The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-25
get into the forties) she has still some
contribution to make to life.

get into the forties) she has still some
contribution to make to life.
The Precious Forties.
Don't YOU dare to intimate that I'm
| only So years old" Mrs. Ellis exclaimed
suddenly. 1--WE grown up with u lot
| OF people in this town and they are
lots older than that, and am too and
proud of it. Why, a woman doesn't
! move into the top floor Of her being.
until she enters the forties. It's not
till she has ceased actively to be a
parent that she discovers her own
brain.
AT 40 a woman breaks into the
human race. Before that she has been
| a daughter a wife. At 40 she may
have something in common with her
husband besides tho children. She's
| achieved the right to be herself at
least assuming that she has any self
left after 20 years of trying to make
! herself resemble his ideal woman
p, Motherhood and State.
Motherhood in woman becomes uni-
i versal when is ceases to be personal"
| Mrs. Ellis continued. when a mother
| has brought up her own family she is
/; ready to adopt the human family.
great deal of bosh is written and
talked about motherhood, mostly by
men who know nothing about it. but
the maternal quality Is just as neces-
! s1ry, Just as important. to the state
as to the family. and it is because
government has been run without it
| that government has broken down.
We have an example of the purely
male principle in government carried
| to it's logical conclusion in Prussia
| "Of course. women will vote So years
from now. But III tell you of another
change Mr.. I.ait didn't consider at all
| In IS years fashions will be abolished
Fashions for women today are dictated
by men. and they're unbeautiful, sug-
| gestiyc. all wrong.
The Dress Reformer.
! Deliver me from the unreformed
dress rcform"," Ms. Ellis calculated
hastily. u don't mean that 81 years
from now every woman is going to
look like a cross between a Salvation
Army lassie and a Highland chief. I
loathe the type of new woman who
wears a hat like n biscuit cutter and
whose gown looks like problem in
square root. mean that all women,
IS years from now. will appreciate the
beauty of good materials, simply made.
! They will not accept things shoddy
and overdecorated. They will wear
their gowns and shirtwaists three
years or as much longer as the ma :
terial and design seem beautiful.
Women could abolish fashion now if
they chose. and notify department
stores and dressmakers and tailors
that they would not accept shoddy ma :
terials or buy shirtwaists sewn with
thread that doesn't last through one
| washing.
| "Thirty-five years from now I homo
this government will be as civilized
as that OF Turkey, which recognizes
all motherhood. which believes every
child to be contribution to the state
and cares for every child whose
! mother is without property"
what will the next 35 years do for
men?' l asked.
| The Derby Hat Must Go.
They will abolish the supreme
hideosity of the ages, the derby hat"
replied Mrs. Ellis violently. "They
WILL thanks to Mr.. Hoover, restore the
waistline of the middle-aged man. !,
only these oyerfed males. with Dor
eyes. pendulons lips, and paunches