Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-17
WOMEN NOW TAKE: PART
IN BATTLE upon H. c. |.
New Voters Demand Action by Their
Representatives in Legislative
Bodies
FINDING MEAT SUBSTITUTES
Holsekccpcrs Forced to Resort to
s., Other Foods Because of High
Prices - Wives Are Trained
Shoppers.
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

Girls will be girls" United States
Senator said 10 inc the other day with
an amused chortle. Al the same time
he handed me a letter from :. lady
into the nigh cost OF living
The letter stated that the writer
had been recently enfranchiscd and
possible prices OF the necessarics Of
life investigated.
read The letter which seemed
the Senator's hing at the sex. Then
the signature caught ny sre. and
joined in the chortle
The letter Was from Il lady who
Gad worked carly and late TO defeat
Woman Suffrage. While CONSCIENTIOUS
~ repeating the parro, formula of the
disgruntled S!SterhOod that suffrage
would take women from the home and
cause her children TO be neglected" This
dom TO be found at hcr own hearth
stone.
Saw Husband hut Rarely.
Stouty maintaining Una. she re-
mained away from her own sacred
10 Keep to theirs-thc habit seemed
TO grow upon her, and il Was a red
letter morning. indeed when Mr.. Jellby
Jellhy.
May is the time have seen th.s
sooG iaay n ,hS Senate gallery re-
pinned to her bosom gazing down adj.
miring!y OH the Junior Senator from
New YORK. who was similarly garnish-
yale sa Snh IN e a" oTSa a nov a rnd the
GOT as prpi;Sr- as i, used 10 be And
teho!d The nrsr TO leave the sinking
anu-suffrAsc snip is the lady VINO de
mands. an Investigation OF the high
COST - iivius now THAI the new order
: RrSaGG''cal!y established
We'll as The Senator SAID ",:!ris
An
In the meantime. We women have
oecn promised i cOnSrcsslona! investl-
cation into the high cost OF living.
= good many Of ns are feeling fed
up on this Kind Of t.. party We re-
cal! so many :nNcstIgatioas that he
gan VIII the beating Of tom toms and
Inc boom and crash OF oratory ana
concluded Win little futurisi white
washing OF al parties concerned. ina,
We are not losing any sleep over The
pending Investigation.
women feel, however. that al last
they hold the medicine in their own
hands .hoy arc able TO vote. and com
mon sense indicates that they Viii NOT
woe for men who are indifferent to
thc!r interests. Women ar" more diff
iicult 10 deceive than mon in regard 10
the hlgA cost Of living.
Most women spend their lives in
patty economies. they dou't at ali mind
walking a block or Two to save a
couple OF coppcrs. And in the way Of
making Over clothes economic CANON
nag" IS second nature to them they
the cost of production. etc
f:nslcr &" Fool All Wen.
!, may be comparatively easy 20
100! an tNr men all INC time about
ne COS, Of tood Men As shoppers
haT" always helped 10 fin Tho loke
column. But it's different with women.
they, haTs been trained in too hard
a ScRo'. YOU can fooi all the women
a -FE ~
VII. he highly Interesting to
"aica VIA this latest Of inNas.ica.
tons VIII develop Food producers de-
scfipH ne hcegarly margin OF ,hr;r
profits thei- bare living wa2e their
struggle w.'u labor thc marytrfofn n
selling Iouhh STEAK At - ana CO cents
and butte a 70 But one n"ve- hears
OF any ~ To" ric packers Quitting
sneN seem 20 snrap- along earning
h@sTar) "r"'t Of seer" Of millions
plain of ine ingfaiit1ido Of tho public.
II VIII u" interesting 10 see 4 fr.
recently acquired political power OF
women viii produce an 'rves,.cation.
in the mcsn'i'ne. whether the inves-
tiration IS productive Of actual rr-
suits. or only futurisi whit"washinr
me food producer has been un"itting-
" hurline hoomernngs ~ his business
along WITH MS high prices
Doing without Meat
The cost Of meat mas hccu so TO.
mendous that many people have
earned 20 do without =. o. are eating
II in vcr-lcsscning quantities Fur
thermorc. they md they arc JUS, ms
we'll OFF withou, meat. and moro is am.
NJ" medical authority 10 back Thorn m
lr their economy. Diabetes Bright'g
disease. rheumatism ana high blood
pressure are less pr"valcn, among tho
spare meat eaters than among those
In the habit OF eating II two or three
times day.
80 When round steak SCARED 70 % and