Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-28
GIRLS BOAST
MEMBERSHIP OF $4,000
Organization Has Mapped Out Wo-
mans Preparedness Pro-
gram.
GOVERNMENT IN TIE KITCHEN
Place in House Has Been
Invaded by Men OF European
GovernmentS-Wha Dorothy Dix
Thinks Of iOt6-Modci Girl.

The Camp Fire Girls are coming TO
he front in admirable fashion. About
5000 girls are enrolled throushout
The country They have in reality
vomans prtfaredness program that IS
;aluaNle not only in war but in peace.
Camp Fire Girls will raise the stand
ard OF efficiency for boys as we'll as
girls. Thei, course Of instruction IN
cludcs walking and proper care OF the
feet: the care OF babies and young
children. surgical first aid and ban
daging: general relief work: camp
cookery tent and sleeping arrange
men;S The service uniforms consist
OF a pla!n khaki skirt ~ one Of dark
serge. white MILDLY blouse and white
hat when on duty.
The Camp Fire Girls organization
is regarded BY social workers as a
practical and c!iicien, movement. Dr.
Luther Culick. president Of the Camp
Fire Girls OF America, says: There is
no possibility Of preparedness move
mcrt that does not include the women
of the country, and there is no sense
in a program which does not compre-
bend the home and take the girls and
their mothers into universal consid-
Grafton"
This is good. sensible doctrine, and
tr3,rinS for the citizenship which VIII
inevitably come To the women OF the
United States. AS citizens with balio'H
women can help 10 make better homes
and better government
VOTES AND COoK-PuTS
is 4 NEW SLOGAN
IT used to be said that "woman's
place is IN the home; that woman is
the uncrowncd queen OF the hearth
stone" Everybody has heard these
tritc and thread bare sayings and some
of us have used them. and perhaps
very few Of us have believed 'heH'
But cog seems 10 have Slipped some
where in the Sanciity of the woman
exclusive domain. Her kitchen Is be-
Ing invaded by men administrators OF
the European governments. certain
foods are prescribed and others pro-
scribei The cherished cook-books are
censored. Grandma'S pickles are unoer
ban as Injuries: potatoes are sclut'-
nized BY male experts; what klno OF
flour mother shall mix in the bread is
determined by men; the cookie-)ar ana
,ootbsoue doushnut are forbidden,
mammals caressing hand: her pies are
i,terdicted: stern mandates INTERFERE
with woman's housewifely scepter, ana
the crown Of woman's sphere OF oomeS-
tic supremacy * hoisted on the dusty
shelf OF war necessity.
The funny part of ii all is that IL is
MOI considered AT all unmanly TO con-
duct the Kitchen in wartime. il is
only in the pipinG~times of peace that
mother is permitted guarded sway III
the cooking regions And since there
nppears such close relation between
domestic Kitchen and war cabinets,
Wouldn't II be we'll 10 admit men ana
women 80 both? Votes and cook-pols
really ought TO be one now, ana for-
ever. in the parliaments OF the world.
Every Southerncr has laughed NJ
some OF the wise sayings of MirandE
as exploited by a Southern writer,
Dorothy Dix. Mrandy is chuck-tn!i
OF philosophy. Now Dorothy DIX mas
this 10 say of the modern girl:
The modern girl is a suftrag'st by
instinct She doesn't argue about equal
rights for women. She simply takes
them for granted. She knows herself
as strong, as intelligent. OF as much
Importance in the world as her brother,
and i; Is unthinkahlc to her that he
should have privileges which are de-
MED 10 her. that doors should he open
10 him that are closed TO her.
such is the 1916 model OF girl that
the workshop OF progress has turned
out. equipped with all the modern I'M
provemcnts and inventions She's
elf-starier. She's gcarcd up 10 ninety
miles an hour and she carries limited
amount Of gas. And the questions are:
Where is she going? WHITTIER is she
taking us? VIII she he car or 4
JuEEernaut thai will run over MS and
crush MS or ~LT she pick US up and
carry us with re-" into tho up!ands OF
life?
"of one thing only are We certain.
and that Is that she will not, IKE her
forebears. run In the Old worn ruts OF
feririnity. bu, that she viii ne path
Under along new roads