The Washington herald., 1915-08-12
THE GID MAID.

late woman-whatever you wish to
all the woman who IS leading a
tie of single blessedness-is on the
Increase.
According to a recent contributor
Popular Science Monthly" there
we're at the last census 8,o24o66
vomen in the United States neither
married, widowed, nor divorced, a
otal of 2o.7 per cent of all the wom-
over fifteen years of age There
re nearly 100000 public school
eacheTs in America, badly one OF
yhom are married.
One thing must be remembered,
owever, and that is that of these
early 100000 unmarried women
|ver IS, a majority, or more than a
najority, will be in the married class
" the time of the next census. More
nd more women are marrying late in
life. There was time, not long
Aeo. when women seldom married
[fter so-at least, if they did their
relatives considered it owing to a
are dispensation of Providence. But
now things are different. Women
Is they grow older have more and
more opportunities of meeting men
whom they might care to wed; in
tead of growing narrow and exact
ns as she used to the woman who
not married is quite likely to be
broad and tolerant Instead Of be-
Ing uncompanionable. she is quite
likely to be a more congenial COM
tade of the men she knows than she
lvas at twenty.
OF course, ono reason why for the
past decade the number of women
Who have n6t married has been on
thc increase has been because the
opportunities OF the unmarried wom-
en- were innumerably greater than
khose of her married sister. So long
as municipal authorities prevent
married women from teaching in the
public schools, so long as the Federal
departments, many of them, prevent
|the married woman who is neither
divorced nor widowed from holding a
lob. there will be a special induce
bnent put in the way Of the unmar-
|ricd woman. So long as we cling
l., .1,+ th, I,,ttaS nf
|ried women are exclusively duties OF
|the home-n no matter how greatly
modern inventions reduce the tasks
| of the house-so- long will we be
putting premium on the unmarried
state for women.
Under the Constitution of 1880 and
|I7oS of Georgia, says our suffrage
Fl, nd, women were entitled to vote.
This right continued until 1865, when
b. direction of President Andrew
Johnson the words free white male"
were inserted in the constitution Of
the State. So Georgia women OF
IoI; who demand the vote are merely
asking for the restoration of a right
which they once possessed and not
in any sense making a new request
or an unprecedented one.
Styles and fashions for women
have dealt largely with frills and
furbclows in the past. To be hoop
ed like a barrel or confined in a
skirt narrow as a pantaloon leg has
been seriously discussed in columns
of periodicals and newspapers.
Sleeves bouffant or skin-tight re-
ceived their share of consideration.
Through all the varying swelling and
shrinking of frou-frou changes, the
feminine note has been doll-like in
expression. This year of Grace, 1915,
sounds a new departure from frills
to enhance physical charms, to a
uniform for practical military work.
England's women are the sartorial
iconoclasts The desperate need of
the English army includes several
distinct departments and organiza-
tions of women. Conspicuous are
the Women Volunteer Reserves, the
Women's Hospital Corps, and the
Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps.
Their uniform is khaki color. and
it is a common sight on London
streets to see body of soldiers give
a military salute to a woman in
khaki. The day of the woman of
leisure, of society ambition, of flip
paney is gone in Europe for the time
being. The hour of the woman of
service has arrived. The field of
service stretches from cottage hearth
to battle field and recruiting Office.
The true English woman's place is
discovered to be where she can do
most good. All hail to the woman in
khaki.