Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-05
|ARsBR|DES OF BRITAIN
ITO GET HOME TRAINING
,mcn VIII Be Shown How to
Cook for Returning Soldier.
Husbands.
DyERTIsE FOR POSITIONS
Eco Space Given Feminine Laborcrs
Dy Ono London Ncwspapcr-Va-
flcty of Professions Does Not Fit
In With Peacc-Timc Requirements.
BY Il. NJ. GOODMAN.

!ao fox turning over a new leaf, and
VIII be denfened with tho rustic
Ell In England. When American SOL
eSs are going back 10 their homes in
sSnSanas, tens of thousands and hum
les OF thousands. the British news
RpcrS ARE full OF articles about the
oblema of rehabilitation. and the
auntrys feels that i; has 10 make
peeial seffort TO mt the soldiers into
the problem OF the return OF SOL
ers, sailors and munition workers i'll
ngland:
At the signing of the armistice the
my, navy, air force and munition
Rorkerse totaled 100000 men and
omen.E Some OF these came from the
nd before they are sent home many
thousands OF miles. America has also
4aconsiaer the transport OF her armies.
" so per cent of them crossed the
,ean % British ships and most OF
lese Will go home the same way. Ii
not ltRely that any country will have
CIV Iealanders and Canadians home.
When.S they have gone TO their own
Faces the British-born who will re-
Eafn to?be absorbed in peace time life
the islands will come TO nearly a
barter OF the whole population OF
reat Britain-the whole population,
zen, women, children. down TO In
ents In arms. And they cannot be
ctured,as returning to a settled COM
unity a. leisure TO receive them; Not
all. fSr all England is already hum
ing with substitutes. diuters, tenn
orary workers in al! the many occu-
htions ;and Industries outside muni-
;esh Jobs, finishing UP, handing over.
BEGINNING again, There are not many
eopie in grooves OH this side, except
eopie with one leg in the grave or
9th in. the cradle.
Rec ADVERTISEMENTS
FOR WOMEN WORKERS
One df the newspapers has had the
appy thought OF helping women war
orkera,by giving them free advertise
eent space when they are looking out
pr new jobs. \ glance at this sec
on of the London Daily Express will
bill you great deal about the mod
IN girl -more than the newspaper par
graphs which alternately LABEL her
a milk or an angel.
Ihirteen women sheet-metal workers
frplane, require work-wirers, copper
niths. Solderers.
Artificial eyemaker. age twenty.
ishes Similar employment.
WHAT now, is the similar employ
fent 10! making artificial eyes? Do
he thirSeen sheet-metal girls hope TO
let employment all together? Does
!e admiralty clerk who desires en-
toyment as secretary companion to
n elderly lady" imagine that her eX-
erience In dealing with admrals will
an asset in her new work? And
Thy should another admiralty clerk
ant to- learn scientific poultry farm
hg? Why does the trained elocutionist
no has had two years experience in
rms, WANT post IN an editorial
iice!
What Finances IN civil life have the
iris WHO have been viewers and ex-
minerst' can speak French and Ger
IAN and understand internal combus-
on engines? The landworkers who
SIX for ,outdoor work are more likely
get replies than the refined younE
hay who Is shorthand-typist and
more The young lady who wants
Ysork, with a compositor 10 learn the
lpinesS VIII find herself up against
sade union customs. and the dozens
young women willing to travel"
ouid have been within the mark prob
ply IL they had said crazy TO travel"
pr ward work has made English girls
omit the love OF adventure that their
Hemure looks belle.
All tAese and the usual crop OF
ana secretaries, Y. A.
P.'s and cantcen workers. advertised in
ne issue Of the paper. BY the time
ne free. advertisement offer comes TO
end wnundrcds Of these girls will
ave made their fresh beginning and
ne government offices viii have dis
harsed thousands more.
ONE GOING HOME
AND OTHERS MARRY
Some OF them. Of course, arc going
ack home. Others. who have married
ince the war. will want to 10 home
enen their husbands are dcmobilized
or these the government has n pIan
recommended by the Womau's Trade
,nions Advisory Committee on Reset
cement The. plan Will I've carried out
lives of soldiers, cspcc.pisv The 600 ooo
far brides who have. rot ct set un
housekeeping.
Pride may be taught housecraft cooh.
nE and the care OF children. She
hay live in one OF the hotels lstniv
fsed for munition workers and get
ef board OF lodging free and an
liowance for pocket money. Or She
daS nave a money allowance TO live az
gone Her teaching viii be given
PARTY by trained teachers and partly
Experts. And it viii be practical. Her
Factory .training may nave left har
ignorant, of the little arts of domestic
iis, out'.it Will have made her teach
She will realize that there is right
way and wrong way 10 do every
ming. She won't cling 10 the dcluson
hat chiid's frock cut all wrong ran
lie put right by sewing it with small
titches.. Making airrlanc engine parts
ian teach that much about dressiualL
ne. And she will know that a house
Keeper who is "A had timekeeper wastes
Iher peoples wages as well as Iheir
empers.. She is ready to learn house
feepfngs. which. before the war. she
bought game by nature-natural mag ic
Tbecause she has learned something
flse as they say in English villages.
HOUSEWIVES TO LEARN
r. ALL ABOUT COOKING
asWe shall expect these 800 900 ignor-
tant wan brides to know their house
raft very well before their four or
we months course is W. and their
men come home fun OF praises Of
French cooking ana knowing a thing
\ two themselves about what can be
Inc with bully beef or bacon
The four years Of war have lcf. +be
kation a little fed up" with The old
hlan OF muddling through ones JOB
yithout .training. That vas pre-
{gar fashion. both male and female.
i HAT looks silly enough now
Look back again at the Daily Ex-
press advertisements About % per
TENT OF them say frankly. mo prev!-
4bus experience Of the business" -Four
Fears ago most Of these girls would
have thought that they would never
Eet a jdb if they admitted ignorance
tsanything. Employers believed that
fou could not teach a girl anything
he did not know already.
And notice that only ono refined
pung lady" is looking for work
pdern girls realize that refinement
esn't holp any woman much unless