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THE McHETCRY PI.AINDEALER, McHENRY. ILL. ' ' ' . ' • " • • " • » • ' - • ' " • • ' • ••" <. *4 ^\ ^ "v* '* }i '<J£ a. k~jr p^rr- A For a man seldom thinks with more earneitnui of anythlns than he does of hla dinner.--Samuel Johnson. We may 11 TO without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live wltheOt heart; We may live without trlenda, we may live wlttwtk books; But civilised man cannot live without cook». He may live without books--what is knowledge M$<), grieving? He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love--what is passion but pinln Silt where Is the man who can live without dining --Owen Meredith. •Tate cannot Sydney Smith. •• 4 harm me--I have dined today."-! IGNS of the times to be sew in. a&' large cities are these: Apartment ' buildings, delicatessen shops, cheap restaurants, cafeterias, residential hotels. The old-fashioned home Is fast dlS?-, appearing. People are living IB apartments and residential hotelsbuying cooked food at the delicate*" sen shops, eating at restaurants. Whjrt • Well, largely because they have to. The old*, fashioned home in a dwelling, with servants and home cooking is still an American ideal. But the increasing lack of servants, especially of cooks, makes the old-fashioned home a burden to people of moderate means and to women who want to do'something besides keep house. It Is fast coming to the time when only two classes can keep house with any satisfaction: the very rich, who can hire professional servants at high wages; the poor, who do without servants. The moderately w e l l - t o - d o woman m u s t choose between housework and all other activities. She cannot get servants, because we have no servant class in this country. Working women will not dt> domestic work when they can get other work, even though the other work pays less. T h e s e c o n d i t i o n s h a v e raised ..a widespread Interest In the proposition of community cooking. Notwithstanding the high prices of food and the scarcity of cookat the American people like good things to eat just as well as ever. Tt|& question is where can these good things be had? A large proportion of twentieth century married women cannot cook acceptably and would not cook If they could. A modem city woman who can cook can hardly be blamed for unwillingness to spend all her time in home work. It is an age of inefficiency In restaurant cooking as in most other things and menu prices are .even higher in proportion than raw material prices. Iva Lowther Peters, Ph. D., of the woman's division of the council of national defense, made in 1918 a complete survey of the various co-operative and community food enterprises of this country. It was then believed that if the war continued community kitchens would have to be established in our larger cities to save food and fuel. England was already running a great many of them, with encouraging results, and Doctor Peters not only studied these, but undertook a thorough investigation of the co-operative movement front the time it was born In the eighteenth century. As It happened, the signing of the armistice came just in time to make the survey useless to the United States food administration, but it is going to be of great assistance to those individual Americans who are thinking of co-operating with other individual Americans in bringing down the price of eating. An object lesson Is a community kitchen that was opened in 1907 in Carthage, Mo. It was id* cated In a private residence and the various families of the neighborhood came to it for their meals. Each family furnished its own table, chairs, dishes, Unen, sliver, thus maintaining its own tastes and standards. To provide the original equipment for the kitchen an assessment of $3 per adult and $1.90 per child was made. In the beginning there were 60 members, including 10 or 12 children. For the first three months the price of meals was $3 for aa adult and $1.50 for a child per week. After the third month several families stopped coming. When the number decreased to 60 the price of board was advanced to $3.50 per week. As the kitchen's patronage decreased and the cost of food Increased the price of board kept advancing unfjU finally, In 1911, four years after Its opening, the kitchen went quietly out of existence. Most of the community cooking enterprises suis veyed by Doctor Peters for the council of national defense tell practically the same story--a brief popularity, a brief decline, then extinction. But the community cooking enterprises tall (me other story and it is this: ' ' The only community cooking enterprises showing unmistakable signs of success are those where the central kitchen delivers the cooked meals to the homes. These kitchens are now being established In several cities. Chicago and many of Its suburban cities have their attention on Evanston, 111., just now. Evanston is a few miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan. It has about 30,000 people. It is a city homes. Many of the men do business in Chicago. Evanston is called the "City of Churches," is the seat of Northwestern university and is what may ' be called a high-class American small city. Yes, Evanston is a city of homes. There are streets of dwellings and comparatively few flats are In evidence. There are trees and lawns. The houses look as if they had kitchens--good, big; roomy, old-fashioned kitchens, where things were cooked--"pies like mother used to make" and doughnuts to compare even with those of the Salvation Army. But the imagination that sets yon to sniffing Bp the hope of catching delectable odors from these old-fashioned kitchens in these old-fashioned homes is a delusion and a snare. The kitchens are there, but they are as idle as a painted ship on a painted ocean. 'Cause why--there are no cooks. There was a time, not long ago, when an occasional cook could be enticed out to Evanston and pampered into cooking. But even that time la past. So Evanston is going to have a community kitchen and has made a beginning. That's why Chicago awl Illinois are watching her with interest. na UNITY ITCHCN 11 The beginning was made in the basement of the Evanston Woman's club. At first only lunch was sold and buyers had to fetch and carry. Next in order is an evening meal. Then will come delivery of hot food In containers. There was a wild rush near lunch time on the opening day by the housemaldfess Evanston housewives for the community kitchen. Mrs. James A. O'Dell and Mrs. H. H. Klngsley, chief sponsors for the kitchen, were kept busy for the best part of three hours weighing cake and wrapping up slices of tempting baked ham--the kind baked with cloves and sugar, the Virginia way, you know-- and other goodies. The menu Ihdoded these things: Potato Soup. < Baked Ham* Corned Beef Hash* Spanish Rloe. Meat Pie. * Potato 8alad. Tomato Salad. - Gingerbread. Cookies. Cakes; . Doughnuts. 3lie proletariat was not in evidence. Tha premiere of the kitchen might have been the opening of the opera season. Limousines and electrics lined up In front of the kitchen and the beauty and chivalry of the aristocratic village were all present. Among the first to draw up In their electric coupes were Mrs. William S. Carson and Mrs. D. E. McMillan. They departed with a basket containing some tomato salad, gingerbread, baked ham and banana cream pie. There next drew up in their limousines, with their chauffeurs waiting outside with lips smacking, Mrs. Ulysses 5. Grant, wife of Dean Grant of Northwestern university; Mrs. ltufus C. Dawes and Mrs. M. H. Dawes, who departed ^ith full baskets. ° In their wake came many more, mostly personages in the Blue Book. Then the university co-eds, attracted by alluring y reports concerning the doughnuts and gingerbread, began to arrive. Over at Phi Delta Theta house the students had been having many difficulties In the matter of cooks, and had determined to do their own cooking. That very day the Sigma Alpha Epsllons Were guests at the Phi's house. A large quantity < of uncooked edibles were procured. After numerous efforts, the only commodities which proved amenable to the culinary treatment of the fraternity cooks were beans. The guests were lukewarm in their appreciation. Following the dinner the dlsh-washlng began. Eight plates were broken. The fraternity house looked like a shambles when It was all over. En masse the youths went to the community kitchen for dinner. It appears that the community kitchen is offering really toothsome dainties. The tomato salad created a sensation and one enthusiastic Durchaser said: "It looks like slices of tomatoes lying on lettuce leaves, but it Is really a tomato gainHn, with chopped celei'y inside, poured into little molds. There's dressing on top and little balls of cottage Cheese with a dash of paprika alongside, and it's good. 14cnow, for I sampled It; 1 couldn't wait* to get home." The "best cook In Evanston"--Mrs. James Wells ---came in and took a lot of It away with her, and then Mrs. James Patten ordered the rest to serve to her Red Cross workers. Bits of comment like this were to be heard everywhere: Just couldn't wait; I had to taste this gingerbread." ^ " "Isn't the potato Salad delicious?" " "See you tomorrow, Mrs. Klngsley. M» going to hurry home and eat this hash while It's hot." "I couldn't wait. 1 had to bite into this cooky," one woman remarked, crunching into a cogky. "My but It's good!" Speaking of the dinner she purchased, 11 Dawes characterized It as "delicious." Mrs. Eugene Garnett said her meal was "one of the finest home-cooked dinners I ever ate. In nutrition, seasoning and all other points it was perfect." Mrs. Robert D. Cunningham was likewise enthusiastic. "If the success of the kltclien depends on the food, it'll be a huge success," she said. "There isn't a restaurant in Chicago which can offer as fine a home-cooked dinner ss the community kitchen here." Two o'clock found the "community kitchen" pretty much deserted, and the managers of the place checking up on the proceeds of the first day. "We knew we would be successful because Che plan was pretty thoroughly discussed before we began the work# said Mrs. Klngsley, "but we weren't prepared for all the enthusiasm that gieeted us. "I feel sure that the community kitchen will prove a great success," Mrs. Rufus Dawes said. "It will be impossible for several weeks to determine the cost of the meals, cost of operation, and so forth. The work that has been done by volunteers will eventually have to be done by paid workers." Corned beef hash sold for 00 cents a pound, the gingerbread was 5 cents a cakc and the doughniits 80 cents a dozen. The greatest problem now Is to know how aMch food to prepare. We are attending personally to every detail of the kitchen so that we may find out what quantities to prepare and Just how much to charge. "The kitchen Is really on trial now. If it works well, we may turn it over to a business concern to handle, but we will not make the mistake New York did of not having real home cooking. Mrs. M. H. Kennedy, who is one of the best cooks in Evanston, has promised to stay. One of her helpers Is a university graduate, who took a domestic science course--Miss Rachael Madison. Miss Olive Blystad, an Evanston girl, is the other assistant." The container that Is to be used resembles a glorified dinner pall, built in five compartments and Insulated to retain heat for three hours. In the compartments will be placed soup, meat, a vegetable, potatoes and a hot dessert. These will be distributed by auto trucks. Winnetka is much Interested in the plan. Mrs. John R. Dickinson and Mrs. H. J. Orwig of the Winnetka Woman's club visited the kitchen the opening day to see how it worked. "We need such an institution as much as Evanston does," said Mrs. Dickinson. "If it works out In Eveuston we will start one." * Looking at the community kitchen experiment In a broad sense, it Is merely one problem of many which every community has to solve. How long will it be before our American communities take hold of these problems which are. In the last analysis, their own and nobody else's! RINGS CHURCH JELL; IS fBEED Man Locked in Belfry as Result of Joke Perpetrated by Friends. BIG CROWD GATHERS Pastor and Parishioners AreueedFrom Their Slumbers and Forty Motor* ears Attracted by the Noise Made by Seaman. IVaw York.--James M. Howard, pastor of the Bedford Park Presbyterian church, who saw service as a chaplain with the Seventy-seventh division overseas, has been going to bed early siuce his return to America some time ago, and untii 11 o'clock one night recently nothing had occurred to disturb his slumbers. He scarcely dozed off when he dreamed that the bell in the steeple of his church was ringing as though sounding a warning of an attack by hostile airplanes. The dream soon resolved itself into a partial reality, and sitting up in bed he realized that it was In fact the bell In the steeple of his church on the corner of Two Hundredth street and Balnbrldge avenue, the Bronx* and that fully 40 automobiles filled with people were in front, of tne church looking at the belfry. He dressed |ind as he was about to go out of the door met Policeman Charles Hess of the Bronx Park station, whose attention had been attracted by the crowd and the ringing of the bell. Accompanied by the policeman and the sexton of the church, who had also appeared on the scene, the former chaplain let himself Into the building and the trio proceeded to Investigate. Pushing open the door of the belfry he discovered Donald Hobson of 2430 Morris avenue, who recently was released from the navy, and who is one of his own parishioners. In a few words, however, Hobson was able to explain his end of the DAYOFNARROW AND WIDE SKIRT Thotfe^lfo stu«y StvW closely look •pon the full .overskirt gathered in at the bottom as a forerunner of wide skirts, writes a New York fashion correspondent The silhouette has followed the straight and narrow wpy so long that unless there Is a change fashions will become stagnant and there will not be sufficient stimulation to the art and Industry of evolving new clothes to keep It at Its best. Nor will we enjoy the exhilaration that comes from the wearing of something entirely new. The narrow silhouette, *8 well as the wide, appears In collections created by the same designers, and this is bound to fill us with uncertainty in ordering our costumes. At the house of Callot in Paris are shown dresses of the flaring Camargo silhouette, their straight bell skirts fairly bristling with frills cut so that they stand out almost stiffly, and in juxtaposition to these there are Callot gowns so slender in their lines that Grecian draperies are wide compared to them. Many women order both types of frocks, but she who looks into the future and buys her clothes to predate a fashion will give consideration to the wider skirt. , Narrow and Wide at Same Tim* The new skirts puff ' out halfway between the knee and the ankle. There are several ways of creating this effect, which looks as though accomplished by means of a crinoline or a cage. One is by a clever manipulation of drapery; other times the bottom of the tunic is shirred to a heavy cord. There is always a tunic or overskirt cut to flare at the bottom, where it is brought in to a tight, straight fbundaxaiLciv • IT a livui tic UiSicl iUtitHf * these gowns, because the stiffness of the silk aids greatly in accomplishing the desired bouffancy. One black taf* K 1 m Looking Up at the Belfry. case. It seems thst before he enlisted in the navy, two years ago, he had been a prominent member of the Bedford Park Glee club and that upon his return to civilian life his companions had decided that it was time to stage a concert in honor of his safe return- He had been made the victim of a practical joke by his friends. POLICE DOG IS REAL HERO r HOME, SWEET HOME. Some married men have no homes and aoife bachelors have them. The line of excellence of workmanship runs closely parallel to the condition of the worker as to whether he has the Important stimulus to ambition which is furnished to the married and single alike by that finest institution in the world--the home. Thus, the bachelor who lives with his mother and father, or even with a married sister, and the older maa. If a widower, who has a semblance of home life with his children. Is found to be dependable, given to thinking before he takes action, and USBally a better radical than the dweller In a lodg^ tng house. There is nothing in the atmosphere of a lodging house to Inspire a man to better things. From changing lodging houses It is but a step to changing Jobs. And shifting becomes more than a physical matter. It Infects character and makes for moral instability.--{fertiaad Orgenlan. \ INNOCENCE OF PRIMEVAL MAN. W Is a droll passage from "The Orlg»^#% Civilization and the Primitive Condition ofMan," by Sir John Lubbodk: "The whole mental condition of a savage is so different from ours that tt is often very difficult to follow what Is passing In his mind, or to understand the motives by which he is influenced. Many things appear natural and almost self-evldent to him which produce a very different impression on us. 'What!' said a negro to Burton, 'Am I to starve while my sister has children whom she can sell?' When the natives of the Lower Murray first saw pack oxen sorneof, them were frightened and took them for demonfc/with spears- on their heads,' while others thought they were the wives of the settlers, because they carried the baggage" Breaks Leg While Herding Boys Out of Danger of Speeding Automobile. New York.--Bum, the celebrated police dog of the Brownsville station, has been granted a sick leave, so that a broken hind leg, received *in the performance of duty, may mend. Bum was led into the station by Policeman Becker. He refused to allow his escort to carry htm. He stood at attention while Becker made a report of the case and went with Becker to the policeman's home, where he will stay until the leg Is better. Bum was on duty with Policeman Becker In Pitkin avenue, near Bristol street. Some children In Bristol street screamed at the approach of an automobile and Bum dashed out. The children were not hit, but he was run over, and when he got up his left leg was dangling. A surgeon on a passing ambulance set the leg, and the neighborhood veterinary put It In splints. Bum is a French poodle with a long pedigree. He was acquired by the Brownsville station about three years ago. Along Pitkin avenue he tours with his favorites, who are Policemen Becker, Kanuch and Schneidermuller. He rides in passing automobiles, street cars and is always on the petrol wagon when Itjnnkes Its rounds. He Is Indispensable In keeping crowds back at fires." Pitkin avenue merchants recently presented Bum with a sweater coat. Scanlon Is Recovering. New York.--"Where do you get thst old stuff?" ssked Pat Scanlon as he swung on a holdup man who was holding up a saloon for the second time. Highwayman swung back with a .44. Hospital says Scanlon Is recovering. He Left Thers. Boston.--Pandemonium reigned when a man seeking a building permit entered a dressmaking class room in the dt) hall. The models used screens and blankets, while the mere man beat a retreat.. Drees of Black Taffeta With Wired Collar and Undersleeves of White Net and Belt of Chinese Blue Ribbon. tion skirt, for fashion still Insists that skirts must be narrow at the ankle, and no matter how voluminous they are above, they must decrease to a mere band at the hem. Gown of Black Taffeta, Featuring tha Fitted Bodice, Which Is Taking th# Place of the Chemise Lines. Th# Marie Antoinette FWHI la of French , Mull. feta frock is corded In an unusmtl >- way. The cords take the form of halt hoops, beginning at the bottom of th#' s k i r t a n d c u r v i n g u p w a r d t o w a r d t h a ' , waist This silhouette alms to give aa ^ effect of extreme flatness both In tha A back and front and a pufflnesa at tha sides. • In the skirt just described the front- Is flat solid cording, with the taffet^ setting out stiffly at either side. Thf flat appearance In the back is emphfffc V sized through the skirt being draw$ . toward the front by means of the shl# ^ rings. The skirt is considerably longet / in the back than In the front. On one of the most striking costume® showing the new silhouette the tight underskirt has two large wheem formed by shirring narrow pieces cjt • taffeta and setting them in clrculaf" , fashion on a plain skirt. The samfttreatment is carried out on the sleeve* Mellow Brown Comes Once More. We have always thought of brown as a winter color. Now It Is being used for our summer clothes, and used with . enchanting effect. A new shade cl brown, that very soft and mellowbrown tone seen in the roots of tree* suggests hitherto unthought-of colat combinations. A tendency toward ft profuse use of this color appeared Art# In the French hats that came over th|l spring; many models from the beipt Paris modistes were in this shade. Now one sees on Fifth avenue in the morning shopping hours ever so many smart women wearing accordlon-plalfc ed skirts of brown checked or plaidef woolen, with short coata^ftt serge. ^ | • Vv • ,4 'i The Mermaid Dress I want to tell yoH about one other dress that a Fifth avenue designer has Just made. It reminds one of a mermaid. The upper part is of iridescent spangled silver cloth that drapes loosely around the body and low on the hips. It gleams like a shiny body thst has Just come out of the ocean Into the moonlight. The lower part Is black satin, which Is very tight around the ankles and creeps away into a little fishtail train that undulates along behind one. Even the realm of parasol" has been invaded by new materials. The same feeling for the use of wintry fabrics in this summer's clothes that we have seen noted in both hats and gowns Is expressed in parasols. Black velvet frequently is used for them; these are lined with thin silks of contrasting tone, blue being the color most often used. Ostrich Finds New Place for Plumage. The French craze for the use of ostrich feathers appears in parasols as well as hats. Many of these Imported by American firms are of taffeta bordered with ostrich. Oliters have tlM. three little Prince of Wales ostrlcfi tips placed at the end of each rib. and' still others have the terrule encircled with • feathers. Very lovely are sunshades of old* fashioned chintz, such as might havif been used by the beauties of pre-reva»t lutlonary days. These make charming garden parasols. The French always make their par^ asols tub shape, but we in America do not like these shapes as well as tha larger English ones, because they interfere with our headgear. A tulK shaped parasol is made of old blue : georgette crepe over bright red taffeta and Is outlined with red roses. Both Cloisonne and Jade are used for the handles of parasols. For the cou» try there are some charming Japanese umbrellas that are very short--much shorter than the diminutive English rain or shine umbrellas that we have been using. They are almost Uke a miniature parasol that may be tucked under the arm when going out for a walk. "YOUNG" OR "OLD" CLOTHES Age Limit Is Not Drawn on Styles or Colors; Are Smart for Children or Parents. Clothes for the young girl, and even for the very little girl, reflect the style features of the grown folks' garments to a marked degree. Coats, capes, dresses and even hats Indicate that the discrepancy in generations is decreasing; old folks are growing younger, donning the more youthful styles, and young folks are attaining dignity. There are no colors and styles that are "young" or "old." They are now simply "smart" for all ages, and often the youngsters can "put It over" on their so-called elders by being just a little more daring In the smartness of line or style feature than the grown folks. Capes and dolmans are perhaps the most notable example of this fact that Children's and women's clothes are similar, if not Identical in style. These wraps for the- young, and even for the very little girl, are made on the same loeee dqjman-like coat line* or tha cape-coat style, sometimes with belted front, sometimes with round cape line* and silts for the hands. Military styles of capes made of navy serge with scarlet brass buttons are favored In all from those for the youngster just enough to hold a cape erect, to tha: school miss who flings back one over her shoulder to display the lining. Materials for these wraps, too£ ar« In many cases the same ss are sd for women's wraps, serge, taffeta and broadcloth. .*4' ,uj" 1" ;'4 v.v.|4 . > 4 sport hat that a combination o(v , and mllun hemtk A troduced is made of heavy batavia cloth The cloth is treated with stiff' and Is stretched firmly over the top a large sailor or Manila color Is with facings of different hues. Ti jay blue, henna and navy are effect!v< ly combined with the shade of cloth. Novelty ribbons to match thg facings are used as bands, and are tan Ished with bows, cockades and S!MU# #1