The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-11-02
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
BY MARY GWYN WRITENIAN

Al the Child Welfare conference in Fort Worth
the past week one of the speakers lady. complained
"Women's pages in the newspapers are ridiculous
They carry few STYLES few recipes, and article
how to get along with husband and am sick
of it,"
Her criticism of the Women's Page of the aver
newspaper is we'll taken.
There was time when woman's interests
encompassed in these small boundaries but that was
in the age of crnone and the hoop skirt They
out Of style nowand is the newspaper that hopes
to interest its feminine readers with these topics.
Clothes, recipes, and husbands are as de trop as a
species of entertainment for would be to
euogize her first husband when she is honeymooning
with number two. AS rule she has all three, but
she is unduly excited about it.
Nowadays when recipe she gets
it out of a highly specialized, mathematicaly, scen
fcally dietetcaly cookbook, or out of a
magazine devoted to culinary topics with conscience
so acutely developed along these lines that it would
think of misrepresenting the proportions of
a recipe than woman would her age 10 the census
taRer.
When she wants new styles she visits the ready
towear shops and has her gown carefully fitted by an
expert and delivered 10 her home in tissue paper
wrappnss, or else she goes home from the shops with
idea that fashioned into material form by her
fingers surprises he, neighbors into asking, Where
did you get ito
When she needs advice about her husband she
either consults a lawyer or settles it in strictly
private manner with frying pan or a broomsck
These topics were of interest to women when
cook books were scarce and unreliable and husbands
OF the same complexion. Can you imagine the repre-
sentative woman of today turning with feversh haste
to the womans page feast her eyes discussions
such these?
The woman OF today reads her newspaper just
her husband does.
She begins at the front page and goes right on
through
She reads the political news because as cti.
zen, she is just valuable TO the community as is
her husband.
They each have and those ant.suffra-
gsts. who prophesied that the woman's vote would
but double the mems vote each voting like her
husband, haven't enough prescience to be weather
prophet.
The women have found voting to he a very simple
process and the men must have had very little
Tor woman intellect 10 have withheld the privilege
long.
BY reading the political news the women are
trying to form their own opinions of how
So far have heard of anyone trying TO buy
woman's vote / suppose there are certain
sary details to that transaction that by nature, a
woman is incapable of observing.
The woman of today reads the sporting page for
she is athlete.
The athletic is decidedly a Twentieth Cen
tury model Two generations ago it was considered
ndelicate TO be extremely healthy.
woman wasn't even permitted 10 have healthy
appetite She like dainty flower, early
touched by the winters frost-whether she wanted
be. or not.
That the of the, clinging vine supersti.
ton. Nowadays there are always enough women
keep the surgeons knives sharp, but they don't
joy poor health much they used to do
The women read the market reports and it is
very trying To explain 10 woman that you must
charge her twenty-five cents for poultry when the
market quotation is nineteen.
The woman of today even reads the editorials and
that's going pretty far on some newspapers.
Any merchant can tell you that the women read
the adds. There isn't much in peper these days
that woman doesn't read.
That's reason the speed cops smoke such
good cigars.