Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-07-07

out? That is big question. and
there is no space to discuss II mere.
But women will expect much OF men
in the future, and what they expect
| of them now Is merely a tritle IN
comparison with what is to come.
! II women learn to support them
selves, to promote industries, to ex-
plot their financial talents: IL they
| become independent OF the monied
protection of men; II they learn to
rely on their own judgment and to
make rapid decisions to which they
stick, will they go TO men for advice
after the war? VIII they return
to what they have been for the last
three centuries? Hasn't every page
of the worlds history taught us that
whenever women we're trained 10
power, they ceased to depend upon
men mentally and morally ana only
used them for sentiment, romance
and friendship
VIII Women Spend More Money.
OF one thing the prophets are
sure; that women. making money.
will spend more. Not having 10 ask
for It, they will cease to be petuiant
about II. When woman KNOWS
there are three thousand jobs open
TO her and that she can command as
good a salary as the man she sent
to war. she is not going to be mig
gardly about getting new clothes, en-
loving herself and refurnishing her
house.
Human nature never changes, no
matter what else changes on this
nlanet, and spending will be wom-
ans antidote TO hard work. II she
has been repressed In the mater OF
buying attractive things for the
house or for her body, she will go
out and gorge herself on those things
when the first freedom from debt
gives her "a buoyant feeling OF hap
piness. 4
The business of feminine apparel
should always have been attended to
by women, not men. This channel Of
activity Is being directed to its right
course. A million or more men on
this continent, who are mixed up in
women's apparel will have to give
up their places to women, who have
an instructive knowledge of what
other women want, and do not want
With training, which will give them
a cool head, n smooth tongue and the
a1nDltlOii W tlstp tlty VIII
mirable clerks, floorwalkers, heads
OF departments. buyers and shop
keepers.
1t Is toward the apparel business
that they are rapidly drifting. That
Is their desire, and all their prelimi-
nary training of the centuries has
fitted them for this particular sector
of industry. Being in the business,
they will spend more money on
clothes, and they will influence the
expenditures Of other women.
This Is the situation which all seri-
ous-minded women realize and
which will probably dominate the
country before peace is concluded.
1t Is useless to tell women that
they must not buy clothes. The re-
formers mean well, but they are
planting seed on barren soil. There
must be some pleasure in this
world, or we would all go mad with
the pain and anxiety OF II; and II
you ask three million women TO
work for their living, you must give
them the chance to deck themselves
out In bit Of gay piumage and go |
out and eat and laugh; otherwise, |
they VIII become useless for ali |
service. patriotic or Industrial.
Demand for Evening Clothes.
Let me tell you an odd thing about
this development of women's work
which has been brought about not
only through their service in paving
positions. but In war relief work
1t Is the growing demand for eve
ming clothes by women who have
heretofore, never INDUCED In them.
We are only following in the foot
steps OF human nature as IL has as
serted itself in France and England
during the last Is months. Paris has
shown an extraordinary interest IN
this development, and the London
thinkers and merchants have found
1t to be an engrossing by-product of
the war.
Evening dress has always been n
thing for the luxurious. 1t has been
indulged in by those whose lives
were more or less given to leisure
Millions Of women have not consid-
cred 1t necessary to change their
somber street clothes into low or
fragile gayetIes. The street
suit with a few changes, has served
during the waking hours. The shirt