Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-08-09
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OF AMERICA, MAKEUP!
Pour All Your Savings Into Uncle
Sans Lap-Keep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
Is Free.
BY INEz HAYNES IRWIN.

III tN-S NV iNNs
What can the women Of America
do to help win this war? Two things
are certain; one that they can do a
great deal and another that, unless
the war lasts ten years longer, they
can never do so much as the French,
English and Italian women have done,
they can never suffer so much as the
French, English and Italian women
have suffered.
To me, returning to America after
two years in the war countries, the I'M
touched gayety of the American people
canse as a terrific shock 1 had left a
world as black and silent as night; a
world in which had seen no dancing,
q world in which had heard no spon-
taneous laughter or-except in the case
of military bands-no music At first
the atmosphere of America was almost
unbearable. I was obsessed with the
desire to get back to the allied coun-
tries, to suffer with them, rather than
enjoy the comparative comfort of a
comparatively unaroused America.
The luxury everywhere appalled, me.
Those hundreds of motors gliding
through our streets for instance :
Private motors have long ago disap-
peared from allied Europe. The beau
tiful fabrics, the furs and laces, the
gorgeous sport clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which still distinguish
the women of America
Ban on Evening Clothes.
The first time 1 was invited to a
dinner party on my return, wore a
long-sleeved high-necked gray-and-
black gown and found myself a wren
among birds of paradise. No woman
of France would think of wearing eve
ming clothes. Indeed, both men and
women are prohibited by law from ap-
ter. On the few social occasions in
which they take part, French women
are dressed in black gowns with lit
tie lace at the neck and sleeves. Eng
lish women still wear evening clothes.
When their men return on their rare
leave from the front, they cover their
aching hearts with as much gayety as
possible in order to send them back to
the filth and the vermin and the rats
and the damp and the cold and the
wounds and the constant sight of death
psychologically refreshed. But most Of
the evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date back to
the beginning of the war. And strang-
est Of all, perhaps, for a country at
war, those lustrous streets with their
rows of electric lights and their vivid,
flashing, changing. iridescent electric
signs. In Paris, you plunge into a
deep twilight when you leave your res D.
taurant. and in London you grope your
way home through a dangerous Sly
gian gloom. Then the careless spend
ing in American hotels and restau-
rants. In Paris those places close ct
half-past nine. And food Food con-
ditions have never been so bad in
France as in the other allied coun |
tries, for France has always fed her
self and is, moreover the worlds best
cook. But in Italy and England, meat
Is a rare luxury to be obtained only
once in a great while; butter and /,
sugar are long-forgotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed. go
And then in the case of France and
to some degree of Italy. the allied
women have seen vast stretches of
carefully cared-for ancient forest and
enormous sections of softly-beautifur |
farming country turned into metal-rid- |
len dumps; they have seen dozens OF |
small cities and hundreds of little vii |
ages transformed 10 ash heaps; they |
have seen so much old sacred beauty |
IN the form of churches, cathedrals |
and historic monuments reduced TO |
hills of rubble that the whole world |
must seem a desert TO them. They |
have even had TO endure the extra /
,ffront of an exhibition in Berlin OF 1
he art treasures looted from northern
France.
The allied women have nurSed the |
the tubercular, the under
they have taught new
rades 10 the crippled and blind and
hose who are invalided for life. They
ave taken care of thousands and
thousands of refugees from Belgium,
Northern France and Siberia. They
ave had to provide for the bringing
ID of thousands of orphan children
This has not come upon them gradual
V. but all the time and in increasing
But. after all. these things are as
Iothing TO the death of the flower OF
heir male youth. England and France
nd Italy have lost so much in man
,ower that 40 member of our genera
ion looks for happiness sgain during
lis own lifetime, They hope only
or one thing-to insure the freedom
( the next generation
Sons All Gone
MY husband Is Parisian." said
beautiful American woman married
o u Frenchman. "He has always
we'd In Paris. He has many friends
ere. He is forty-fye years old His !