The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29

EIs IS more important tor the wage Farmer to know how to dress than s5t is for women in other environ H3he pays her own bills. She earns
 money to meet these bills. As she {5 wage-earner and therefore SUD- E3ed to know something of business feels an unqniet sense of humilia- $3 If she spends unwiseF
 &shis mental attitude is partly true z5he woman whose husband pays the E when the. income is small, but <: woman who is in public life has Istime to remedy her mistakes. She Sss make the best of her failures. Fer women can reshape their fail
 3o woman can go about with
 5dwich placard } her back which
 3claims the fact |, at she knows her
 3n is wrong but she bought it in a I3ry. There is a slang pbrase in iE York society. used to describe an Islressed woman. which runs she Ks as though she bought her clothes 1.-the afternoon. NThe wage -earner
 5ht transpose this phrase into an- Z Ger key by saying that a woman ! Ks as though she bought her clothes ] ling the lunch hour. This is exactly I 4t many wage -earners do.
 E3 Buying By the Clock. ;here is time clock in establish . Es1ts where most women work. It };ches the high and low. It punches ;ir composure as well as their hours. ENhether or not one gets the best |:lf done through the time clock ahod is not 10 Lpe point. With the france of thousands of women into Ee- earning fields there arose the 3essitv to govern and restrict them day laborers The time clock is hched, the signal is given for lunch one hour is sternly held to as sui lent freedom and the wage-earners Iop outiinto the air at the hour when Il shops gre closed. Do all women ot sure realize this?
 I How then can the worker buy what 5 must wear except at the noon ! Ehr2 How, then, can she eat suf- lentlv to keep her well if she must knQfn1Zt OH tIiiC bN SNNNNAC W AAN . bcolate eclair and guiping cup of | keeS This is the real problem ol rage wage-earner.
 |k l-meaning old lady once asked |J s girl what was the most dis p Rector in her stage life-mean- .ais, Of course.
 irl answered: "A Jacobs lad
 new pair of silk stockings Iii a lfare worker put tine question a wage- earner she would answer; buy clothes and food in one hour The Tilt Against Economy. discussing the actual clothes to be brn bv d wage learner is made diff | hit by the many sub divisions into Eich women workers fall Socially .H financially each group of wage liners differs as do the stars. Eha ranks are filed each year with Erpits from every class of society. Ii lthe movement of the era; it is the kaien to be wheel in industry. The l In wish to work for excitement; the Inans on an average income to hell out by selling ability; the young h for pleasure, for the wherewithal live and as an aid to. the family dget.
 |Ehe older generation condemn the h. of this era because they permit |kir sisters to work in public and bnor-t themselves. The young man iH his young sisters who are under b look upon such views with the bternpt and indifference they would |te to the laws of the Medes and lrsians if they were read to them. |Eo yonng woman of this stirring heration intends to condemn her |lf to poverty and obscurity until she married once there was pride not working for living. Any kcu,i.y ard sacrifice were better hav there .s s greater pride in not .ng ! Eurden on ihe men of the |h,iiy. There ts creeping in q belief inc French national doctrine that e wiss should take her part as krcial he,pmate to the husband len there are no children.
 These are the many reasons for the |taand:ng army Of women workers |bien the war encouraged and devel- |k-a Those, who have found freedom |kmOrritating economy In their ability | make wages are not content with A old treadmill of life.
 |kn addition to the money earned th it's freedom from sordid economy
 bmen have learned to love the excite Int of public life. They like the bnnlus Of contact with active, intel kent men and women. They year1l |b the excitement of the crowd They e incurably festless in the four walls \ a house.
 knch women are merely financia
 mbols of the. entire race of American
 bmen who. rich or fashionable, maid X matron. have forsaken the hearth
 | the highway and the market place
 are now counted by the millions
 Clothes for the Public Eye.
 4ne fact remains that they must
 ess well There can be no Sunday
 st'
 No woman who is not a wage earne1 h thoroughly understand the prob |h of those who must buy clothes |lrriediv. who have not thes time foi Etient and drawn out fittings. wne Lss keep in mind that each garment Il 70 be in the public eve until us twice is ended.
 Fashion must here hold hands with tIity: whatever is ugly must be hred: whatever is extravagant must II tabor unless one must get yearn-
 B oist Nof the ss stem by inffeduently |Eting thing that is useless. fl
 Eely.
 |hf al these precepts were pracnced H the wage earner. America would |t be the target for d:sagreeable Enment. as t Is. because of the |hshes on.a mass Of our wage -earners An Eng;ish officer yho istnere study