The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-08-23
WHAT WOMEN CAN
DOTO Win THE WAR
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-TWo Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OF AMERICA, WAKEJP!
Pour All Your Savings Into Uncle
Sans Lap-keep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
IL Free.
BY INEZ HAYNES IRWIN.

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What can the women of America
do to help win this war; Two things
are certain; one that they can do q
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 un-
touched gayety of the American people
caDe as q terrific shock. | had left
world as black and silent as night;
world in which l had seen no dancing,
q world in which l 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 a
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 a
dinner party on my return, 1 wore q
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'
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 lit
tie lace ut the neck and sleeves. Eng
lish women still wear evening clothes
leave from the front, they cover their
aching hearts with as much gayety as
possible In order to send them back t
the filth and the vermin and the rats
and the damp and the cold and the
wounds and the constant sight Of deatf
psychologically refreshed. But most o.
tho evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date back t.
the beginning Of the war. And strang
est Of all, perhaps, for country a
war. those lustrous streets with thei
rows Of electric lights and their vivid
flashing, changing iridescent electric
signs. In Paris, you plunge into
deep twilight when you leave your res
taurant, and In London you grope you
way home through q dangerous Sly
gian gloom. Then the careless spend
ing in American hotels and restau
rants. In Paris those places close q
half-past nine. And food! Food con
ditions have never been so bad L
tries, for France has always fed hel
self and Is, moreover. the worlds hes
cook. But in Italy and England, mea
Is q rare luxury to be obtained onl
once In great while; butter an
sugar are g-forgotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed.
And then in the case of France an
to some degree of Italy. the allie
women have seen vast stretches G
carefully cared-for ancient forest an
enormous sections of softly-beautifl
farming country turned into metal-ri,
den dumps; they have seen dozens {
small cities and hundreds of little vi
lagos transformed TO ash heaps; the
have seen so much old sacred beaui
in the form OF churches, cathedra
and historic monuments reduced
hills OF rubble that the whole worl
must seem a desert TO them. The
| nave even had to endure the exit
affront of an exhibition in Berlin
the art treasures looted from northel
France.
The allied women have nursed II
wounded. the tuDercular, the unde
nourished; they have taught ne
, trades to the crippled and blind al
I those who are inyalided for life. TIL,
I have taken care of thousands al
i, thousands OF refugees from Belgium
! northern France and Siberia. Th,
n have had TO provide for the bringir
!. up of thousands of orphan childre
! This has not come upon them gradu;
/, ly, but all the time and in increasil
S pr. portions.
& But. after all, these things are
G oothing to the death of the flower
o their male youth. England and Fran
and Italy have lost so much In m
n power that no member of our genel
It ton looks for happiness again duri
d his own lifetime They hope or
a for one thing-to insure the freedC
of the next generation.
K Sons All Gone.
= MY husband Is a Parislan," s,
!. beautiful American woman MARI
To a Frenchman. "He has alive
,, uved In Paris. He has many frien
here. He Ia forty-hve years old. !