Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-08-15
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-TWo Ways They
t Can Help.
WOMEN oFAMER|cA, MAKEUP!
Pour All Your savInos Into Uncle
eam's Lap-ksep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
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 as 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 I'M
touched gayety Of the American people
came ~ q terrific shock. had left a
world az black and silent as night; q
world In which I had seen no dancing,
. world In which l had heard no spon-
tnneous laughter or-except In the case
Of military bands-no music. At first
the atmosphere Of America was almost
unbearable. ] was obsessed with the
ossirs to get back to the allied coun-
6ies, to suffer with them. rather than
enjoy the comparative comfort Of
comparatively unaroused America
The luxury everywhere appalled, me.
Those hundreds Of motors gliding
through our streets for instance!
Pnvats meters have long ago disap-
bsarsd from allied Europe. The beau
tiful fabrics. ths furs and laces. the
eorgsous sport clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which still distinguish
the women Of America.
os Ban on Evening ciothea
sfhs FIRST time was invited 10 q
dinaes party on my return, ! wore Q
lons-sleeved high-necked gray.and.
black gown and fosad myself wren
amoug birds Of paradise. No woman
Il France would think Of wearing eve
ming clothes. Indeed. both men md
women arc prohibited by law from mp.
psAfins In evening clothes a, the thea.
ter On the few social occasions In
which they take part. French women
are Dressed ID black gowns with q liz.
tie lace AZ the neck and sleeves. Eng
lish women anl! wear evening clothes
When Their msn return on their rare
lsavs from the front. they cover their
aching hearts with as much gayety rs
! possible In order to send them back to
the nth, aud tho verm!n and the rats
md the damp and the cold and the
wounds and the constant night OF death
psychcloTealiy refreshed. But most OF
the evening dresses that the English
women IRE now wearing date back to
the beginning Of the war. And strang.
est OF all. perhnps. for q country ut
war, those iustrous streets with their
rows OF electric. lights and their vivid,
flashing, changing. iridescent electric
signs. IN Paris, you pIunse into a
deep twilight when you leave your res.
taurnnt, and In London you gropc your
way home through d dangerous Sly.
s'an gloom. Then the careless spend.
Ing In American hotels and restau-
rants. In Paris those places close at
half'pust nine. And food Food con.
dltions have never been so bad 10
Francs as in the other allied coun-
tres, Tor; France has always fed her,
self and Is, moreover. the worlds bes,
cook. But In Italy and England, mea,
u a rare luxury TO be obtained only
once In great while: butter and
sugar are lonsforsotsen dreams. f'i
See Their Hones Destroyed.
And then 10 the case OF France and
to some degree OF Itnly. the allied
women have seen vast stretches OF
carefully cnredfor ancient forest and
enormous sections Of softly.beautiful
farming country turned into metAl.rid.
den dumps :; they have seen dozens Of
hmall cities md hundreds OF little vii.
lagos transformed to ash heaps; they
have seen 30 much old sacred bonuty
In the form Of churches, cathedrals
aud historic, monuments reduced to
hills Of rubble that the whole world
must seem desert to them. They
have even had 10 endure the extra
nfYront OF an exhibition In Berlin OF
the art treasures looted from northern
France. i-f '.. f.4 HH mrr.
The allied women have nurscd the
wounded, the tubercular. the under.
nourished; they have taught new
trades 10 the crippled, and blind md
those who are invalided for life. They
have taken care Of thousands and
thousands Of refugees from Belgium
northern France and Siberia. They
have had To provide for the bringing
up OF thousands OF orphan children
This has not come upon them gradual
", but oil the time and In increasing
proportions. ls r4 ..t ...II
hut. after oil. these things are q,
nothing to the death Of the flower OF
their male youth. England and Franc,
and Italy have lost so much In mar
power that no member OF our genera
tion looks for happiness ognin durin,
his own lifetime They hope onl,
for one thing-to insure the freedom
Of the next generation.
Sons Al Gone. .
my husband Is n Parislnn," SAID
q beautiful American woman Marie,
TO Frenchnan. "lle has always
lived In Paris. lie has many friend.
here. lie is foriy.ive years cid. lii