Marble Hill press., 1918-08-15
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Boncs-so Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN oFAMERIcA, MAKEUP!
Pour All Your Savings in,e Uncle
Sans tsp-kssp on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
10 Free,
Q, isGz HAysIs IRWIN.

What can the women of America
Do TO help aih this Sari Two thlngs
are cerHln. one that they can do n
great deal aud another that. unlrs.
ths ~Hr lasts ten years longer. they
can never 10 ~ much n the French.
English and Italian wom-n have done.
they Eau never suffer ~ much - the
fr-nch. Engllsh and Italian women
have suffered.
To me. returning Co Ainerics after
t~o years In the wnT ruuuiri-s. IN. un
touched gay-ty ~ the American people
esfse as y terrific shock had left .
world as black aud silent as night. n
world IN which had seen no dancing.
o world In which I had heard no spon-
thneous laughter or=etcrpi In the cas-.
Of military bands music. AZ trsi
the atmosphere " America VAS almost
uht.arabl-. Was chsesse,i with the
desire Ia get hack to the allied coun.
tries, TO suffer with them. rather than
enjoy the comparati,. comfort % q
comparatively unarous~d America
The lururJ everywhere appalled, me.
Theee hundreds of motors gliding
through our streets for instance
Private motors have long sEo disap.
pssred from allied Europe The beau.
uful fabrics. the furs aud isc.s. the
gorgeous sport clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which stan distinguish
the women OF Amsrica.
Ban on Evening cIothea
Tie hrst time was invited 60 =
dinner party on my return. ! wore q
long sleeyed hlgh-neckrd gray aud.
black gown and found myself q wren
smong birds ot paradise No woman
Of France would think OF wearing eve
oing clothes, Indeed. both men and
women are prohibited by law from ap-
pearins In evening clothes ut the thea
Ter. On the few social occaS.ons IN
which they take part. French women
ar. dressed In black gowns with q lit
tie lace at the neck and sleeves. Eng
tsh women stlll wear evening clothes.
When their men return on their rare
leave from the front. they cover their
aching hearts with ms much gayety as
possible IN order 20 send them hack to
the 9th and the ,erInln and the rats
and the damp and the cold and the
wounds and the constant sight Of death
psychologicnlly refreshed Bui most ~
the evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date hack 60
the beginning Of the war. And siranr
est u all. perhaps, for a country nj
var those luStrouS streets with their
rows Of electric lights aud their vivid.
nsshlng, changing iridesccut electric
sigus. In Paris, You plunge into
deep twilight when you leave your res
tAurant. and in London you grope your
way home through n dangerous Sty.
gian gloom. Then the careless spend.
Ing In American hotels and rcStau.
rants In Paris those places close nj
half.past nine And food Food con.
ditions have never been ~ bad In
France as IN the other allied coun-
tries, for France has always fed her
self and U.s. moreover. the worlds best
cook But in Italy and England. meat
Is rare luxury to he obtained only
once In great while: butter and
sugar are long forgotten DRAINS
See Their Homes Destroyed
And then In the case Of France and
20 some degree Of Italy. the allied
women have seen vast stretches OF
carefully cared.for ancient forest and
farming country turned into me'ai-rid-
den dumps they have seen dozens OF
smsll cities and hundreds of little viii
lagos transformed 10 ash heaps: they
have seen so mnch old sacred beauty
In the form Of churches. cathedrals
and historic monuments reduced to
hills Of rubble that the whole world
must seem desert 10 them. They
have even had 10 endure the extra
snront OF an exhibition in Berlin OF
the art treasures looted from northern
France.
The allied women have nursed the
wounded, the tubercular. the under
nourished 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.
northern France and Siberia. They
have had 10 provide for the bringing
up of thousands OF orphan chiidrcn-
This has not come upon them gradual
iy. but all the time aSf IN increasing
proportions.
Eut. after all. these thiRGs are ~
LuIhing 70 the death ~ the Aower Of
their male youth. England and Fraace
aod Italy have lose - much In man
power that no member of our genera
tisn looks for hsppsness sEain during
sAis own lifetime! They hops oaly
- one thing--to inssre The freedoo
= ~ .eEt rene's''s.-
ST. ss"s ~ easa.
ny husband IL . PariAaa.. aaid
. ssansiful Amsrrq,y - HsgsiRA
70 . Frenchman. 'afle has. siways
nvs0 II Paris. He Aas nssy fsiesds
Ass~. He II Sorty-nve ysoso - uie