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New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
IN THE dnys aohem aoooig consisted of footrace and
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>ticnal Museum, points out some Of
the industries which began as wom-
ans work. He says:
s<Women's Work"
"The slain deer lying before her
cave or brush shelter or wigwam!
She strikes off a sharp flake Of flint
for a knife. By that act she becomes
the first cutler.
"With this knife she carefully re-
moves the skin, little dreaming that
thereby she Is making herself the
patron saint Of all subsequent
butchers.
"she rolls up the hide, then
dresses it with brains, smokes It,,
curries it, breaks it with implements
Of stone and bone, until she makes
her reputation as the first currier
and tanner.
with needle Of bone and thread
Of sinew and scissors Of flint, she
cuts and makes the clothing for her
lord and family; no sign is over the
door, but within dwells the first
tailor and dressmaker.
"From leather especially prepared
she cuts and makes moccasins for
her husband, thereby beginning the
shoe industry.
"She was toymaker for her chill
dren, modiste, milliner, upholsterer,
wall decorator for her family.
"She was at first and is now the
universal cook. From the grasses
around her cabin she constructs the
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We have seen in our great war the
way in which men and women nat
urally lined up on the primitive
basis. The men of the nations, in
this country, England, France and
the others, went into military serv-
ice. The women took up the in
dustries.
"Now the surprise attendant upon
the news that women were working
in munition factories, were running
streetcars and doing mems work in
offices wouldn't have been so great,
perhaps, If we had all remembered a
little more Of our pre-history."
Miss Laughlin reminds us that
in his account of primitive races
the late Otis T. Mason, curator of
ethnology in the United States Ma
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longed to the women. So when our
men talk about mems work. I'd like
to know just what they mean"
Kipling is one of the few men who
really understand what the relation
ship of the cave man and the cave
woman was, according to Miss
Laughlin. AS proof Of her conten-
ton she cites his "Just So" stories,
which he told to his "best beloved" {"
Yiu will remember the place where
it says:
"The man was wild, too. He was
dreadfully wild. He didn't even
begin to be tame until he met the
woman, and she told him that she
did not like living in his wild ways" "
You will remember how it was.
She picked out nice, dry cave
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arch. the mother was head Of the
family. She handled all the funds
and budgeted her household. In
Europe, among the small shopkeep-
ers especially, women are the cash
iers Of the family and Of the busi-
ness"
Cooking, homemaking and Dress
making are still done in the homes
all over the country to such an ex-
tent that they are still considered
women's work, Miss Laughlin point
ed out. But with community house
keeping and community kitchens
and ready-made clothes, the day
may come when the men in charge
OF the machines that make the home
go round will say:
Imagine those women APPLYING
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(proving, by tho way, that there
was a cave woman before there was
a cave man), and she cleaned house
properly and hung dried wild
horse skin across the opening Of the
cave and said:
"Wipe your feet, dear, when you
come in, and now we'll keep house. y
And the man came In and lay
down beside the fire that the woman
had built and went to sleep.
"But Just before he dozed off,
said Miss Laughlin. che probably
threw out his chest and remarked
that he was q cave man himsolf and
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K "a greens in the table d'hote
restaurants these wineless
days. Moreover, the chefs are
straining the resources of New
York's markets to achieve dinners
that will lure the patronage that
dwindled when constitutional pro-
hibition transformed claret from a
mild, ambition-stirring aid to d.
gestion into bottled crime.
But these efforts are in vain. The
red ink joints, as crude people some
times refer to them, are sparsely oc-
cupied each night, while the former
patrons crowd into the circassian
walnut pastry shops and gorge them
selves on Boston cream pie.
Gaston's in "a West Twenty-sixth
Street served dinner for the last
time about a week ago. The price
Of dinner there, including hors
d'euvres, soup, fish, roast, salad, ice
III |esiIlS NllCCoC anu COllcC, was ~
cents. Vim ordinaire was 80 cents
a half bottle. When prohibition
made the wine illegal the patrons
ceased to come until, of the old, ia
miliar faces, the sorrowful garcons
were able to recognize only about
twenty of each hundred. The num-
ber Of diners had fallen away 80
per cent.
So, after ten prosperous years
away from his native France, CASTOR
became i'll. The doctors said it was
influenza. More likely it was a
broken heart. Anyway, about a
week ago CASTOR telephoned from
his apartment instructions to his
assistant manager to put a paddock
on the front door.
There is Eugenie's in 112 West
Forty-eighth Street. Joseph Minetto
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For the Baby's Sake

"a SAC 0dOy OdAO
And Miss Laughlin agrees with
Mr.. Kipling In the theory that the
motive for keeping house was the
protection Of the baby. Long Pc
RODS without food, which were
bound to be part Of the life Of a
nomadic peoples, were hard on the
young, and that is the reason the
woman decided to keep house.
"1n the beginning, women did all
the work." saN Miss Laughlin. "If
we're going to say that such and
such Is the work of one Of the sexes
we might as we'll admit that every
man in industry is doing work which
was originally woman's work.
"The real cave mem were con-
cerned with war and hunting. And
the cave women had the industrial
field to themselves. Only when war
became less important did the men
go in for industries, and even then
they did so on about a 25-75 basis
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

tanites forced to dino downtown.
closed the front door in 20 Ann
street and the rear door in Fulton
Street on January 16, after a stren-
uous final week of existence. in
which business and professional men
came and ate and drank solemnIv
as pilgrims at shrine.
An idea Of the volume Of business
transacted in that ablishment dur
ing those final days may be had
from the tips gathered in by the old
walters. In normal week their
earnings averaged, including salary
and tips, about $50. In the last
week all of them gathered in more
than $3.50, and two or three made
5000. In front of the restaurant
and in the rear were long lines Of
trucks, taxicabs and limousines. tho
chauffeurs waiting for the charterers
or owners to give the signal to drive
up to the door and take aboard a
cargo of liquid treasure.
Red and white wines were served
at Mouquin's in small carafons.
Somehow it semed almost impossible
to resist taking the wine card from
Emile or one of his smiling associ-
ates; and if the wine card was waved
away it was usually done with a
request fer "carafon rouge" or
"carofon blanc," which was less ex-
pensive than selecting from the vino
list.
From his place Of retirement on a
farm in Virginia old Henry Mou.
ouin ordered his son Louis to close
the downtown restaurant until the
business has had an opportunity to
stabilize itself. Sometime between
now and next winter downtown
Mouquin's will be reopened at q
Lew address for the serving Of
luncheons.
Uptown Mouauin's, in asa Sixth
Avenue, remained open in spite Of
prohibition, but business fell awav
to an alarming degree. The absence
of wine list was emphasized by the
Continental benches lining the wall
of the lower floor of the establish
ment. Those sort of furnishings were
never meant for a wineless meal.
1t was announced few days ago
that old Rector's, at Broadway and
Forty-eighth Street, now known as
the Cafe de Paris, under The man
agement Of Gil Boag, would be re-
modelled as cafeteria. From ca
baret to cafeteria! Instead of blond
Gllda Gray and her seductive
shlmmy row of fatfooted women
behind steam tables.
But many restaurant men believe
that the New York cabarets with
out alcoholic support will become in
the course of few years as hard
to find as the dodo. About two
thirds are expected to close up -
fore the end Of the summer.
Greenwich Village is suffering.
too. The Lafayette. where the DIN
ers play chess, checkers or some
other game over the black coffee.
formerly served about eight hun
dred dinners each night. One night
last week count Of these at the
tables at what formerly was the
busiest moment revealed exactly
sixteen not xery joyful eaterA
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- Lugenle- FrOh1b1tlOn Ia diff
cult subject for this restaurateur.
"Since we stopped serving wine,"
he said a few days ago, "our busi-
ness has been cut in half. We used
to serve 800 dinners every night.
Now we are fortunate if we serve
150. 1t is the absence of wine.
Nothing can replace it. Improve our
dinners? Impossible! They are
perfection. But unless the law is
altered to permit wine, half the table
d'hote restaurants will go out Of
business, and that will be sad thing
for New York"
1t is the same story at Charles's
In Forty-ninth Street; in Guffanti's
in the same street; at that other
Gaston's in Forty-fifth Street; at
Giolito's in Forty-ninth Street. At
this last place the distracted pro-
prietor is scheming to cut down his
overhead so that he can continue to
make living out of the $50 dinners
that he serves each night in place of
500 ravenously hungry and thirsty
people who thronged in there up to
January 16-and for few nights
thereafter until they discovered that
he was determined to obey the law.
Giolito is not at all sanguine about
the prospect Of keeping his restau-
rant open.
So it would seem that New York
ers all these years wnen they were
supposed to have been dining out"
actually were drinking out" They
say that claret was shipped into
New York from California in tank
cars like so much crude oil.
The fact Of the matter is that it
is well-nigh impossible to wade
through a first class-that, is, a dol
lar table d'hote-dinner in New York
without some sort of anesthetic.
After tumblerC of vim ordinaire
the normal human appetite accepts
cold storage chicken as thankfully
as freshly killed fowl. Without
it
But prohibition has injured and
even ruined other classes of restau-
rants. Sherry's was one of the first
to close. That was last May. The
quarter Of million dollars worth
Of wines and liquors were disposed
of first to discriminating customers,
then the furnishings were sold at
auction.
Louis Sherry could take no in
terest in the restaurant business
without the privilege Of dispensing
wines, with the achievements of
Pascal, his chef. 1t was the most
fashionable restaurant in the city
at the time it was closed, and if the
place had been closed a year earlier
it is very unlikely that Delmonico's,
across the street, would be in the
hands of receiver how.
The creditors of Delmonico's forced
a receivership just few days be-
fore it became known that Louis
Sherry was quitting, and it was the
rivalry with Sherry's, according to
the receiver, that had got New
York's oldest restaurant into deer
water-that and the prospect Of pro.
hibition.
Mouquin's, for more than quartz,
OF q century a favorite Of Manhat,
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for Jobs in cookingl Cooking is a
mans job and woman's place is the
parlor."
AS matter Of fact, there proba-
bly, are highly paid chefs to-day who
feel just that way about it,
The situation was getting to the
point where there was no place for
the women in the working world to
go but out. There are even some
extremists who believe that the care
of children should be taken out of
the home and away from the moth
er's hands.
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floor mat, tho mattress, the screen,
the wallet, the sail.
"She Is the mother Of all spinners,
weavers, upholsterers, sailmakers." !"
Again he says:
ITO the field she goes with the
basket or wallet strapped across her
forehead. BY the sweat Of her face
she earns her bread and becomes the
first pack animal"
The First Architect
Home again with her grain or
acorns, she thrashed and ground
them into -four or bran, thereby
mothering the thrashing industry
and the milling. Where 1t was i'm
possible to find caves or natural
shelter for her family she designed
and built the first wigwams and
forerunners Of houses, thus being
the first architect.
"All the peaceful arts Of to-day"
continues the account, "were once
woman's peculiar province. Along
lines of industrialism she was pio-
neer, inventor, author and origina-
tor"
AS conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up
their warfare and entered women's
industries. Gradually they took
nearly all Of them. AS work was
taken from the four walls of the
home it became mans work.
Now homework is diminishing to
such an extent that many women, If
they are to work at all, must go to
the Office or the factory.
"In the beginnings Of the profess
sions women did not make much of
showing. They practiced medicine
In the actual care of the sick. But
medicine, as profession, was linked
In primitive times with tribal lead
ership and with priestcraft to such
an extent that it belonged almost
entirely to men.
ut has been only In the last few
years that women were admitted to
our medical schools Of any standing.
And the few women physicians be-
fore the war had little or no real
practice. Take it in our own time,
out in some neighborhood where
there is no doctor. If some one is
i'll or baby comes, do we send for
man? Certainly not; it's woman
who is called in to helm.
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mixed when they put the cave man
and the clinging vine in the same
Picture. The clinging vine Is a
prant Of a later growth. 1t is a
lar cry from the cave woman to
this delicately nurtured product of
civilization. And II the modern man
Is going to have visions Of the good
old days Of the cave man he must be
consistent and include In his delec-
table dream the real cave woman"
Later, in her apartment in hotel,
Aiss LauEhlin went into the subject
with me in q manner which showed
sh shs has given much study to
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first her clients werc nearly all
women. But tho war added men
to the list. And these men, who
went to her first because their for
mer counsel had gone to war, have
found the woman lawyer so COM
petent that they retained her even
when the men returned to their
offices.
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Every Woman a Judge

"The law? There isn't mother,
never has been a mother, who didn't,
at times, have to act as judge and
jury in the disputes Of her children.
Father may be the court of appeals,
but she Is on the bench all day.
Every day mother has to decide
and act according to her decisions.
And woe unto her if she is an un-
just judge. Her standing in the eyes
of her children soon fails.
"Now take the newspaper field.
Gossip was the beginning Of news.
And every woman is accustomed to
having the men she knows attribute
the gossiping instinct to women. Of
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What Was Mans Work?

III the men insist on delving into
the secrets Of those monolithic pred
ecessors Of the New York apart.
ment house," said Miss Laughlin.
then they must take the conse-
quences and answer by what right
they can call any work the work Of
men, unless perhaps it Is hunting
and fishing. Back in that ideal
period for which the modern man
pines practically all Of the work be-
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Not Meek at All

Miss Laughlin looks meek enough,
but she isn't. She followed the
speaker just mentioned, and she said
size was pretty we'll fed up on all
this talk about cave men and cling
ing vines and women having no place
in industry; and fguratively, oh,
very fguratively, of course, she pro-
ceeded to decorate the face of the
eminent speaker with few
scratches.
Often" said Miss Laughlin, "to
stop an argument in public for
woman's entering this or that line
Of mans work the men will smile
in a superior manner and admit
they are afraid they have something
Of the cave man In them. That
means they can't see any reason
Why women should be anything ex-
cept clinging vines.
But their history is slightly
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A Feminine Answer to the Con.
tention That Woman's Place
Is i'm the Home

tho Domestic arrangements of the
man and the~woman whose wooine
consisted Of footrace and a blow
on the lady's head with some hard.
blunt instrument
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

VI youth, shivering. slightly
~ and edging closer to the
radiator, "I'm cave
man myself. I believe that the old
uractice of wooing a woman with .
club and dragging her home and
making her stay there when you get
her really better than our modern
practice. We red-blooded men are
still really cave men at heart, and
would prefer that our women be
clinging vines, as in the ancient
times, instead of getting out and
working at mems work."
New York State Federation Of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs was holding banquet a few
nights ago and q certain gentleman
whose name is known from one end
Of the land to the other made
speech in which he told the women
present he didn't in the least SYM
pathize with their being business and
professional women. In fact, he de-
elared it his belief they all ought to
be at home looking after the chill
dren instead of being gathered about
q banquet table listening to speeches
By him or anybody else.
The speaker didn't use the exact
language of the perfumed youth
quoted above, but he implied most of
it Did he get away with it? He
did not. Paraphrasing a popular
song of pre-war days, "Where there
are cave men there must be cave
women" And there was at least one
Of them at the banquet. She was
Miss Gail Laughlin, Of San Fran
cisco, national president of the or
ganization that was holding the
banquet.
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course, in some small towns the
corner grocery or the hotel steps
rival the the busiest old lady in
spreading news, but men, on their
own evidence, give the palm for gos-
sip to women, and by that conces-
sion women were the first news
papers.
'1n the New England town where
was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin, "the progress Of modern
invention did not touch US for long
time. The industrial revolution
which took from the home so much
Of its drudgery, had not reached
there when I was a little girl
1--WE made our own soap, our owr
candles, cured our own meats, anc
wove the cloth for our clothes. That
is, the women did this work.
Usurping Woman's Work
Every man who is working in ar
electric light plant is doing the work
that was once done by women-mak
ing the lights. Every man who /!
working in a weaving mill is doing
the work formerly done by women
Every man working in soap fac
tory is doing work formerly done by
women.
"The great canning factories
plants for preserving food, ever
some Of the work of the meat pack
ing industries, are built upon work
that was formerly all done By
women.
'In the Philippine Islands, where
the family system was tho matri
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she was in college. A number of
years ago Miss Laughlin went to
San Francisco and there she has
built up large law practice. At
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here There Are Cave Men There Must Be Cave Women

believed that a woman's place was
in the home"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
By Hannah Mitchell

u0H." SAYS the perfumed
vi youth, shivering. slightly
~ and edging closer to the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Death of the Table d'Hote

IL the sand Is carefully
washed from the salad
= greens in the table d'hote
restaurants these Wineless
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-01

Mrs. r B. Homan is giving one Of
the seasons most charming social at
fairs this afternoon. e Nay day party,
in compliment TO her sister MS p. n.
Jones, OF Tyler, Texas, and for Mrs
Ellsworth Faris, OF Chicago, sister Of
Dr.. Homan
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-01

Miss Rena Shea was hostess at a
pretty party given at the Shea home
On Thursday evening in compliment
70 Mrs. c. Minor TAFT. who leaves to-
day for a visit TO Sherman. Texas.
Ices and punch were served and the
reception rooms were prettlly deco
rated for the occasion.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-01

cite Faller. Helen Temple, Martha
Blankenship, Thelma Jones, Gwen
doline Jones. Mabel Matthias. Fannie
Aronson. Sarah Aronson. Minnie Pill
cher, Kittie Burress and Rhea Wells.
IN honor OF his seventh birthday
anniversary Norman Walker, Jr- IS
being complimented with e party
given by his mother this afternoon
at the Walker home, on California
street Pink and white are the dainty
tiuts OF decoration for the party. Mrs
Katherine Bronson, Mrs Albert Nor
cop and Mrs. J. 6. Barada- Happy
childrsn's games are the diversions
for the afternoon The table for the
services Of ices and cake is centered
with q great white birthday cake
with seven burning tapers OF pink.
Those enjoying the afternoon with
are Jim AID Jack Raster. BiAy and
Grace kayser, jim Mari. Bobby Nc
Afee, Sammle and Eula joe Nay,
Joyce DilloW. Julia and Ruthceil
North, John HaWley, Agra White,
Jack Berg, John c. Schiller, Carl
Reinemund and Billy Ramsey
The young people Of the First Pres
byterian church had delightful
social affair Thursday night in the
pariors Of the church A committee
from hte Y. ?. S c. E. composed
OF Miss Margaret Moore, M and Mrs.
B. J. Thompson and Neal Grosheider,
arranged the program for the even
ing. About 100 young people were in
ATTENDANCE. At the close OF the
program Of games and music refresh
ments were. served. As the crowning
Joke OF the party the police were
called to raid the church.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-01
Program Announced for Orpheus Club
Concert On Tuesday Evening, Nay 4

THE program has been arranged for
the concert to be given by the
Orpheus club on Tuesday even-
ing. May 4, at the Woman's clubs
house. and contains a varied and
beautiful selection OF numbers. Char
les J. Andrews is director OF the club
and Daisy Cantren Polk is coming
from San Antonio 70 be soloist for
the evening. Edwin c Knickmeyer
IS to be the accompanist-
The program viii inclue: Rolling
Down 10 Rio and % Peaceful
Night" Edward Gorman) by the
club: Aria from Marriage Of FL
caro-" (AIozart); Ia Mort de Jeanne
dare" iBernberg) and ''hIandoline."
(Debussy) Daisy Cantrsu Polk. with
Mrs. William p Brown at the piano;
The Waits Circa 1850" tune Lon
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-01
Hiss Helen Temple Crowned Queen
OF May At Red Cross House Party

TIE distinctive feature Of the party
i given on Friday evening at the
Red Cross convalesceut house at
Fort Bliss was the choosing Of a May
queen Miss Helen Temple was the
guest thus honored and was con-
Quoted to her throne by Pvts- Regi-
Maid Odom and Gilbert Waite Her
crown OF blossoms was placed by her
unatr0n Of honor, Mrs. Margaret Gray,
and her announcements were made by
her herald Pvt O.. A. Kaestner.
Dancing and table games formed
the evenings amusements. Sgts-
Gleason and walter Garner and Pvt
G. A. kaestner were in charge Of the
floor Fruit punch was served dur
ing the dancing hour by Pvt. William
stone burner.
Mrs. BeatriE Collilson, Red Cross
hostess was assisted by Mrs a. Il
Faller. AIRS. Margaret Gray. Miss
Jeanette Taller. and Miss Mabel
Matthias The chaperons for the even
ing were Airs. J. A. Hunt, Mrs. Leon
ard worcester Hrs. Otis Jones. Mrs.
Howard Wells. Mrs. A Aronson and
1frs ". D. Murnan. Among the
guests were Misses Mary Faris, Bar
tara worcester, Lii Sortorius. Jean
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-01

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