Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-02
WOMEN ENDORSE
HOME PRODUCTS
CLUBS VOLUNTARILY OFFER
THEIR SUPPORT
THEIR INFLUENCE THE FINAL
AND DECISIVE FACTOR
EbelI Members Start the Ball Roll
ing, and Kindred Organizations
Promptly Join to Boom
prosperity Week"

A woman started prosperity Week"
and the idea of buying and boosting
home products, and 1t looks now as If
women were going to carry it with
rush to the goal. A mere man ex-
pressed the BUY and Boost idea; an
other man is furnishing the sinews of
war and directing the moves from
roller-top desk in a corner of the cham
Der of commerce, but the way in which
women take it or leave 1t Will declde
the day.
The support of the womens clubs has
been as unbounded as it was unexpect-
ed and unsolicited. 1t was thought the
Ebell club had started the ball roll
ing when it sent a plea to Mrs. Frank
Virgins, Secretary Virgins delight
full wife and o-worker, to give the club
five-minutes' talk before the regular
meeting, which will take place this aft
ernoon at 2:30 o'clock. Thinking that
If the Ebell was interested the other
clubs might likewise be, Mrs Shelley
Tolhurst of the Friday Morning club
was called up, but before she could be
asked what her club would do she an
swered that it had been done.
What has been done? Printed upon
their program that women were re-
quested to observe Prosperity Week"
and Buy and Boost Home Products"
Would Mrs. Tolhurst, of whom a bril-
liant man once made the remark that
he would give his hand If he could
make such felicitous short speeches,
would Mrs Tolhurst make little ad-
dress? And she graciouSly would.
Before the chamber of commerce Of
ficials had recovered their breath and
while some one was suggesting that
the Wednesday Morning club was
progressive organization, the telephone
rang and Mrs. Frank Prior, president
of that organization, was offering her
support.
Just then woman came into the
office. 1t was Miss Lloy Galpin of the
Los Angeles high school with an an
nouncement that the high school pupils
wanted to get into the game. Eyes
are straining at the chamber of COM
merce for a representative from the
Polytechnic, and if the envoy does not
wear skirts there will be some surprised
persons The first advent of woman
into this dry industrial subject was
unexpected, but now the chamber of
commerce expects the unexpected.
Woman the Originator
Mrs. Virgins, who is as enthusiastic
ally interested as her hustling husband
in the week of November 1921, was
asked MIdI she 1uI0I1OCQ LIB ~ lAiO
Ebellites.
II wish you would tell me-" she said.
Five minutes in which to speak of
our many industries, most of them now
only in their infancy, and to express all
our hopes and fears for infant NOR
tally, you know, is high. And then
do not know myself what 1 am going
to say. Soon / must put on my think
ing cap. In this instance l class my
Gpff with Mark Twain who said that
it always took him long time to think
up his unprecedented remarks.
Here is a thought, though, If you
care for 1t. Woman is largely reSpon-
sible for the compleXity of modern life.
To shelter primitive woman and their
offspring, primitive man sought out, or
dug out, holes in the EARTH or he built
platforms into trees. With crude wea-
pons he brought down their food, and
he carried the skins home to lay on
the floor or enwrap wife and child.
By-O Baby Bunting,
Daddie's gone a-hunting
To get a little rabbit skin
To wrap the Baby Bunting in.
with increasing comforts came in
creasing wants. The cave was not
we'll enough ventilated, the tree too
much.
$50 with the mans desire to protect
the woman, and give her good things to
eat, and soft things. to wear, and guards
to hang upon her, and vehicles that
her feet need not grow weary, gradual
ly came the superlatively complex
civilization of the twentieth century,
so complex that we cry out against 1t
sometimes and talk about a return to
the simple life.
"All this sounds as though the woman
were inordinately selfish. Lest any one
should mistake me I hasten to say that
she is a sweet hypocrite and accepted
these things as for herself, only that
her children might me cuddled warm
and her husband pampered, and that
she might add to his delight by appear
ing more beautiful in his eyes.
'SShe taxed her ingenuity to supply
wants for her husband to crafty and
every factory wheel. that turns today
was started indirectly by woman. But
please understand me- there is not
woman OF the right sort, who for the
right man, the one man, would not go
back to the cave, or the tree, and
start again working toward civiliza-
ton"