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\ ANA W fe 4 Oe TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1919 TUESDAY, Give Soldier Bigger Job ‘Fighters on F rench Front Than He Quit Took ‘Chances’ in Play He Ought to H Task That Wiil Call) ———__—___—_— ams cv ae . te , “Si 7 ve ; » | Offer Him More of a Future J wapping Shots’? With the Boches, “Teas Dean Johnson Believes Educational Development ust as Busy as Their H usbands ing Fritz,” and Dud Hunting Gave of Last Year a Real Stimulus to Returned Them Real Diversion, and Even Their Seblters Ambition and Pride, MRS. LANSING, MRS. SHARP AND MRS. HOUSE ARE ACTIVE IN U. S. WAR Dogs Found Sport in Deadly Encoun- : ORGANIZATIONS. WHEN MRS, WILSON WAS IN PARIS SHE HAD OPPOR- ters With Huge Trench Rats. enn BY, Marguerite Mooers Marshall TUNITY TO MEET AMERICAN WOMEN WAR WORKERS THERE. By jrowh A. Bendy @ the economic status of returned soldiers and of men in general ser Former First Licutenant Fifth U. 8. Marines. ously et.Jangered by the tidal wave of women workers which has flowed Copsright, 1919, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World.) over all industry and business during the war? the comparatively quigg day Careful and conservative figures offered by the the west front before the Ger-/|trench knife or bayonet, some splen« Woman Citizen show that at the present time 40 per mans unloosed their terrible and! did wood carv: was executed, 6il« ecnt. of the 27,000,000 adult women in America, or 10,500,- boastful first offensive of last year|houette paper cutting was also @ 000 women over twenty-one, are engaged in gainful occu life in the trenches had its little | favorite pastime. pations, pleasures and diversions, and these| A remarkable feature of the French Apparently there are no accurate statistics to indi- to a great degree prevented the men |sectors was that right in the front cate how many of these women are performing work from becoming morbid and unit for | line trenches small co-operative stores a sreviously done by men. But it 18 a matter of common the work that was ahend of them. It )were conducted by the auidiers them- ’ “ ali Abie be sie ! was not organized play devised and|seives, Tobacco and pipes, trench 4 «+ knowledge that since America entered the war women onycrudest of implements, a sharpened superintended by organizations, but | lighters and 1 les and thread tq Have taken many jobs, and some important ones, for- was the spontaneous outgrowth of the |and many ott articles wero life and it appealed to the talent, the | sold, Cheese and canned goode were sporting blood, and the spirit of re- ) on hand, and there was a good lJaxation of men. |Variety of wine. In March of last I think the most tgughadle, tho] year St. Julicn wine was selling for most enjoyable fun we had was fun | about 50 j und « dale which had in it an char a champagne to compare faction and usefulness—rat hunting. | with some of the wine sold in New Almosg every afternoon when I was | york City, waa selling’ in these stores serving with the French we organ-{at that time for four france a bottle, ized a@ rat hunt, Every platoon had| at the valuation of the its specially trained fox terrier, and |, that time he wag the ace of the crowd, for h usually had many more enemies to | his credit than any soldier, The first thing to discover was t E> merly open to men only. And the women are not getting out and going home, now that the war induced labor crisis is past. Women employed by the Cleveland Street Railway, for example, even now aro tighting in Washington before the War Labor Bourd to hold their jobs An expert in bi — Joseph French Jo! New York University merce, President of Alexan@er Hamil- | workers.” ton Institute and author of “Business| Then Dean Johnson told what is a and the Man,” has ex e|favorite parable of his to ilustrate} Hvening World why the Increase inthe general economic benefit result- employed women is a good thing for]ing from an increase in women po-day Dean | workers. iness economics, n of the]crease in productiveness and, there- st of Com-| fore, in the number of producers or cents a bott! son, th lement of satis- | seh. sined in about 75 cen the women themselve Johnson discusses woman's new eco nomic status from the point of view of “Suppose,” he instanced, “a farmer } has six boys and six girls, The boys thote t cAnte aS f th MEN. have helped him outdoors and the| rathole burrowed into the le of t t H girls have helped their mother in the trench. When we came to one we i meee increase in the Humber of : ‘ would immediately begin to pick into : aie. 9a wage in} ouse, But, one spring, mother says ; e ; ; f women who work for a : he eee gress it rapidly, and in a few minutes we industry and business is going to/*he can spare the girls and sends would chop away to where the r be of direct benefit not only to the | tem out to plough and cultivate with eeenreer eins ‘ “4 father, What is the result? Are tho sat back shivering with rage and themsolves, but to men fear, Meanwhile the dog would be ” Dean Johnson declared em- and tearing at the earth as A most hazardous sport was enemy the rodent. The minute] ‘sing. When one of the Frenchmen we reached the rat it would spring | thought things were a little too quiet, out, straight at the dog, and usually | !@ Would s annoying the Hoche. it succeeded in burying its teeth into | /#e either w ed carefully and took the already much scarred nose of the | P°t Shots or he kept s hele terrier jmet up on a stick fire boys pushed off the farm? Do they satay lose their jobs? Not at all. Simply, Dee eenthy: ; to | the farm is twico as productive ar it "Opposition on the part of men to) ovo. was before, and there is plenty the introduction of women into vege for HOU bapa audigiNa t6 do: asighted ous \cglecopehend “abel rg sen “We must offer jobs to the return- «a bed = +A based, on exactly | 2 soldiers," he added earnestly. “It nemunery, and ts ba seems to me we all should agree on the yame false economics, Years ago / : > ARTE A royal scrap would immediately : ted to destroy ma-| tat. Not generosity but common : PARIS, Mareh 5. | time to, talk to the men and as one| commence: for many of the seco funti Brita Lin bab eodomiakys hoediaged Ly Jecency and fair-mindedness should of the distinguished Amer- h ai thepibe a § Shines because these would throw! decency and Meo aes rine tee of them put it the other day they're| were of enormous size and strength,;@>0ut him an ba cut of jobs and, therefore, starve make us most scrupulous in our treat- cana in ‘or the Peac ier He He exptaltied. further, Neaven stalls ot _ shanna ae peal oy Hey i mat. |™ment of them, most eager to give Conference or other after-war | | "She remembers we're soldiers and duck away and ca e fun off. J e§ are accompanied by their wiv them all the opportunity in the world, | !8su ‘ “But are We not valuing our men|There are no large social functions far too cheaply when we assume that | here now, but these women are kept duetivencss, made more jobs instead | ine eee cach tiny subordi-| Very busy—busy being the wives of of fewer ones and was a distinct| ite Ot tne wheel of industfy, will | Uplomats, economic benefit |come back from France ready to go| There are all manner of Informal “Tho introduction of women into! on just where he left off? Are we not | iplomatic gatherings they must at- industry and busisess will have ex-| underestimating the wonderful edu-| tend, and many of them are taking an actly the samo effect. The more cational development of the last year|“Ctlve part in various of the Ameri- workers, the more productiveness, the|ypon him, the physical and mental{4o war organizations more need for workers. Then there! growth, the stimulus to bis ambition 3, for example, the group of is the increased spending capacity| and to his pride women interested in. th of the women who have pay @M=| apy ay sich fon eveRninne n organization made up velopes for the first time. To sausfy |iuined soldi Hut not necessarily | W8Olly of women and working primar. | their desife to buy things, more ily for women. the same job he left behind him.] yy." sete OPS: | things must be made—again an in- |. pratt babe “| Mrs. Lansing, wife of the American nit 3 What he ought to have, in an UN-}ccrmtary of Sta Vice Gregan countable number of ca is a bet- a of the ¥. W. C. A.'s Provisional Coun- EVENING WORLD (er job, o dieser 300, 0 tase whion | of Z, W. © A's Provisionat Coun PUZZLES will call out more of his hidden capa ear doesn't treat us like servants, Mrs, Wilson, when she was in Paris with President Wilsoné during their first visit, was the guest at 4 reception given by the ¥, W. C. A in her honor, The affair was per- other form of é ny wa Nting signs and hanging them un And many an insult went to the Gers man Army via that route One Frenet reprimanded afternoon for indulz~ haps too informal to be designated ing in an unauthorized marksmanship be a veseullenait waelmore Wiest contest with of the enemy. He |ting together of American women| ROYAL SCRAP WOULD COMMENCE | stood up and allowed a German "0 bape a yan: the: Gal a4 yards away to shoot at him. The bidet yokes Ree és aa rs and I never saw one that would not! (ernan stood and pes re Then the portunity Mrs. son had to fight with the utmost despe \ Se Een fire. Others in the line watched the so large a group of her fellow coun-| with a crowd of yelling pollus about, trywomen, and practically the only! the rat and the dog would fight it out, \“7ntest and several shots were ex- {chance Paris offered them of meet-] tne rat once in a while trying to pats |changed before an officer stopped the 3 match which had a human life as tie ing their country's “first lady.” away, but always being run to earth) say. Mra, Wilson affects black a great|by the dog. Very seldom did the |*t*ke: It was a pretty severe knock | dea e r on the long range mi “ |deal, or subdued colors. Her gown! post of the trenches succeed in ead pened marksmanship» of” jat the reception was black charm-|caping, When he was good and dead|, 0.) On that neither of them was cuse with velvet and fringe trim- ter of historic fact, machinery, by) ineveasing enormously general pro- dier was severely un means of bringing French women in | he was usually hung up over the top bilit! 3, which will offer him more off ouch with the work of the Y. W, c, /Pl#ek. often a small hat with black | scientific school from which he grad-|mings. The only touch of color Was! on a wire and the an shar z * ‘ By Sam Loyd a future.” A., with a view to making the plang [2ttich plumes and lynx furs worn|uated with honors. Willlam, eighteen, |in her hat, a mahogany tinted, tight’ shooters would take a few practi » China’s Enc clo di diatiten tha Chiitee “Mary Austin hus pointed out” Tre-[tor the future work of the ansoctaton {MEH A Tone cout ve up his schoo! to work at the|fitting, feathered toque, hota aeniCn, | yclopedia 00 ng marked, “that during the war women|when the Americans will havo lett |. William rp, wife of the} front with the Y, M, C. A. Then! Famous for artistic dressing Paris] The real sporty sport came in | Hi first European encyclopedia OWN at Luna did not so much take men's jobs a6] France. nip 7 oon Any Da. who M n ere is Baxter, fourteen, the YOUNB-|has been keenly interested in Mrs.|“dud" hunting and unloading. A was probably the work of Abul- Park we retake joba which always should have| Mrs, Lansing is one of tho fow |°a'Y President of tho Y. W. C, A.Jest, and Effic, sixteen, Wilson's costumes, One caused|"dud” is a shell which has failed to | pharagiu, the first volume of crawled up Provisional Council, has been identi-| Mrs, Sharp's name can be found on been held by women. What, she chal- {women living at the Crillon Hotel, the much comment here. The skirt, alexplode. Thero were strict orders) whic, was published 67 years ago. the “Shoot the 5, is a man doing selling lace| headquarters of the American Peace bates be : jon since th © membership lst of practically) grapea model, with one of the new]against picking up these shells, but|To the Chinese, however, belongs the Chutes" atthe and ribbons over a counter, or even|Commission. ‘The Lansing su Wl ee eae bad . Wore in France, | every Ame lala baag am, iy long pointed trains that are meant! the poilu rep ly disregarded the |cred:. for ha originated the en- rate of 2 fect per ep fieepl hourning because | ization, And there is much moreli, 1. carried over the arm and notlorders and when no officers were |cyc! adding up 4 column of figures while|the second floor, just at the bead of he sits on a high stool? By nature} the winding marble stairs. and biological inheritance he ts al Mrs, Lansing re jcyclopedia idea, and China boasts of dragged, . was of allover Dbiack}about he would always take a chance |havin. the largest of thes sequins, The bodice was fashioned|on picking up and unloading the} of tulle covered with sequins that|shell. It was extremely dangerous |f of the recent death of Mr y r nume—for she has worked the | every day during the war. And somehow she made a home for second and shot Sharp’ down at the rate of 20 feet per nec- 10 cyclopedia of China 1s by the most stupendous literary a brother, ‘The ene of ma vives distinguishes pioneer, an explorer, a developer of | v jtors in her rooms practically | put ond, so it took us uc ia awe MOAN sinh ice oa han Lavary atiafncbeltoe taal. Wes iianiet hlvcngte li Pe CEC U GED) an UNE EIORS a be graduated from black at the waist]and many lives were lost when these |complishment in the history of the Just 1 minute to make the round trti+| hig feld be science or invention or|is simi Her gowns are simple Ghote Alien rey leh has contrived some way to be ajlime to palest gray at the neck,|shells unexpectedly went off in the | worl’ ‘The work of compilation hus What was tho length of that chute? |the Jand itself." She wears black almost always. One| stood a aid Pag lNaieecucr ame sd “| With this she carried a large fan of{hands of a too venturesome soldier. |been carried on for centuries, and Serle sete Phat i# true.” said Dean Johnson. {Of hes Kowna ii wt straight ned black | the Shar rae j House, wife of Col. B M,|Dlack and gray shaded ostrich} The utmost care had to be taken |has engaged the labors of over 2,000 ANSWER TO THE SQUIRE'S [wana it seems to mo if T wore nm eo, | Velvet made without trimming except] Mrs. Sha oldest ghter lives at the Crillon Hotel, She| feathers, thereby launching the new|in handling the shells and the soldiers | Scholars. The “Yung-Lo-Ta-Tion," SIESTA. turned soldier and found a young|® ‘ouch of white in the V of the neck. | Margaret, was active inom kinds | momber of one of the ¥Y. W. C,|fashion fad of feather fans to match|would work quietly for a half hour /as tho work is called, comprises over Bauire Jones must have awakened | gir) easity performing the work 7| With this she wears a ng of | of women's w ef work during the| Aa committees for work in France,|gowns. Mrs, Wilson wore this cos-| digging in the ground into which the | 22,000 sections and is bound in 11,000 to hear the last stroke of 12; then the| ya4 4 din the days before 1 en. | Pears: Her curly white hair, massed| war, ‘The oldest t George, has| Mrs. House is “at the head of the|tume to @ performance of the opera|doge of the shell was buried and | volumes, each half an inch in thick- clock struck 1 at 12.80, 1 at 1 o'clock high on her head, sets off wwn} deen secretary. to with the doughboys at the Cril-|staged especially in honor of Pregi-|then carefully unscrewing the fuse. |ness. The work contains a total of listed—it just si ems to me I should at Job back. Instead, 1 up my mind to find and 1 at 1.30 917,480 pages. The she wears, Her street costume volumes when upon another form @ [stack of books 450 feet high, finishing his courte at a Freneh|lon, Mvidently she manages to takeldent and Mrs, Wilson. not want t ould mak SH aoe sea eee ie ‘ rlaid flat one “ sd job at which a woman could not equa ee 99 oe ae ° } rs only a few complete gots cues em Old Glory 5 ckndisl aot a Cees Footnotes’’ on Style’s New Spring Page [ante work einen "the aa "Tio to tne tag ot te nit doe HOF qualities of mind ARE THESE THE SHOES AND STOCKINGS YOU'RE GOING TO WEAR THIS SEASON? 1 the great French one ‘was | French one wa States was probably Capt Wil-| found more ¢ nh one was published in nonly among men —S= ' and succeed am Driver, a Massachusetts sen cap-| “I think we insult the ability of our! years, The [neyclopedia eee tain, who retired fr 1] returned soldiers when we assume MMB Was first published by William smeffe” settled in Nashville, Tenn. shortly} that women are keeping them out SOMETIMES THE "DUDS" WENT OFF |). ya7). before the Civil War + [of the only jobs t know enough | an When that conflict broke out Capt,| to hold, and that we insult their ct After the fuse was out all was well. | Driver displayed a flag —one whi en we ame they i ‘The powder was taken out and ie] SCIENCE AND INVENTION, had floated over his st siclicae Sila a ee va ta | shell was ready for a further opera) Chinese diovernment agents haya v eh cage > wrest awa rom in seafaring days—from the windows of tasks for which the Jatter tion | been sent to several countries to study his home. The banner was fired on,| voluntecved so gallantly in a time of | Skilful. workers would take the the manufacture of telegraph and and the old skipper decided that he| national per had better lower his colors and con-| “What Lusine shell and polish it like silver, Then | telephone equipment with a view to the engraver of the outfit would get | producing all such aratus at home, coal them Staaten ie thie’ aniioenial me to work and some beautiful designs ‘ialarieer Mamdndad that wives up tha faar land women ie Pasi / N mer were worked on the metal. Shell| A novel beet harve = machine but he réfused, and, respecting the| Alexand Bamiit te cases were also much in demand and | joosens the earth around the Bt ee the a ot aba these were battered into beautiful de- | roots as 1 over a fleld and y| tea esmanship ar Dustness | eu rs ma ‘i as ¢ left him in peace ethics, We have™ been urged ¢ signs. Many of these souvenirs may | sharp p 1 on a wheel penes - wi be found to-day in the homes of | trate them and carry just fifty thet Gen, Nelson t Nash. | th a ee French soldiers and fabulous sums! yeyor on ville with a divi iain ay sa a I Mg Wo ar have been paid by American souvenir | eer es Arby. and Capt, Driver offered him| have plenty ot 1 ee a eee hunters for them. ‘They could be} AN Australian inven windmtt his flag to be hoisted over the Capitol. | me far cnr wena ee pought for ten franca in March but |for generating clectricity is toatured Ae it fluttere neh Capt . men employed after the armistice was signed I saw pecially designed low speed ‘ n the bre apt. | during the wa , , : erici Idier sel] one for 269 | dynamo, while the mill has two whe Driver exclaimed, “There goes Old) “Inst SERS ’ Can yg iaetotgn man 8 stead qu 1 over me PHS apt y do tandem, the foremost Glory!" 1t was bis pet pame for the! OR womer aA salnlane oie | "Mortpson. ne francs close to tty doliare : in tandem, the fore being tian t was so tke a ere ave some of th ian anning i i . 4 mong the Frenc oldiers wer. alle —_ ae gene | wa n taken up all) war w an for busines Here a me of the styles spring has “on foot” for selection, accord.) Left to right—Black patent leather dress-pump with art steel buckle; many fine artists and sculptors, and yee: € orthern & fi ng te our ste t r - } . - ’ Pes ys yrocess: ) ever th rthern Sta and is now! and industry should be n AND|{NB fo your taste, and now on exhibition gt the International Buyers Club] black satin dress pump with eut steel buckle and French high heel; black} ine work they accomplished despite| “ ! far purification” of erminal Building, ‘The stockings speuk! atin pump with buckle of same material and French high heel. ‘the hardship and danger of tho Pin ot’ tine Wilt culloldal clay and wie . milk of | has ee e! [toudly for themselves, - Description of the shoes follows: | trenches is remarkable, With-the a French chemist,” “°\sloped by popularly used throughout a re | women orkers~-now Mig forever— Shoe Fashion Show at the Bush ‘ Ps waited nation, gue and inseparable!” }