The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-05

earned, and her dentist has to come
and take soc out Of her pay envelope
on paydays, to collect for his work. -
If this girl were to be sick, what would
she dos
Girls naturally want to dress well.
They dress wen to please men. 1t is
right that they should = that is part
Of nature s plan. Girls should want
to look pretty, but the thing is to keep
it within bounds - don't be like a pea
cock, trotting around without any
brains. The desire to look well is
planted in the human mind by God,
but don t overdo.
Little Mary said that something in
her heart told her when TO go in the
front door, and when to use the back
door. That sounds funny, but what
is in your heart and comes out of your
mouth makes you a lady - not what
is on your back. What you think,
say and are is what makes you a
lady.
I asked well known lawyer in
Milwaukee what / should tell you
girls, and he said 81 don t know whe-
Their or not they do it, but tell them
not to wear silk stockings and French
heels under their blue overaIls.'' That
sounds bald, but is really practical.
know a lady in Milwaukee whose
husband is wen to do lawyer. One
day she sighed and said, sob, wish
I had some new furs.'' Her husband,
who is a quiet man, did not say much,
but went down town and bought set
Of silver fox and sent them up to his
wife. She wanted them just like you
or would, but she said "No,'' and
called up the store and told them to
come and take them back. They said
they could not, as the furs had been
paid for and were hers, but she said
II am ashamed to wear them in war
times, with SO many starving" and
she sent them back. I met her in the
street car, and she called my attention
to her suit. She said Tt looks dusty,
but that is because it is threadbare I
could not buy new suit when SO many
people are starving" She is real
ladysin wartime.
You ask how link up this talk
with Thrift, 1 am Thrift speaker,
and that is why l am here.
The war is not won until all our boys
are safely back home. I suppose lots
Of you have brothers and sweethearts
over there, but at any rate, the war
will not be won until every one of
these boys is safe at home. How are
they going to get home swime No
- they must be brought home in COM
fort, and well being.
When / came down in the elevator
In my husband s Office building, T no.
ticed the absence of the red haired
girl who had been running the eleva-
tor, and asked for her. The young
man who was operating the elevator
told me that she was an emergency
worker, and that as he had come back
from the war and his job was there
fer him. We viii not be through with
this war until our boys are home and
back ON their jobs.
The people over there are starving.
Over in France some Of our soldiers
liberated band of 100 German wo-
men, interned in a house, with nothing
on but old, torn night gowns so
bare, so cold, so ashamed! Our boys
turned without word, marched back
to headquarters, and asked permission
to give away their blankets. They
were told that they could not get along
without them, but they insisted that
they had to give the blankets away,
and told Of the women they had liber-
ated. 100 boys got permission from
the commander, and took their blan-
kets, to these women, who wrapped them
around their bodies, for clothing.
Now, girls, can You waste your money
and food when things like this are
happening over there? No, we can
not. We must work and save until our
boys come homs fine and fit. They
cannot come home from a starving
country, but must stay until conditions
over there are improved. I have heard
that Germany was three weeks with
ont meat and bread. When men are
starving, and when they see their
families starving, they become desper-
ate - they steal and kill. Our boys
cannot come home until the starving is
ended, and so we must save for our
boys to come home, and they will wor-
ship at the shrine of "The Real Lady
in Wartimes. -
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