The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-07
WIFEHOOD STILL
Is BEST CAREER
Convinced That the Sex
Grows Better as Gets
Buster
NO SHOCK IN SKIRTS
Converted to Suffrage, But
Never Converted to n Dis
taste for Real Men

n mny be that tho 80 years she
has put IN ~ girlhood's confidante
and court Of final appeal are re-
Eponsiblc for tho depths OF tender
ness, humor and whimslcal under
standing IN tho bluo eyes OF Grace
y. Ballard Of New York, writes Mary
Margaret Mcbride In tho New York
Mail
Rooted. perhaps, In that same ex-
pcricuce Is also the philosophy Of op-
tlmlsm expressed by Miss Ballard;
why. bless your heart. OF course ]
have greater faith In tho girl Of to-
day than had In her grandmother.
And ! don't believe, mind you, ]
know. that women are getting better
as they get buster"
Miss Ballard did more. perhaps,
than any other woman In New York
10 start the present generations
grandmother on their "busier. better
path" for she was head and inspir-
alton OF the educational committee
OF the Young Women's Christian as
soCntion when that committee
founded Ballard school. tho first vo-
catlonal institution for women In the
city.
Looking Back and Forward.
with the celebration recently OF
her namcsake schools flftleth birth
day and remarkable success, Miss
Ballard has taken a moment out OF
hor busy life to look backward and
forward.
'1n 1S72," she said the other day
nobody had heard OF women stem
ographers. Indeed. some men said
quito openly that the feminine mind
was incapable of grasping short
hand
There was only ono big depart
ment store in those days and II
never occurred to the owners to en-
ploy women clerks. As matter OF
fact, there were really only two
openings for womon-cooking ana
sewing, so our first classes were in
tended to fit women for Domestic
service or else for adorninR tho home.
"The first day class In stenog-.
raphy In New York was formed in
1879, and after that we gave type
writing when some business men
were beginning to perfer TO have
their letters done on the typewriter"
Miss Ballard passes lightly over
her own early efforts to advance the
cause OF woman. Fresh from fnsh-
ionable girls finishing school, where
she had been trained for the usual
career---a debut. beaux and parties
sho threw everything aside to take
up the work she had chosen.
At fret she visited the large fnc-
tories and urged the claims of wom-
en- designers upon the owners. Yes,
they admitted. the womon's designs
were good better sometimes than
those OF the men. But II was un-
thinkable that they should openly
employ women, and the best the In
q Vl lal ,nNIaalnnuru gnt1I arhipNp
after months of effort was n prom
Use that the work would ho bought,
provided the women did II at home
and kept quiet about the sales.
To-day, with women In practically
every industry. and even IN the very
modern course OF radio just added "a
the Ballard school curriculum. Miss
Ballard can afford TO smile trium'
phantly.
And yet" she unused. "woman'i
hest career is still a husband. 7 wa
converted to suffrage by Susan n
Anthony. but no real woman CaI
ever be converted to distnste fol
men. Woman believes in marriage
as much as ever. hut she has found
that her new ability to march ehoul
der to shoulder with her husband /,
an aid to matrimony.
Early Marriages Are Better.
mot long ago one OF our girl
who had married came back to TAX
new course. Yes, I'm happy
awfully happy she told me, and he
cause | want to stay that way I'm
here TO sharpen up my wits, NJ,
husband likes me better when IN,
minds fresh.
IL believe In early marriages an
I think Il is often necessary In thes
days OF high prices for tho wife q
have Job outside tho home. Tha
is all right. The home is all th
dearer when both work for It.
youth doesn't shock me. Some
times it's comfortable skirts are to-
short 20 he pretty but never so shor
as to he shocking. The whole poin
is that the modern girl doesn't kno'
she has less. She learned during tn
war TO wear knickers and trouscr
and short skirts as matter c
course.
youth Is all right and steadll.
getting better. Organizations lik
the V. W. c, A, are great helps &
the lettering process Youth lis
tens 10 youth, you know. whom
won't to age.
Altogether, the girl ot today 1
wonderful. and"-with n flash of tn
humor that turks always In tn
depths of those serene, clear seeinl