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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09
WAS GONE BEYOND RECALL
Headgear for Which Young Wife Had
Pinned Adorned Head of One
More Fortunate.

every day for a week." the young
wife said wistfully, "I've gone down
to look at hat in show window
wonderful hat, Tom; the kind of
hat woman dreams of but sees only
once in years. OF course, l knew that
l could not hope to buy it, as 1t was
far more expensive than we could af-
ford. The price was"
perhaps we could manage it, dear,
if you wish it so much" Tom inter
rupted fondly. Business has been a
little better the last month. I have
two new contracts for large apartment
houses. How much is the hat?"
"That is dear Of yon, Tom" she
responded with a grateful smile,
though her eyes grew sad, "but it is
too late. Our cook happened to pass
the store. saw her wearing it home"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09

| JOBS in cookingI Cooking is a 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 clinging 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 parasltism, because they had had
to work so very hard themselves that
their ideal for their daughters was a
condition which would make it pos
sbIe for them to do nothing harder
than sit on a cushion and sew fine
seam.
"But the swing backward toward
primitive standards, when woman was
a worker, to the cave man period, If
you choose, made 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 od-time efficiency, inherited
from their industrious grandmothers,
no doubt, asserted itself with their new
wartime jobs. Employers were salts
fled 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 ana WORK are NOT mat
tiers OF SEX" is her dictum.
Miss Laughlin is far from the "cave
woman" in looks, but she is endowed
with vigor of mind and spirit which
would do her cave grandmothers
credit. Miss Laughlin practices law
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 maa
returned to their Offices.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09

nave seen in our great war the way in
which men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
OF 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 Laughlin 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 wornan's work. He says:
"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
1t 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, uphOIsterers, 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 mothering
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 cook nearly all
Of them. As work was taken from
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09
The four walls of he home

the four walls of he 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" said Miss
Laughlin.
Gin 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.
at 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 a 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.
"In the New England town where
was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin, "the progress of modern in
yention did not touch us for a long
time. The industrial revolution, which
took from the home so much of Its
drudgery, had not reached there when
1 was a little girl.
eve 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 a 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.
"In the Philippine islands, where the
basis of the family System was the
matrarch, 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 Laughlin 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??, 1920-04-09
Something 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??, 1920-04-09
ouIIs Of the 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 whlte-headed species, not
strikingly different from the herring
gull.-A. A. Allen, in American For
eStrv
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09

ton. And if the modern man is go
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
a manner which showed that she has
given much study to the domestic. ar
engagements of the man and the woman
whose wooing consisted of a footrace
and a blow on the lady's head with
some hard, blunt instrument.
sIf the men insist on delving into
the secrets of those monollthic 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
1t 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
shin of the cave man and the cave
woman was. according to Miss Laugh
qin. 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
living in his wild ways"
You will remember how 1t 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
hing 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 uEC l1dL l1AC WNAAAC1 ASNN
built and went to sleep.
"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..
Kinlinc 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
Svorlz " saws Miss Laughlin, "If we're
going to say that such and such is
tbe work of one of the sexes we might
as well 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. Ana
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 1910 basis. we
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09
CaNeN1en- ard Wrnen

H." SAYS the perfumed youth,
shiverlng slightly and edging
closer to the radiator, 'Im cave
man myself. l believe that the
old practice of wooing a woman
with a 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
pugfpacc and DrofaccinpoI WON
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09
Handy sprayer.

A new pump for spraying flowers or
fruits is operated by attaching 1t to an
ordinary fruit jar, several of which
can be provided to hold different
spraying solutions.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09
Jud Tunklns.

Jud Tunkins says that If any Of his
folks actually looked like some Of the
pictures in 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??, 1920-04-09
why Daniel Escaped.

The Teacher-When the lion found
Daniel in his den why do you think he
didn't eat him up?
The Bright Pupil-'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??, 1920-04-09
Loyalty mistaken.

Waiter lin Germany)-Wasser?
American Girl (flustered) No, We'll
Bun.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09

A torpid liver prevents proper food as
siinilation. Tone up your liver with
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills. They act
gently.-Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09

AS we grow older our prejudices be-
come mellowed and our judgment
ripper.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09
The Cost.

'Does 1t cost much TO put up a skel-
eton structure? II should think 1t
would cost lot Of bones"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-09

"a cuDs was holding q banquet few nights
ts" ahd certain gentleman whose name is known
AIoih one end of the land to the other made
speech in which he told the women present he
uluht IN the least sympathze with their being
business and professional women. In fact he de-
ciared IT his belief they all ought to be at home
looking after the children instead of being gath
ered about banquet table listening to speeches
Dy MIN or anybody else.
The speaker didn't use the exact language of
the perumed youth, but he implied most of it.
DID ne 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
She was Miss Gail LaughIin of San Francisco,
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 all this
talk about cave men and clinglng vines and wom-
en- having no place in industry; and iguratively,
oh, very fguratively, of course she proceeded
to decorate the face of the eminent speaker with
q few scratches
Often" said Miss Laughlin, Ito stop argu-
ment in public for woman's entering this or that
line of mans work the men will smile in 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 clingng vine in the
same picture The clinging vine is plant of
later growth It is a far cry from the cave wom-
an to this delicatey nurtured product of civiliza
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-15
Em-Roes on Stride for Stiff
Battle With. Lima Tonight

Tonight will see the EN- Roes in ac-
ton in their first game here since the
sensational Purdue scrap. The Lima (OD
Mikadas will provide the opposition for
the strong local Independent five at the
Y. NJ. C. A.
Capt. Al Feeney reports his squad in
nrSt-class condition for the home battle,
Following the terrific game played on
tuesday night with the strong DePaTw
five, and hints that his men are in a fair
way to show the best they have against
the Buckeye aggregation, which is her
aided as one of the leading teams of the
middle. west
The regular lineup of the local SQUAD
is expected to take the floor against the
visitors tonight with Schoenman and
Klein holding down their old positions at
the forward ends of the scoring machine.
Smith, veteran center of the EN- Roes.
will take the floor at the pivot station,
and If the Ohio Independent team can
stop this scoring machine it will have
accomplished a trick that no other IN
dependent team in recent years has been
able to pull off. The well known de-
Tense combination of the Green and White
five will see Capt. Faeney and Behrent
patrolling the basket. This pair Of
guards has been bouncing EN- all off this
one of the chief factors in the list Of
victories the En- Roes have rung up.
reports from the Buckeye camp indi-
cate the opposition tonight wiz be Of
the keenest variety. The Mikadss boast
Of a pair of forwa rds who will count
en- when counting is possible. The team
has been cutting a wide swath in Ohio
basket circles, and it will put the test
OF the two states to a real for sure test.
The preliminary game between the Lead
ers and All-High five is attracting much
local attention. This game will bring
several old high school favorites into
action again, with Hennessey, Rice Sc
crest and Goetz in the lineup. The pre-
hminary scrap will start at 7:3O.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-15
". W. TO GIVE
PARTY AT ART
SCHOOL FRIDAY

The educational department Of the
Young Womens Christian Association
will hold its January program at the
John Heron Arst Institute Friday night.
There will be a supper at 80 O'Clock
to which both men and women are in
vited. Reservations for this must be
made at the Y. w C., A. Office.
Following the supper Miss Ann Todd
viii give talk on Industrial art. There
will be a musical program at o'clock,
which has been arranged by Charles Dob
son. The program will be as follows;
rhapsody No. Observation-Disclosures List
Mrs. Roy B. Turner.
AT DaWnlnR .......s.. ..".. ...--Caduan
(a) THE Minor Chord .......... Mayer
~ MY Shadow" ................ Hadley
Mrs. John c. Digs.
Loves Garden OF Roses. .....,.. Wood
Mrs. Owens.
(a) "Ah! Rendi Mi"........... Rossi
(b) when Mammy's Away. Rogers
Mrs. Diggs
(a) What Have I to Give -. 80. Lane
(b) Keep On HOpin' ".....,.. Maxwell
Mrs. Owens.
(a) shepherd, See Thy Horses Foam
ing Name .............::. Speaks
(b) Values" ,.,...........,.N anderpool
Mr.. DObson.
81 Waited for the Lord. yMendelssOhn
Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Diggs, Mr.. DObsQn.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-15
1Sas 81 - ~ Gs@1 81 @ @B 1s eaS - -
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wv: = = l !! Sports
ONLY ONE WEEKEND
CONTEST HERE
WEEK-END GAMES,

Friday Night-Broad Ripple VS.. Dan
vile, at Danville; Manual VS.. Vincennes,
at Vinaennes.
Saturday Night-Technical vs.. Thorn
town at the local Y. NJ. c. A; Manual vs.
Washington, at Washington.
High school basketball fans will have
the opportunity of seeing but one state
team game this week end on q local moor
| Technical mixes it with Thorntown at the
Y. M c. a. gym Saturday night, the
Tech seconds and Fortville staging a
preliminary to this game. Broad Ripple
goes to DanviIle Friday night to tangle
with the DanviIle High, and Manual
leaves today for a game Friday night
with Vincennes, from which city the led
and White quint will railroad IL TO
Washington for a game on Saturday
night. -
There is no particular reason why the
local basketeers should not come through
the week end with a clean slate Broad
Ripple is up against a good one IN Oan,
vile, but the Ripple bunch is going on
"high" right now, and should be re
turned winner over the Hendricks county
FIVE. Danville holds wins over Platnheld
$50 to 2S), Mooresyille 40 to 49,, Browns
burg (22 to s. and louisville (25 to "a.
Lapel bested Danville by a score OF o.
Technical should win over Thorntown1,
based on past performances OF both
terms Thorntown has been defeated by
Lebanon (4O to 1UDi MarLlnSVIl1e (oO - ~
12), Darlington (28 to 49, and Lizton ~
to 81, the last named having 23-to-14
victory over Tech.
Not much is known about the two
fves that Manual meets on its long jour
ney. On account Of their distance from
this city very little dope" has trickled
through 1t is known, however, that Vim
cennes has lost twice this. season to Mar
tinsville (35 to IS and 80 to 20l, and~that
Bedford put a 33-to-12 win over on the
river town.
shortridge hss no weekend contest,
her scheduled game with Kokomo for
Saturday night having been cancelled;
However. to even it up the Blue and
White will pull off a game with Frank
lin on next Wednesday evening at the
S. II. S. gym. And this promises to be
one of the classiest matches of the sea
SON. Franklin has been attracting the
attention of high school basket follow
ers all season by her remarkable work.
She has, in nine games reported, scored
361 points to her opponents 40. But one
defeat is marked against her-by Mar
tinsvil1e, "a to IS. The Franklin team
has beaten Hopewen (63 to 81, Shelbyville
CSC to IA, Columbus (54 to 2I, Rush
vile (43 to D, Technical (22 to 14), An
derson (35 to 2s) and Upton (57 to 10)
It will be well worth while witnessing,
this Shortridge- Franklin fracas.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-15
LEASE THEATER
FOR 80 YEARS
Alhambra Realty Co. Closes
Deal for Downtown Site.

The AIhambra Realty Company, com
posed of Charles NJ. Olson, Edward G..
Sourbier and Eugene Marks has taken
ninety nineyear lease on the property
occupied by the Alhambra moving pic
ture theater at AZ West Washington
street.
The property was leased from Fred
c. Dickson. The company also pur-
chased fifteen feet on the east, now
occupied by the theater building, from
the Griffith estate. The price is reported
to be $4,000 front foot No changes in
the theater building are contemplated.
The Sunnymead Realty Company has
acquired a ninety nine-year lease on the
property at 933943 North Meridian street
from the estate Of William Higgins,
through the Fletcher Savings and Trust
Company, trustees of the estate. The
lease calls for the erection of a build
ing to cost not less than $4,000 within
seven years. The rental is to be 81, $50
annually for the first ten years.