Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-08-15
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-Two Ways They
Can Help.
Pour Al Your Savings Into Uncle
Same Lap-keep On Saving and
Pouring Until the World
10 Free.
BY uNEz HAYNES IRWIN.

What can the women Of America
70 to help win this war? Two things
are certain; one that they can do u
great deal and another that. unless
Ne war lasts ten years longer. they
can never do SC 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 un-
eouched gnyety Of the American people
came as a terrific shock. / had left q
world as black and silent as night a
world In which l had seen no dancing,
Q world In which l had heard no spon-
tane0us laughter or-eXcept In the a S
q military b~ands--nO music. At first
he atmosphere of America was almost
un%bearable. l 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 instancei
Private motors have long ago dlsap-
peared from allied Europe. The beau
dful 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 I was invited to a
dinner party on my return, I wore q
1ong-sleeved h~igh-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
ONE are prohibited by law from ap-
pearing In evening clothes at the thea
ter. On the few social occasions In
which they take part. French women
are dressed in black gowns with a lit
tic lace Mt the neck and sleeves. Eng
ush 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 flth 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 oil. perhaps, for a country ut
war, those lustrous streets with their
rows of electric lights and their vivid,
uashlng. changing, irldescent electric
Signs. In Paris, you plunge into Il
deep twilight when you leave your res
taurant, and in London you grope your
way home through a dangerous Sty-
CLAN gloom. Then the careless spend.
Ing In American hotels and restau.
rants. In Paris those places close at
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
10 a rare luxury to be obtained Only
once In a great while; butter and
sugar are long-forsotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed.
And then In the case of France md
to some degree Of Italy, the allied
women have c vast stretches of
carefully cared-fOr ancient forest and
enormous sections Of softly.beautlful
farming country turned into metal.rid
den dumps; they have seen dozens OF
small cities and hundreds Of little vii
lagos transformed TO ash henps. the,
nave seen so much old sacred beauty
IN the form Of churches, %cathedrals
y historic monuments reduced tc
Mills or rubble that the whole world
must seem Il desert to them. The,
nave even had to endure the extra
"hront OF an exhibition In Berlin OF
n nrt treasures looted from northern
France.
The allied women have nurscd The
wounded, the tu%bercular, the under.
nourished; they have taught new
trades to the crippled and blind and
NOSE who are invaded for life. The,
nave taken care of thousands and
thousands Of refugees from Belgium
northern France and Siberia. The,
nave had TO provide for the bringing
up or thousands Of orphan children
lhiS has not come upon them gradual
~, but all the time and in incrcns,n.
proportions.
hNt' after all, these things are n,
h"ih'ng to the death Of the flower O,
ti'ris male youth. England and Franc,
ana Italy have lost 20 mucl, In mn,
power that no member of our cencra
ton looks for happiness pgaln durIn,
MS own lifetime! They hone on,,
Tor one thing--to insure the frcedo,
q the next generation.
Sens All Gone.
my husband Ia n parlslup." mi,
beautiful American woman Marie,
20 q Frenehman. "He las AWAY
lived IL Paris. He has many friend,
mere. lc 10 sarty.evs years old. ri