Show I For the th Girl Who Wants to Earn II I I I Possibilities of the Social Season i 1 WONDER If It th girl who wants to tomake tomake toI I I make money has ever thought of using the social and club season aa aaa a aa II IIa a means of making extra money Just Ju t now in big cities or in smaller you hear much of card clubs literary clubs dancing parties afternoon teas te the Uie wh rl of the season seon is well begun Let Letus Letus Letus us study its possibilities where the girl with a will ill Is i concerned Every social and nd every club enter entertainment entertainment entertainment must have its touch of hoe hos hospitality ho In the way of refreshments Every hostess and every committee reach the point where they would be glad to have certain details taken on off ott their minds and hands handl Think of the opportunity this gives you y u In no matter what line your talent lies How to Go About It Suppose you live Uve in a big house the kind with center hall hail halland halland hailand and long Jong double parlors or with one big parlor why do you not go right into the entertainment business Rent your parlors to hostesses and clubs lear Clear the rooms of superfluous furni furniture furniture furniture ture and tint the walls a soft neutral tint against which pretty gowns will willbe willbe willbe be in color harmony You can tint the v valls alls yourself to save expense but re remember remember remember member that certain strong colors will spoil poil the effect of certain other colors cobra You will want to change the colors of your our floral 1 decorations to suit seasons and occasions and that Is 18 another rea reason reason reason son why you must not have a bright background t Buy Bu or 01 rent folding and chairs If It ingenious you OU can manu manufacture manufacture manUfacture facture yourself with board for the tops tope and for legs Cover over the tops with muslin or felt In Invest j vest Ye t a part of your capital in pretty Inexpensive china if your own china chinai i loset Joset will not supply enough and do donot not liot forget the sherbet glasses elL These are re always in demand and you can doubtless s rent them many times over You can get very pretty plated forks fork and spoons in artistic patterns Little by b little you ou can add edd the 4 napery embroidering It with your mono monogram monogram monogram gram or your favorite flower or if you give gin your our parlors a name with the Ini in Initial intal tal of that Special parlors parlor equipped with the tables chairs and service for entertaining have become a need where space is scarce carce and are welcomed by bythe bythe bythe the hostess hOlten to whom entertaining means a deal of work worry and a complete readjustment of ot the domestic machinery Renting Rooms Large parlors with little furniture are area a pretty good asset for any girl to have There are many man times when she can rent them to the kindergarten teacher for mr rehearsals for readings recitals and ii 1 of women lecturers Mothers would rather rath have bave their sons and daughters attend dances given In Inthe the parlor of a house than in a public liall alI Big storerooms and attics may be rented for the storage of oC furniture I know one young woman who conducts 4 a storage store house hiring the teams and taking care of a big business As book bookkeeper bookkeeper keeper in n a storage house she was given much nuch more than her share of work by byth bythe th the lazy manager She he did not oot complain but spent her hertIne time tIne learning the work and making friends of the teamsters and patrons patrolS and saving her money The next thing sh she h did was to establish her own busi bust business business ness and she is succeeding well One gIrl owning a fine roomy brick barn Tined lined Its walls with Uh felt for winter put In n a big Wg stove cleaned and Ind nd decorated It t called It The Barn and rented it ItS S ery successfully for social affairs affaire and entertainments In the summer she rented it to an artist and his wife Two other girls of my acquaintance rent their old oki barn to neighbors for storing their autos auto Big houses and big barns ran can be turned to account in many ways Decorating But there are many more lines fines of work for you If you decide to try the entertaInment bureau There are the decorations You can plan these and make the artificial ones including the candle andle and lamp shades You can gradually accumulate palms ferns and rubber plants and baskets of trailing vines Ines which you can rent to others Just juet Justas as the florist does doe To keep the good goodwill goodwill goodwill will of the florist if there is I one you i ian an tell him dm frankly your plans plan and ask him to allow allew you to work with him he furnishing the plants and flowers and you arranging them Study artistic and suitable decorations and discuss them with u ith your patron but always keep back some kome little detail as a surprise If there is a guest of honor bonor decorations In the favorite color are a delicate com corn compliment compliment I will wilt not go into detail about all the favors scorecards and odds and ends which make an affair unique Should you hit upon a happy idea Ideo for score scorecards scorecards scorecards cards you might work your way into furnishing them to stationers When I stand over a case calle of unattractive favor cards cant in a shop I sometimes think What a pity more girls with real talent and originality do not try tr their hands bands at these thea the e If you went to your friends frienda in your own town and towns near you and ad offered to supply the favors or decorations or to suggest them do you not believe that your our otter offer would be M hailed with delight Catering If you have any knack at all at pre pro preparing preparing paring dainties the catering for parties will appeal to you First there are the dainty bonbons matching the decora decorations decorations in color colora a wide held field for experiment experiment experiment ment with fruit and vegetable flavor flavorings flavorings ings and colorings Dig up grand grandmothers grandmother grandmothers mothers mother old cookbooks and try her recipes for making ambrosia nectar and andall andall all alt the old delicacies See how bow many new things you can evolve There Is a host hoat of candied candled fruits and flowers that hostesses hoates ea love Jove to serve in cut glass or fine china compotes competes for afternoon tea Each hostess strives for something new newin newIn newin in the way of little cakes tarts or bbs bis biscuits cults culta Set out for example to coat dif different different different ferent kinds of fruits cakes and crack crackers crackers ers era with chocolate or colored icings and you will be surprised at the delights you can manufacture Originate cakes candies candles and salads Plan little menus which can be carried out with little expense After all your own garden and pantry hold the mate materials rials usia necessary to make good foods I 1 Ican Ican can not make things good zol enough for parties you say Find a good caterer and engage her services then remembering remembering remembering bering to always give work to others you can not do yourself yours lf The fame of one who can furnish h dainty decorated cakes and salads goes abroad I know a woman in a southern BOuthern city who orna ornaments ornaments ments meats cakes with flowers of Icing and was urged by ladles who visited her city and liked her cakes to establish a branch shop in a northern city The Field Is Big There is I a chance chalice for a real artist in decorating dishes and studying the color form and harmony of fruits and salads lads Luncheons wedding breakfasts and teas give the caterer and decorator the best beet As society reporter I heard many ladles ladies including g the wife of a former president of the United States lamenting that more young women with artistic sense did not enter this field held plan menus and decorations for the hostess see that the tables and parlors were properly arranged and everything in readiness in the kitchen I In connection with her entertainment bureau the ambitious girl must not I neglect to study forms of social eti etl etiquette etiquette I quette qu tte to advise advis puzzled hostesses to know the correct wording of invitations i and the little points that many hostesses dread Here too comes in the work i of making out lists and addressing in invitations Invitations and delivering them impress Impresa a small boy in neat clothes Into service ser service I ice for this ideas for announcements I of various sorts getting up programs selling lIing advertising space on programs all aU these can be taken in charge Winter and Summer Work The willing girl will find a large field fieldin in selecting prizes for tor card clubs and contests or games She can haunt the home shops and send for catalogues from dealers in other towns Cotillion favors should bring fame and money to the clever girl I knew a little German woman a street seller of ot artificial flow flowers era ers who was grabbed up by a cotil cotillion cotillion cotillion lion club of generous young people and i kept busy and happy making wonderful things of boats muffs wands hats garlands flowers When Then summer rolls around you ou can move your entertainment scenery out Arrange your lawn and your porch for You will wil need ne fresh fr white covers for your tables table and chair ctr backs to protect dainty gowns lanterns big rugs or can canvas cn canvas vas va if tables tb are set t upon the lawn There are many little litte details which the observant hostess does doe not neglect You have a good chance hance to help your boy boyfriends by boyfriends friends Interest them in forming a string orchestra or mandolin and guitar club and engage enge them to play for your parties Here too to you have a chance to help a 8 girl friend frend who is musical by engaging her to play pla One young youn woman a widow with wih two sons cultivated cult cultivated vat her ber talent for playing plying good goo dance music musi and had her son sn taught to play the th drum and the two are kept busy with wih engagements In all al your dealings remember to go over each step carefully with wih your patron making sure sur that you ou each ech un understand Understand alike alke The wisest way is draw drw up a written memorandum in duplicate and submit it to her before he you go ahead You will wi have to use us tact in do doing doIng ing lug this this Many women dismiss busi business busin business ness n matters maters with a shrug but are quick to take offense over discussions of prices pric and payments Strike alt all your Yur bur bargains brins first have the money moe mone question so 8 clearly understood that there cn cn be beno b beno no feelings It I takes tae courage to have money deal dealing del lug ing with friends frends but you must make makeup up your mind min to keep kep your yur head hed clear cler smile smie and be pleasant about it i and know absolutely that you are ar In the Ule right Beware of the th friend who says s I Oh dont bother me with prices just go ahead aad and do the best bt you can and andI a I know it will wi be b all al right Nine times out of ten tn she is the th one to complain and feel fel that she sh Is being bin cheated chete no matter what price is charged her case c of the t baby bb the O represents the discounted value of his future earnings taking into account acot also aI the te cost of the te teca care ca given him until he Is able to look lookout lookout out ot for tor himself himsel and ad the cost cst of the te care car which may Ray have to be b accorded him in old ol age It ag is estimated that about aut 20 babies were we born br in the United Unie States last year I and that or 15 I per cent of that mO 1 p number died did within the th year To find the value of dollars dolar and cents of this ap appalling appalling palling lose 10 of human life you only have hae to multiply 90 0 by It I amounts to tomO 3 mO Add to t this an average of 25 2 apiece spent for medical care and other attention and you pile pie a few more mor mil mu millions mi lions on to the total loss lose 10 Physicians who have hav gone straight to the th heart hert of the matter mate believe that BO i O Oper per pr cent if not more mor of this tremendous waste of life Ufe could be b prevented They fix fL the th blame bla partly on social sal conditions and partly ply on the indifference or negligence genes gence genc of health officiate officials They The declare that the problem could be solved by the registration of births birthe and In connection with that that the instruction of the th mothers in the proper care car of the babies the en enforcement forment of the th regulations which pre prevent prevent prevent vent the contamination of the food foo and the water supply and ad of those tos which se secure secure cure cur improved Improve housing conditions ns with wih an adequate supply of fresh freh air and sun sunlight sunlight light for rich and ad poor pr alike alke These Tee phy physicians ph physicians Ican who work among the babies say sy that if a pestilence were to carry car off only as many babies as die from I Ithe Ithe the ordinary lne Illnesses l every eer year ear the entire country countr would clamor camor for fo remedial measures But people ppl are used to see se tag big I the little hearses hars on the street and nobody noby gets excited over them There Ter is another feature that emphasizes emphasizes sizes lizs the te extravagance of this waste or of baby life When an adult adul recovers from froman trman an illness it I usually leaves lave him with low lowered lower lowered ered er vitality A recuperative pow powers powen ers era are ar much greater geter A baby may be bO b dragged down to deaths deats very door dor by summer drag lumEr complaint but the disease leaves leve no n weakening wakening handicap If I he b recovers he is likely to be b in the running the next year for the th prize for the plumpest healthiest youngster in the baby show The Th total amount spent by the United States government to protect cattle from disease dis counts up Into the te millions milons Bas Basing BasIg lug ing Ig the estimate on the appropriated appropriated for the bureau of animal indus industry Industry industry try of the bureau burau of agriculture for the th current fiscal year not less le than or 00 has hs been expended in the thelast thelast last las five years year by the federal govern government ment to protect animals from disease or pr p deterioration Of the sum set st apart for fo forlI 1909 lI 00 is for meat inspection alone and a large larg slice of the th rest rt goes g to toward toward ward ard the suppression of bovine tuberculosis tuberculosis losis los and the improvement of the th milk mik supply preventive measures of incalculable lable benefit to human kind But while such auch luch expenditure conserves public pubic health in the end it ft usually has hal been sanctioned Inton at the beginning because baus important corn com commercial c mercial interests were er at stake When Vh a public pubic health helth measure mear was up for fo die dk in an Indiana legislature recently cne of the legislators said sid that he had been requested over oer o er and over again agn by his constituents to lo vote for fo laws to pro protect pr tort hogs hog from f cholera and trees tr from scale lale but he b had never before been asked aske to vote for fo a measure to protect women and nd children from preventable disease dl Since the world began the crop of ba ha babies b bies ble has h been fairly fairy constant T The quaI Ity Ky of the th crop the diseases that nave carried off ot hundreds hundres of thousands every year have never caused cu the slightest flutter futer of the te 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