The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-08-09
WHAT WOMEN CAN
D0T0 WIN The WAR
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds-Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OF AMERICA, WAKE up!
Pour All Your Savings Into Uncle
Sam's lap-keep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
Is Free
BY INEZ HAYNEa IRWIN.

Sy lNEZ HAYNE3 IRWIN.
What can the women of America
do to help win this war? Two things
are certain; one that they can do
great deal and auother that, unless
the war lasts ten years longer, they
can never do Sc much as the French
English and Itsdian women have done,
they can news 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
ccaIn> as a terrific shock. | had left Il
world rs black and silent as night; Il
world in which | had seen no dancing,
a world in which had heard no spOn-
taneOuS laughter or-cXcept in the case
of military bands-no music. At first
the atmosphere of America was almost
unbcarable. | was obsessed with the
desire TO get back to the allied coun-
tries, to suffer with them, rather than
enjoy the comparative comfort of n
comparatively unaroused America.
The luxury everywhere appalled, me.
Those hundreds of motors gliding
through our streets for instance
Private motors have long ago disap-
peared from allied Europe. The beau
tiful fabrics, the furs and laces the
gorgeous sport clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which still distinguish:
the women OF America.
Ban on Evening Clothes.
The first time ! was invited to
dinner party on my return, l wore a
long g-sleevcd high-necked gray-and-
black gown and found myself a wren
among birds of paradise. No woman
OF France would think of wearing eve
ming clothes. Indeed. both men and
women are prohibited by law from ap-
pearing 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
tie 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 as much gayety as
possible IN order to send them back to
the filth and the vermn and the rats
and the damp and the cold and the
wounds and the constant sight of death
pSychologically refreshed. Bat most of
the evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date back to
the beginning of the war. And strang-
est of all, perhaps, for country at
war, those luStrOus streets with their
rows OF electric lights and their vivid,
flashing changing, iridescent electric
signs. In Paris, you plunge into Il
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 restau-
rants. In Paris those places close at
half-past nine. And food Food con-
ditOnS have never been so bad In
France as in the other allied cOun.
tries, for France has always fed her
self aud is, moreover, the worlds best
cook. But in Italy and England, meat
Is n rare luxury to be obtained only
once in great while; butter and
sugar are long forgotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed
And then in the case of France and
TO some degree of Italy, the allied
women have seen vast stretches OF
carefully cared-for ancient forest and
enormous sections of softly beautiful
farming country turned into metal-rid
den dumps they have seen dozens oi
small cities and hundreds of little vii
lagos transformed To ash heaps; the!
have seen so much old sacred benut!
in ihr form of churches, cathedral'
and historic monuments reduced t,
hills Of rubble that the whole worlt
must seem a desert to them. The,
have even had TO endure the extra
affront of an exhibition in Berlin o
the art treasures looted from northern
France.
The allied women have nursed tn
wounded. the tubcrcular, the under
nouriShcd; they have taught ncy
trades to the crippled and blind an'
those who are inyalided for life. The.
nave taken care of thousands ant
thousands OF refugees from Belgium
northern France and Siberia. The
have had To provide for the bringing
up Of thousands of orphan children
qhiS has not come upon them gradual
~. but all the time and in increasin
proportions
But. after ALL these things are n
nothing 10 the death of the flower q
their male youth England and Franc
and Italy nave lost so much in ma
power that no member of our generi
ton looks for happiness ?gain dUrin
his own lifetime, They hope onl
for one thing-to insure the ireedol
of the next generation.
Sens All Gone.
"Ny husband is a pur!sian," sal
q beautiful American woman marie
to ry'3-hmau "iIc has a'wa!
lived IN rarls. !!e has many friend
hcr,. lie : lorty-iye years old. Ii