Show t I Housekeepers and the Parcel Post jt w I By Sophie Irene Loeb I t t i Copyright hl 1 1013 ia l by br r Itt Tress Publish b 10 Ins big company Now en Tort rot World Worl ND na now DOW that Uncle Sam has come como A Into the business of or carrying our packages package up to eleven pound pounds It Is estimated that this will bo a means ns of eliminating the middleman and amid alleviating aPe alle the high cost of or living Already the maths malls ar arm are flooded with I all kinds of or produce direct from tho the farmer and bid fair to increase this method of or delivering dell goods oos at nt direct cost coat Ire from the farm tarm Undo Sam am is not in business particularly par par- to make mone money but rather to servo us This new innovation if It taken advantage 0 of an and If Ir studied in inthe inthe the direction of economy by tho the housewife housewife house house- wife wIt will bo be a a. source of or saving saving- that at present is unrealized I had occasion occa occa- skin sion to see some of oC tho tue f system In Europe this summer Joy Why h bless you ou the folk on the tho other side of or the tho Atlantic could not got get along along- at all without parcel post They have ha it down 1071 to such a a. system that time the they can even en send live iivo babies through h tho mall mail Yes ono one was sent I I from L London and was promptly delivered 1 ered to its destination Several kinds of ot live lI animals Including bees aro are sent If It properly packed The Tho big retail stores In n London avail a themselves of oC tho the parcel po post t for delivery delivery de delivery de- de livery of or goods The Time rates rate are as as aB they will Ill bo here l later ter on In InGerman Germany German where th the rates aro even cheaper time the college boys bos send their soiled linen home to be washed and amid ItIs Itis it itIs Is returned to them in tho the same samo way Over there It is dally daily assuming more growth The They now havo have an agricultural agricultural tural parcel post too Flower growers growers growers grow grow- ers can send end full length orchids and long long- stemmed roses by parcel post In Iii Germany the farmers ship to tho the cities clUes their butter and eg eggs vegetables and flowers to actual consumers thus competing directly with tho the retail provisionIng provisioning pro pro- visioning visioning- establishments of ot tho the city It Thousands of or families In Hamburg re receive receive re- re daily dalh- their pat of fresh butter from tho the parcel postman In th smaller cities the regular portman postman acts In that capacity 1 The farmer visits the city about once j ja a a. year his 1118 customers and returns re- re re 1 Tc-l Tc turns home feeling that imi his trade trado will Trill 5 hi b bo s served Just as regularly as 36 thoU though 11 jf he lie were living right in lh the thA city etty Think what pure food tood wo ivo might get direct direct- from tho farm tarm right here heie It would J certainly lat alleviate the high cost of or livIng liv- liv 11 1 j In ing for In this timis case time tho commission I lon ot of of-J of tho the middleman would t be bo saved Would you ou b believe lIco It ft One billion dollars dollars' worth oC or product produce goes to waste yearly In tho United l States let for th the tho i want ant of or proper transportation from th tha tha-j tha l' l farms Tho Tim great Commoner William WilliamE J E. E Gladstone near the close ose of or his life lite said The postoffice savings saving bank and aid parcel post are aro the most moat Important Institutions which v hD have e been created ted inthe in the last fifty years for tor the time welfare of of the people people- I consider tho timo act which t called the institution into existence Is the most useful and fruitful of or m my long r career f r During DurIn the summer as you travel ti in nr tho rural districts thousands thousand of apples are are seen strewn about on the ground going to waste Walte Think of ot the co cost t of or 1 apples in the tile city of or New York and what a box box of these would Voul mean I every overy week Weel coming b by po post t to a 3 family tam fain ily of ot children on the east side It would behoove eve every vor hou housekeeper to become acquainted d with the I parcel i po post t In this direction n And In th growing season 1 If she sho finds a n. farm j I nearby sho she may ma- mahle have e her box of at berries berries ber ber- ries and aud her bun bunch h of or string boans for tor j i dinner in the evening o picked ed that very that very ety morning which Is th hardly possible with elt city produce And she he may even get I 1 timings things at a a. lower cost oost to tho the resulting t pleasure and health of ot her family It ItIs Itis i Is a new ne Inno innovation in America but s certainly h has proved a a. most economical i first aid to tho the housekeepers in other countrIes es k- k i |