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Laufbinf." h Mys, "Into tb. world blew
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Ruaaiyal.
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With mpact than w da mlaUtw
Ta our rroif t
8hakpara.
Sex War Talk
Is Foolish
Fiction
God Divided the Race In
Two and Man or
Woman Cannot
Change It.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
An American correspondent, writ-
ing from London about the English
labor situation, threatens us with a
"sex war." It is safe to say this
gentleman never wrote what is
known as a "best seller," and that a
knowledge of human naturt plays
no part in his journalistic equip
ment. The bugaboo that has terrified
him into prophesying sex warfare
with its doleful accompaniment of
"no homes" and "no population," is
nothing more serious than groups
of English women dressed suitably
for the heavy work their country
demanded of them during the war.
If they had worked in mills and
factories or on buses and street rail
ways in their good old reliable georg
ettes and high-heeled slippers, he
wouldn't have said a word but flat-
heeled shoes and trousers 1 he cries
havoc, and lets loose a threat of a
ex war.
Bobbed hair he also considers the
final symbol of celibacy. "Why, if
a woman intends to marry, he
asks, "should she rob herself of her
crowning glory?" Other times,
other fashions the gallants of the
'40s were equally perturbed when
the ladies pinned up their rfcpglets.
Perhaps some kindly missionary
may agree to meet this pessimistic
scribe on his return to New York
and lead him to Greenwich village,
where he will find bobbed hair and
romance to be almost interchange
able terms.
Prophecies About the Bicycle
Twenty years ago pessimists were
saying the same thing when women
adopted bloomers for the bicycle
Yet we had no sex warfare on ac
count of the gentle and antiquated
wheel. On the contrary, with
greater opportunties for comrade
ship, and America's first introduc
tion to the great out-of-doors, there
was a tremendous speeding up of
romance. Open any of the maga
zines of 20 years ago and the bicycle
story was then what the aeroplane
yarn is today in up-to-the-minute
fiction.
If women have been able to en
dure the disadvantages incidental
to sex lack of education, opportu
nity, unjust laws, etc. without re
sorting to sex warfare, it is not
likely that they are going to start
anvthinsr of the sort at present, with
the dawn of better things in sight.
The tragic question that is agitat
ing European women at the pres
ent time is not a concentrated sex
grouch that will commit thf.ni to
celibacy in order to hold war jobs
but the well-grounded fear that
there will not be enough husbands
to go round.
The future of the "third sex." as
the women who have adopted male
attire for faster working conve
nience are called, does not convey
vistas of celibacy to friends of la
bor. They are better informed, they
know through the statistics that
have already been published, just
what proportion of these women are
already married and the mothers of
families. And the figure is a large
Aa tn th unmarried women Who
have gone out into the world as
conductors, bus-drivers, messenger
girls, porters and the like, there is
absolutely no ground fpr presup
posing them vowed to celibacy.
Their chief concern, as has been
stated, is a lively fear of enforced
spinsterhood.
Uniform Highly Becoming.
And as for the uniform being de
terrent of romance, which is( more
attractive the "yeowoman" or
"conductorette" in her neat, service
able uniform or her stay-at-home
sister clad in an unrelated assort
ment of "styles" each of which is
on bad terms with the other?
The strongest passion in woman
is the maternal. It has taken na
ture some millions of years to de
velop this overwhelming impulse
which has been instrumental in
leading the race from the blackest
savagery to such development as
it now boasts. And it is going to
take more than a uniform and the
opportunity of earning a fairer
wage to kill that which is stronger
than life itself.
With new . conditions, brought
about by the war, revolutionary
changes are bound to come. Women
will be forced from home in- greater
numbers to help maintain the fam
ily, but the child will continue, as
from the days of our cave ancestors,
to be the great uplifting influence
in human destiny.
Therefore, when the pessimistic
correspondent says that "the sight
of short-haired women wearing
trousers and doing men's work
with excessive competence and self
assurance" was a shock to him, and
he began to inquire "what is the
future of this third sex?" I, for
one, do not share his panic. Women
working in big industrial centers
even if they bob their hair and wear
trousers are not as appalling to me
as; women withering away in the
sequestered villages of New Eng
land or the south, where they have
no opportunity for either marriage
or self-development.
These are the women who are
likely to become man-haters if
there is such a thing, which I doubt
rather than the women who keep
"sane because they are busy and be
cause their minds come in daily
contact with other minds. The tor
respondent says that in London he
has talked with "trousered conduc
torettes" and that "they show a lack
of sex consciousness which is ap
palling." Why should the conductorette
display "sex consciousness" in tak
ing your car fare or insisting on
"Step lively, please," any more than
the young man bank clerk or waiter
should display sex consciousness
Pockets vs. Pocket books
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TO WALK
WITHOUT
HAVING TO CWRll
A POCKET-BOOK
IS A PLEASURE..
Some pocket-Books ass
Such load To carry
THAT 7 TAKES TwO
STRONG ARMS To MAN A&C
THEM!
THERf IS VNDtNIABU fRtEDOm FOR
'Your hand and Arms WHeKr
You wear, poovsts
a clever dressmaker.
Can stow away pockets
ini any dress
Most of the pocketbooks you see
about town are so enormous and
heavy laden that one cannot help but
think of them as the "white woman's
burden"! Some of these "burdens"
are very attractive, true, for they are
beautifully beaded, or of fine velvet
or brocade. But they are heavy, for
milady carries everything in them
but the kitchen stove 1
An erstwhile respectable pocket
book, made essentially as a single
receptacle for purse and notebook,
is now a young valise in which to
carry not only the purse and note
book but also the powder puff, lip
stick, letters, papers, knitting, novel,
nightie, talcum, comb, in fact all
the paraphernalia tor week-ends and
bathing.
It is a foolish idea that a woman
thinks she must carry all this stuff
around with her daily! The trouble
is that the bigger they make the
pocketbooks the more she will find
to put in them! So why not simpli
fy matters by eliminating the pock
etbook entirely by having pockets in
one's dressesr Not 14 pockets in
one suit, as man has, but just two to
a garment. One pocket for the ab
solutely necessary powder-puff and
small change purse and the other for
the address book and bill folder.
This will be about all you will
need to carry around with you, so
your pockets will not bulge and you
will find a great load lifted off you
by not having to tote around an
extra piece of baggage. Your hands
will be free, for you will not have
an object constantly dangling at
your side, neither will you have to
crook your arm to hold your bag;
?lso your mind will be free of the
constant thought, "I mustn't forget
my pocketbook!" and that will be
a relief!
When milady goes to dance in a
restaurant, for instance, she . must
either carry her pocketbook out on
to the dancing floor (which is in
convenient) or she must leave it on
the table in which latter case she
is subconsciously worrying or think
ing about its safety. When she goes
to the theater or shopping she must
continually remember not to let her
pocketbook slide off her lap, or be
left on the counter. Thus a "thing"
is always taking up valuable space
in her mind and preventing her from
enjoying whatever she is doing to
the full.
Now this is not necessary, and it
shouldn't be so, and the way to
avoid it is to have a pocket in which
to place your purse. Thus you will
always have it with you but it will
never be in your way. The pocket
shuld button so as to lock its con
tents in safely.
The progressive woman is inter
ested in anything that will give her
more freedom she has. gained the
freedom of a natural waist and a
natural shoe, and has gotten rid of
the hoop, the bustle and the train.
The next thing is to free her hand.
Don't go through life with one hand
constantly occupied with a burden.
Man Is Largely
As His Secret
Thoughts Are
By ORISON SWETT MARSDEN
Man is largely what the vibra
tions of this thoughts, his motives,
his prejudices, his mental attitude,
the manner in which he looks on
life have made him. Character is
largely the summing up of the vi
brations which have been playing
through life from infancy.
Every thought, every emotion,
sets the particles in our body in
vibration. All suggestion changes
our vibrations. If our home is a
harmonious, pleasurable place or
one of discord and unhappintss we
will get a corresponding vibration
when under its environment.
Music changes our vibration. We
are exalted at the opera, if we are
a lover of music, because of the
change of our mental vibrations.
We go to church and we get a
change in our vibrations which are
reflective for the same reasons.
Play changes our vibrations from
the tired, wearied, jaded rate to the
refreshing, pleasurable rate. We
lauuh at a joke, at a funny story
it so changes our vibrations that
we shake all over with the laughter.
Our muscles shake, and we go into
convulsions of laughter. While we
when handing out greenbacks or an
omelet. And I believe women would
be highly disgusted and transfer
their patronage from banks and res
taurants that employed young men
who did display "sex consciousness"
during business hours.
Certainly, we are fed up to the
teeth with the girl who, clad in a
flimsy georgette waist, makes every
one in the office realize that she is
there not for professional reasons
but on the more serious business of
hunting a husband.
No, we've had enough of "sex
consciousness;" we are charmed and
delighted if uniforms have toned
down a little of it.
are so hilarious some one, perhaps
brings us a telegram that informs
us our best friend has been killed
in a wreck or that some terrible
catastrophe has occurred, and our
vibrations instantly change to
those of sorrow, distress, lamenta
tion, sympathy. The New Success.
Helpful Hints.
Always wash varnished floors with
cold water.
Tarred paper put in with clothes
keeps away moths.
Kerosene on your dustcloth im
proves the furniture.
The final rinsing of real lace
should be in skim milk.
Dry all left over celery to use
later on for soup.
Honey custard is made with honey
instead of sugar.
Pastry needs a hot oven.
Mark bath towels individually.
Heavy salads make a meal by
themselves.
Egg yolk in warm water removes
c?rtee stains.
Pacifiers cause adenoids and dis
figure mouths.
Borax is excellent to use for
hotisecleaning.
Rub a little soap on the hinges
of a creaking door.
Anything that needs to dry quickly
should be washed on a hot day.
A large coarse cloth dipped in
salt and water will clean cocoanut
matting.
New tinware has a taste and
should be rubbed with lard and
baked before using.
A long handled button hook is use
ful to remove lint from the cutlets
of laundry tubs.
Baking powder bread is supposed
to be more digestible than that made
with yeast.
White vaseline is excellent for
polishing patent leather shoes.
A pot of beef extract is a handy
thing to have on hand for soups.
Cocoa is the better for a tiny bit
of broken vanilla bean in the pot.
A pinch of soda added to fruit
when stewing takes off the acid.
Moisten the knife with water
whenever you cut very fresh cr.ke.
When cutting fresh bread heat the
blade of the knife in hot water.
Army Billets Women With Y. W.
French and English girls work
ing in the offices of the Ameri
can army in Montoir, Tours,
Brest and Paris, during the next
few months, will be billeted with the
American Young Women's Chris
tian association.
These girls are organized into
the army service corps and will be
responsible largely for the clerical
work nesessary in completing the
records of the American army over
seas. The girls at Montoir, 100 in all,
live in Barracks.
As the work so closely resembles
Signal corps work, Miss Vera Shafer,
who was director of that branch of
overseas work, will be in charge. The
plan for the management of the
houses is modeled after that of
Hotel Moderne, where 30 French
girls who, worked in the American
offices at Tours were housed under
the direction of Miss Sarah Watson.
The house was run on exactly the
same plan as Signal corps and Host
ess houses and was a great success,
despite the protest of many French
women that girls of their nationality
could not be allowed the same free
dom that American girls were allowed.
The furs should be taken into the
open air at least once a month while
not in use. Turn them inside out
and beat well on the wrong side.
This will shake up the hairs and
keep them from becoming flattened
and greasy as is often the case.
The Ideal Family Loaf.
Patronize Your
Neighborhood Grocer
JAY BURNS BAKING CO.
EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR
in any climate, in any occupation, you can
keep in top-notch physical condition by eating
Shredded Wheat Biscuit. If you are in
the habit of eating meat three times a dm cut
it out for one meal and eat two Shredded
Wheat Biscuits with milk or cream. It is
a real whole wheat food, healthful.whole
some and satisfying. Deliriously nourishing
with sliced bananas, sliced peaches, or other
fruits. Ready-cooked, ready-to-eat-no
kitchen work or worry.
Shack With Soap
and Towels in
Rheims
Recently there has been set up in
the city of Rheims a primitive hotel,
a shack. In its general features it
does not differ greatly from the
hostess houses established by the
Y. W. C. A. in America and Eu
rope it is gay with retonnes, has
the. many comfortable easy chairs
which have become characteristic
of these houses, and, what is very
important, it has soap and towels.
It is more than likely, however,
that a larger destiny awaits this par
ticular house. The American tour
ist is even now meditating a descent
on the European continent and that
organization plans to make at least
partial provision for the women of
this country who are intending to
go abroad.
As a matter of fact, the shack
in question is already providing for
those American women who are in
service in France and Germany and
who, having a few days' leave pend
those few days in Rheims. There
are other women similarly minded,
but the shack holds only 30 cots,
and so the waiting list grows.
The building itself stands in a
park, sheltered by trees from the
ugly ruins of the city, but only a
short distance from the cathedral
of Rheims; and it is this cathedral,
so long a symbol of men's sacrifice,
which the world of travelers will
mostly desire to see.
Timely Tips.
The lighter the pan' used to bake
bread in a gas oven, the lighter the
bread will be.
Do not make large quantities of
jelly at once. . Smaller quantities
bring better results.
Hot weather is always tolerable if
your nerves are properly fed and
aired and rested.
Use young carrots, grated raw,
occasionally in a simple salad. Noth
ing is more wholesome.
Rub curtain poles with hard soap
before putting them up. The' drap
eries will slip easily, f
A pin stuck through the cork of
a bottle containing poison will pre
vent a tragic mistake.
The women of Russia are said to
be the best needle workers in the
world.
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