The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-08-29
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,

| int war ldSlS 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
nave suffered.
To me, returning to America after
| two years in the war countries, the I'M
| touched gayety of the American people
came as terrific shock / had left a
| world as black and silent as night; a
world In which l had seen no dancing.
a 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. | was obSeSSed with the
desire to get back to the allied coun-
| tries, to suffer with them, rather than
enjoy the comparative comfort of Il
! 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 l was invited to Il
dinner party on my return, l wore a
/ Iong-sieeyed high-necked gray-and-
| black gown and found myself a wren
among birds of paradise No woman
I Of France would think of wearing eve
! ming clothes. Indeed, both men and
women 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
! tie lace at the neck and sleeves. Eng
! fish 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 n country at
war those lustr0uS 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
taurant, and in London you grope your
/ way home through a dangerous Sty-
gian gloom. Then the careless spend
! in" 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 IS in the other allied coun-
tries, for France has always fed her
self and is, moreover, the worlds best
cook. Buy in Italy and England, meat
IS a rare luxury to be obtained only
once in great while; butter and
sugar are lOng-forgotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed.
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-beautiful
| farming country turned into metal-rid-
den dumps; they have seen dozens of
small cities and hundreds of little vii
| lagos transformed to 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
affrOnt of an exhibition in Berlin of
the art treasures looted from northern
| France.
The allied women have nursed the
wounded the tubercular, the under
n0uriShed; they have taught new
| trades to the crippled and blind and
those who are invalided for life. They
have taken care of thousands and
thousands of refugees from Belgium,
northern France and Siberia. They
have had to provide for the bringing
up Of thousands of orphan children.
This has not come upon them gradual
ly, but all the time and in increasing
! proportions.
But, after all, these things are as
nothing to the death of the flower of
lheir male youth. England and France
and Italy have lost so much in man
| power that no member of our genera.
ton looks for happiness again during
his own lifetime! They hope only
for one thing-to insure the freedom
of the next generation.
Sons All Cone
MY husband Is a Partisan" said
beautiful American woman married
to n Frenchman. HE has always
lived In Paris. He has many friends
here. He is forty-five years old. His