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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-27


''Or shall we face the fact that she is
in industry to stay and try to stabilize
her conditions of work." These were
some Of the questions raised by Miss
Mary n. Winslow, of the Woman's Bu-
reau, Department of Labor, in an adj
d1 ess on Married Women in Industry
given before the National Conference of
Social Workers in Washington, which
closed recently.
The women in industry discussed by
Miss Winslow are the women employed
in mills, factories, shops, telephone ex-
changes. &c. They bear no relation
to the professional woman who continues
Ter work after marriage because she
wishes to and not because it is necessary
to the family finances that she does so.
These half-million women work long
hours and often under wretched condi-
lions. 466, 900 of them are employed in
mechanical jobs. They work on the
average from eight to ten hours a day
and in some Southern States, particu-
larlyi more. Then they come home and
wash and clean and cook and stake care
OF their children. In one study made by
the Woman's Bureau of census schedules
from an industrial town, it was found
that 70 per cent. of the breadwinning
married women had children-and three
fourths of these had children under s
years of age. In following up some
500 of this group. it was found that
about one-fifth worked at night and
looked after their children during the
day.
This is the kind of freedom women
are gaining in industry said Miss Wins
low. do they work because they are
anxious to be economically Independent?
The do noti They work because it is
the only way they can meet the doctors
bills for Peters operation, or pay the
irstalment on the furniture or the home.
They work because it is the only way
they can manage to keep up decent
standard Of living, or give their children
an education. They work because their
husbands are out of work or because
their wages are hopelessly insufficient.
III one study made by the Woman's
Bureau, we found that practically all
women who were wives and mothers
95 per cent to be exact-contributed all
their earnings to their families. We have
reached one very definite conclusion in
study just published called THE Share
of Wage Earning Women in Family
Support. Whatever may be the extent
of their earning capacity. whatever may
be the irregularity of their employment,
married women are in industry for one
purpose and, generally speaking. one
cnly-to provide necessities for their
families or to raise the standard of liv-
ing"
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The Hon1enaker---A Real Artist

colors, the furniture. should blend to
make a setting that is in every way
appropriate.
Special attention and careful study
must be paid to these walls that make
the home, for while the general effect
of the home and its atmosphere form
the background for the homekeepers.
the walls form the background Cor the
home
See to it then that the walls are not
flat and dali and monotonous. nor yet
garish and mawkish and irritating like
a spoiled child. Select your decorations
with a discriminating eye, so that the
walls of your home-the background of
your home-are living and sprightly,
cordial, friendly, joyous, homelike.
Every modern home is decorated now
adays; plain surfaces and norose washes
are happily gone their way. So as long
as the decoration has to be done any
way, do it with the feeling that it is
not a business proposition. but a true
call to an honest art. The artistic touch
makes demands upon the mind, not the
pocketbook.
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that it can be handled effectively only
on an international basis.
| There is at present unusual interest
in the Child Labor situation throughout
the country because Of the fact that an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. which would give Con-
gress the power to protect all the
children of the nation by limiting and
prohibiting child labor, was introduced
and favorably reported on by the COM
mittees in both houses of Congress at
the last session This would permit
| Congress to establish a national min
irnum of protection for children beyond
which every State would have the right
to go to give its children greater pro-
lection.
The Children's Bureau was instru-
mental in getting the amendment before
Congress through its reports and in
vestigations, which established the facts
that over 100000 children from 10 to
IS years of age are working in the
United States in factories, mills, can
neries, mines and other industries, ard
that nearly 100000 Of these are between
10 and Ia years of age. How many
under 10 are employed is not known, be-
cause no records of these children are
kept.
The first two Federal laws passed to
prohibit child labor were declared un-
constitutional by the Supreme Court.
which leaves only one course open to
the country to protect its children, and
that is through the amendment of the
Constitution.
The necessity for Federal activity Is
obvious since a State DESTROYS of pro-
tecting it's children cannot do so against
the competition of other States with
low labor standards. For example, nine
States have no law protecting children
under IA from working In factories or
stores; thirty-seven States allow chill
dren to go to work without a common
school education; eighteen States do not
kmake physical fitness for work a con-
dition of employment; IA States allow
children under 16 to work from nine to
eleven hours a day; two do not regulate
in any way the daily hours Of children's
labor.
AS Sarah Claghorn's quatrain runs:
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.
Conservative as they were, the first
and Second Federal laws passed did
much for the protection of children
during the time they were in force,
for after the first law was declared
unconstitutional, three times as many
child labor violations in ten States were
found as had been found in twenty five
States when the law was in force; after
the second law had ceased to operate
an investigation of tllirty-seven fac
tories in one State brought to light $50
violations Of the Federal standards and
149 violations of the State child labor
| law.
The United States is far behind other
| civilized Western nations in it's child
labor legislation. Twelve countries have
at least the IA year age minimum The
United States has no national standard
and the States which permit the en-
ployment of children under IA place us
in class with India, China and Japan.
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Gay Street Dressing Robs 4
Dinner Hour of Old Lure

Evening used to be sort OF gay ana
gala time" remarked a woman who goes
about New York more or less, but now
the thrill Of 1t is all gone" a.
How conner" asked her friend.
"Aren't the lights so bright2 Isn't the
music so festive?"
ut isn't that so much-it's the people,
the girls, the women. One used to look
forward to an evening party of any
kind-at home, at the theater. dinner
q dance-as one looked forward to
pretty fairyland. 1t was so different
from day, with Its gayety of color It's
formal dress, its pretty slippers and hair
dressing, evening capes and wraps ana
feathers and ribbons and what not"
my word What's wrong with IL
now"
everything Girls wear short sleeves
and low necks on the streets, to say
nothing of red and green and yellow
slippers and hosiery, brilliant capes, gay
plumage-it has all been made so ordi-
nary that my fairyland is gone. It's
like ice cream and cake for breakfast
with nothing more exciting to look for
ward to for dinner"
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her. She keeps putting her hands in
and out of the water dreamy express
sion on her face, while she muses. softly
that I'll be SO happy, happy, when the
parson makes you mine," until somebody
yells at her to hurry UP. And even
then she only laughs and drips the
shining water leisurely off her finger
tips. One could imagine the water to be
Jewels; one could imagine her fingers
dripping rings. She has such feminine
hands that should have to do with rib
bons and laces.
The big girl, who is secretary to the
until they feel satisfied. She rinses them
with squirt from the faucet and gives
them a miniature rundown to finish.
The girl who came to the office from
a finishing school where she couldn't
finish when her father lost his money
washes her hands silently and care
fully. She concentrates on them-you
can tell she's thinking about them. She's
sorry for her hands. Hitherto they have
done nothing cruder than execute
gracious gestures at tea time amid
Sevres china now they have to handle
and control gritty cuts and grimy proofs
Yet she is determined they shall no.
deteriorate. There's a bit of lemon cream
to be rubbed into them after they have
been dried on her own embroidered
towel, and upon being questioned their
owner admits she isn't eating lunch
to-day-shess having manicure in
stead. Thus the noon hour. A kalei-
doscopic fluttering of hands in white
basins, a flirting of small coarse towels,
a youthful pulling on of gloves, laughter
drifting back through the tranSom, the
clang of the elevator gate-and silence
and the sudden realization that my own
hands are still unwashed.
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There are social facts to show that
definite and serious relationship ex-
lists between poverty and infant mortal
ity, according to Miss Winslow. The rea
lationship between infant mortality and
the employment of the mother outside
of the home is not so definitely estab-
lished.
In Manchester, the mortality among
the babies of mothers who went out to
v orl during the first year of the baby's
life was 227.5 as compared with 1873 9
for the babies of mothers who remained
at nome and were not gainfully en-
ployed. In New Bedford the rate was
1878 for the babies Of mothers working
away from home and 10S.S for other
babies. But In Manchester and New
Bedford, which are textile Fcenters, the
families were poor and there was large
percentage of foreign born among the
families studied. In Akron, Ohio, where
rubber is the chief industry and where
wages are higher, living conditions were
better and the death rate for the babies
OF mothers who went to work during the
first year of the baby's life was only IS. 2
while the death rate for the other babies
whose mothers stayed at home and were
not gainfully employed was To, a very
much smaller difference than in the com
munities where the families were poorer.
Under exactly similar conditions there
is no question but babies fare better when
their mothers are home. When the oues-
ton is complicated with that of decrease
of poverty when the mother is EMPLOYED.
then it is much more difficult to see a
straight path of action for there has been
established a very definite relationship
between infant mortality and the size
of the family income.
There are now nearly two million
married women gainfully employed in
the United states This, is an increase
in the last ten years from SIS. 900. A
great proportion of the employment
Of married women during these years
has taken place in manufacturing and
mechanical industries. Tn that groun
although all women employed increased
only Z per cent. married women in
creased Al per cent. during that time.
1t is in these industries, therefore, that
standards of work must be DEVELOPED
if there are to be any regarding the en-
poyment of married women. The
Won1ens Bureau and the Children's
Bureau of the United States Department
of Labor are at work on this problem.
When it IS made possible and usual for
the normal married man to support his
family according to a decent American
standard of living, the problem of the
employment of married women will take
care Of itself.
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THE making of 3 home is not bus
mess proposition. 1t is an art.
= Take four walls for example. Put
a dog into them and you have kennel.
Put horse into them and you have a
barn. Put an automobile into them and
you have a garage. Four walls do not
a prison make, so the poet put it. Nor
indeed, do they make home. 1t takes
an artistic touch to make home.
Hendrix Willem van Loon, the famous
historian, said the same thing in a diff
ferent way when he asserted that build
ings and classrooms and laboratories
and a campus do not make q university
but one scholar sitting and dreaming
on a rail fence is a university all by
himself.
The home should reflect the indivi-
duality of the lord and lady whose
castle it is. The home is their back
ground and it should be one suited to
zsir temperament. The decorations, the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-27
FoibLes of Fashion
Worth Remembering

Pastel colored ribbon with the dark
edges is most effective when oox
pleated There is no trimming for negli-
gees which seems to have met with such
instantaneous appreciation as this simple
but effective trimming.
A good solution to the problem of fur
nishing bridesmaids with bouquets would
be to follow the fad that had vogue
among smart folk in England this win
ter Of carrying single gilded palm leaves.
OF course it wasn't done as a matter of
economy, but what an idea it would be
just to cut to pieces the old family palm
that is dried at the edges anyway and
let a. brush and a bottle of gilt paint do
the rest
A tailleur frock of French linen in
gray is in long-waisted fashion with
tapering revers of white linen and cuffs
pockets, even buttonholes, bound in
white linen. Large pearl buttons are
the only trimming.
Kasha jersey makes another model for
summer wear with pleated skirt of
camel color fastened to a silk bodice top
and with blouse embroidered in a new
Russian design at waistline and on flare
sleeves.
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Fifty-Fifty.

They met on the stairs. as dodgers do,
And both of them smiled and spoke.
The longing look in her eyes went
through
His heart like a lightning stroke!
And, won't you come in?" the Lady
said.
Now wouldn't you feel a thrill?
And wouldn't you blush a rosy red,
And wouldn't your heart stand still?
But oh, it wasn't her kiss that made
His happiness overflow;
1t wasn't because of Love he stayed,
And wept when he had to go!
1t wasn't his smile, to tell the truth,
That moved her to ask him in
For he had quart of French YER
mouth
And she had a quart of gin!
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-27
Sparks That Fly From
Anvil Of Housewife

Use a strong solution of sal-soda and
water to remove several thickneases of
wallpaper. Boil the mixture and apply
while hot After a few applications the
soda will eat through the glued side and
the paper will pull off readily.
IF the new spool of cotton on your
sewing machine rattles around and
tanples cut a piece of cloth larger than
the spool and put it on the post under
the spool. This will keep it steady.
Rubbing with kerosene will remove
vaseline stains. If they are Of long
standing put the article to soak in kero-
sene. then rub and wash with soapsuds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-27

There's a frequent whiff of perfume
drifting through the room, for powder
compacts of dozen different scents
are rubbed as industriously as ever
Aladdn's lamp was-that, with equal
magic beauty may be produced; or
self-confidence, which is just as good
But eventually each girl finds her turn
before the long, clear mirror and the
shiny white basins. Then am | in
trigued indeed with the hand washing!
Theirs something very fundamental
and characteristic about the way girl
WASHES her hands. Most girls wash their
hands daintily and pleasantly; they
caress them with fluffy soap they linger
q hit 20 enjoy the warm water; they use
q towel slowly and almost gently.
But there is one type know-the efr-
Client practical head of department
who tolerates no time wasting and finds
no JOY in her midday additions. She
does 1t dutifully; she cleanses her hands
thoroughly. But she rubs them Vigor-
ously together merely for the purpose OF
removing the dirt; she dries them Wig
orously merely for the purpose of re-
moving the water. She inspects them
critically as though they were dirty in
stitution children and she the matron
responsible for their cleanliness. During
the washing, drying and inspection she
talks steadily of the incidents or the
day. The result of her necessary ges-
lures being satisfactory, she puts on
gloves. like an institution uniform, and
takes her hands to lunch.
The attractive brown haired, blue eyed
sirl beside her performs the same cere-
mony in a far different way. She al
WAYS sings to herself as she washes her
hands - azzy snatches. probably a
hangover from last nights dance. She
he's slim white hands, which she fits
about and from which her song distracts
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LandIady Finds Way to Make
Roorners Keep Blinds Even

She is a methodical soul who does
everything by rule, but as circumstances
compel her to keep ''roomers'- she has
a difficult time trying to run ner house
as she would like.
Her rooms are always spotless, her
Railways neat and tidy. Every window
fairly shrieks cleanliness and every
snowy curtain is hung just So The
window shades were the one thing she
couldn't govern. Her guests could not
be induced to keep from pulling them
IN above the half way mark which the
nethodical soul considered correct. But
she has now found a means Of outwit-
ting them. The tension Of the spring
Of each roller has been loosened so that
no matter how much one tries to raise
@the shade it will not go above the
proper height.
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illiterate, the alien and the indus
trially subnormal woman wage
earners the constitutional right to
starve," said Mrs. Kelley.
1.-THE progress Of labor legislation in
the United States depends not upon pub
lie opinion, not upon Congress and the
States, not upon the needs Of the wage
earners or the development Of industry
The progress of labor legislation de-
ponds, in the last analysis, upon the
personnel of the Supreme Court Of the
United States and the social and eco
nomic opinions of five judges. The re-
cent adverse decision in the minimum
wage case in the District Of Columbia
is progress backward. It's immediate
effect was confusion in all of the State
Legislatures in session on April IL and
since that date.
THE decision obliterated a workable
and necessary law for freeing wage
earning women in the District of Colum-
bia from the lash Of starvation This
is the expression used by English econo-
mists to describe the position Of the Eng
1ish wage earning class before the estab-
lishment in 1910 of trade boards Gas
minimum wage boards for men and
women are called in England), under
which 100000 English wage earners
are according to Sidney and Beatrice
Webb, freed from that lash.
'Since this decision social workers are
confronted by the question: How can
the Constitution and the court be most
quickly and effectively modernized to
meet the needs Of industrial life in the
United States?
FOLLOWING the child labor decisions
the wage earning children have returned
to their wage. slavery, Following the
latest one. wages of the most i'll paid
women in the District of Columbia have
been cut in half This minimum wage
decision is a new bred Scott decision
TN view of its powers, unique in the
entire world the personnel of the Su-
preme Court of the United States is a
subject OF the uttermost permanent inn
portance to this nation. In the choice
of judges, political affiliations, religious
associations and geographical position
tRll have great weight. 1t is a singular
circumstance that judicial experience is
not requisite-even presiding justices
have been chosen without reference to it.
In the future the monopoly of the inter-
probation and administration of the law
by men alone can never rightly be ac-
cepted without criticism and protest 1t
is a survival of the age before women
were full citizens"
Miss Grace Abbott, Chief of the
Childrens Bureau, United States De-
partment of Labor, Addressed the con-
ference on the subject of Child Labor
Miss Abbott has just returned from
Geneva, where she was the American
representative at the second session Of
the Permanent Advisory Committee on
Traffic in Women and Children, of the
League of Nations. Miss Abbott pro-
posed plan, which was adopted, to
appoint an international commission to
Investigate conditions everywhere in re-
gard to this traffic With q complete
and thorough investigation as a basis
it will be possible, she believes, to for
mulate some plan for the control OF
such traffic and its ultimate suppression,
since it Is problem of such magnitude
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-27
Life Story Without Words
Portrayed in Personal adj

Songs without words. pictures with
cut words-these are familiar things
and occasionally one runs across a
whole life story without words, ~or with
mighty few of them. Such a one APP
peared not long ago in the "Informa
ton Wanted columns Of widely rea
theatrical weekly. 1t was as follows:
Rose Walker of Covent Garden
Market, London, England. Left for
New York some forty years ago. Now
married to American millionaire. Niece
inauiring of her whereabouts. Was
italian opera singer. Adress Mrs. Roy
Kobrinka Lamont Alberta, Canada"
More than one feature film, popular
novel or Broadway success has been
built on a potpourri Of facts no more
plentiful than those contained in the
little advertisement printed above.
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The Woman
Who Sees

Good Samaritans.
sat there on the park bench his head
resting on his hands, as 1 passed with
my friend. He flung back from his fore
h, id a lock of black hair which imme-
diately tumbled down again.
AS we approached we saw that his
eyes were closed. Apparently he was
unaware of us. He drew deep, strug-
Cling breaths his chest lifted convul-
sively and anon he clutched with his
right hand at the lapel of his coat. A
groan escaped his lips as we drew near.
"Oh, 1 must see what is the matter"
said my friend.
| walked on slowly. CHANGING back,
l saw that she sat beside him and ques-
toned him with her air of ineffable
tenderness. She is kindly. motherly
person. The young man shook his head.
But presently when she put some money
into his hand he did not refuse 1t.
HE did not want to tell me about 1t, -
she said when she Joined me. HE has
had great misfortunes has been Ill, and
has not had anything TO eat for two
could do for him.
After esco~ting her to her door re-
turned across the little park by the same
route. From little distance saw, to
my surprise, the young man still seated
where we had left him, in almost the
same attitude. A kindly, comfortable
looking lady was approaching him by
the little path. She paused Our little
scene played itself over again, from
start to finish, with this lady as the
Good Samaritan.
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News of Women

Several women were returned for
Parliament as result of the recent par
liamentary Ell, stions in the Netherlands.
o
In some parts of Greece no girl can
expect to find a husband until she has a
home of her own.
o
DR.. Letitia Fairchild. one Of the lady
barristers who We're recently called 10
the English bar is the sister Of Miss
Rebecca West, author of THE Judge"
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"A Diary of Work Days-Noon Hour
and Strange Tales the Hands Tell

interesting
in
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-27
Futuristic.

F1ipper-Hasn't your rich uncle given
you q car yet? Everybody has one.
FTapper--No I told him to buy me
an airplane before Ford begins to make
'em.
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Adverse Decision Of Supreme Court
On Minimum Wage Case Rouses Ire
Mrs Florence Kelley Makes Protest Speech Before National Con
ference Of Social WokerFedera Child Labor LEGISLATION Urged

the United
National
att ationalCo o recently.
competition in industry at this time it