The Arvada enterprise., 1918-08-08
WHAT WOMEN CAN
D0T0 WIN THE war
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN oFAMER|cA, wAkEUP!
Pour All Your savIngs Into Uncle
Same lap-kssp on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
10 Free.

Same Lap-kssp on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
10 Free.
0y iNEz HAYNES IRWIN.
What can the women of America
do to help win this war1 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 20 much as the French,
0nglish 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
tive years in the war countries, the un-
touched gayety Of the American people
cane a. . terrific shock. had left q
world ~ black and silent a. night; q
world in which had seen NO dancing,
. world In which had heard no spon-
tansous laughter or-except in the case
& military bands-no music. At first
tAs atmosphere Of America was almost
unbsarable. was obsessed with the
desire to get back to the allied coun-
triea. b suffer With them. rather than
enjoy the comparative comfort Of q
eomparativsly unaroussd America.
The laxury everywhere appalled, me.
TAoos hundreds Of motors gliding
tAroaSA our streets for instancsi
fdvats motors have long ago disap-
psarsa from allied Europe. The bsau-
d1l fabSieA the furs and laces, the
goa0ssus sport clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which stu distinguish
the wensn Of America.
Ban on Evening oiethss
The arst time was invited to q
dinner party On my return, I wore
lonS-slssvsd high.ascksd gray.and.
black gown and found myself q wren
among birds Of paradise. No woman
sf France would think Of wearing eve
ainS clothes. Indeed. both men and
women are prohibited BY law from ap-
psarins In evening clothes at the thea
tsr. On the few social occasions In
which they take part. French women
are dressed In black gowns with lit
tis lace at the neck and sleeves. Eng
ush women still wear evening clothes.
Whsn thsir men return ON their rare
leave from the front. they cover their
aching hearts with % much gaysty a.
possible In order to send them back to
the nlth and the vermin and the rats
and the damp and tho cold and the
wounds and the constant sight Of death
psychoaogically refrsshsd. But most Of
de evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date back to
the beginning Of the war. And strang.
ct Of all. perhaps, for . country At
war. thoss lustrous streets with their
rows Of electric lights and their vivid,
flashing. changing. iridsseent electric
asns. In Paris. you plunge Into q
dssp twilight when you leave your ~.
Aurant and In London you grops your
way hone through q dangsross Sty.
oiaa Gleo0. Then the careless spsnd.
iAG u American hotels and rostau-
raAts. n Paris those places desc at
AaH.Dast nine. And foodi Food CO.,
0uoos have sever beeo - bad In
ttanes - in The ether allied eosn.
tsiss. fer France has always fed her.
Ell and 70, moreover. the worlds best
eook. But In Italy and England, meat
b q rare luxury to b. obtained only
eees In . great while: butter and
sugar ans loos.fosgottsn drsama
- rhsir Hsmss Destroyed.
And thsa In the case Of France and
y some degree Of Italy. the allied
womsa have sssa vast stretches Of
carefully earsd.for ancient forest and
eooswous sections Of softly beautiful
farming country turned Into mstal.rid.
osa dumps: they have seen dossns It
bmall duss and hundreds Of little VI.
lasss transformsd to ash heaps; thay
have ssso % much Old sacred beauty
u he form q churches, cathsdrals
and historic monumsnts reduced to
Allls e rubbis that ths whole world
must seem Q desert to them. Thsy
have svsa had . endure the sxt1a
s3foat oe a szhibitioa In Berlin &
tAo aft treasures lootsA from aoetha1
Traaes.
Ths allied women have nurssd he
wounded. the tubsrcular. the under.
ae0sisAsd: they have taught new
trades 70 the crippled and bliod and
tAoss who are invalidsd for life. They
Aavs taksa care ef thousands and
eAousaads Of refugees from Belgium,
1eethse1 France and Siberia. They
have had to provide for the bringing
y q Thousands Of orphan children.
E1is has not come upon them gradual.
y. but all ths dine and In increasing
Deoporuoos.
But. after all. these things ars q
DetAiAs - The death Of the flower os
fAsir male youth. England and Frssee
~ Italy have lost 70 much In maa
power that 10 member Of our genera.
l3eo leeks for happissss ssain during
~ own ufstinsi They hops Only
Doe - tAiAs-ts ia0urs he fros1on
q ~ 0a4$ gsassatioa.
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