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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18

jobs in cooking! Cooking is a 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 1t.
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.
'It 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 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 q 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 sltua-
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 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 maR
returned to their Offices.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
WAS GONE BEYOND RECALL
Headgear for Which Young Wife Had
Pned Adorned Head of One
More Fortunate.

"Every day for week." the young
wife said wistfully, "Tve gone down
to look at a hat in n show window
wonderful hat, Tom; the kind Of
hat woman dreams of but sees only
once in years OF course, knew that
l could not hope to buy it, as it 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. have
two new contracts for large apartment
houses. How much is the haiti"
"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 1t home"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
the four walls of The 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
SIN 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 a baby comes, do
we send for a man? Certainly not;
it's woman who is called in to help.
"The law? There isn't mother,
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 a 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
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
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
HOThIlS III Il WC6lf llISo iiili 40 N'tAAt9
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
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-
ciaIly, 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??, 1920-06-18

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 wOman'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
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 1t,
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 dwelIs 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 -four 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 # houses, thus
being the first architect.
"AI 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??, 1920-06-18
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?"
II never saw q 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??, 1920-06-18
CaNeMen ard Wo1nen
II Feminine AnSzVer
the Contention THAT a
\ Woman'S Place IS
\ lin tie Home 4

H." SAYS I the perfumed youth,
shiverlng slightly and edglng
closer to the radiator, "Pm cave
man myself. believe that the
old practice of woolng 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 clinglng vines, as in the
ancient times, instead of getting
out and working at mems work"
New York State Federation of
RucfnncS and Professional WOm-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
evlIs 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 white-headed species, not
strikingly different from the herring
gull.-A. A. Allen, in American For
estry.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18

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 delectaDle
dream the real cave woman"
Later, in her apartment in 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
Tangements Of the man and the woman
whose wooing consisted of footrace
and blow on the ladys 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
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
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
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 nice, dry cave (proving,
by the way, that there was cave
woman before there was cave MANI,
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. :"
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 of" said
Miss Laughlin, she probably threw
out 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 nomadic people, were
hard on the young, and that is the
reason the woman decided to keep
house.
''In 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
as we'll admit that every man in in
dustry is doing work which was orig
finally woman's work.
sSThe 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 impo4tant did the men go
in for industries, and even then they
did SO on about 1915 basis. We
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
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 1t cost.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
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 SEWN room.-Dallas News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
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??, 1920-06-18

A torpid liver prevents proper food as.
sanitation. Tone up your liver with
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills They act
gently.--Adv
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
Loyalty mistaken.

Waiter lin Germany)-Wasser?
American Girl (flustered)-No, We'll
lesley.-The Bun.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18

AS we grow older our prejudlces be-
come mellowed and our judgment
ripper.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18
The Cost.

"Does it cost much to put up a skel'
eton structure?" II should think 1t
would cost a lot of 'bones.'"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-18

ems clubs was holding a banquet a few nights
ago and certain gentleman whose name is known
from one end Of the land to the other made a
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 Laughln of San Francisco,
national president of the organization that was
holding the banquet.
Miss Laughln 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 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 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 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 plant Of a
later growth 1t is a far cry from the cave wom-
an to this delcately nurtured product of ciyiiza-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-30
EDITORIAL NOTES

Even though $500 detectives been trying
find clue to the bomb explosion plot New York actual
knowledge concerning it than 1t seems
quite probable that it have to be added to the long list of
the Worlds unsoved mysteries series of test blasts is to
set off in of the Federal experiment stations the
which used
Ohio evidently produces something besides presidential
candidates. story which Winsted not surpass
there of who nine leaning
the rail of steamer dropped his Masonic emblem watch charm
into the Ohio River The other day $50 the story goes fish
found it in catfish which he caught in
the Ohio River noting the address the charm
returned it to him. Is this Ohio normalcy"?
consumption of coffee in this country for
year ending June 80 12 pounds total for the
of 100000 pounds. This is greater amount
any previous by 30OOO0O pounds estimated
know inst how much prohibition responsible
Yale University opens for its 22Oth year today.
Another explanation Of the Republican victory at the
election in Maine is furnished by Gov Milken who
claims of the State voted four to for the
If this is so they may entirely different opinion when
he OF November
And fifteen prominent Progressves leading support
of Roosevelt in 1912 have out for Cox Asserting that
little Of party bgots nominated Harding, they declare
he opposed to all those things for which Roosevelt lived and
fought the forward looking people the
country lining behind Cox.
Senator Harding campagner labors under the disad
being unable to questions until he has
conferred with Lodge and Johnson.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-30
DEMOCRATIC, STATE TICKET
WHAT is THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS?
III. Who May Belong.

- RTICLE of the Covenant Solemn agreemen) of the
League (combination) of Nations first defines who
shall be the original members of the League
correspond to the charter of lodge
The text of the 1.-The original
the League shall be those of the Sgnaories which named
in the Annex to this CovenantA :"
Signatory diplomatic meaning party state
bound jointly with several others by the signing public
treaty An simply something attached at the end
The Covenant of the League of Nations
Treaty of Peace with Germany and the Annex list
attached to the end the This list
vided into two parts the thirty
who had been actually and technically at with Germany
and to sign the Peace Treaty These what
red to signaories The list headed with the
the United States The United States has signed the
treaty and therefore is still technical state of with
Germany and receiving of the benefits of peace.
The part of the list the thirteen
trail nations Their becoming charter members of the League
provided the Article which
such of those other States named the shall accede
without reservation to this Covenant Accede
formally deposited their Declaration within the two months to
which they limited. Note there limit placed
when the gnatorie could and come in The United
States still by the Senate ratifyng the treaty
The paragraph Article l. tells who may
the future. ANY fully selfgoverning State Dominion
Colony, not named the Annex, if two thirds of the
representatives. of the but the
pcan must saisythem that intends to observe its inter
national obligations and to accept such regulations
be described by the League in regard to its military
val and air forces and armamens'
having Joined the League has to stay in it if it
Paragraph of provides
member may, after notice of its intention
do withdraw provided that all its international obga
obligations under this Covenant shall have
been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal"
blind complicated about it. Any self
people wish join the with
amount of formaity which it takes to joint first
fraernal organization and country which and
giving two years notice and keep
ing what contracts and it has made about the
conditions which partnership is severed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-30
THE NEW KIND OF WAR IN IRELAND

HE LEAGUE of Nations makes provision for kind
of war, which may prove just as effective though less
bloody old kind The Irish of
boycott political boycott of passive resistance British
hory conducted that the British forces in Ireland
resistance find foe to fight moth
ing that be crushed
to the old fashioned in the
teal asassnaons that mutually carried but the loss
life from this violence is merely rng To all ntents and
purposes the Irish is without bloodshed
admit that there is Ireland? The
Duke be regarded representative
of British opinion:
have
strange to find leaders of the Irish movement
ing Nations made largely for the protection
of hostile to Irish ASPIRATIONS Under inter
national law existed before the League of Nations
only by military possession of territory and
field could Ireland claim recognition for the
Republic from other nations
changes the status in two principal
1t permits any nterpose with its friendly offices to
protect the peace of the world
recognition the theory that the covenant
begerency basis basis not of force
bu of moral authority.
History establish the of that propaganda by
leadership has been led profoundly asray
the of the League of Nations to
the which it represents.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-30

OBJ establishments employing 07O6O people representing
investment and manufacturing products
valued at 1868 100000.
It than year after the beginning of the
before much of start to develope dye industry in the United
States begun and it carried under disad
vantages. 1t during the years; labor at
MUM mills working military ORDERS, materials
demand and the transportation problems serious
spite of these obstacles however, in the since the
began there has been developed dye industry which
promises to be second to other nations
The latest available figures of the industry whole
for the 1913 but then had that there
70 eleven times 1914. The
production nearly ten times great being 564 6
pounds and the value thirty times that of 1914 s62
O2639O
Everything points to the growth of our domestic
duction until shall be absolutely elfcontaned far
The creation of
portant industry short time against such odds will al
Of Americas industrial fea industrial
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-30
LOCAL BREWERIES
RESUME MAKING
OF Near beer

Bridgeport breweries will soon be
operating in the manufacture of near
beer, their property being now in
their possession again, because the U.
S. government has accepted bonds
from two companies and the bond of
a third is in preparation.
Eckart Bros brewery is released
on a bond of approximately $4,000.
The Connecticut Breweries have fur
nished approximately $175,o0 The
bond of the Home Brewing Company
is in process.
These establishments wers& seized
by Federal prohibition officers some
weeks ago, upon the charge that they
were brewing beer with an alcoholic
content greater than one-half of one
per cent. or more.
The proceedings are forfeiture pro-
ceedings, but the Department of Jus
tice has accepted a bond in lieu of the
property, and the case will be deter
mined later.
The properties were appraised by
L. j. Gill, John j. Ryburn and George
Coughlin, and the bonds were fixed
on their estimates.
The bonds were taken by James J.
Walsh of Hartford, collector of inter-
nal revenue. acting through W. j.
O'Connel of Stamford, one of his dep-
utieS