The evening world. Newspaper, October 7, 1918, Page 14

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1918 French Wives Carry On Business HusbandsDropped To Fight German Invader Mme. Adolphe Brisson Tells How Women of France Have Shouldered Burdens of War to Keep Nation Running Industrially While Men Are at the Front-— ‘Future ; Woman of France Will Be More Self Reliant,” She Says, “Because She Has Learned to Do Things Outside the Home.” By Helen H. Hoffman Ougyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The Now York Mrentng World). | PARIS, Sept. 20. ‘AR has worked a great change In tie life of the French woman. ‘That is to say, the life of the average woman, the woman who! had always occupied herself with some real interest, whether | ft was in the home, or helping her ausband to carry on his business, or Ddeing actively associated with some philanthropic work.” } Mme. Adolphe Brisson, who was discussing the future of the French ‘woman and her interests after the war, is one of the leaders of the literary life in France, and Sas played an ‘mportant part in the educational ad- vancement of the young women wf her country. Mme. Brisson came into proncnent notice some years ago, when she began the publication of a journal known as Les Annales. The little! magazine devoted to the varied interests of women created quite a stir! at the time, for up to this time women had contented themselves with, reading what men wrote for them and about them. The magazine sub- fects covered a wide range of Interest, from the Hterary and artistic to) the things that concerned the home and the atelier. To-day its pages are largely devoted to discussions of war subjects, bearing on the work of the great army of French women engaged in war servico of various sorts, Having made a success of the mage | - - 1918 MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, | Would Husbands and Wives Make Marriage Happier If They Took Vacations? Women Who Work to Help France Fight Would Mutual Appreciation Be Reborn If Married Couples +: Occasionally Tried the “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder’ Treatment? Bored Husband, Nixola Greeley- Smith Believes, Would Soon Change His Tune If Sung to the Accompaniment of Temporary Bachelorhood. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1918, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 1 hear every now and then of a fifty-fifty partnership between @ W man and a woman—a marriage to which each contributes an equal quota of patience, energy, common sense and love, In the pop _ ular ideal of double harness the load is distributed equally and carried with equa) good will. But among our acquaintances do we not observe many tandem teams, in which one member—now a man, now @ woman 4 —does al] the heavy pulling while the other prances ahead, making fancy caperings and snortings take the place of work? I am led to put these questions by a letter from a woman reader who wants to w what she shall do with a husband who neglects her, although she “keeps @ pretty home, is personally neat, {s ured by her friends that she does not look more than twenty and ts employed during the day, earning $101 a month, which she contributes to the household | expenses, ; For every marriage of this kind, in| ~ which the woman does far too mu i there ts a course; another, in which | the man silently pulls the load w the wife cavorts worthlessly ahead |The observer never seas what the, | hardworking partner gets out of th. rene in Workroom Where French Women Repair Soldiers’ Uniforms; Types of Munition Workers,and Mme. Brisson, Who Tells What Women of France Are Doing to “Back Up the Fighting Front.” years ol is evident he is mo with her, since he ~ © away from home, must not quarrel tell him he is ens months or weeks azine, Mme. Brisson later opened a| "i women handle a big proportioa| larrangement and {s really not quali and wives are school for girls, the first of Its kind|0f the baggage at the large railroad , fled to give advice upon it i occasional separations" to be established in France, where | stations, and they bave proved them- Probably the young woman who| to try being @ g young women could receive an edu- | Selves excellent mechanics in the re- 1does not know what to do with a rl for a while, A friendly : cation similar to that received now |Palr departments of ratlroad shops. < a often works quite as much of n the wife's point of view as 1's conduct, and is husband who fails to appreciate her is trying too hard. Love rarely goes |“ Thousands, of course, are employed in the munition works, and women by American girls in their colleges | and universities. In this work Mme. in the husba ee ee eo —————E—E———————eEeee Brisson, “the women of France were not slow to adjust themselves to the strange and now conditions of life they were forced to meet. “Tho French woman has always more or less been the partner of her husband in business, so that when ‘the busband was called away to the war the wife went right on with the work of the little shop or factory that they had carriéd on together, “Many wounded men upon their re- said Mme ppy turn from the battlef Brisson, “have been |} to find their wives successfully rying on the business which they dropped to helds, “Of course, before the war,” said Mme. Brinson, “the women of France tilled the soll and worked in the fields with the men, but when this great tragedy overtook us and the young! men were called from the fields for! war nervice, the women added to thelr work that which the men had tald down, and the food eltuation tn} France has been greatly aided by the fact that women worked long hours in the fletds and plowed and raked the hay, and tended the cows and chickens and other farm animals. | “The war has placed this extra pur-! den upon the women of France, and it fact that he knows he ought not to be bored, bores him more than ever An old fashioned person woult) surely toll this young wife in search of advice to throw up her Job and make her husband support her. The man, I forgot to say, has work of his own, otherwise I should feel that his remaining alive would be distinctly a non-essential industry, But I ean- not suggest to a woman that she put| de the only effective weapon she holds against a husband's worth- lesrness. This particular husband may not ‘be worthless, to be eure, except in| Brisson had the support of the lead-| Who before the war possessed little i , lmapeain chanted TAL Wore worth trying if only on that account, j ing educators of France, When Mme. | knowledge of other labor than that of | b dae have the benuty of Marine iiiett mai There are few absolutely worthless | Brisson speaks of the work of the | mending their own clothing and sew- | =! Fe re ceguey caesar er otene i here's i peaks of the work of the | Aart the InteNectial ‘unewpertadness ot | Husbands, but there are a great many i awomen of France she does so from a|!8® on buttons are now conwidered Be TRING Clare Kummer, and nti bore her| bored husbands, partly because of our | very wide knowledge of her subject, |¢XPerts at the making of steel shells Onis Keay) Wulek ppv wulte aren aha * widespread social conception of mare j “When the war began,” said Mmo, | and other articles of army equipment. , a. | savtarh Mie mere! riage as a Siamese twinship which only death or divorce can mitigate, There is not nearly so much difference twixt Tweediedum and Tweedledec ag Mrs, Tweedledum supposes before she gets her divorce, So I never recom mend that process, Almost any man is the raw material of a good husband. But you have to be a competent ehef to turn him out a finished product, Some wives have the idea that @ bus- band is such a dangerous being that he needs to be muzzled and chained inside the front door. But neither love nor even fidelity has ever been com. pelled by petty exactions, And far more men are kept away | take up arms in defense of their) !8 no slight burden, elther, but the {his wife's eyes. Matrimonial values | ¢om nome by the woman in tt thas ‘ : country. The fact t these men} Women bave carried on this work! jestdorn have any relation to Pence by the woman outside, Women worry had something to return to, and that| With the knowledge that thay were Oe Tantee (OF Snen geraae i: Steck arily about this phantom, We i their familics were not impoverished, | 4°! this for the Government as weil health fe pallid breed range) ai ow hard it is to get a man gk or dependent on charity, eave them|#s for their men at the front, and this etter l ad dah dali Ub eg rig ay y sort of novelty—-whether ’ Ten a new courmge and a new hope for| fet gave them the determination and hudba onl hctlav ae di teisles apes is bs a. new cook or a new cigan-how | the future.” the hope they have maintained jy his wife as He were ew Fork ult !t is to get him to give away Mme, Brisson has a von serving at|'Hroughout the dark houra of the Alr Brake or Bethlehem Steel, But wh . he wore the day he was graduated, both of whom are marri ing and middle aged and elderly } presents them, what shall she do w they still cherish reels and i ; ench officers who have re-| Women have all dono their share In [about it? nae - rods they had when they wers $ \ ceived wounds on the battlefield helping the Government. Hundreds Abandon her work? No, Get a ok with scorn on “net } “French woraen before the war,’|0f Women who had passed the age ;diverce? No, Simply give her hus Many ct hae said Mme. Brisson, Lnot co in for | Where their strength and health pre- j band's vacation! F ; 1e women of the women's clubs and organizations to|Yented them from working {n the! + Tell him, as she has told me, jus they would die the extent that the American ana| elds and factories have employed the j \. i % a Gissatisfed with him, . it. { British women had In w work, heat to Rood use. ‘an : SS -——- — _ ~---— + +-— —— —-—— OO Se er" therefore, instead of the big organiza- | “These women are engaged through- Bi . H I B M St G . tons that were formed for womenta | Ut France in the great storehouses! L ZL tt F Ci di d rs t Ci d. d t OW egan MA age Career ‘ werk such ay in England, women here | Where damaged clothing of the sol- ove Letters from a Candidate to a Canaiadatess | rind Tet ; have rather more worked through the{lers is brought for repair. They! A i ‘a A | Tree cree rall face oe throug the | mend and preas these garments and By Candidate ARTHUR (‘BUGS”’) BAER, 4th Observation Battery HEN 1 was but five years ‘ sovernment.” make great quantities of clothing for ’ y ” om 1 W began singing and Ge res herself, however, Is | Hospital nationta, (Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky) Lote Ne eeeana ace an exception in thix respect, for she <fore the war," said Mme. Dris- Camp Zach, Sept. Something, 1918. been under terrible hardships, having only gained eleven pounds last | pody appreciated iny undoubted abil: | 7 | organized at the beginning of the | 80M “there waa no systematic train. BAK Ac 4 received the Wonderful sox and earmuff that you week, But somebody has to suffer for his country, and if birds ike |ity more than myself. After each} H H war a wonderful committee, which |/"® or education offered to young D knitted, but didn't get the sweater, Hither it evaporated or you Orville refuse to do their share, then {t 1s up to fellows Ike me to enlist [appearance I applauded, whether | ‘ { ineluded among its members the wife | Women who cared to take up nursing knitted it with dropped stitches, The sox were beautiful, but and try to struggle along on three square meals a day. We only had [the other members of the class did | | | of the President of France, wives of |a¥ a protesslon, bUL wince the begin | 1 can't understand why you made them both for tue left foot, The turkey twice this week and ice cream on Sundays, but I don't complain, !or not. And I invariably took an en- ; the CAbinet oMcers, and men and /niné of the war hundreds of young aa hawia s | know that I am deing my share to help defeat the Kaiser's gray | Core unless the teacher headed me ! } women of affairs in the country, The | Women have gone into French hos-| first time that I wore them I was bawled by the second loot for not as | know that 1 am déing my share to help defeat th 8 CAR aah cy dud rs committee is known us the Maison | P/tals to do this work, and it is re- standing at attention properly. He sald that my feet were at ease, worilia . ‘a wonderful entertainer—and, well, 1 i Claire, and at the pres 5 de narkable how soon they adapted but if they were at ease, I can tell you that they didn't fecl that way. Go out with Orville all you want to, But don't let him hold your took efter my mother, voted to caring for more than 4,000 | themselves to the required duties! Furthermore, they are the first sox that I ever saw whica had fingers hand. When I first shook hands with that bird, it felt like shaking ee ee a ductors and ticket choppers on the! gent in her thoughts and in the man.{ own for broken arches, If that bird has any broken arches they are | P. S—If you can't knit me anything that will fit me, get your |7 2. Vivey me the right to contend ie eee tramways and underground are wom- | agement of her affairs, under his hat. I'll never forget the night that stapld came up to your mother to knit me an apple ple. They always fit R that I did not force myself upon the |am? so are iernhardt Pa a: ae - as --— we house and discovered me eating the candy tha had sent to you. He » — Eee EE aR public. ., |Mova, so what do I care? Some dey x ft nay i} . . first engagement “on the road” |somobody will name a theatre after Mi ’ was ubcut as happy as a dry f Now listen, bright eyes, while 1 anv a; Fl f h ll d N Dy Al . . lasted three weeks. The company ; me. When that happens I'll be so | ¢ et Into the Picture! down here eating three meals for my country, | want you to e ags of the Alle ations lasted ito reach Texas, where it|hapny I'll jump the first six-rail fence | pe : ‘et m4 aaa ed. ‘ , how-|I run across, I thank you! ~ — enjoy yourself, | A Jtroops, This cockade was made by| stranded. That engagement, ! parm J Lied PRP AR ET the Pap eerie area By T. L. Sanborn combinin and blue, the ancient |ever, attracted the attention of A. H. the front, and two beautiful grown little war orphans, in quarters es clally arranged for keeping throughout the Republi Bpeaking of the partic their ilar kinds of ervice pndere » o ome Mod B 2 e 0} Sr he Count re Mave. tiriccor auig. | vardment, when they stuck faitafully| However, all the articles wore magnificent; tae only thing wrong with | x vu bet he will be glad when the war ts over so that he can take jAter my school trlumpha 1 began to luce Gk cd sk a aie tem was the color, The next time you knit me mittens or earmuffs, | off his glasses. ; F pean SEROAE IB TURE Sona ee eee homes before to work, thousands of |, “Undoubtedly we aba! soe in the} don't pick out cerise or scarlet. ‘They don’t do it that way in the artil- | 1 am going to say goodby now dear, as tt {8 almost taps, plaza engi h airave. eeeuiadl #924 ieee. tave been. employed by the | future woman of krance a great lery. Try to pick out some other color, as I can’t stand at inspection Remember me to your father, and ask him who he gets his efgars - eu be PRicpss FGA asacagte ot cities and the Governm: | cen ge. She will moat likely be incre) with a pair of sox or a sweater that looks like a sunset somewhere in from now that I am busy making the world safe for near-stghtld birds | husband | Reig a ; n self reliant, because of the fact that pened rife » Atlantic Occan dries up. ROGER, |the Lyric ‘Theatre, Hoboken (no kinds of war work y she ha earned to do things outside| an Atlantic port, and demoe Yours until the laugh, dern ye!), persuaded me to |"ne home, and waitresses on dining the ¢ past four years here, Some of them have been dec- rated by the Government, not only for the long and efMcient service they rendered but also for the great cour- age they displayed under heavy bom. because of the fact that she has become more indepen- knitted in The my cars are in the army but I can use it for a b em. Are they rmuff was splendid, but why only one? It is a trifle You tell me that your old sweetheart of the Tweed ring in Now York. In| lor ten years yet! wearing ‘em that way this season You know that both warm for earmuffs at present, rracks bag yntil the cold weather sets in, Orville Slacker, was turned hands with a pickled herring, and let me tell you, If he tries to sit on the sofa with you he is going to get knocked deader than two barrels of salted mackerel, You can tell that to the world, and say that I said so, XXXXXXX No, 7—FR city of Paris, with white, royal color of the reigning Bour- NCE ie pture of the Bastille, chose for hi»! comradeship of America and France. assuming the facts to be as the wife I forgot to say 1 was born in Jersey | City, In that settlement even now you can find people who will admit they were always greatly pleased when I ended my recitation or song. go on the stage professionally, This ‘oods, then King of the Melodrama Producers, to me and he gave me a the suit he was married in or the shirt Mekes 50 Pounds Pres- pany. Everybody insists on calling me a ~ HE French fi beautiful in it bona, job in “Delia, the PRE Yl but B k ia S , snified s ty, ©o of nother theory c Seamstress.” My next at e .. f h R lye P prea: Pere es here mitered of St. Marti, which Clovis bore | Taxi.” The taxi took me all over the ATURE executed a wonderful oO blue, wh “Tro victory over Alaric, and Charles! Middle West piece of workmanship when she ‘ | the epublican arly = red, the blue be | magne alse disptayed ‘with the red] My big chance came when “Within put the shell around the egg. by IN TRE / The first use of the clephant as a| 1874 Nast drew a cartoon represent. ts ing next niflamme 9 Dents, which was|the Law” was at the Eltinge ‘Theatre, | ytos¢ of us have an idea that the shel ¥ PicTure | atanlal seal oft < labelled pubilean Mme ult It was | flown by the French Kings after Paris |New York. The star became ill one ave ‘a that the shell RE | [piotorial symbol of tho epul 1k Domo fees hon their capital, and the white |day and 1 was rushed into the part on |!¥ fragile. is—sometimes; but 4 Too? | ‘Party was in 1874, when 7 1 tor the k lopted in 1789 er which Henry IV, first of the {two hours’ notice. I didn't miss a line, | sclentists have established the fact that 4 Maat thé earioonisi. mids ie the G Mt S © most au- | Hourbon monarebs, made the standard |and Selwyn & Co. immedi the average pressure under whic ee : ©. P. emblem, Nast was bora | « 1 fait i thentte version Mra me up to play the role on “et . oN A ee wins Bavaria seventy ht v4 . te, t Avlatnta ars the splendid herolam | years. They seemed to | me par. | White esss break is 112 pounds, says aa avaria se yre y MAGNANIMITY, FRANCE OF 4 France has aroused the 'ticularly in the South, and I found jence monthly, Strange to jcame to America at the six : martes ans a ration of the world.| myself being dubbed “the Bernhardt eggs a Stronger than JIn the early she went and ‘oer P| > ‘ Marr Save civillzation | of the South.” lt takes @ pressure @ver- ; Was with Garibaldi as an artist f me for mention ayette, the honor of bein om the barb: and Amer. | Since “Within the Law" I have been pour to break, the ie " f c ewspapers atten r ne {act yarns _ | ica owes her ¢ us debt. With {featured in “Kick In" and “Common| minimum being 125 pounds 0 [British and Amorican newspaper Wry DUS seacreree: the TAGE 1a Of the famaue frie 1e* | God's help mean to dvive the |Clay." A few months ago L was as-| maximum 17) pounds. When it is | As political cartoonist for Harper's |é think tat i you bought an adding generally hold that th ond beast” from her bleeding wail, |signed to the role of the Vampire in| considered that’ the thickness @f am Weekly he achieved an internationa |G) i" Sy " . . . in the new cockade which Lafayette, | free her forever from the dark menace !*Business Before Pleasure,” and now | average eggshell ts 013 and the diam- Old. Skinflint — Cnterrupting) < reputation, and his cartoons ave sald| ye to do my own bookkee na iC when he was made commander of |of Teuton aggression, and seal with){ am heading the cast in “Tho Big| eter of the eggs one and three-quarter to have brought abou" the downfal | cut! You mustn't think of resigning the French National Guard after the | sacred blood shed for liberty the} Chance” com inches, some idea may be formed of thelr enormous resistance,