RS SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1919 WOMEN EXCEED MEN |Y. W. C. A, STUDENTS IN JAPANESE FAGTORIES 1 850,000 Japanese Women Work at Average Daily Wage of Ten to Twenty Cents for a Twelve Hour Day. There are more women In industry in Japan than there are men, accord- to a statement recently made by the ,War Work Councll of the Young We- men’'s Christian Association. " The world war has brought 850,000 women and girls into the daily grind qg industry according to this state- ment ; 30,000 of them, little girls under fifteen years of age who work twelve .ppurs at a wage of ten to twenty cents 4 day, that the world may have silk / sses and munitions, 7 In Tokyo alone, a city of two and ; one-half million people, there are 100, \ﬂ,ﬁo,women employed in sixty-two in- .dustries and businesses varying from .work as telephone operators, clerks, stenographers and bookkeepers to work In silk and other sorts of fac teries and domestic work. Each year thousands of these wo- men go back to their homes in the country, broken in health and victims ,of tuberculosis because of the poor conditions under which they work and live. They are housed in dormitories in the factory compound. These dormi- tories are frequently unsanitary. The girls work long hours, have no recre- ation and on finishing their long day go immediately to bed, oftentimes a bed which a girl who works at night has been sleeping in all day. As part of its world service for wo- men, the Young Women’s Christian Association plans to build dormitories in manufacturing towns where girls may live cheaply under bhealthfu! physical and social conditions, to send out secretaries who can introduce rec- reation into the factory compound and direct games and social life. This is done with the co-operation of the factories’ managers and pro- prietors. One of the most influential of these is Mrs. Suzuki, the most prominent woman manufacturer In Japan, who is owner and manager of a firm which exported $11,000,000 worth of bean oil to America last year. Recently Mrs. Suzuki decided to employ one thousand women in her offices. She could not find enough well trained ones so she established a permanent school where Japanese girls may be trained to enter the busi- ness world. The greatest danger ahead of Japan, she says, Is In its growing materialism, and Japan’'s greatest néed, the development of her women. L X R KR R L L LR L KR + * <+ NATIONAL FRIENDSHIPS L < DEPEND UPON WOMANKIND < o < * Japanese Diplomat Says Men < s Alone Cannot Create Interna- < + tional Friendliness. + b + < International friendship be- % tween = nations_ depends largely + < upon the friendly feeling between <+ the women of those nations, ac- < : oo’ cording to representatives of the < . < Japanese embassy in Washington. 4 Their theory is that there can % be no firm friendship between < two nations unless the women of < . o those two countries know and < % like one another, as co-operation < .+ between nations, as in the state < .« and in the family, is based on co- « operation between men and wo- < men. + o Therefore, if Japan and Ameri- 4o ca are to have a real, lasting « friendship, to really know and + understand one another, the wo- 4 men of the two nations must 4 learn to play together, to study < 4 together and to think together. ¥ % The Y. W. C. A. is one of the + *+ best mediums for bringing about < # this friendship between the two < « nations, according to diplomatic < 4« representatives of Japan, as that < + organization is teaching Japanese < < women recreation, showing them < + how to enjoy out-of-door life and < . . e sports. It is particularly neces- < ¢ sary that Japanese women léarn + 4 to enjoy and appreciate recrea- < + tion, they say, since the great 4 influx ‘of women into industry < «:and business, as Japanese wo- < 4 men, formerly so conservative, 4 are going into business and doing ¥ 4 many things which they had 4 never thought of doing before the + war. ) * 4 The Y. W. C. A, has been as- + # sured the fullest possible co-oper- 4 4 ation of the Japanese embassy < % and the Japanese people in mak- + + ing its “World Service program” < 4 for’ three: milllon ~dollars to be 4 % used for women. and girls in the 4 United States, India, China, Ja- + 4 pan, South America, Egypt, Si- % 4 beria, the Near East and Mexico #+ + a success. + I L X Y " Y. W. C. A. TRAINS WOMEN, Young women students from forty- four states and nine countries—China, the Philippine Islands, France, Bulga- &ja, Holland, Russia, Armenia, Canada and Mexico — are registered in the National Training School of the Young ‘Women’s Christian Association in New York. They are studying methods of Y. W, C. A. work with a view to taking up itions in Y. W. C. A. work either in this country or in other of the coun- tries where the Y. W. C. A. is carrying on, opening and expanding its work. _———e e _——e_———_—_———_— — e ———— e TEAGHING IN CHINA Physical Training School Main- tained in Shanghai. The vast majority of Chinese men remember their mothers as cripples. Many a girl wanders into a mission school who has not had her own feet bound, but has never seen a woman of her own class who could walk, and, therefore, she walks In a most ungain- ly fashion—scarcely conscious of her natural feet. The Chinese Medical Assoclation— an Assoclation composed only of Chi- nese physicians mostly graduates from American and English institutions— have asked the entire educated commu- nity of the country to co-operate in better health for the children of Chi- na. All the Mission Boards operating in China felt that one of the greatest contributions the Young Women's Christian Association could offer to the health of China would be to es- tablish a normal school for the train- Ing of physical directors. - Accordingly, in Shanghal, which is the greatest port in China, the nation- al committee established such a school in 1914, The school has won favor with all educationists, both missionary and government. There have already been nine graduates from this school. Miss Ying Mei Chun, a graduate of the Wellesley School of Physical Edu- cation, has been dean of the school. Graduates of the school are scattered from Canton to Peking, teaching with conspicuous success in twelve mission and government schools. REMINISCENT Gr UTHEK UATS Century-Old Building in Providence, Rhode Island, Is a Survival of Napoleonic Era. A recent incident In Providence, Rhode Island, calls attention to an old landmark reminiscent of Napo- leon and his construction of the Mad- eleine In Paris. Napoleon’s bullding set a little fashion in America, and several structuree more or less like it were built in different cities. The Ar- cade building, in Providence, is the only one of them left. Erected about 1820, it became an Ionic temple, that was also a center of retail trade, and ite pillars remain today the largest monoliths in the country, except those which have been raised for the grow- ing Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York. The record tells how they were cut by hand. In the town of Johnston, and dragged ‘to Providence on sleds, nearly a hundred vears ago, Tt tells also that the dedication of the building was a grand public affair, and that the temple was long held to be one of the architectural wonders of the United Statee. It is not of such commercial importance as it used tc be, but one may be glad that the city has not lost such a reminder of the Napoleonic era. VELOURS SAILOR FOR GIRLS Hat May Be Perfectly Straight, Roll Brimmed or the Simple Tri- corne Model. The most popular hat this year for general wear for the girl of any age from babyhood to high school is the soft, fluffy velours sailor. The hat may be perfectly straight, it may be a roll brimmed sailor, or, for the older girl, a simple tricorne. If a straight or roll brimmed sailor, a plain ribbon band is the trimming chosen, and for the tri- corne a band of ribbon with rosette or bow. Velvet is a material much in vogue for femininity of all ages this séason, and it makes a charming dress-up or best frock for a child or young girl, but plain or plaid worsted or wool jer- sey cloth are the materials preferred for utility frocks. 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DWIGHT D. MILLER Northern National Bank Bldg. HaLL CAINE INCE the end of the war released Sir Hall Caine from his ¢ountry’s service he has been working e BURIED TREASURE By F. Britten Austin, Is Trinity Church A Squatter? Does the richest Protestant Church in the world really ownits valuable real estate? Should not this question be clearly settled for all time ? See Hearst's for December. NEARLY DYING FOR A LIVING $25 Workers Earn $20,000 Bonuses | | i | | | | | | By Horry Houdini, | \ | $25-a-week workers in a Chicago corporation, who re-invest $1.25 a week, 20 l years laterdrawout $20,000! Read “A Man With 7,000 | Partners,” by B. C. Forbes. 1 N In Hearst’s for December. Hearst’s for December Hearst’s for December on a new novel, “The Master of Man.” As in the case of “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” he has selected Hearst’s as the medium for its publication. “TheMaster of Man” begins in Hearst’s for February. VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ OT since Cervantes has any Spanish writer at- tained the fame of Ibafiez, author of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” Cowboy, sailor, revolutionist, founder of a city, Commander of the Legion of Honor, Ibafiez as a novelist has been compared to Zola and Victor Hugo. His new novel “Enemies of Women" begins in Hearst’s for April. A. CoNAN DoOYLE IR Arthur Conan Doyle is the greatest authority in the world on the Life-after-Death. Whether you scoff at Spiritualism or preach it, you will want to hear what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has to say. The first of his series of “True Ghost Stories” appears in Hearst’'s for January. Don't miss it! REX BEACH OMING! More short stories by Rex Beach! They will be of Alaska—Rex Beach at his best. Other writers in Hearst's for 1920 will include: F. Britten Austin, Arnold Bennett, Donn Byrne, R. W. Chambers, G. K. Chesterton, Richard Wash- burn Child, Larry Evans, Cosmo Hamilton, W. W. Jacobs, Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Level, Arthur Somers Roche, George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, and many others as notable. By Robert W Chambers, Hearst's for December IN THE CYPRESS SWAMP Armies Too Big To Fight Will the Nations disarm ? Can the League of Nations effect this? Ferrero, the Italian historian, discusses this tremendous problem. In Hearst's for December. WHY I DON'T GO TO NEW YORK | By Walt Masen, Hearst's for December The Little Things That Count Many marriages are unhap- py because of trifles that could be cleared up in ten minutes of frank discussion. Read “The Little Things That Count,” by Pertwee. In Hearst's for December. F YOU are satisfied with any ordinary magazine, don’t bother your news- | dealer to reserve a copy of Hearst’s. Those alertly intelligent people who i\ demand a magazine far beyond the average will quickly exhaust the entire i supply. But, if you, too, want the works of the world’s great writers; the thoughts of the world’s great thinkers; don’t fail to make sure each month— starting today with the new December number—of your regular copy of For Sale at MAC’S CONFECTIONERY MRS. O. E. ERWIG K 4

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