The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-25
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Looking Forward IS Years, Woman Sees
Fashions, Derby Hat and Fat Abolished
This Century Will Be Marked
BY Discovery Of Middle
Aged Woman.
~ Nixola Greeley. Smith,

Are you looking forward or back
ward from 50: Our allotted span be-
Ing three score years and ten--make II
20 II it's too hot to do addition-men
and women must cross the meridian OF
life at &c. After that they look for
ward or backward. Which do you do:
Jack 1ait asks this question In the
current number Of the American
Magazine, and his readers are asked
to cast their eyes into the future, SCI
what they can see and tell about how
they would make the world over II
they could.
Mr.. Lait tells what he thinks will
happen in the next 35 years. You viii
perceive from his forecast that it Is d
mans world he creates out Of the fu-
ture. and 4 very unfinished world AT
that
A Forward. Looking Woman.
So set out to find a woman TO
complete It Tor me-a woman who
would look ahead and tell me what the
next IS years will bring to women.
Find woman who would admit that
she COULD look ahead from IS in a
city where everything in skirts enjoys
a blessed immortality of %?
When in doubt always interview
Edith Ellis, because she is one Of those
rare beings who are intelligent OH
every subject they touch Author OF
a dozen or more successful plays, she
has found time to develop one Of the
newest Of all professions for women
that of stage direction. l found her
and confronted her with Mr.. Jack
Laits prediction which follows:
The Mans World Of Future.
"Thirty-fiv years from now" says
Mr.. Lait:
There viii not be a king. en-
peror. car or kaiser in Europe.
Ireland will be an independent
republic: so will Poland.
Liquor will be taboo the world
over-barrcd at It's source.
Women will have full suffrage
everywhere.
Socialism will not have dis
placed republican government.
There will be an aerial route
across the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. with stations or controls
at intervals.
There will be telephone con-
ncctions with and without wireless
across both oceans.
All principal cities will have
double deckcd streets. the lower
strata for traffic by vehicles ex-
clusively.
Emigration from. one country to
another will be rare.
Firearms of all kinds will be
obsolete. forbidden everywhere.
Huge artificial lights will make
hn 1,,.ftrb :.rhA
day.
Physicians. lawyers, dentists
will be public officials and will not
work for Individual fees.
Love will guide matrimonial
selection. but government will re-
fuse to license tho unfit, the mis-
mated. the immature, the senilc,
the damaged.
New York city will have TO-
100000 inhabitants and its own
legislatures; Chicago will have
100000 and its own legislature
Still Tiresome World.
II suppose it's all true" said Mrs
Ellis. fixing me with the eagle look
which gives such power and distinc-
ton to her chiselled face, but If these
are all the things that will happen In
the next So years. VIC shall still have
rather bromide world OH our hands.
don't you think?
This century will go into history
as the century which discovered the
mid0e-aged woman" Mrs. Ellis con-
tinued. THE last was called the CEN
fury Of the child. but it is our own
twentieth century which found out
that the period when Il female person
has ceased to be offspring and given
over being a parent (were offspring
till We marry and Just parents till we