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rick until IL stands as high as her
head or higher. and then raises It ,un-
aided to her shoulders and starts OF
: down the street, while the man lolIs IN
the sun and rolls a cigarette.
In Italy she will see women at every
turn working like pack horses. carry
ing fuel. water, wfne-what not. No
work Is too heavy or mental, and by
contrast with the overworked, slovenly
women the loafing gendarmes and spick
and span military seem more numer-
Gus and inexcusable than anywhere
else IN Europe. Then. too, IN Italy
there are the hordes OF priests who do
nothing OF the worlds work and vet
must live, and live we'll In all for
eign countries, directly IN proportion
to the number OF idle. well dressed men.
Is the number OF women who work as
drudges. and no foreign man feels
ashamed that his countrywomen are
unsexed by work that belongs only to
strong men or beasts.
In the capitals few women driving
on the Corso. the Ringstrasse or the
Champs Elysees, seem to find life easy
and beautiful, but for every one OF
these a million others are doomed to
such dreary drudgery that surely the
keen edge Of pleasure must be dulled
for the favored few.
BY the time she has reached Naples
your wife or mother or sister may be
ready 20 hurry PACK 10 ner pots ana
pans, her sewing machine and darnins
basket with a lot of new thoughts
working beneath her mop cap. She
will but have them more firmly fixed IL
her ticket brings her home by way OF
the orient.
In the tropics al work seems reduced
to a minimum except where the white
man has settled with his strenuous
ideas of life. Andg while men and
women share the manual work. all find
time for lying about in the shade OF
palms. Perhaps there is some chiValry
here, for the naked natives OF trOpic
lands do not make their women climb
the cOcOanut palms to gather the fruit
or boss the elephants at their work
Women pick tea and coffee and help to
gather spices. but usually ii is the men
who carry the heavy sacks and do the
part that seems like mans work
In China the women want but little
here below. Along the coast a hundred
thousand OF them live out their lives
in junks, having no other home. AS
often as not they may be seen rowing
the junk with the strange curved oar
that propels them, and when food time
comes they turn the oar over to the
man while they cook and care for the
children.
In Japan a woman's right to work is
never questioned. At Nagasaki she
helps to coal the big ocean liners. and
everywhere she is at work in the fields.
on the building gangs. carrying heavy
stones on her back TO build walls.
climbing up ladders on buildings with
hods of mortar. swinging the ropes OF
pile driversEwhere not. And with all
this drudgery the japanese woman
never shirks her task OF motherhood
No amount OF work exempts her from
the duty of supplying men for a big
standing army not only of soldiers, but
of priests.
BY this time your wife or mother or
sister will surely need no more TO con-
vince her that the American man is the
only man on earth that humors his
women folks past all other mems COM
prehension. She will come home much
wiser than she went away But there
is just the barest possibility that she
may be little bit too wise ever TO let
you know that she knows that she is
the worst spoiled woman in the world.