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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21

jobs in cooking! Cooking is mans
job and woman's place is the parlor."
AS matter of fact, there probably
are highly paid chefs today 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 ex-
tremists who believe that the care of
children should be taken out of the
home and away from the mothers
hands.
at is here the cinging vine gets
into the picture" said Miss Laughlin.
"She developed as a dollhouse plant
because there was nothing much for
her to do. Industry had been moved
from the home. Woman's place was
still in the home, but there was moth
ing for her to do. Often the mothers
of these idle girls were responsible for
their parasitism, because they had had
to work so very hard themselves that
their ideal for their daughters was a
condition which would make it pos
sble for them to do nothing harder
than sit on Il cushion and sew fine
seam.
"But the swing backward toward
primitive standards, when woman was
worker, to the cave man period, If
you choose, made a long sweep during
the war. Women had been seeping
into the professions and businesses
before that time, but their progress
had been almost imperceptible.
"Thus old-time efficiency, inherited
from their Industrious grandmothers,
no doubt asserted itself with their new
wartime jobs. Employers were salts.
fed and clients made happy So the
women are staying with their new
work"
According to Miss Laughlin, there
isn't anything disastrous in the situa-
ton. She believes that there is plenty
of work to be done for both men and
women in industrial and professional
lines.
efficiency and work are not mat
ters of sex" is her dictum.
Miss Laughlin is far from the 'cave
woman" in looks, but she is endowed
with a vigor of mind and spirit which
would do her cave grandmothers
credit. Miss Laughlin practices lew
in San Francisco. She was born in
New England Her college education
was secured at Wellesley and she was
graduated in law from Cornell uni
versity, one Of two women in her class
Later Miss Laughlin went to Colo
RADIO, where she was active in politics,
women having been granted the right
to vote in that state while 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 first her clients were
nearly all women. But the war added
men to the list. And these men, who
went to her first because their former
counsel had gone to war, have found
the woman lawyer so competent that
they retained her even when the mes
returned to their Offices,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
the four walls of me home

the four walls Of he home
it became mans work
"NoW homework is diminishing to
such an extent that many women, II
they are to work at all, must go to
the Office or the factory" said Miss
Laughlin.
'In the beginnings of the profess
sions women did not make much OF
a showing. They practiced medicine
in the actual care of the sick. But
medicine, as a profession, was linked
in primitive times with tribal leader
ship 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 before
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, dc
we send for a man? Certainly not
It's a woman who is called in to help
''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 unjust judge.
an the New England town where
I was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin, "the progress of modern in
vention 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
/ was a little girl.
"We made our own soap, our own
candles, cured our own meats, and
wove the cloth for our clothes That
is, the women did this work.
every man who is working in an
electric light plant Is doing the work
that was once done by women-mak-
ing the lights. Every man who Is
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, even some of the
work Of the meat packing industries,
are built upon work that was formerly
all done by women.
SIN the Philippine Islands, where the
basis of the family system was the
matriarch, the mother was head of
the family She handled all the funds
and budgeted her household. In Eu-
rope, among the small shopkeepers espe-
cially, women are the cashiers of the
family and of the business"
Cooking, homemaking and dress
making are still done in the homes
all over the country to such an extent
that they are still considered women's
work, Miss Laughlln pointed out. But
with community housekeeping 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 for
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21

nave seen in our great war the way in
winch men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
OIL the nations, in this country, Eng
land, France and the others, went into
military service. The women took up
the industries.
| 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 Laughlln reminds US that in
his account of primitive races the late
Otis T. Mason, curator of ethnology
in the United States National Museum,
points out some of the industries which
began as woman's work. He says:
':The slain deer lying before her cave
or brush shelter or wigwam! She
strikes off d sharp flake Of flint for
d. 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 reputa-
ton 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
floor mat, the mattress, the screen, the
wallet, the sail.
"She is the mother Of all spinners,
weavers, upholsterers, sailmakers."
Again he says:
"To 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"
"Home again with her grain or
acorns, she thrashed and ground them
into flour or bran, thereby niothering
the thrashing industry and the mill
ing. Where it was impossible to find
caves or natural shelter for her family
she designed and built the first wig
vans and forerunners f houses, thus
being the first architect.
"All the peaceful arts of today"
continues the account, "were once
woman's peculiar province. Along
lines of industrialism she was pio-
neer, inventor, author and originator. :"
As conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up their
warfare and entered women's indus
tries. Gradually they look nearly all
of them. As work was taken from
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21

G1On. And IL the modern man is 60
ing to have visions of the good old
days Of the cave man he must be con-
Sistent and include in his delectable
dream the real cave woman"
Later, in her apartment in a hotel
Miss Laughlin went into the subject
with New York Tribune reporter in
manner which showed that she has
given much study to the domestic ar
rangements of the man and the woman
whose wooing consisted of footrace
and a blow on the lady's head with
some hard, blunt instrument.
eff the men insist on delving into
the secrets of those monolithic prede-
cessors Of the New York apartment
house." said Miss Laughlin, "then they
must take the consequences and an
swer by what right they can call any
work the work of meA, unless perhaps
it is hunting and fishing. Back in that
ideal period for which the modern man
pines practically all Of the work be
ionged to the women. So when our
men talk about mans 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 Laugh
Sin. AS proof of her contention she
cites his "Just So" stories, which he
told to his "best beloved" You 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
diving in his wild ways"
You will remember how it was. She
picked out a nice, dry cave (proving,
by the way, that there was a cave
woman before there was cave mani,
and she cleaned house properly and
hung a dried wild horse skin across
the opening of the cave and said:
"Wipe your feet, dear, when you
come in, and now Wen keep house"
And the man came In and. lay down
beside the fire that the woman had
built and went to sleep. n
''But just before he dozed Off" said
Miss Laughlin, she probably threw
out his chest and remarked that he
was a cave man himself and believed
that woman's place was in the
home"
And Miss Laughlin agrees with Mr..
Kipling in the theory that the motive
for keeping house was the protection
of the baby. Long periods without
food, which were bound to be part Of
the life Of a nomadic people, were
hard on the young, and that is the
reason the woman decided to keep
house.
SIN the beginning, women did all the
work" says Miss Laughlin. eff 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 in
dustry is doing work which was orig
finally woman's work.
"The real cave men were con-
cerned with war and hunting. And
tba cave women had the industrial
6eId to themselves. Only when war
became less important did the men go
in for industries, and even then they
did 50 on about a 25-75 basis. We
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
{ aNeMen- ard W0rnetN
Il Feminine AnSzVer
the Contention THAT Z
\ WomantS Place IS
lin tile Home !

H." SAYS the perfumed youth,
shiverlng slightly and edging
closer to the radiator, I'm q cave
man myself. l believe that the
old practice 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 WOm-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
nulla Of thn Pacific coast.

Along the Pacific coast there are
three common Species the glaucOus-
winged, the western and the California
gulls, which are not found In the East.
They are white-headed species, not
strikingly different from the herring
gulI.--A. A. Allen, in American For
estry.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
Sometime MISSED.

do you remember the first balloon
you ever saw"
"Quite WE'LL" replied the elderly
gentleman "Those were the happy
days, but I've always felt that fate
cheated me out Of thrill that was
my due"
"How so?"
81 never saw a helper get tangled
in the balloon ropes and go soaring
toward the sky, suspended by one leg,
while the blood of 5000 spectators at
the country fair froze in their veins
with horror. Birmingham Age-Her
aid.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
whv Daniel Escaped.

The Teacher-When the lion found
Daniel in his den why do you think he
didn't eat him up?
The Bright Pupll-'Cause he was so
glad it wasn't Mrs. Lion usin' his den
for a SEWN room.--Dallas News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
Handy sprayer.

A new pump for spraying flowers or
fruits is operated by attaching it to an
ordinary fruit jar, several of which
can be provided to hold different
spraying solutions.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
Jud Tunkins.

Jud Tunkins says that If any Of his
folks actually looked like some of the
pictures in a fashion magazine he'd
send 'em to a hospital to get cured,
no matter what it cost.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21

A torpid liver prevents proper food as.
sanitation. Tone up your liver with
Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills. They act
gently-Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21

W." CLUBS was nOlulnS Il banquet rev nlgnlS
ago and 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 sympathize with their being
business and professional women. In fact he de-
clared it his belief they all ought to be at home
looking after the children instead of being gath
cred about banquet table listening to speeches
by him or anybody else
The speaker didn't use the exact language Of
the perfumed youth, but he implied most of it.
Did he get away with it? He did not. Paraphras
ing 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 Francisco
national president of the organization that was
holding the banquet.
Miss Laughlin looks meek enough but she isn't
She followed the speaker just mentioned, and
she said she was pretty well fed up on all this
talk about cave men and cingIng vines and wom-
OH very igurativey, of course, she proceeded
to decorate the face of the eminent speaker with
a few scratches.
"Often." said Miss Laughlin, "to stop an argu-
ment in public for woman's entering this or that
line of mans work the men will smile in a SUI
perior 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 except clinging vines.
'But their history is slightly mixed when they
put the cave man and the clinging vine in the
same picture. The clinging vine is a plant of a
later growth. 1t is a far cry from the cave wom-
an to this delicately nurtured product of civza-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21

AS we grow older our prejudices be-
come mellowed and our judgment
ripper.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
Loyalty mistaken.

Waiter lin Germany)-W asser?
American Girl (iustered) No, Wei
lesley.-The Bun.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-05-21
The Cost.

"Does 1t cost much to put up skel-
eton structure? II should think it
would cost a lot of homes"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-19
Criminal Courts
Grind Out GriSt

Friday was pistol totin" day in
First and Second criminal courts.
Seven cases lwere disposed of and
equally as many remained to be tried
at noon adjournment.
Piemus Thomas was found guilty
and motion for new trial was SET
by Judge Richards, in the First OIL
vision, for Nov. q. Strater Patton
pleaded guilty on similar charge and
was fined $50 and given 80 days in
the workhouse. Lucius Lamar got
off with costs on nolle pressed case.
Like cases reset were those of OTIS
Crittenden and Will Turner
Isaac VOLTS name was called IN
Second division, but it was SHOWN
that Wolf died since indictment ana
an order of abatement was issued.
Fred Esslar, former city employe,
charged with carrying a pistol and
assault to murder had charges re-
tired from the calendar. Esslar's al
legged offense occurred more than
four years ago. j..
Included in the continued cases IN
First division was that of Raymond
Thompson, alias "Blackeyes," former
Canadian soldier, who was charged
with violating the four mile law.
Two charges of narcotic law VIOLA
ton were nolle pressed against Har .
~ stoyall. who agreed to work out
costs at the county farm
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-19
Ship Captain, Asks
For Liquor Permit

MOBILE, Ala. Nov 19.-Applica-
ton has been made by the master
of a Cuban vessel now in this port
to the collector of customs for tne
right to bring here from Cuba enough
liquor to place on board the schooner
during the voyage that is about to
be undertaken.
The liquor is to be served to the
members of the crew during the voy-
age the vessel is soon to make. The
crew is all Spanish and the master
SAYS he contracted to furnish them
liquor during the voyage under the
Spanish shipping laws. The appeal
was made direct to the treasury de-
partment at Washington, The re-
quest is believed to be the first Of
its kind made by a foreign vessel.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-19
GXpA<S
Cbe aselps 5etntttar
Classified Section
DOCTORS OF TRI-STATES
CONVENE HERE NOVEMBER 80

Memphis. treasurer and DR.. A. F.
Cooper Memphis, secretary
Among the prominent physicians
to speak is DR.. ]. B. DeLee, Of Chi
cago, one of the foremost obstetri-
clans of the United States. The pro-
gram includes more than so papers
and addresses on matters pertaining
to the medical profession. These viii
be published after the convention.
The presidency of the association
is given to each state in rotation
and Tennessee will this. year be given
the honor Under the constitution of
the association, however, Memphis
physicians are barred from holding
this office, due to the fact that the
secretary and treasurer are always
selected from Memphis and the an
nual convention hela here.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-19

Plans for the annual convention
of the Tri-State Medical association,
which will be held at the Hotel Gay,
oso, Nov. 80 to Dec. 2, have been
completed and the printed program
will be off the press next week, ae-
cording to announcement Friday by
DIR. A. f. Cooper. secretary,
The Tri- State Medical association
is one OF the oldest organizations OF
its kind in the South. and the annual
convention held in Memphis usually
attracts from AGO to 500 prominent
physicians.
The officers of the association are:
Dr. j f. Sanders, Blytheville, Ark,
president; DIR. T. r. Hudson, .Luxora,
Ark; DR.. A. W. Rhyme, Coahoma,
Miss: DR.. L. c. Johnson, Lucy, Tenn,
vicetpresidents DR.. ]. A. Vaughan,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-19
3 AMERICANS KILLED.
IN MEXICO, REPORT
nv In+ernationaI News Service.

(By international News Servlce.)
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19.--An I'M
confirmed report was received here
TODAY that three Americans have
been killed in strike disorders in the
state of Coahuila. Neither govern
ment officials nor officials of the coal
mines have been able to verify the
report. 1t is admitted, however, that
turbulence in the mining fields is in
creasing. y
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-11-10
MIR. GEORGE G. FAIR
SECCUMBS TO PARALYSIS

Mr.. George Greenup Fair died at
his home i'm Hartford, at 11:15 o.
clock Thursday morning, at the age
of "a years. Z months and 8 days.
Mr.. Fair suffered stroke of paraly-
sis sixteen years ago and had been
an invalid since that time. He was
born in Lincoln County, Ky, but
has lived in Hartford during the
past thitry years. in early man
hood he confessed faith in Christ
and united with the Baptist church
remaining faithful until his death.
May "a, 1862, he married Miss
Isabelle Fogle, sister of Judge j.
4. Fogle, and to this union were
born two sons, VIM. Montgomery
Fair, of Hartford. Mcdowell Fair
of Chattanooga, Tenn; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Emma Fair Thomas and
Mrs. R. r Riley, both of Hartford.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Baptist church at 200 o.
clock Friday afternoon, by Rev.
Russell Walker, after which the re-
mains were inferred in Oakwood by
the side of his wife. who preceded
him to the grave several years ago.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-11-10
REVIVAL CLOSES

Evangelist T. 4. Martin closed a
very successful revival a the Bap-
tist church here Sunday night. Bro.
Martin is an evangelist of nation
wide fame and has conducted re-
yivals in this state at different times
within the past 80 years. He de
livered some convincing sermons
here and accomplished much good.
Among visible results were quite a
few conversions. s additions to the
church and general reawaking OF
the church members in this vicinity.
Bro. +. +. Petroff, Evangelist and
Singer, arrived several days before
Bro. Martin and conducted the SER
vices until the latter came. He was
born in Bulgaria, the son of a Catho-
lie Priest, and was a Catholic until
he reached manhood. He turned
from this to intidelity and later be-
came Baptist and has been in the
during the past IL years.
His preaching and singing won for
him many admirers here.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-11-10
BRATCHER-DOWNEY

Miss Bertha Goebel Bratcher, OF
the Fallen-Rock neighborhood, and
'Ar, Albert Downey. of Yeaman,
were married at the court house at
Leitchfield. Oct. 81, 1920 in the
presence of the brides sister, Miss
Ticy Bratcher brother-in-law, Wal
ton Cummings. and other friends.
Mrs. Downey is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. r. A. Bratcher. and a
popular young lady of her vicinity
with a host OF t'iends to wish Go Is
rs .'Lest blessing upon her.
Mr.. Downey is a respected young
man of his neighborhood and is the
grandson of Mr.. Farrance Dawson,
OF Yeaman, who has recently re-
signed his work of earring mail
from Yeaman to Springlick, which
will be Mr.. Downey's future work.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Ollie
Garden, of Hartford. Their many
friends wish them many years of
happiness.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-11-10
NO. As
BLACKS ATTACK LOUISVILLE
TIMES NEWSDOYS
Angered By Headline, "Cox
Leads in State" Negroes
Beat Youth lnsensible

Louisville, KY, Nov 3.-Angered
by the shouting of the headline
Cox Leads In State" in The Louis
vile Times o'clock extra, three
negroes grabbed the papers Gerald
Mccarthy was selling, beat and kick
ed him and left him unconscious on
the sidewalk at Twelfth and Wat
nut Streets at $3.50 o'clock last
night. I..-..
The attack was witnessed by per-
sons in a passing trolley car, but
the negroes fed before assistance
could be given.
Mccarthy. Is years old, was re-
moved to his home, 3226 West
Chestnut Street, suffering from Sc
we're scalp wounds, bruises and prob
able internal injuries.
The police investigated the as
sault but made no arrests. Nc
Carthy is shipping clerk.
Several instances in which copies
oil the same Times extra were taken
from newsboys by negroes were re-
ported during the evening.