Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17
Girls and Their Affairs.
Conducted BY Helen H. Fetter

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L is sometimes interesting TO sit back
and see how the girls and women
of other parts of the world manage
to achieve the ends desired. AL
hough Washington girls in the major
rity can have little personal interest in
notifies and voting, as the District OF
Columbia is still pleading for the
franchise, they cannot help but be in
kterested in the great progress made
mong girls and women in other parts
OF the country along this line. The
American girl is in many instances
taking up seriously the study of how to
Vote inteligently and such orSaniza
lions as the National Womans Party
Ind the League of Women Voters are
aiding her greatly in this respect.
Quite recently Washington has en-
joy.d the opportunity to hear two
women tell of girls and their interests
along this line in two widely different
countries.
About a month ago Miss Minnie Zim-
norman of the Woman's Institute of
London, England, came to the United
States, primarily to visit here relatives
and also to study conditions for women
IN the industries of this country. Miss
problems If the farmers wives and
daughters of rural England. Her views
"Cncurred with those of the fascinating
lady Aston and also with Mrs.
Strachey, sister-in-law of the famous
i.ytton Strachey and political secretary
al the League of Nations Union in
london, in acknowledging that the
British girl in every class is brought up
IN politics as we'll as the usual social
interests.
I Politics &c :. tradition, ~ Ep,l.rd
Where women grow up ir the majority
families hearing discussions on po-
zeal matters and they absorbed con-
terable. knowledge of the workings of
hir government long before they were
tnted the vote. However, the method
I'd in bringing all women and girls to
ealization of their own definite civic
political responsibilities has been
toulouse canvass rather than
('ugh women'S clubs and schoolgirl
nizatlonS with debates and study
epared literature, as utilized in the
I'd States.
entirely different angle of the
"A girl and her attitude toward re-
$'ponsibiIities of voting and civic
Improvement is taken in Rio de
aneiro, capital of the great Por-
ugueSe- speaking republic of Brazil.
according to Mrs. Lamar Rutherford
Lipscomb.
Mrs. Lipscomb. who has just re-
turned from South America and is on
her way to Atlanta from New York.
says that the men of Brazil are
willing for the women to have the
vote, but that the women themselves
are not anxious for it, There seems
~ exist a spirit of cooperation and
'OmradeShip between these men and
nal world. and the women. through
their husbands, have considerable in
huence in civic improvements and
other political matters. One of the
most striking evidences of this was
SHOWN by the way in which the
women combined to get the small
beggar children off the streets OF
the big cities and placed in educa-
tional institutions 10 make good citi-
Gems of them.
Also. in South America generally,
the men do not want their wives to
work outside the home. They hold
. that it is proper enough for sin
gle woman to have profession, but
that the married woman should be
N her own home and not take the
salary that otherwise might support
another family.
1t is interesting, too. to note that
LIN both England and Brazil the
women are glad to keep in touch
with the American women. Miss
Zimmerman stated she was anxious
to establish an exchange of indus
trial ideas and completed articles be-
tween the girls who are studying
10 perfect themselves in different
ines of work in the two countries.
Mrs. Lipscomb said that the Bra
lillian women admire the American
girls freedom and ability to assume
responsibilities in leadership. They
wish that more Americans studied
other languages than just English,
For they would like to have Ameri-
can women come to their country
and discuss with them the problems
Of women and girls all over the
world
COMEHOW, it seems especially ap-
- propriate at this time. when so
many girls are graduating from
local schools and colleges and have
nebulouS ideas as to what they are
going to do, to take short survey
through the eyes of women who have
been in other countries and see how
girls and women of the other big
America and of the English speak
ing country across the big pond" are
handling their problems.
Every girl has, of course. to set
lie her own problems from her in
dividual angle. There seems a good
deal of value in selecting some bust
ness to give the girl an idea of what
Il means TO work in the business
world. so that in case of necessity
She will have something to fall back
on. In the commercial world of to-
day, more than ever before. girl
cannot get money or hold A job If
she has no knowledge and ability to
sell.
Correspondingly. girls knowl-
edge of politics and interest in cur
rent civic affairs will not only be Of
material value to the single girl in
business. but will also prove profit
A bile to the young married woman
whose husband, even though he is not
a voter, is definitely affected by poll
tics every day in his business.