South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-07
Changing Styles
In Won1ankif,d
Though Her Work be Differ
ent She is Still Womanly,
Says Miss Fairfax.
BY Beatrice Fairfax.

Said the cynlc 10 me:
Women aren't anything like what
| they used 10 be when my mother was
! a girl. They aren't sweet and woman
| w any more. They seem to be about
/ halfway between men and their old
selves. And l don't like EN-"
said | TO the cynic:
J .Mv dear man, il women today
hadn't moved ahead with the world
in the 40 years since your mother was
a girl life would be a very difficult
| thing for the man of today who isn't
anything like the youth your father
was when ne was a boy!'
The woman of today is a product
of our time. She is a little restless
and uncertain of herself, but SO is the
Worlo II which she lives.
our mothers were compelled to do
all the ODD JOBS which factories and
canneries and various manufacturing
concerns have taken out of her hands
today Inc spinning and weaving,
and baking and canning and preserV-
ing which occupied the woman of
olden times are taken care of on a
large scale today by efficient and al
most humanity intelligent machines.
And woman finds herself turned loose
with most Of her occupation gone.
She simply has to find herself new
jobs TO take the place of the old les.
And she does not fail to search for
them.
1t is this very search for something
to do that makes woman seem 80 rest
less. She has gone down into the
shop and factory and Office and made
place for herself there along with
the efficient machinery that calls her
out from her home. Externally she
looks very different but
But woman through all the ages
70 al N nCCnnfiqllV tho since
fundamentally and biolOgically she
has not really changed. If circum
stances force her to alter her method
and manner of living, if economic
conditions sweep her out into the
world and make her fight men for
place there, if necessity compelS her
to fight like a man and with a mans
weapons-none Of these things makes
woman feel like a man.
The most successful business wom-
an in the Vs.. retains her longing
for home this longing for
home lies lamental of won.-
ans natur cans a place in
which she Sc protected from the
stress of liNiit- 1T means a place
where she can make comfort for
those who love her, and above all,
| to be perfect, ii means husband and
children.
The woman of today does not sit at
home and NOPE and die of unreciprO-
Gated affection, like the poor little
classic heroine of How Lisa Loved
the King" Instead of that she looks
| life in the face, finds what she can
have and does her best to be content
| ed Herewith, or at least to make the
most of a half-portion of happiness,
if that is all she can have
In my acquaintance there are vast
numbers Of working women"-frOm
the little shop girl who gets six dol
lars a week to the buyer who gets -
thousand a year. Artists and writer's,
/ singers and actresses, cooks and man.
! icures-I am proud of the friendship
Of many of these. And every one of
them is as essentially a woman as was
, her grandmother before her. But she
hasn't time to stop and prove it TO
/ the world. She has her living to earn
and her work TO do. And in doing it
we'll she does not become less wom-
anly.
There is your modern woman-fac-
! ing the circumstances of modern life
| because she happened TO be living in
1915 and not IN 1865. She lives in ac-
cordance with her times and makes
/ the best of them Her faults are the
faults of today Hurry and struzzle
and competition make her seem hard
and unfeminine.
Styles in women may change as
! they like. but woman's heart remains
the same-unselffsh, loving, sweet and
maternal.