housewives

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called My Kitchen: International, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Mrs. Julian Heath was the founder and president of the National Housewives League, New York, "organized to uphold the enforcement of laws which affect food supplies, the family health, the cost of living, and to bring about necessary legislation in these matters. The movement is educational, defensive and constructive." Mrs. Charles E. Griffin was the organization's secretary.

LOC -- "Julian" is misspelled in your title.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the pair: Mrs. Heath may have claimed to be a housewife, but in fact she was an executive, and a magazine editor.

An excerpt from "The Great American Market" article in Housewives League Magazine published in November 1915; " WHILE the committee was at work it had been decided that as soon as the markets had been discovered a Market Day should be proclaimed; and that housewives should be asked to take their baskets and visit the most convenient one, while a delegation from the League should make a tour of them all. When it was discovered that there was only one public market in the city the proposed Market Day became a Washington Market Day. ... "The third of April was selected as the date for the great event. The Market was scrubbed and put into gala array for the occasion, and as there was no place for musicians on the floor a platform was built for them up under the roof. Each dealer also laid in a supply of market baskets, and every housewife who made a purchase received one to carry it home in. "As it was a new thing in those days for women to go to market the newspapers were delighted to give space to the story, and the following call to the housewives received wide publicity : "Wednesday, April 3, has been declared a public Market Day. "Please be at Washington Market between 10 and 12 A. M., to demonstrate to the City Fathers that the women of New York are in earnest in their demand for more public markets. The Washington Market Association is to welcome us. "Spread the news. "Secure all the recruits possible. "Two thousand women responded to this call, the Mayor and Superintendent of Markets also accepted invitations to be present, and the whole place swarmed with reporters and photographers. ... "Not only was Washington Market Day the event of the season locally, but the fame of it was spread abroad throughout the length and breadth of the land and became a large factor in the movement for public markets which has since swept the country. With the exception of the butter boycott, nothing that the League has ever done has attracted so much attention. All over the country women began to study the market question, and personal marketing became the fashion." www.archive.org/details/housewivesleague00housrich