New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-08-09
WHAT WOMEN CAN
D0To WIN THE WAR
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OF AMERICA, MAKEUP!
Pour All Your savings Into Uncle
Same lap-ksep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
. Free.
BY INEZ HAYNES IRWIN.

BY INEz HAYNES IRWIN.
What can the women of Americ,
do to help win this wari Two thing.
are certain; one that they can do ,
great deal and another that, unles!
the wal lasts ten years longer, they
can never do 81 much as the French
English and Italian women have done
they can never suffer so much as the
French, English and Italian womer
have suffered.
To me, returning to America after
TWO years In the wal countries. the un.
touched gayety Of the American people
came as a terrific shock. l had left q
world AZ black and silent as night; q
world In which I had seer 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. 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 instance!
Private motors have long age 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 I was invited to n
dinner party on my return, I wore q
long-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
women are prohibited by law from ap-
pearins 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
nsh women still veal 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 Nth 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 ut
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
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
Is a rare luxury to be obtained only
once In a great while; butter and
sugar are long-forgotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed.
And then In the case Of France and
some degree Of Italy, the allied
have seen vast stretches Of
carefully cared-for ancient forest and
sections Of softly-beautiful
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
seen 80 much old sacred beauty
In the form Of churches. c~athedrals
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
he art treasures looted from northern
France.
The allied women have nursed the
wounded, the tubercular, the under
nourished; they have taught new
.rades to the crippled and blind and
hose who are invalided for life. They
taken care of thousands and
Of refugees from Belgium,
lorthern France and Siberia. They
AVE had to provide for the bringing
lp Of thousands Of orphan children.
has not come upon them gradual
y. but all the time and in increasing
But, after all, these things are as
to the death of the flower Of
heir male youth. England and France
md Italy have lost SO much in man
'ower that no member Of our genera.
lon looks for happiness sgain during /,
lis own lifetime! They hope only .
or n thing-to insure the freedom
{ the next generation.
Sons All Gone.
"My husband Is a Partisan" said (
beautiful American woman married
0 a Frenchman. "He has always {
we'd In Paris. He has many friends
ere. He Is forty-five years old. His