The state herald., 1918-08-09
WHAT WOMEN CAN
D0T0 WIN The war
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OFAMERICA, MAKEUP!
Pour All Your Savings Into Uncle
Same Lap-ksep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
10 Free.
sy ,NEz HAYNES IRWIN.

10 Free.
By iNEZ HAYNES IRWIN.
What can the women of America
do to help win this war; 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 so much us 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
eamA a. 4 terrific shock. had left
world a. black and silent as night; q
world In which had seen no dancing,
Q world In which had heard no spon-
tansous laughter or-except In the case
& military bands-no music. At nrst
de atmosphere Of America was almost
unbearable. was obsessed with the
desire to get back to the allied coun-
tries. 10 su1sr with them. rather than
en3oy the comparative comfort Of q
comparatively unaroussd America.
The lsxury everywhere appalled, me.
Thoss hundreds Of motors gliding
throusA our streets for instancsi
Pnvats motors have long ago disap-
psared from allied Europe. The beau
tifal fabrics, the furs and lacss, the
sosgseus apert clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which still distinguish
the women Of America.
Ban on Evening Clothes
The nrst time I was invited to a
dinner party ON my return, I wore Q
long-slssved high.necksd gray-and-
black gown and found myself q wren
among birds Of paradise No woman
Of France would think Of wearing eve
ninS clothes. Indeed. both men and
women are prohibited BY law from np-
psa1inS 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.
tls lace at the neck and sleeves. Eng
lish women still wear evening clothes
When their men return on their rare
leave from the front. they cover their
aching hearts with a. much gaysty a
possible In order to send them back to
the dlth and the vermin and tho 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-
ct Of all. perhaps. for q country at
war. thoss lustrous streets with their
rows Of electric lights and their vivid.
flashing. changing. iridescent electric
signs. In Paris. you plunge into .
dssp twilight when you leave your res
taurant. and In London you grope your
way homo through a dangerous sty-
giaa gloom. Then the careless spend.
Ing In American hotels and rsstau.
rants. n Paris those places close at
Aalf-past nine. And foodi Food co.,
Mtioas have never been % bad In
Francs a. In the other allied eoun.
tTiss. fer france has always fed her.
self and 10. moreover. the worlds best
cook. But In Italy and England. meat
y rare luxury to be obtained only
sncs In . great while; butter and
sugar are long-forgottsn dreams.
Gee Their Homes Destroyed.
And then In the case Of France and
- some degree Of Italy. the allied
womsn have seen vast stretches Of
carefully carsd.for ancient forest and
enormous sections Of softly. beautiful
farming country turned into metal.rid-
den dumps: they have seen dozens Of
bmail cities and hundreds Of little VII
lagos transformed to ash heaps: thsy
have seen % much old sacred beauty
In the form of churches. cnthedrals
and historic monuments reduced to
hills sf rubbis that the whole world
must seem q desert 10 them. They
have even had to endure the extra
anrout Of an exhibition In Berlin Of
he Art treasures looted from northern
France.
Ths allied women have nurssd the
wounded. the tubsrcular. the under
nouFishsd: 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.
aerthern France and Siberia. They
have had to provide for tho bringing
~ of Thousands Of orphan children.
This has not come upon them gradual.
v. but all the time and In increasing
proportions.
But. after all. these things are a.
DotAins TO the death Of the flower Of
their male youth. England and France
cd Italy have lost % much In man