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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-04-14

The firemen's banquet April % is
a community affair. Ii you live IN
town you're expected to @pay your
share of the expenses. Mr.. Nathan
is treasurer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08
MADE FAMOUS BY COLUMBUS
Island Of Porto santo Known 10 Mod.
erns as Place Where Great Ex-
plorer Once Dweit.

OF the north shore of Madeira lies
a misty strip of island which accounts
itself famous because Christopher Co
lumbus once lived there. Porto Santo.
as the Undiscovered isle is called, con-
sists of huts and houses in the form
of town known as the Villa, scattered
vineyards and grain fields. steep
range of hills and shore line now
edged with spiky crags, now sinking
into level stretch of sand.
If it had not been for Columbus
the island would be altogether dull
and commonplace. AS it is, the place
Is often dull, but 1t lives in history. and
sometimes travellers come over from
Madeira to see the island where the
discoverer once lived and where he is
said by some to have received his first
clew to the existence of an unknown
land in the West.
Porto Santo was discovered by acci-
dent early in the fifteenth century nv
Portuguese explorer who was driven
there during a storm. AS the day han
pened to be All Saints day. and as he
was particularly thankful to have
found safe refuge from the wind.
the navigator named the little island
Porto Santo. He then returned to Por-
tugal and spoke in such enthusiastic
praise of the discovery that COLONY
was soon formed to take possession
OF the land Of promise Among tho
cOlOniStS was Bartholomew peraastroI
10, an Italian sea captain serving with
the portuguese government. who was
to be governor of the island.
Columbus fell in love with Bartholo-
meu's daughter in Lisbon. So when
she departed for Porto Santo, Column
bus followed. and there, in time, he
married her.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08

jobs in cooking Cooking is mans
job and womans 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.
ut is here the clinging vine gets
into the picture" said Miss Laughlin.
'She developed as 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
condition which would make 1t pos
sible for them to do nothing harder
than sit on 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 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
tiers of SEX" is her dictum.
Miss Laughl1n 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
4 counsel had gone to war, have found
the woman lawyer so competent that
they retained her even when the lnen
returned to their offices.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08

nave seen in our great war the way in
"ilich men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
oi the nations, in this country, Eng
'and, 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 Il
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 woman's work. He says:
"The slain deer lying before her cave
or brush shelter or wigwam! She
strikes off sharp flake Of flint for
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
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:
ITO the field she goes with the
basket or wallet strapped across hel
forehead. BY the sweat of her face
she earns her bread and becomes the
first pack ANIMAL
"Home again with her grain o.
acorns, she thrashed and ground then
into flour or bran, thereby motherint
the thrashing industry and the mill
ing. Where it was impossible to fine
caves or natural shelter for her family
she designed and built the first wig
vans and forerunners f houses, thu.
being the first architect.
Cali the peaceful arts of today
continues the account, "were one,
woman's peculiar province. Alon.
lines Of industrialism she was pic
neer, inventor, author and originator.
AS conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up thei
warfare and entered women's indus
tries. Gradually they look nearly nj
Of them. AS work was taken fron
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08
the four walls of he home

the four walls of he home
it became mans work.
Snow 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.
"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 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 1t in our own time out in some
nefghborhood where there is no doctor.
If some one Is Ill or baby comes. do
we send for man? Certainly not !;
It's woman who is called in to help.
"The law? There isn't mother,
never has been 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.
SIN the New England town where
was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin. "the progress of modern in
vention 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
l 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 III soup IdC
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
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,
work, Miss Laughlin pointed out. Bu
with community housekeeping AM
community kitchens and ready-madt
clothes, the day may come when the
men in charge of the machines thai
make the home go round will say:
"Imagine those women applying FOL
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08
Had Help.

Mr.. Hardfax-So your son left us
to go into bank in the city? How
did he acquit himself?
Mr.. Timbertop-He didn't acouit
himself. 1t took the best lawyers in
the county to get him acQultted.-Bos.
ton Globe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08

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 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
engagements of the man and the woman
whose wooing consisted of a footrace
and blow on the lady's head with
some hard, blunt instrument.
''If 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 men, unless perhaps
1t is hunting and fishing. Back in that
ideal period for which the modern man
pines practically all of the work be-
longed 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
lin. AS proof of her contention she
tites his "Just So" stories. which he
told to his "best beloved" You will
remember the place where it says:
'sThe 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 (proving
j. the way, that there was cave
Ioman before there was cave many,
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 We'll keep house."
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. "he probably threw
cut his chest and remarked that he
was a cave man himself and believed
that a 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. "If we're
going to say that such and such is
the work of one of the sexes we might
is we'll admit that every man in in.
austry is doing work which was orig.
nally woman's work.
'@The real cave men were con
rerned with war and hunting. And
The cave women had the industrial
Held to themselves. Only when wal
became less important did the men &c
In for industries, and even then they
Gid so or about 1915 basis. We
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08


ems clubs was holding banquet few nights
ago and a 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
clared it his belief they all ought to be at home
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 Laughin looks meek enough but she isn't
She followed the speaker just mentioned, and
she said she was pretty we'll fed up on all this
talk about cave men and clinging vines and wom-
en- having no place in industry; and fguratively
oh, very fguratively, of course, she proceeded
to decorate the face of the eminent speaker with
q few scratches
OFTEN" said Miss Laughlin "to stop an are,l-
ment in public for womans 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 why women
should be anything except clinging vines.
But their history is slightly mixed when they
put the cave and the clingng vine in the
same picture The clinging vine is plant of a
later growth 1t is far cry from the cave wom-
an to this delicatey nurtured product of cviliza-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-08
II Feminine Anszver i
the Contention That a
\ H10mQn's Place Is !
Y in tie Home i

H." SAYS the perfumed youth,
shivering slightly and edging
closer to the radiator, "I'm cave
man myself. 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
Pucipacc onI DrofocciornI Wow,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-15
~ Vhrn D faM ~ N.

ter when a few days old
White House Pound Cake.-This Is
fnvorite Of President Wilson's Chop
the peel OF one lemon nnd work % into
a pound Of butter until the latter is
very creamy; add pound OF sugar
nnt continue hoHfing for ten minutes.
Blend with this ihc yolks of nine oggs
and The Juice Of fge lemons hauting
for another ten minutes. Add % this
mixture q quarter Of pound each
OF stoned nisins. currants, chopp u
cherries. sccdlcss r1'sins. and mixed
peel cut into shrels; then fold in
gradually the whites OF the eggs,
pound ~ wheat -four. n quarter Of
pound Of rice flour ana an ounce OF
hnklng powder Put into a creased
and nuperod tin and bake in SLOW
oven nenrly three hours
Honey Douuhnuts. The doughmt
crock must be wpll filed 90 holiday
time. Doughnuts made Of honey nay
be cooked In advance OF Christmas.
and viii Keep soft which 'he sugar
ones will not do Take two eggs. one
ana onc-haI cupfuls OF honey. one UP
ful OF sour milk. three tablespooufuls
of melted shortening. one ,ceSpounful
Of soda. three cupfuls OF flour sifted
with two teaspooufuls or cream OF ar
tar; add n little salt Roll as soft MS
possible anG fry in hot fat.
Spice cookies.-Croam onc-thrd Of
a cupful of butter and add half cup
full OF sugar one cupful Of molasses
In which has been dissolved one tca-
spoonful Of soda. Then add three and
a half cupfuls of flour, cinnamon.
cloves and nutmeg 10 taste and from
a half to whole cupful OF currants
md chopped raiSins few chopped /
nuts are an Improvement when wen /
mixed, drop by spoonfuls ON buttercd |
inns and sprinkle with sugar
a plain white coolly rer,pe may be I
divided and part used with spice aul !
rult, with another part co'lrcd with |
Melted chocolate, and one part left |
'lain, making a variety Of cakes from
me recipe.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-15
0LD-FASHl0NED BARN
RAISING is REVIVED
Iowa Farmers Experience Diff
Guilty in Getting Carpenters.
Groups Cooperate in Erecting struc.
lures Under Supervision OF County
Agent and Farm Building
Expert Of State.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture)
A modern counterpart of the old
fashioned barn raising, with certain
noteworthy features added in the form
of assistance by state authorities has
appeared in Marshall county, Iowa,
where the farmers have had great diff
Guilty In securing carpenters to erect
farm buildings. The plan being worked
out Is for groups of farmers to CO.
operate in erecting their structures
under the direction of the county
agent and the farm building experts
of the agricultural extension depart
ment of Iowa State Agricultural col
lege.
Poultry houses, because of their
simplicity, are being tried first. A
feature of the movement which is
looked on as giving particular prom
ise is the fact that the agricultural ex-
tension department furnishes plans for
the buildings so that the cooperating
builders may have explicit directions
for cutting materials and erecting the
structures. The first poultry houses
will be built under extension supervi-
sion, but after that the farmers are
expected to duplicate the work on
other farms. In case this experiment
proves satisfactory the same principle
may be applied TO more pretentious
building enterprises.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-15
POULTRY DISLIKE WET FEET
Light Sandy Soil, Through Which Wa.
ter Leaehes Freely is Preferred
Give Free Range.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)
Poultry can be raised successfully
on any well-drained soil. A light sandy
loan which will grow good grass is
well adapted for this purpose, while
very light sandy soil, through which
the water teaches freely, will stand
more intensive poultry conditions, but
most of the green feed for the fowls
kept on such soil will have to be
purchased. A heavy clay or adobe soil
is not as well adapted to poultry rails
ing, as such land does not drain read
lily. and II Is much more difficult to
keep the stock healthy. Long station
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-15
MAKE PROPER STUDY
OF RABBIT PROBLEM
Attractive Possibilities Are Quite
Often Misleading.
Before Starting on Enterprise II is
Advisable to Consider How AMI
mails Can Be Disposed Of to
Best Advantage.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agr,culurc)

prepared by the United States Depart.
ment OF Agr,culurc)
The attractive not TO say startling.
mathematical calculations which are
sometimes made in estimating breeding
possibilities Of rabbits not lnfrequenty
have led persons 10 engage In rabbit
raising without proper study OF the
problem. Before starting on this en-.
terprise It Is advisable also for one
to consider well how such rabbits as
can be raised may be disposed Of. In
the vicinity OF towns where there are
restaurants, hotels and boarding
houses, arrangements can usually be
made TO furnish market men or land
lords regular number Of rabbits
weekly. But one should not begin rails
ing raj 's on large scale in a To-
callty where people are unaccustOmed
TO eating them. No breeder can ex-
pectNto make a profit until he has de-
veloped market He can demonstrate
the desirnbility of the meat Of young
rabbits 10 his nelghbors and sometimes
TO other agencies. II a breeder is not
able to carry out an educational cam
paign slngly, he should endeavor to or
ganize with others In such an under
taking. BY combining they can save
cost in advertising and stabilize their
output.
Rabbits OF recognized breeds con-
forming in size, build and color TO ac-
cepted standards are always in de-
mand for breeding stock. Those born
of registered parents are preferred and
nre spoken of as "pedigreed." They
can be registered II the owner so de-
sires. The cost OF keeping pedigreed
or registered stock is no more than
that Of ordinary stock and the returns
are considerably greater. Such stock
can usually be disposed Of by adver-
tising in poultry and pet journals,
II there Is not sufficient home demand.
Rabbits for meat are sold at greater
profit when from two to four months
of age. Ordinarily they are shipped
to market alive in crates, like poul-
try.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-15

titles and checking the ones he Is In
terested IN. Then he can mail this
checked list 20 the department Of az.
rlculture, and the bulletins checked
win be sent TO him without charge.
There are n few bulletins the supply
of which has become depleted and
copies are no longer given away, but
they may be bought at very low
price from the superintendent OF doc
aments at Washington. The pro-
cedure Is explained on the list that Is
furnished by the department OF agrl
culture.
chimney-corner College co-educstlona.
Every farmer owes II TO himself ana
his family 10 find a little time 90 70
TO school every wlnter-to read half
dozen. or dozen, or 20 bulletins
that viii help him make better crops.
to keep hs live stock In better con-
dition with less feed. to carry on his
operations with less exhaustlng strain
on himself
II should be mentioned. too, that this
college Of agriculture
rs co-cducntional a very large proper
tlon Of the bulletins are devoted 20
household subjects. They contain In.
formation that win enable the farmers
wife better 20 carry her half Of the
load--to feed the family better with
less work, TO realize more for the por-
tion OF the farm output that comes
under her direction. TO have the mini
mum Of Inconvenience IN the house
md 70 get the maximum Of comfort
out Of it-a thousand things that will
help along In making farm life pleas
ant and profitable