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•^ta www.-iMS.'N «js.<stt\- ( '...••••• THE WATERTOWN EE-UNIOS. Few Too Old or Too Young to Enlist in Army of Production By REV. FRANCIS E. CLARK President World's Christian Endeavor Union \Will all the two million mernbers of the Christian Endeavor societies i n the United States enlist with me in a Christian Endeavor army of production ? * This is a real Christian, endeavor. For this army none under ninety are too old; none over nine are too young. Only those between certain limited ages will be called to the colors—the Bed, White and Blue—but to the green of the fields tf all ages are called. <AA The highest moral and patriotic motives may in- spire our enlistment i n this army. N~o Christian soldier ever •marched to battle in any dire crisis in his country's history with a nobler purpose than may, this year, the army uf agriculturists. This year we will plant and reap not simply for dollars and cents but for our neigh- bors and our country as well as for ourselves. Patriotism and potatoes will be joined by more ties than these of alliteration. Healthy Child Furnishes the Material for the Healthy Adult By S. JOSEPHINE BAKER Director Bureau of Child Hygiene of New York Gty . The fundamental policy of the Xew York city bureau of child hygiene lias been, since it's inception, (1) that it should include supervision of all activities relating to the health of all children of the city, from birth to jadolescence, in so far as a municipality can control such conditions; (2y that these activities be so co-ordinated and correlated as to provide continuous and adequate supervision of child life and child health; (3) that the fundamental basis of all efforts of the bureau must be edu- cational and preventive, that its prime object must be not only to keep children well, but to assure to them such vigorous health that they may become healthy adults; consequently corrective measures must be used only as temporary expedients; (4) that the social aspect of public-health work, i n relation to children, is of primary importance and must be devel- oped t o the utmost extent. In all health work for children there are two points which must be emphasized; First, the recognition that we are dealing with an age group. Until such children were dealt with in a class by themselves, practically all health activities had a specialized object; that is, certain organiza- tions were devoted to the control of tuberculosis, others to the reduction of infant mortality, and still others to the supervision of food supplies or the control of sanitation in general; but the formation of the bureau of child hygiene in New York city was the first recognition that the early period of life is of supreme importance from the point of view of health. The starting point of such health work is the child, and not the environment; and all work in the bureau of child hygiene has been based upon adapting environment or surroundings to fit the child's needs rather than trying to reconstruct the child to fit an environment created par- ticularly for adults. ( The second,, and perhaps the more important, object of treating the child's life as a whole rather than i n specialized parts, has been the grow- ing recognition that public-health work, in order to be effective, must be preventive, and not corrective, i n its activities. It is a practical impossi- bility to carry on real preventive health work with adults whose habits aTe already fixed and whose status of health has usually been determined. The only persons who respond to true preventive work are children, and even here we find that the value of true preventive work in health lines is successful in proportion to the early date of its inception. The healthy baby usually becomes a healthy child (at least, it is far better fitted to Tesist the diseases that pertain to childhood), and the healthy child, furnishes the material for the healthy adult. Children Employed on Farms to Avert Food Crisis Must Be Protected By WILLIAM L. CHENERY WOMEN TO SERVE AS WIRELESS OPERATORS War already is demanding the labor of children on the farms. This tendency to employ children is accelerated by the existing shortage of all labor. It is being made unanswerable because of the admitted intensity of the need for a greater food production. The'practical question, then, is to devise some safe method* of utiliz- ing the strength of children. The future well-being of the children employed must be considered. The health of the race must be conserved. Plans must be made not only for the summnr of 1917 but for the long years ahead. Already the federal department of labor has begun the mobilization of a million boys as active farm workers. Numerous other governmental agencies and private associations are attempting to do similar work on a • smaller scale. Some are proceeding without that detailed wisdom which promises success. It is valuable, therefore, to regard the plan proposed by the national child-labor committee. Tins was formulated after a conference with the directors of the Playground association and Boy Scouts of America, the ISTew York com- missioner of education, the New York board of education, and the agri- cultural committee of the Merchants' association. Obviously, then, it has been thought out with some care. Eirst of all, the children should be classified according to age and development. Only those over fourteen or fifteen should be sent out into the country. Younger children would be useless to the farmers, and the work would be bad for them. Those under fourteen may be used at home. They should be trained and supervised. Teachers, Boy Scout leaders, playground directors and others interested in the well-being of children should be organized into a summer agricultural faculty. A fund should be raised to mauage the work and vacant-lot owners should be induced to lend their land. These younger children should be graded into classes, and they should be given school credit for work done between June 1 and October 1. But IliCiJ should be \no general exemption that will turn children out of school without providing both occupation and supervision.\ The agricul- tural faculty should consist of persons \who appreciate the limits of a (child's strength and will not permit him to be ovarworkud.\ tejwtvit 1 m ^L3\™*^***\™^^$MK&$£'< J***. &»«* Women are now invading a comparatively new field and are preparing themselves to take the places of men at the wireless telegraph instruments in base their services are needed by Uncle Sam or by private companies. Classes in wireless have been organized under the direction of the National League for Women's Service and many women already are prepared to go into active service when they are needed. The picture shows Miss Elise Van Ft. Owen testing a receiving set at a wireless school in New York. Siberia, Far From Being Barren Waste, Can Support Population of 800,000,000. Stories of the westward flight of Siberian exiles, following the revolu- tion and the release of about 100,000 prisoners vi-ho have been held bj' the Russian government' In Siberia, gave n somewhat wrong impression of Si- beria. These prisoners have for the most part been held in eastern and northeastern Siberia, Hie cold regions. They have worked In mines under heartless overseers. Many of them were exiled without trial, and most of them were political prisoners, sen- tenced after a perfunctory trial by government officials who took their orders and meted out justice accord- ingly. Naturally the news of the success- ful revolution and the release of Hie exiles resulted In a scramble to get home. But it should not be inferred from this (hut Siberia will within a short time be deserted, observes the Indianapolis News. To the west is a vast region into which, in the ten years preceding the war, some 3,000,- 000 Russians went of their own ac- cord. The total population of west- ern Siberia is now 0,000,000, while the population of the rest of Siberia is only 2,5,00,000. Although there are many rich de- posits of gold, silver, copper, iron and coal In western Siberia, iron mines are not worked much because of the lack of transportation facilities. It is chief- ly at present an agricultural region, attracting Russian farmers who seek better and cheaper land, as .American farmers once went west in search of better opportunities. A British trade agent, writing in the British Export (iazette, says thTs district will sup- port a population of 800,000,000, but at the present rate of colonization It will he many years before the'popula- tiun becomes as large as that of Euro- pean • Russia, or one-fourth of the Br'tish agent's estimate. Progress of a Lifetime. A lady in Massachusetts recently celebrated the one hundred and fourth nnuivprsary of her birthday. The amazing progress of the world is well Illustrated by her life. Tile first steamship did not cross the Atlantic until she was old enough to go to school. Men stilt went to war on horseback or walked. There was no railroad, telephone, telegraph, air- ships, airplane or phonograph. She was past threescore before she saw an electric light. She was beyond fourscore before any of us rode in an automobile. When she was a girl as- phalt paving was unknown. She was a woman long before anybody dreamed of an elevator. At her birth, Cooper had not written his first Tjfiatherstock- Ing story. The very oldest of that coterie of renowned authors, includ- ing Emerson, Mrs. Stowe, Hawtliome aiifl Whlttler, were only children when she was born. What We Grow in the U. S. The United Sta'eu produces, on an average, about three-fourths of the world's corn crop, one-fifth of the wheat crop, one-fourth of the oats crop, one-eighth of the barley corp, one-fifteenth of the rye crop, one-six- teenth of the potato crop, three-fifths of the cotton crop, one-third of the tobacco crop, one-fourth of the hops crop, and one-tenth of the sugar crop. In rank of production the United States is first for corn, wheat, oats, cot- ton, tobacco and hops; second for bar- ley and flaxseed; fourth for sugar, and fifth for rye and potatoes. CUT OUT THE \T\ i By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS, f The greatest word in all the Ian-/ guage of Achievement i* the little J three-letter word C-A-N. A man' grows because of what he feels and \ knows in his heart and In his mind' that he CAN. But flu- weakest word { in all the language of words is the' invented combination of words—! C-A-N'-'T. • ' When you think that you CAN'T. I just cut out the \T\ and you CAN'.' People are led by their masters./ Sometimes these masters are J Nerves, sometimes Stomachs, some-' times some Infirmity, sometimes lm-| agination. But when a man is led' by the master AVill, the only things J that he CAN'T do are the things' that he decides not to do. { When you think that you CAN'T,' just cut out the \T\ and you CAN'.' Look about you. There you see' a fellow who is going ahead and ac-{ complishing things and keeping still' about it. After a while he won't/ be where he is now, but somewhere' —no matter where—In a big place./ He knows- he CAN and lie DOES. ' He started out by cutting out the/ \T\ in CAN'T. \ When you think that you CAN'T,/ Just cut out the \T\ and you CAN'. J I Mother's- | | Cook Book | Vegetable Foods. Economy is the kvjr.ote of all top- ics at present and it is needed in the saving of waste in many of the homes of the poor. Those who are able to waste and not suffer must remember that there tire thousands starving for want of food. Many times the reason people are poor is simply the lack of using economy and wisely spending the amount to lie used in food, cook- ing more than is needed, serving too much, so that It is thrown into the garbage can, and Inning too great a variety. We often hear women who keep fowls remark: \Oh nothing is wasted; we give everything to the chickens.\ It is not intelligent living to feed fowls fofid that Is good enough for the family table. There are few people, unless living in congested districts or in flats, that may not have a vegetable garden. It may be interesting to know that you can raise squash, cucumbers and pumpkins against the fence, letting t^em run up as vines, not only adding to the beauty of the backyard but furnishing good food for the family. A small plot two feet square will fur- nish a good-sized family with lettuce, replanting every two weeks or more. Radishes and beets may be sown to- gether. The radishes when pulled help to cultivate the beets. Other seed com- bination's may be treated this way, keeping a continual garden on a very small spot of ground. Carrots are a vegetable which should be more generally grown and served. They are most wholesome, supplying mineral elements needed in the blood, especially for growing chil- dren. Camus may be served in a variety of appetizing ways, besides the usual way of creaming them. .Cooked in combination with mutton or veal they are an addition to the meat. Cooked in very little water and then seasoned with butter, a bit of crated nutmeg aud lemon juice they are a Especially valuable is —heat brae for feeding poultry when used in com- bination with cut clover or cut alfalfa. Lime Is essential to poultry, partic- ularly during the laying season, and sufficient quantities must be fed for the making of the shell of an egg. Foods rich in lime, are bones and clovers, as well as bran and mid- dlings, and*the safe plan is to feed as large a variety of foods as is possi- ble. Never depend entirely on oyster shells as a source for furnishing lime to poultry, as the percentage of soluble lime from the shells is very small, indeed. Grain foods are poorest In lime substances, containing only about oue pound of lime to the thousand pounds, while white and red clovers will aver- age from 23 to 30 pounds to the 1,000 pounds. When feeding fowls for eggs, en- deavor to equalize the food and pro- vide the fowls with foods in propor- tion for obtaining the desired result. When poultry houses hrfve open fronts with other sides closed to pre- vent draughts, there is no other or better ventilation needed for the fowls. Poultry, bees and orchards are winning combinations to play to when one has the time and opportun- ity to do so. . Poultrymen who are looking for the largest profits in poultry raising should become acquainted with the making of a capon. The capon is to the cock what the steer is to the bull; the barrow to the boar, the wether to the ram, and when marketed, the capon brings the- high- est price the year round. The mysteries of caponizing have been narrowed down to .practical and sensible operations that are easily performed by the average man with- out a scientific course of training. Women, Clad in Khaki, Work As Longshoremen on Docks. Five women dressed in khaki showed longshoremen the other day that they were not only willing but able to \do their bit\ for national service, says the New York Herald. As the first re- sponse to a call for help the squad from the National League for Wom- an's.Service drove two motor cars from pier to pier to assist in loading $100,- 000 worth of groceries, clothing and war relief supplies for France. The goods were being forwarded by the war relief clearing house for France and her allies. \Capt.\ Edith Field of the motor ear division of the league called out \Lieut.\ Helen Bastodo, \Sergt.\ Helen Strelt and \Privates\ Florence Darrach, Augusta Smith and Edna Tunis. The young women worked steadily from nine o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night. The quintette of war-service work- ers wear a khaki uniform consisting of a short skirt, knickerbockers, military coat and cap. most tasty vegetable to serve with beefsteak. As vegetable soup with potato and onion, or in boiled .dinner the carrot is always highly prized. Beets are another good vegetable easily grown and not requiring ex- pert care or very good soil. As greens they are most wholesome In (lie early spring and as a fresh vegetable or as pickles (lie grown beet will always hold a large place, Growing vegetables on every avail- able space and spot will be one of the best possible ways of serving our country, for we must have fond and the more we grow the less of poverty and hunger there will be. Stole His Thunder. \They will not let my play ran, and yet they steal my thunder.\ John Dennis, who died in 17.14, had written a play entitled, \Appias and A'irginla,\ in which he used a new species of thunder which was approved of by the actors and is, Indeed, In use today. Mr. Dennis' tragedy, however, was not well received and was soon taken from the .boards. A few nights later Mr. Dennis .went to see \Mac- beth,\ and there lie heard his own thunder used. This angered liim so that he rose and said: \See how the rascals use me! They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thun- der !\ This was the origin of the saying so well-known today. New Things Under Sun. An electrically ignited pipe lias been invented that lights the tobacco at the bottom of the bowl and prevents ac- cumulations of moisture in the stem. To enable two persons to examine an object ift the same time a French optician has invented a microscope with two eye pieces but only one ob- jective. A woman is the inventor of a suit case made in three parts and with legs that unfold to support it when it Is opened so it can he used as a dressing table. WHEN GOWNS ARE REMODELED A special dispensation from the god- dess of fashion, in the Interest of thrif- ty women, lies in the present vogue for two or more fabrics in one gown. In all the array of pretty frocks for after; noon wear—or any other dressy wear, for that matter—there are hardly any that are fashioned of just one mate- rial. If the mission of a gown is ful- filled by merely looking well, It is made of two or more materials, or of two patterns in one material. Thrift is a mark of good breeding •In these times. Now, when the re- sources of this country are about to be put to the test, women must be willing to do with less so that others, who need, may have more. But it is no great hardship to do without a new frock if an old one can be remodeled into a thing of beauty. The gown shown in the picture oflers a good suggestion for remodeling be- cause the overbodice and sleeves arc made of georgette crepe, and worn with a silk skirt and underbodice. This overbodice bears all the evidences of •being strictly up-to-date with its wide tucks, long sleeves and its big cape collar of white crepe. A small triangle of white crepe is set in the sleeves at the wrist. A new bodice of this kind simply ef- faces the memory of the dress it used to be and makes this into a dress of today. A new finishing touch appears in the neck ribbon and tassel which add the final charm to a frock that can't help proving a satisfaction to its wearer. There are so many possibili- an accessory whose only mission ia life is being good to look at. It takes a good grade of net, good lace and good work to make a successful jabot, that is, one that will stand laundering. For the jabot is nothing if not imma- culate as to freshness and daintiness. Net and net combined with lace make the three pretty examples of the jabot shown in the picture. One con- soling tiling about them is that they are very easy to make and just as easy to keep clean. The jabot at the left may be made of a square of net, with one corner cut oil and gathered into the stock, which is a straight band of the net. Filet lace is used for edg- ing the jabot and for the narrow turn- over on the stock and hemstitching finishes its lower edge. A wider silk filet, set to a long piece of net on the ends and one edge, makes the center jabot with a stock of the same lace and net. Lace is left out of the tailored jabot at the right and tucks, with hemstitching, make Its elegant decoration. Skirts of Wash Fabrics. New wash skirts now being added to the lines, says the Dry Goods Econo- mist, are largely in plain white cotton and linen materials, but with fair pro- portion of novelty effects. Alt-white skirts made on simple lines are by far 1:M^~ ; A FURORE FOR JABOTS. ties in the remodeling of gowns by combining materials that the amateur is apt to try a little original designing. But safety lies in copying the models In afternoon frocks turned out by ex- pert designers, when gowns are to be remodeled. Everything else in neckwear is more or less eclipsed by the vogue of the jabot which amounts, just now, to a furore. Snowy heaps of net «nd lace, fashioned into every variety of jabot, happen in all parts of the dry goods stores, and each is a center of attrac- tion for a ciowd of absorbingly inter- ested women, otherwise the regular neckwear section would be overwhelm- ed. It doesn't take any salesmanship to sell jabots, they sell themselves, and all the merchant has to do is to take the money—and keep up the supply. This pretty madness on the part of women promises to outlast the sum- mer and the jabot is so altogether clas- sy and pretty that It should have a long popularity. With this in mind we can be reconciled to the rather ex- travagant •priies that are asked for the best sellers, but novelty cottons in printed designs suggestive of the pop- ular silks are in fhir demand, as also are cottons In polka-dot patterns and^ in dainty stripes, plaids and elieckk Combinations of fancy and plain ma- terials appear In some of the'novelty skirts, the plain fabric being' used for bands, belts or pockets or< Vice versa. *• There has been a fair' demand for washable satin skirtsj as well as for street skirts in novelty taffeta in dark 1 The Successful Combination. Because figured fabrics are to be so much in fashion, It is wise that every woman should remember that >:he plain material is the essential foundation on which figures should rest. A garment of any kind which is nothing but ?a splash of twists and lines aud curves is a very poor garment indeed. Every woman should take it to lieart that figured fabrics are meant for com- bination ' with plain f abrlesi and that in the skillful combination lies the suc- cess of her costume \
