The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-04
Tango Overworks Silk Makers.

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less directly for divorce, and for tn
high cost of living, and it has bee
credited with being good for the nerve
and now, at the meeting of the Sill
Association Of America, it has bee
accorded the thanks of the manufac
turers, who say dancing has given al
unusual stimulus to the silk industry
Manufacturers are unable to fill thei
orders, the demand has grown so great
1.-THE great number of dancing gown
demanded by the average woman" salt
Mr.. Ramsey Peugnet, secretary of thu
association, "has had a direct effec
dancing in the afternoon as we'll as a
dinner and after the theatre has be
come almost universal in New Yorl
city, and the craze for this form o.
amusement is rapidly spreading tt
other cities and towns throughout the
country4 And" concluded the secre-
tary, " every woman who yields her
self to this most popular fad needs
much larger wardrobe, which usually
means a greater variety of dancing and
dinner costumes of silk" Now will we
hear from the shoe trade?
Children Should Not Play Doll.
Does baby play mammal" Then
seize her doll at once! Nature made
a big mistake when she planted the
mother instinct in little children, and
in fact, all childish instincts are
wrong, according to Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. Little girls should
not be allowed to play with dolls and
call them their babies," said Mrs. Gill
man. whether it is done instinctively
or in imitation of their own mothers,
they should not play house and put
their children to bad, nor harbor any
other of the emotions or duties OF
mother. That is abnormal, and just
another proof that with woman her
sex predominateS. She is more female
than a human being, and that is why
she has not progressed as man has.
Then Mrs. Gilman proceeded to discuss
at length mans superiority to woman,
and finally reached the all engrossing
subject of clothes 'Women's love OF
-. o1~, vol oh IN 6nnlarnd
because it should be a strictly mascu-
line characteristic. Among lower an
mails the male has all the decorations,
such as fancy horns, plumes, and SO
'orth; and the female by decking her
self up in beads and feathers is 1ml-
ating the male. While the clothes worn
~ men are more sensible than ours,
hey are not perfect" concluded the
ecturer. His coat is handy to carry |
hings around in, but when he wants |
O do any work off comes the coat
Wasted Sympathy OF Society Matron.
NEW YORK, Apr. A sphinx
watched the trial of young Frank Tan,
enbaum, charged with participating
n an unlawful assembly by the police.
Ter name is Mrs. Mable Dodge, OF
fifth avenue. Why was a society wom-
n from Fifth avenue interested in
UGH a trial? Was she an anarchist,
r a socialist? When such questions
rere put to her she replied, Il am not
n anarchist, nor do l belong to the
ocialist party. l am a student and l
m greatly interested in this trial and
! all the circumstances of the recent
w. w. conflict with the established
RIDER. l think that the unemployed
re justified in doing enything to call
,tention of the public to their con-
tions," said Mrs. Dodge. Anything
lat doesn't injure people" she quail
ed quickly. "Of course you know l
mt believe in dynamite and that sort
thing" This society woman con-
ders the I. W. w. a really important !
'cial phenomenon, because it is
of labor. Something is
rong with the present condition OF
ings, which permits, even forces, u
ousands of men to be idle. 1t seems o
me-" concluded Mrs. Dodge, the d
st. remedy is to effect a proper or d
nization of all labor I should like "
help in bringing this about
Justice to Great Inventors. -
Within the past few months several q,
yentors of the greatest of modern
of the aeroplane,
lrconi of the wireless, and lastly but
rhaps the most financially produc-
e. the Reverend Hannibal Goodwin's =
rention of the flexible film which has !
de possible the movies" and many
Ter lines of progress in photography,
We come into their own by having
ir patents upheld in the United
ties supreme court. The widow OF
late Mr.. Goodwin has just recelv- =
very large sum of money in set
nent of the infringement cases
inst the Eastman and other COM
lies. She is eighty years old and
children are all well past middle
The case has been in the courts
ny years. Thus has substantial
ice been done to the pioneers IN
r respective mechanical arts.