, . .i. t t h',
Tho king made n brief speech to the, l
nurses, thanking them for saving Jh- ' !
lives or n greni many urecKS wno ro ,-
turned from Bulgaria after tho arml-.f-.J
suco was signcu. k
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Harvard Buys Naval Radio Hall &4
Cambridge, Mass., Juno C Harvard "$$&
University completed the purchase from ijJ'siS
the Navy Department today of the large wjaa
drill hall tjiat was used by the NavaH
Radio School. The hall will bo used '
l. !.. Yinii'lv atnhlfcihoil TTftryfird 1n
ginecring School ns a laboratory for; ' 'Ts!
mechanical engineering.
women's wardrobes at mlnimuni prices
in 'Philadelphia today;
Number Price
Itata nt 3 and M
coat at lt!
Suit at $20.
Dresses
Onehalf good dress
at 24 $12.00
One-half dress nt $13.. 7.50
Two summer dresses at
JO '.. 12.00
Skirts
One-half cloth, nt $S .,
One-half white, at $4.,
4.00
$2.00
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Fresh-Roasted COFFEE
Rio ........ ..',.,.S0clb.
J-ine Santos , i .....,.,,,, ,H.1o lb.
Hm Wend (Sumatra la 10.. 37c ib.
tlood Ted .,...400 lb.
5-lb. Jot ....', ,87c Ib.
Tine Cocoa .,,..,. ,.8e lb.
Mb, lots ," '.Slain
Furs rhosphate llaklnc Towder,
Mb lb.
CarMiiteGiMh&Str,
A Dutch Hall
Always Looks
.Better With
Lighting Fixtures
of the soma period.
Let ua suggest the
right fixtures, tor
the right places, at
nnd daughters, of course and they can
flatly refuse these demands. And, in
fact, the average man cannot afford to
pay 518 a week on servants' wages.
No doubt Mrs. M. A. T. can afford to
pay this sum. So, naturally, she is
not upset. But in most homes this
would be not only a hardship but an
impossibility. CONTRIBUTOR.
Buy Your
MEATS
Wholesale
Butcher Roast
Rump Roast
Chuck Roast
Hamburg Steak
Sirloin. Steak
Rump Steak
Round Steak
Headquarters for Fish and Sea FooC
Dslawar Shad. Fresh Mackerel
Lobsters, Shedders ft Soft Shell Crabs
Sharp Cheese, 4 lbs., 95c
This I Our Only Market
Mitchell's Market, Inc.
10 South Delaware Ave., Phila.
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Waists
Ono good $4.00
Four wash, at $2.50 .. 10.00
Sweater one-third (home
made)
Shoes
One-half pa'Jr pumps
at $R $2.S
One pair hlsh .,,...," S.OO
)no pair low 7.00
Shoo repairs
Stockings
One silk $l.ftn
Klsht cotton, at 60a... 4.00
Corsets at $1.50
Petticoats
One cotton $2.00
One satlne 2 50
Nlahttowns
Two sumer $!. ou
One winter 2.50
I.lncerle
Two corset covers at
7.1 cents $1.30
Two combinations at
$1.50 S.OO
Tun union aults nt $1.50 a 00
Three shirts at 33 cents 1.00
Alterations of garments.
cleaning and presslns ....
Qlnps
One-third white, at $1.00 $0 Ml
One leather 1.5"
One Hummer 1.00
Ifanderchlefs
Neckwear
Handbag at $2 ..,
Umbrella at $1.50
Rubbers ,...
Miscellaneous (veils, hair
combs, belts, kimonos,
bed slippers, sewing
materials, sanitary sup
plies, etc.)
I Total, rear
when the numerals.
given, Miss Lauder figures the nrtirle
is good for two years' wear. A $16
coat, for example, represents an out-
r,n,. rent for clothes. Her budeet would enrment will wear at least two years.
niiln the follrminz csseutlnls to I lnv of $8 a vear. figuring that the
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Tho House appropriations commjttec jestcrdny granted a temporary injunc- Vwyy,-,,,.,' jC!SSS lH
has also reported out the following tlon restraining n waxwork show In ffi5wW!ftay4ffygjZg? QjM
bills: Coney Island from exhibiting a tableau Sw6r!!s5t i,,;.',,,, , J y
Tor continuance of the state old age called "Tho Wilkins Tragedy." l? i3V -SB
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Once more we prove the worth of our Producer to Consumer Plan of
merchandising as usual, we are ahead of the market. Our direct connection
with the big producing butter and.eggcentres of the country, places us in the
f atfcf position where our firnrer is constantly on
the pulse-beats of every market variation.
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Flhely bred cattle fed on the richest pasture lands
of the greatest dairy districts in tho world produce
our famous' Louella Tho Best Butter Made.
Richland Butter, lb., 62c
Splendid value in creamery prints second only to our own Louella.
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