Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-06

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r. the men will do what fighting
is needed" is the caption on a
Pacific coast newspaper story anent
the many and varied war services for
which women have volunteered. The
necessity OF having someone to boil
the domestic spud is emphasized by
the writer, who is greatly exercised
over the threatened desertion of the
hearthstone and the rise of female
army and navy.
With the call to arms and the an
nouncement that the service of every
woman in the country would be re-
CURED, apparently every woman in
the country responded. Mothers of
families offered themselves to make
hospital supplies; working girls ap-
piled for positions made vacant by
,enlisting men; the unincumbered
financially independent woman at
tempted to join the navy outright,
group of Chicago women promised to
wear trousers: all applied for mem
bership in night classes to train for
frst aid, and it began to look as II
the United States would raise female
army and the men would be conscript-
ed to stay at home and give the chill
dren their baths.
Therefore the doctors and army Of
flcers who have been going about ad-
dressing women's clubs and exhorting
members and guests to conseerate
themselves to the service of their
country are now beginning to change
the tenor Of their celebrations, and
to adjure the whole female sex, for
the sake Of the continuance Of the
race and the lessening of the nervous
strain on the army and navy, to take
up knitting and truck gardening.
DIR. Aurelia Reinhardt was among
the FIRST to see the danger that
threatened the country, and explained
that there are enough volunteer
nurses now TO make a bandage that
could bind up the equator, but that
the fires on the hearthstones were
turning to ashes.
Another suggested that instead Of
calling meetings to listen to ad.
dresses on the high cost Of living
women stay at home and learn how tc
cook the potatoes that are left. There,
fore, classes in dietetics are recon,
Inended as we'll as classes in first aid
There is a movement to solve til,
problem Of the high cost of Twins
by adjusting living to the cost, which
may be more profitable than holdin,
meetings to talk about the effect O
the cost on living"
Omaha women needed no such ad
nonitions, having already anticipate,
such a course OF events by organizin,
the Woman Voters Conservation
league and by the local suffragists
gardening plans.
Officers of the newly organize,
Woman Voters Conservation ieapu
are deluged with inquiries about tn
proposed work of the league. Me
especially have shown interest in tn
new club and have promised to CO
operate in the evening mass NEE,
ing planned for this week.
Custer trio gave the first Of serie
of card parties which it plans to Civ
every two weeks for the benefit {
the Red Cross fund Wednesday aftei
noon at Crounse hall. Seven table
were set for the game. Prize wiz
ners were Mesdames Steer, Mile
Holt, Cahill and Mccoy.
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North Side Mothers circle wi
meet Tuesday afternoon at L.,
o'clock with Mrs. w. p. Wherry. Sui
ject will be Birds" and roll call wi
be answered by names Of native bird
Dr.. S. r. Towne will give an illu
trated lecture and Miss Glad,
Chandler will sing. accompanied
her sister, Mrs. Gladstone Derby
Miss Eioisc Hills will be hoste
for the c. O. Story Tellers' lcag,
Friday evening. Miss Ethel Er
leader, tells the story OF THE Wo
derful Adventures of Mis-" Mi