The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 2, 1916, Page 15

N B, e ad the state labor commission annouces that there are at least 100,000 girls in the state of Illinois working fer less than $8 per week. These res, it says, do not include many thous- ands of young women who receive very small wages and live with their parents. ; Domestic Service Dangerous * The commission found that the oc- cupation of domestics is the most productive of immorality and explains that as the reason why so many peo- ple find it difficult to secure do- mestic servants. This, the commission points out, is complimentary to the sensing faculty - of the female and her intuitive avoidance of the moral dangers which beset the pathway of the domestic. : The first and most strongly empha- sized finding of the commission is that, “poverty is the principal cause, direct and indirect, of immorality” among girls. “Thousands of girls,” the report says, “are driven to im- morality because of the sheer inabil- ity to keep body and soul together on the low wages received by them.” The commission found that the highest standard of morals existed among the girls' of the high schools, colleges and universities. Of these there was no economic necessity for immorality which, no doubt, accounts for the low percentage of immorality ameng them. It was found by the commission that many girls in the state work for as low a wage as $2 per week. Taking Illinois as an average of the 48 states and on the basis of 100,000 girls working for less than $8 per week, it would be found that approximately 2,500,000 girls in the nited States are forced, by econ- omic conditions, nearer the danger line than they would naturally go. What Is Urged As a result of its investigations the committee makés the following recommendations: ¥ : ; 1. Enactment of a minimum wage aw. . 2. Repeal of social laws fallen into disuse and, strict enforcement of all others. ; 3. Encouragement of uniform state social legislation. Improvement of conditions for moral and industrial schooling of re- formed women. Extension of vocational edu- cation. 6. Abolition of the “fining” sys- tem in the treatment of immoral women. = 7. Registration of minor boys and girls in employment. 8. Prohigition of printing in the newspapers. of details of court cases involving moral lapses. : Creation of a state athletic commission for the encouragement of healthfyl rastimes. COMPETITION IN DRESS That the elimination of competition, the reduction of expense and the pro- motion of hygienic conditions in wo- men’s clothing dfldpends upon the adoption of a standardized dress for women, is the idea followed by the department of home economics of the . University of Missouri at Columbia in devising a standardized garment. The new dress is intended for all women on all oceasions, variations comin only in fahric and color. : Big Annuall Waste The present syle of woman's ‘dress, .on a cempetitive basis, produces an enormous annual waste, both by fre- quent changes and added material, says Miss KEthel Ronzone, who de- signed the standardized dress. Many women spend much time not only in selecting garments, but in making N -FRANCE N dar style. .compression at the waist. L3 Of ‘the Week Garrison annou jarity cader, was informed Cro Rupert of Bavariaadepted: a; ! by ¥. C. Tanner, denounced W. THE NONPARTISAN LEADER over those that are no longer appro- }mate on account of changes in popu- Dress. is woman’s stock in trade, used to show pecuniary stand- ing and sex attraction under present conditions. A Two-Piece Garment Hygienic eonditions are considered as well ‘as economy in the dress de- signed by 'the instructor at the Uni- versity of Missouri. In design, it is a twao-piece garment, with the skirt suspended by an undervest to prevent The skirt is four pieces, about two and a half to three yards around the bottom and reaching within 41 to the 6 inches of the floor. The waist i7 a modified form of the Russian blouse, hanging straight with a very loose belt or with the fullness gathered in a belt and, the lower part cut in the form of a peplum. It is sim- gle and easy to make, and one can e cut by any weman with a fair knowledge of sewing, Miss Ronzone says. Standardized Dress The standardized dress is not radi- cally unlike the prevailing styles in appearance. Almost every girl in the sewing and clothing classes has made one or more of - the standardized dresses and many of the girls and all of the instructors wear them. It is certain that the women of the home economics department ecannot be readily recognizetf by their clothes. AN IMPORTED MODEL. This sport skirt from Paris is a smart combination of blue velours de Taine and Scotch plaid@ in narrow blue and buff. The front and back paneled effect and novelty pockets which hang from the belt are very chic. With this handsome skirt is. worn a buff silk shirt waist. \"'fi\ KB -in the Artois: J. R. Kirk Commission Co. Inc. nced his resignation as seeretary of war because his Continental army: plan. was.doomed to. failure. in a_proerasti- . nating congress; General Hugh: L. 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GARRL N b SON \ any seemed likely to reopen when it became evident that Germany intended to. sink without warning all armed merchantmen. = The country; in the midst of the turmeil over preparedness, was surprised when Lindley M. a farecast of what can: he expected at.the: Republican national conyention. - FIFTEEN All members: that had & el strong-offensive. tals:section -of :Krance.. -AVhen-klihu:Reat, at New: York state Republican convention;. filson's foreign. policy it was taken { ! !