Life — October 11, 1917 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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576 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1916, Live's Fees Are Fux has Leen in operation thirty years. In that time it has expended $161,919.26 and has given a fortuight in the countrs ity. children, The Fund is supported extire and voluntary contributions, knowledged in this colum 90 Vreviously acknowledged .. Mrs. Thomas C, Rrown W. P. Worsnop. “ Mother Anne” $10,193.24 Wants a Job As Cook suggestion that con- ] V response to scientious objectors might serve in our armies as cooks, Lire is informed hy a responsible correspondent in Palo Alto (California) that a woman there, who was so wholly a pacifist: before we got into the war as to oppose let- ting high-school boys drill with broom- sticks, has accepted the new situation and volunteered as a cook. Our informant wants a war-job for her. He says she is a woman of fine culture and accomplishment, who has fed satisfactorily as many as one hun- dred and fifty hungry men for months together. She is thoroughly fitted to manage the entire commissariat of an institution, and is at present conduct- ing a varied line of activities with an energy and endurance nothing less than Rooseveltian. and filed papers, but as late as August 3rd has not been able to get into the She has volunteered, war. An Associated Press dispatch says that the British were in the war a year and a half before they began re- cruiting women cooks for the army. Now there are more than six thousand women cooks and waitresses in camps in England. Women have taken over the kitchen service in Canadian and Australian hospitals, and are being em- ployed as instructors in the army schools of cookery. One woman, twenty-two years old, is superintendent of the food service of a camp of twenty-two thousand men. The Palo Alto volunteer will get a job if the war lasts long enough Meanwhile she can be reached through the Superintendent of the Palo Alto Public Schools, Lamb: 1 WONDER IP THIS 18 THE MILLENNIUM O& JUST ty PENISHE Surgery and Such URGERY has taken on an un- this ag 3 its wonted dignity practitioners hold their heads and prices high, and look down upon the humble brethren of the knife with scorn. Time was when the man who shaves and clips, swabs and scents, orates and takes tips, was a person of conse- quence, a companion of kings,a barher- surgeon who bled and cupped and carved and scraped; but to-day, though the heir of the medieval surgeon, the specialist is the one who has his he itage. The barber gets the hair, the surgeon the hide; and the unconsidered trifles neglected by cither fall to the hone-setter, leg-puller, masseur and the mind-curer. Specialization has limited the barber to shears and razor, and given the surgeon the rest of the cut- lery. Death is getting to be so expensive that men may abjure surgery and con- sent to live. We recommend the whole subject to magazines who are shy on muck-raking material, and who want to take a flier in grave diggings and collateral sub- jects. Joseph Smith. Touring with New York NE of the great economic mistakes. of the day in this country is that New York is allowed to stay in the same place. It is constantly being taken apart by contractors and poli- ticians, and the parts reassembled, but it always st ys where it is, People who want to see it, to he run over on its streets, and robbed in its public places, have to come long distances at considerable additional expense. New York is thus the loser. It can only rob a visitor of what he has, and he would have more if New York could come to him There ought not to be much trouble in de ings. Large public structures a placed on wheels. aching New York from its moor- © often It could be taken apart just as it is now, and the sections. reassembled on trucks. By touring the country with it, everything would be gained. The war could undoubtedly be financed with one half of the proceeds. Then New York might learn some- thing. It needs badly to know some- thing, particularly about the rest of the country. If New York could visit Kansas for a few weeks, it might be- gin to have almost human intelligence. comicbooksgeom