Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1932, Page 43

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. FEBRUARY 1932—PART THREE. Woman Who Wants to Turn the Clock Back BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. e meant to the average young woman protection, affection, ure and plenty in which to bear and raise her chii be different today. me it is ng men to But unfortunately it doesn't. as natural for young girls to find do so, and once working and inde- is automatically raised to a higher scale of expectation nother ever knew 0 gooff parents sobriety or Even 5 who made no cause women are freer, and Wwiser they may sometimes make their own terms. turned their daughters over to men morality. That isn't done now be- and less financially dependent, and P is no mere happenstance,” says friend Adela Rogers St. who likes to coin a word and then, “that the world’s t era of unrest, discon- s unbelief, immor- and lawbreaking has i with*the era of so-called free- to be free. d noble duties. e a home, a and to take care whole soul and in the herself on articl i hem as platitudes—a home, babies and husb: viewed every little and gree with the nds of women today, million women in our this smooth summary rythihg desirable i e is much as if one attempted to SS upon men the other side of the ideal. A sweet loving wife, my dear boy, two dear little sons ar two baby daughters, a nice 10-room house with two good servants in it. a small motor- eadily incr income, club hips, an oc t that nicer than to live lor, wasfe your money and in the end die with ceed you?’ to the average t the great and by Miss St. to a alone, F marriage meant young woman wh noble duties mentic John seem to indicate, meant protec- tion, affection, companionship, leisure and plenty in which to bear and raise her children, the world would be differ- ent today. But unfortunately it doesn't. In our economic scheme it is as nat- ural for young girls to find lucrative jobs as for young men to do so, and once working and independent. a girl is automatically raised to a higher scale of expectation than her grandmother ever knew. A hundred yvears ago, if she were one of a clergyman's seven penniless | daughters, the gentle Lily or Alice | leaped at any sort of suitor. He might | be 60, unattractive, or he might be a | curate of 19, on a salary of $700 a year; it made no difference. Alice's parents rejoiced with pitiful com- placency, one of the girls at least was off their hands! In the old diarjes | and letters, in the novels of Miss Carey | and Miss Yonge, Thackeray, Trollope, | the Kingsleys, George Eliot, we find | this shameful situation over and over | again, | The world is different for women | today, but I am very far from agreeing,| with Miss_St. John that it is a less| moral, a less happy world. Many a| seasoned old abuse that has been long decourously hidden behind closed doors | tion or help. We are both happy wives | way from the Austrian border through has been dragged into the open, it is|and mothers, but we have had to take | Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade, and true; we mo longer speak sympatheti- | home-making and motherhood on to- | thence east to unite with international cally of our sons' “sowing their wild |day's larger terms, embroidering stories | thoroughfares oats,” or of the double moral code. Even 50 years ago good parents turned their dayghter over to men who made no | claim to sobriety or morality. That | isn’t done now. It is because women | are freer, and wiser, and less finan- cially dependent, and they may some- | times make their own terms. | * x ok * 'VEN 40 years ago a certain English earl, dying. was able by law to will away his unborn child to a bachelor brother, should that child be a son. The baby was a boy, and the brother and his mistress delightedly took pos- session of him. The defrauded little widow was completely dependent upon this brother-in-law, and she had nothing to say. | Not much justice there. | Then also in England, until a few years ago, there was primogeniture, the Jaw that gave the oldest son everything. Unquestionably the increasing power of women put a stop to that. Who but men could have sponsored a law that put the preservation of the property be- fore ihe rights of sons and daughters? One California woman I knew years ago married an earl, before this law was changed, a real live earl, with a monocle, and a walrus mustache. She bore seven daughters before the son came, and then the law was changed! | And she told me frankly that | hadn't wanted children at all Another dear old note from the past has vanished with the enfranchisement of women. Which one of us, who re- members the small town of the ‘Nineties, or the large town, for that matter, doesn't remember the “bad” district, the “red-light” district? There were two or three solid blocks in every | village and town, and in every city dis- | trict, through which decent women dared mot walk, even in daylight. In some of our western towns the noise lights, fights, shouts of these neighbor- hoods, the smells of whisky, the sing- ing, dancing, gambling. went on all day and all night. And the son bands and fathers of our best families were quite at home there. “Ah, my dear, that's men!” good, gentle, womanly, home-k women murmured regretfully. = An elderly relative of mine told me once that no gentlewoman ever _criticized any man of her family. “They don't like it,” she explained A ND do I think that suffrage for I women has ended drinking and immorality? No, of course not In 2,000 years we haven't managed to convince ourselves that the meek, really are blessed, and that the devastating the unanswerable argument, in any af- front, is to turn the other cheek But we know that the Sermon on the Mount contains the truest. the most living words ever pronounced, just same. In the same way, although it is shocking, indeed, to have all the old earth's disreputable linen dragged out. into the light, and to see that war is mere stupidity, that drunkenness is in- excusable and costly, that women, as a sex, have suffered cruel injustices through law and custom, that special vices and indulgences for men are not necessary; in the same way, we are nearer right living when we face these things, and admit _that we fall short of our ideal, than when we hide them in back parlors, and family-entrance saloons, and ig- nore them in elegant conversations about Shakespeare and the musical glasses. To love your enemy, and share with the poor, and be meek, was the solu- tion of all the earth’s problems before Jesus Christ came to tell us so. But they are very short-sighted critics, and there are many of them, who assumc that because His doctrine dragged old wrongs into the light, and outlawed them, the doctrine itself is to blame for these same wrongs. * X X X DELA ROGERS ST. JOHN, like myself, has lived a full and a hard-working life, and has won recog- nition and ease on her own merits, and not because of any man’s protec- she and articles on the typewriter rather 1 Spring SUITS Fur-Trimmed $16.5010559.75 This suit distinc. in its simple .beaut ric and la ver fox cu al- lored in dark blue. | ADVANCE EASTER STYLES A Deposit Reserves Your Selection SALESPEOPLE Extra Fitters to accommodate the crowds! Atlanta Bride | Vice President Guest at | Indiana State Dinner Much interest is being manifested in the first annual dinner dance of the Indiana Society of Washington to be ' given at the Shoreham Wednesday eve- fing when the Vice President of the United States, Mr. Charles Curtis, will be the honor guest. Senator James E. Watson, president of the society, and Mrs. Watson will head the receiving line and will be assisted by Senator and Mrs. Arthur Robinson, Gen. Omar Bundy members of the Indiana congressional d?l?gfl’:én and officers of the society Everett Gann Gann and many others promi- nent in social and national life, It is to be regretted that Mr. Steffe the Atwater Kent prize winner. cannot s arranged but to illness it possible, that part of the pro- will be filled with the popular ngton artists, Fred East and Bill Raymond, accompanied by Robert Golta. The dinner will be served at o'clock and the program, consisting of musical groups by the family of Senator Pelix Herbert and other interesting fea- es will be interspersed between courses. Daneing will start at 10 and cards at the same time, 7:00 Almas Temple Planr Honolulu Wedding Woman's Country Club Makes Splendid Record The second annual meeting of the nembers of the National Woman's Country Club was held in the club house on Bradley Lane, Montgomery County, Md., Thursday at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman, president >f the club, presided. Reports of the past year and out- ined plans for the coming year were read by Mrs. Henry Price Wright hairman of the Grounds Committee; Mrs. Guy V. Henry, chairman of the Golf Committee, and Mrs. John Walker Holcombe, chairman of the Bridge Committee. Miss Florence E. Ward, ireasurer, also read the report of the House Committee, of which she is hairman P Miss Mary B. Adams was elected to he board of governors and five mem- bers of the board were re-elected. The officers of the club for the coming vear will be elected by the board of governors next week The club, the organization of which | was started only a few months before the stock market crash in 1929, has notwithstanding, made excellent ress. It has a membership of nc 800, which is considered one of most distinguished in this country. The golf course of the club, which was opened last October, it is the only private co the Guest Artist BEACON 1801 Calvert St. N.W, - 85¢ From Fruit Cup. Oyster Cocktall with Dressing and Cranberrs Sance. with Dressing . an, Duek with Dressing Brofisd Tenderloin Steak with | Fresh Mushroems. Roast Meats, Fresh 4 Choco- Chocolate Youne | Sauee, Roast L. T Abple Sauce. Chicken les. Fre<h Nut Pi Coffee. Sunda v Salad, also, Se To Correct Meat Platter, Sea Frod Platter, Col. 10028 Sunday Dinner Roast Turkey- Baked Milk, a false impression Club Chantecler Society's Favorite Rendezvous No. I Thomas Circle wishes to announce they are NOT and red-light districts, | Card Party on Friday card party will be given under the ces of the Ladies of the Divan of nas Temple, at the Almas Temple b House, Thirteenth and K street March 4, at 8 o'cloc ds will be placed in a rpose of purchasing forms for the uniformed bodies A partial list of patronesses includes Mrs. J. T. Prendergast, Mrs. L. P. Steu- art, Mrs. James C. Hoyle, Mrs. Edwin C. Dutton, Mrs. Joseph H. Milns, Mrs. Thomas E. Jarrell, Mrs. Wililam S. Quinter. Mrs. M. A. Winter, Mrs Arthur E. Cook, Mrs. Catherine Loef- fler, Mrs. Edgar Snyder, Mrs. Wililam F. Gude, Mrs. Samuel J. Prescott, Mrs. R. Lyman Sexton, Mrs. Howard Foley, Mrs. George B. McGinty, Mrs. Robert 5. Regar, Mrs. Edward D. Anderson Mrs. William C. Miller, Mrs. Warren W. | B Grimes, Mrs. Robert P. Smith, Mrs. C Frank E. Ghiselli, Mrs. F. Lawrence Walker, Mrs. Allen H. Potts, Mrs. Ara M. Daniels, Mrs. Stanley D. Willis. Mrs Granville Goode and Mrs. David J Roberts. The committees are- man, Mrs. J. T. Prendergast; Tickets, Mrs. L. P. Steuart, Mrs. Robert P. W Smith, Mrs. Robert S. Regar: Reserva- tions, Mrs. Warren W. Grimes, Mr Frank E. Ghiselli; Prizes, Mrs. Ed- ward D. Anderson, Mrs. Granville Goode, Mrs. J. T. Prendergast; Candy, Mrs. Granville Goode, Mrs. F. Law- rence Waiker; Score Pads and Tallies, E Mrs. James C. Hoyle, Mrs. Allen H. Saturday Tea at Kenmore Potts, Mrs. George B. McGinty; Pub- licity, Mrs. Ara M. Daniels and Mrs. " Lure to Cap\tal Folk Stanley D. Willis. Saturday evening teas at Kenmore . - continue to be a drawing card for those | Mrs. C. Turner, Mayor of Greenwich, | interested in the Mary Washington | Was the only woman among more than | Clock, which struck around the world 300 men ai the lord mayor's banquet | on New Year day. at the Mansion House, London, to the Pebruary 20 in the old Kenmore members of the Court of Common | Kitohen at Fredericksburg. Va. the | Council of the City of London. home of George Washington's only si = ' Acid Stomach! ter, officers of the Parent-Teacher As- soclation of Fredericksburg were host- Pains, gas, belching are quite often due to Acidosi Our booklet tells how you esses: Miss Ethel Nash, Mrs. B. T. Pitts, | | Mrs. Lee Cooke, Mrs. W. J. Kilian, Miss Mary Womack, Miss Edith Keller, Mrs. | can aid Nature to neutralize and elim- Inate this trouble. Phone for free copy ay. | | E. H. Blackley and Mrs. Taylor Scott Sold in Washington 15 Years | Wash- g | The blazing logs in.the old fireplace FREE—Sample to residents of ington only. Phone or write todas. | presented a scene of charm and drew | many from Washington and nearby "Mountain Valley Water places. Tea is poured there every Sat- urday afternoon. ‘Amcn‘cfl" Foremost Health Water | connecting Bucharest, | From HOT SPRINGS, ARK. | 1230 Woodward Bldg. Met. 1062/ MRS. CLIFFORD STEAR Before her marriage, in Georgia, Fel P ruary 14, sh: Evelyn S daughter of . Walter Sims of Atlanta. Mr. Stearns holds position in the Capital and he and his bride will live at the Grafton. than sitting in a sheltered garden put- ting fine needlework into little chris- tening robes; arguing with editors a publishers rather than with butchers and bakers It was no choice on her part, or on mine; it was necessity, and I believe we both loved the poverty that forc us as girls to stand upon our own fec brothers rather than b s upon them, to find our right ful avenues of self-expression thrc all sorts of mistakes and misad tures, and finally to be able to b to our wifehood and motherhood richness of an experience that was 10 L times more educational than the most expensive young ladies’ seminary, the most protectea of “grand tours” could | have given to our protected Victorian grandmnlhors( (Copyright, General chair- 1932) . Jugoslavia is planning a super-high- ' Sofia and Istanbul. Before her marriage, February 10, Miss Helen Armstrong. daughter of Mrs. Wil- liam Fielding Armstrong, the wedding taking place in Honolulu. groom is the son of Mrs. Broughton of Newport, R. I. Mrs. Whittaker Hostess to w. evening present urton, Mrs. W. S. Athey, Mrs. Thomas Effie Colbert, Miss Lavina Bashford, Mis Rhyno, Miss Effie Nichols, Mrs. W, guest of honor was Mrs. Alonzo Barclay of Boone, 1 the manu ance of the evening was spent in listen- ing to Mrs ence when lobbying for the educational | interests of Iowa a good many vears ago, which and adjournment. ington where women may play on Sat- closed! | urday and Sunday afternoons, nex. has recently | which will of the club MRS. ROBERT W. THOMPSON, The bed room to be esp members soon promise individual Underwood Photo. | furnishing —|in pink and blue Mrs. Oscar Jarecki pleted Mrs. George Thomas The bride- TIowa Club Members The Towa Club met with Mrs. Colin Whittaker, 1705 Lanier place, the of Februa 3. There were Mrs. Metta Cole, Mrs. H. E. McConnell llen Davis, Mrs Bertha Herrington, Mercedes Mrs. Mi: Beach will hold the Wayne | 4, Bradley and Mrs. Vina Opdycke. The | ham Hotel Mrs. M. Lane. Edwin P. Hinl C. E. Casassa W. Redrow, Mrs. Iowa. An interesting article cturing output cs Iowa read by Mrs. Ellen Davis. The bal- Mrs Barclay tell of her experi- ell, Enright was followed by refreshments Rosalie Shaw. Now Is the Time —to have all your Spring and Summer Hats and reblocked of every description and blocked in the original style or remodeled into any style de- Hats cleaned sired. In addition we have a complete selection of New Spring materials, Braids, Ornaments, Feather Fancies, Flowers and Hat Frames. 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