The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1919 Page: 2 of 10
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THE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. TBCUM3EH. OKLA.
Purpose: To provide
organized trained women
to meet social and
V economic needs.
EVOTED women who have been wonder-
"WK Inc where the pathway of eon iniellve
■ ■ and beneficial service would open now
9 H that the war Is over may very easily
■ ■ find the signpost pointing out the nnal
in the program set for Itself by the
National Leugue for Women’s Service.
This organization was formed In 1017.
and naturally at that time found Its
particular field In war activities. It
now sees before It a broadening of Its
activities and a scope of real helpful-
mess that will go even I eycmd what It found to do
■while the country was waging conflict.
U Is the spirit of service learned better than ever
before In time of national stress that Is the watch-
word for this nation wide organization of women.
]ts purpose, ns set forth In the constitution and
by-laws, Is to provide organized trained groups of
■women In every community to meet existing needs
along social and economic lint's.
The earnest women who make tip the motor
dlvtsioii of the league might have thought that the
end of the war would curtail the scope of their
activities. Nothing of the sort. The work of trans-
porting the sick and wounded and the convalescent
soldiers, sailors and marines will ho continued us
long as the need for this work exists. The motor
division lias demonstrated the vital necessity of
continuing Its work ns an organized, trained serv-
ice In peace times to meet emergencies. There Is
no much work to he don*' In the way of social
welfare and health and Industrial helpfulness (lint
the motor corps, Instead of diminishing, sees before
It growth and expansion.
Kspeciul attention Is being given by the motor
division to the opportunities found In service for
the atlllcted. One of the concrete examples of this
to he seen In the work being accomplished by
the women of the city of Jamaica, who formed a.
motor corps In that city. These women motorists
have already been of great service to the city In
transporting crippled children to the hospital for
treatment. Not nil of these children are per-
manently crippled, but many of them have lost the
use of nn arm or a leg nfter having suffered from
infantile paralysis. Sometimes there is only one
living parent, who Is nwny from home nil day, so
there is no one In the family to take the suffering
little ones to the hospital for treatment. The
workers in the motor corps bring the children from
their homes for treatment and then take them
back again as soon ns they are fit to be moved.
Helping the Helpless.
One of the most pathetic cases of ibis sort Is
ti,„t of little Gertrude, only three and a half years
of age. She was taken to the hospital and a plas-
ter cast was put on. There nre six children In her
family and her father Is unuble to work owing to
a severe attack of Influenza. The oldest child In
jlhe family sufTers from epileptic fits. Another
child hnd broken her arm last November and It
bad never been set. The driver of the ambulance
took this child also to the hospital so that her
crippled arm could be rebroken by the doctor and
properly set. So much suffering In one family
was relieved nnd a gr*-at deal of future tragedy
was averted by the helpfulness of <he motor corps.
1 One little boy. whose poor little legs were abso-
lutely useless, came near to being the muse of nn
accident on one of the Journeys to the hospital,
rutting his head out of the front of the ambulance
be Jerked the arm of the driver and said: "See
that guy that passed riding that bicycle! Gee. I’m
going to be like him soon, and how I will ride when
■i) paddles work again.”
• A three-year-old Itnllan girl had been very shy
«ti her trips to the hospital nnd at first had re-
aented being taken by the driver. Finally after
her fourth trip she snuggled up against the lieu-
tenant on the homeward trip and said something
whi* h the officer could not understand. One of
the older girls explained.
"She says that her mother Is dead and her
father doesn't want her and you can keep her If
jou want to.”
Only three years old and yet that baby realized
•hat there wasn't a soul In the world who wanted
her
These children, whose cases are duplicated times
without number thnmghout the country, nre In a
dire need of friendly service. The parents hnve
Mm greatest struggle In moat cases to provide a
bring foe them, and when any of the children are
helpb ss they are not wanted.
Such cases are not Infrequent, and although the
. work of driving a car all day front house to house
lu the poorest parts of the city, over broken and
•auich roads, la nerve racking, the members of the
Motor corps have nerer thought of stopping The
sltal need of continuing lheir work Is measured by
«*. amount of good dime hundreds of children
Tto faith of the Children accustomed to walk
ran about Is B icfc shaken srhan they are
lstering to the Immigrants lu Bluuulu> „uu prt.8S „
ti hundred ways. At points of for several mfnutes.
distribution, such as Detroit,......
To Mend an Ugly Tear.
Sometimes you ure unfortunate
enough to make nn ugly tear In a
handsome new gown. It may be mend-
ed very successfully, and if In un In-
conspicuous place It will not show at
all. Day the tear edge to edge, nnd
baste across It, being careful that
while the edges meet, they do not
overlap. Cut a piece of rubber tissue,
which may be obtained at any tailor-
ing shop, to amply cover the tear. Lay
the garment on the Ironing board right
side down, place the rubber over the
rent, nnd over tlie rubber lay a
piece of goods of the same material as
that of the garment to be mended.
I Keep both rubber and goods perfectly
smooth, and press out with a hot Iron
for several mfnutes. Now cut out the
distribution, such n» kw—i basting threads on the right side, and
Chicago, St. Liids, San I ran shave off any rough edges remaining,
cisco, there were other men to •when there Is no material of the dress
give advice to the bewildered ; on hand, a piece of lightweight woolen
them , p,(i ,js 0f tjje san,e color will answer.
! That the bottoms of men’s trousers
! nre held together In tills way Is a
good sign that the method Is practical
and successful.
To Pad Embroidery.
In padding embroidery use the chain
stitch. Tl)ls Is an especially good hint
for making scalloped edges.
In making patch work, if you cut
your pattern In table oil cloth Instead
of paper, you will find the work much
more satisfactory. The oil-cloth pat-
tern will not slip when cutting and
there Is no danger of snipping off a
portion with the scissors.
A Dress Protestor.
When tin* yoke of a nightdress be-
comes worn, cut off tlie nightdress
skirt, take out the sleeves and sew It
together across the top, leaving a
sls A rsoiyjLrr”
crippled by the tragedy of Infantile paralysis. That
faith Is fast coming to the top again, nfter they
have been given the much-needed attention.
The women of the motor corps feel that if there
Is anything they can do to make these children
whole again they are going to do It. A large per-
centage of the treatments given tho children Is
successful, ns most of the children are young.
Another form of service rendered by the women
of the motor corps, still using Jamaica as an Illus-
tration. takes tlie district nurse all over the city.
This nurse follows up the cases of the children
who have been treated at the hospital and does
good work In finding out what the other needs of
the children nre. In some cases It Is nourishing
food, In others shoes, in others clothes.
There is only one district nurse In Jamaica and
her salary Is paid out of the proceeds of a second-
hand clothing shop which Is run by the well-to-do
women of the community. This shop Is patronized
by the poorer people of Jamaica and lias proved a
source of great help to them.
One day a shabbily dressed woman walked Into
the shop and looked around. She saw two Holland
shades on the counter nnd paid three cents apiece
for them. The woman who waited on her was
very Interested nnd could not Imagine what she
wanted the shades for, when she was evidently In
greater need of other things. A few days later the
woman reappeared at the store nnd proudly dis-
played a white waist and a pair of white pants her
little boy was wearing.
“I bleached the shades.” she said, "because we
have an opportunity to go away to the country for
b week. We were told that we must have a change
of clothes, so I was ab|f> to make a change by doing
this. We are going away tomorrow.”
The giver of the shades would feel glad tf she
could know what good hnd been accomplished by
her act.
Jamaica Is not the only city where the people
have realized what the word "service" stands for.
In New York stnte alone there are ninety-two
branches of the National League for Women’s
Service, anil the league has a national enrollment
of three hundred thousand members anj Is estab-
lished In thirty-eight states.
Plenty of Opportunity.
There l» plenty of work for all these members—
and
of
morp—today. An Americanlzatlou conference
..i the department of the Interior was held at
Washington the other day. Americanization seems
to tnclude many activities
"The Americanization movement Is the first
great activity of peace times In which everyone
.an unite regardless of any other affiliations.” de-
clare*! C. H. l’aul! of Harvard university. “A com-
munlty about to Interest Itself In Americanization
should bring lta resources together under s single
purpose with a willingness to pool their Interests
the common good.”
l’eter Roberts of the International T M C.
A. desert bed the work of the aeso-'latlon to help
Immigrants get settled In their oew homes.
"Agents of the aseoclaUoo. in prewar days, were
■tattooed In fifteen ports to Europe.- he said, “and
her* teo secretaries sea* employed at porta mln-
fof
I>r.
foreigners and protect
from exploitation.
“The war demoralized our
work in Europe, but opened
new fields for service among
foreign-born soldiers In can-
t./nments. The work of Amer-
icanization In the develop-
ment battalions was intrusted
wholly to the association.
Since the armistice was
signed the association is again
ready to extend Its aid to the
Immigrant.”
Factory schools organized
by the Council of Jewish
Women to reach girls unable
to attend other classes were
described by Miss Helen
Winkler. She told also of
bow the council had repre-
sentatives meet unprotected
girls at Immigrant stutlons,
Interpret the rules to them
and enable them to reach rel-
atlves safely.
T. A. Levy of Syracuse,
Y„ said his city encouraged
constant meetings of foreign-
ers with native citizens nnd
supplied rooms at the cham-
ber of commerce where racial
groups could gather.
Mrs. Frederick Schoff of
Philadelphia, president of the
National Congress of Mothers
and Parent-Teachers’ Associa-
tions, asked the conference for
aid In bringing out the for- ,
eign-born mother. Slie said
the mother too often was left !
nt home, Ignorant of all things concerning her ,
new land, while the father and children became j
Americans. i
"Widowed fathers” are a new problem since j
the Influenza epidemic robbed thousands of homes j
of the mother and homemaker.
Almost any woman can make a home for her
children, given the dollars and cents to buy bread
and butter and shoes; but It takes so much more
than dollars and cents to enable a father to make
a home. Women engaged in administering moth-
ers’ pensions funds and other forms of welfare
work have found that funds were totally inade-
quate to solve the problem of the father left a
widower with several small children.
Many men whose wives were stricken during j
the epidemic are hardworking, home-lowing fa-
thers. who cling to the children with a tenderness
that Is heartbreaking. It Is our mission to find |
homes for the children near enough so that the
father can see them every day and keep closely In ,
touch with their little affairs. The father can
often pay for the children’s board. It Is the extra
things that womeu must do for the children that
unike It Impossible for him to keep them at home.
The milk problem alone Is large enough and
complex enough to keep thousands of women
busy It Is stated thnt for every American man
who fell on the battlefields of Europe nine of our
babies have died. These are the startling figures
of the bureau of child hygiene. The war perlo* ;
total was 450,000, against our casuulty list of 53.- !
000. . . !
Of every three deaths one Is of a child under
three years. Dr. S. Josephine Baker, director of
the bureau of hygiene of the New York city board
of health frankly brands us as a nation careless
of human life, and figures fasten her charge on ns.
But the experience of the New York Diet Kitchen
association (and no doubt of other kindred
■roups) has been that when these facts are really
brought to our consciousness helpful response is
Immediate. That this response falls so far short
of the noe<t can only mean that the full weight of
such figures Is not visualised as it should be.
If the horror of a huge cityful ert little slaugh-
tered baby bodies were really brought home to the
parent heart of our great hearted nation It would
quicken to one mighty effort the detemitnation
thnt such things should no longer be.
l»r Ilnrvey Wiley, long bend of the national bu-
reau of health, says of the workers for child con-
servation that they are "In the very front line
trenches of huumulty. on doty without rest, fight-
ing ngainst terrific .aids. Lut as certain of ultimate
victory aa the forces of the allies were against
the devastating Hun ”
Pan It he possible that our charity must have
the penq-ectlve of distance T It would seem so. foe
no unusual dlflhnlty was found In financing with
American money five milk stations tot-fc" re-
cently Yet figure, showed that while the per
rentage of malnutrition among Loodou ^aM** w**
12 per cent, thnt of New York babies during the
..me period was 21 per cent. A spenkec lately re-
.p.rteO -hat -New York needs to he three to five
miles from Itself In order to be aroused
at Its crying need*
smnll opening through which the hook
of u suit hanger may be slipped, and
use it to protect a nice dress hanging;
In the closet. Washed but seldom It
will last a long time, and will be found;
more convenient than n bag, as It la
so much easier to Insert the dress
without crushing.
Uas for Old Leather.
One -hould alwnys save the tops of
old shoes, or the gauntlets of heavy)
riding gloves or other pieces of leather.;
They are excellent as an Interlining
for iron holders.
Do not mnke the holder too large,
as It Is clumsy to handle. Those
which are oval In shape are prefer-
able. Cut the covering and the Inter-
lining the same size' and shape, stitch
all the thicknesses on the machine,
close to the edge of the material, then
bind with u tape or piece of seam
binding.
Pongee Again.
As sure as the coming of summer
pongee In some form appears. This
year there are lovely pongee parasols.
Some ore mounted on brown frames
and sticks, with no other trimming
than brown cords on the handles and
brown tassels on the ends. Another
shows lovely blue butterflies em-
broidered all over the Inside of tho
parasol, with blue cord and blue
ends to the sticks.
A Footwear Fad.
The few who wish to follow fash-
ion’s whim in footwear can wear, this
summer, whit*- oxfords with black’
shoe laces and black stockings. This1
combination Is sanctioned by New
York’s latest decree. Of course tho
generality of women will use the con*
servatlve all white.
Summer and Sport Suits
No one Is prepared for midsummer
unless she has ready for warm weath-
er a sport suit, or a sport coat that
may be worn with skirts of the same
character, supplemented by a sweater
of sweater-coat. The sport suit has
made a place for Itself that nothing
else can fill. It Is nor an extravagance
even for the woman who believes In
reducing her expenditure on clothes
to necessities, for the sport suit re-
places dressier and less generally
wearable clothes. It Is smart enough
to take the place of afternoon frocks
nnd It remains Informal, whatever tt
is nuide of. "Suit" Is a term that
covers the combination of a sport skirt
and a sport coat that do not match, as
well as skirt and coat of the same ma-
terial.
A handsome example of the first
combination appears In the salt on the
left of the twfi models shown In the
picture. In this the skirt Is of whlje
satin and ia made of one of those
hew weavee that appear to be better
skirt, and Is made of bright green silk
tricolette, with sailor collar and band
of self-colored embroidery about the
bottom. A satin vest worn with It
has small pearl buttons, set dose to-
gether. down the front. Bright green
taffeta coats with machine stitching
of white silk, and coats crocheted of
the green silk In lace designs are note-
worthy among the novelties to be
worn with white satin or silk sport
skirts. All the coats have belts or
sashes.
The suit at the right Is made of a
he-avy ribbed silk—skirt nnd coat of
the same material. There are several
patterns In these sport silks, some of
them In two colors, others in figured
designs of one color. Angora cloth Is
a favorite for embellishing them,
placed In bands about the skirt and
coat and as cuffs and collars. But
many of these suits are untrlmmed, as
the fanciful fabric makes variety
enough. Even In sport suits the vest
hew weavee that appear to be better has made a place for Itself, and It ap-
sulted to sport skirts than to anything pour- In thla model with cuff at tka
elae. It la strung and brilliant. On ] bottom having alx little buttons •••
the overlapped Beam at the left aide. the center. But there ere many
than
to
a acuee
five large, flat pearl buttona are set
near the bottom. Nothing could be
doae more to emphasise the charac-
ter of the skirt.
The cunt la ta the same class as the
along the center. But there ere many
sport coat* that Ignore the vogue of
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Henderson, L. P. The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1919, newspaper, June 20, 1919; Tecumseh, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936700/m1/2/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.