WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 7 August 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). I —« "■]«£ NEW YORK WOMEN'S NOVEL DEPASTURE. Working on the hypothesis that time is money, and that the New York people generally are hard pressed for this cash equivalent, two young women , have opened a unique, brokerage office for the purpose of saving other persons' time in an expert way. First of all, be it understood that theirs is a studio, in effect, not an office. The main room for receiving orders and meeting clients who are short of time is the large front part of an old-fashioned brown stone house not many blocks from the shopping district. Its decorations are of a kind that appeal at once to the caller. Decoration being one of the many departments handled by the Time Savers, the example of work set forth in their own surround--1 ings has been designed specially to interest clients.

THE MORNING'S MAIL. But the morning's mail is, after all, of first importance, because it shows what sort of success the Time Savers are having. It also shows what sort of persons want to save time, and what they consider the details of life which can best be handed over to the experts. Here is a letter picked at random: Dear Miss •, I am sending my daughter, aged 10, to New York on her first visit. Unfortunately, I find at the last moment that'neither I nor my husband will be ablo to accompany her, and as she does not know the city, and has never travelled without us, she must, of course, be chaperoned. Will you kindly look after her while she is there. Let her see the interesting features of the city, do a little shopping, and send her back to us at the end of the week. — Yours sincerely, .

"This is from a woman Whom 1 never saw, but she has heard of us through friends, and wants us to look after her daughter," explained the Time Saver. "But what will you do with her?" queried the visitor. "You are not going to run a boarding house or an hotel?"

PLANNING THE WEEK. I "We will meet her on the train and take entire charge of her during the week. As we have never seen the girl, we shall have to arrange a set of signals whereby we shall be able to recognise her when she steps off the train. That will be easy. A flower or a veil of a certain color, or some little mark to catch the eye of the professional chaperon. Then we wiil escort her to her stopping place in the city—not a board-ing-house, ,but the home of some family we know, who will provide her with creature comforts at a reasonable rate. Each day we will plan out exactly what she is to do. When she is to shop she will be accompanied by a professional shopper, who knows where to buy the best for the least money, and can do it all, in the shortest possible time. Then, for the concerts and the opera, if she is interested in the musical offerings,, we i shall have- someone who will accompany her and explain the entire Wagner theme to her, point out the beat ithings in the score, have something to say about the singera in the cast, and tell her the story of the opera if the girl is unfamiliar with it. UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS.

"A girl who wants to buy her trousseau here, and has a limited time to do it, may come to us, and we will display everything our shopper considers suitable for the amount of money to be spent on it right here in our studio. We will buy anything or procure anything from a town house to a country bungalow, from the favors and refreshments for a. children's party to a firstclass cook. Our staff will tell a, woman; what to wear and where to purchase it, or execute the order for her. They will accompany her to the dressmaker, and see that her fittings are properly done. They will choose her hats for her, and go with her to the milliner's to have them tried on. Certain women, professional or society women, are even too ruslied at this Reason of the year to attend to making their own appointments with their physician or dentist, their photographer or legal adviser. We will assume all the 'bother of attending to these matters for her, will make the appointments, attend her, if she likes, and see that everything is done with the least possible loss of time." In other words, anything that requires time in the accomplishing may be turned over to these experts if one has other and more important ways of employing the hours] allotted to the busy man and woman of to-day. " ] HOUSE DECORATION, TOO.

The Time Saver weeded out of the batch of letters a dozen or more pertaining to the home, its decoration and re-furnishing. 'But you can <K> all this?" asked the interested visitor.

"Of course we can," replied the Time Saver. "This is one of our strongest points. We can furnish a color scheme for decorations, restore old furniture and hangings, re-decorate your walls — in fact, attend to any of the professional duties of the artistic decorator, and we are sure of pleasing our clients, whether they want a simple little mountain bungalow outfitted or an ocean palace adorned."

The n'.lvr letters in the morning's mail seemed to deal with requests to revise manuscripts and find publishers, to investigate genealogies, to furnish lists of schools of art, music and drama, of colleges, universities and seminaries. | "Don't forget to look at our dietetic kitchen before you go," admonished the Time Saver, and she led the way to the room adjoining and displayed, not without pride, the most complete little kitchen imaginable. "This is where we have prepared all kinds of nutritious and wholesome foods for invalids and convalescents," she explained, "and it is all done under the supervision of an excellent dietetic cook and under the orders of a physician." And all this business is being managed by two young women, whose brains are to supply the ways of saving, not hours, but days and weeks for other people who are too rushed to attend to the doing of it themselves.

NURSES FOR FACTORIES.

An experiment that is proving successful in America is the engagement'of' trained nurses by the owneTa of big shops and factories. It has been customary for a good while amongst" big firms, both in England and in other parts of the world, to have special doctors, to whom employees can be sent in times of illness, the firm paying the fees; but several employers in the United States have lately tried the experiment of having a trained nurse always on the premises. The nurse becomes friendly with the workers, and by close observation sees that they keep fit for work, and do not put off seeking medical advice until they are really ill. For instance, in one establishment where such a nurse was employed she discovered that' one girl was working at a machine which Was causing spinal disorder—a thing which would not otherwise have been noticed until the mischief was past repair. Unsuspected cases of tuberculosis are also discovered by the nurse, and numerous small ailments, about which a doctor would seldom be consulted, are found out in time for successful remedies.

OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. ♦■ (By "Cock o' the North"). Readers must be lenient with me for my absence during the past week or two, and not to be surprised if my contributions during the next six or eight weeks are somewhat erratic, as I find I have done what many another has done before me, viz., bitten off a little more than I can chew.

Now, to proceed with our subject of feeding. We will take No. 2 methodgrain in the morning and moist mash at night, The morning mash has very serious drawbacks for the commercial poultryman, and the evening mash has all the same drawbacks, with more added. The advocates of this system claim, that it does the birds good by giving them a full warm meal to go to roost on, thus keeping them warm for the night, The uninitiated read and forthwith adopt this, with disastrous results. If any reader will only ask himself this question, viz., which will make the fowl warmer to go to roost on, a warm mash at night or a feed of grain in deep litter which will compel the birds to scratch for an hour or more before they can get it all, thereby putting them all in a glow and the blood circulating freely? I should unhesitatingly say the latter.

Again, let any reader go out to the I fowlhouse at, say. 11 p.m., and take iny bird which has been fed in this way, and the crop will be found to be completely empty. This means that the bird has to pass the seven or eight remaining hours of a bitterly cold winter's night, which are well known to be the coldest and dreariest portion of the night, without any sustenance to support it, and, as a result of the digestive organs being inactive, the circulation slows down, with a consequent lowering of the temperature, and when the bird gets off the perch in the morning she is faint with hunger and becomes an easy prey to any sickness or disease which happens to be about, while the grain-fed birds come down from the perch fresh and strong. This is as near as I can impartially traverse the two methods of feeding, termed moist-mash methods, and I unhesitatingly say that they are costly to use when viewed from "a commercial standpoint. No. 3 method, all grain in deep litter, with animal food in hoppers or supplied in the form of green bone, meat or livers. This method does not call for much comment from me. It is an exceedingly expensive method of feeding, and does not give the same return in eggs as a ration of which a portion is fed in the form of meals or ground grains.

For a fancier who does not mind ex-, pense I doubt if there is a better system' of feeding in existence, as the birds are always in the best of health and look splendid by the constant exercise in finding the grain in the little. In eggproduction, however, the aim is to give only the amount or' exercise which is necessary to perfect health, but any beyond this is simply wasting the elements in the ration which go toward the production of eggs, but under a method of this description is diverted to suppl energy and repair the wear and tear o. muscle and sinew used in taking such protracted exercise as the "all grain" method calls for.

No. 4 method, the hopper system, is the exact reverse of No. 3. As the former calls for too much exercise, so the latter calls for none at all. In my opinion, it is the worst method of feeding for any breeds, with the possible exception of certain strains of white Leghorns, which simply will take exercise whether you want them to or not.

It is also an exceedingly costly system of feeding, as was demonstrated by the dry-feeding test at Hawkesbury College, New South Wales. The different grains and ineals being kept in hoppers at all times before the birds, they can help themselves to the food they like best, which is wheat, the most expensive grain one can feed with, but at the same time a necessary grain in proper proportions to others. Almost any birds will lay poorly on this ration, and those which do not would be exceedingly brilliant layers under another and a sensible method.