The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-05

in dress, shabby shoes, untidy coiffures,
show some sort of laxity somewhere,
and women seeing these sense the
deficiency. Overdressing IL as bad ms,
or worse than, merely bad taste. Sim
pljcity always appeals to them because
il suggests the attainable. A simple
dress that is smart In line and Appeal
ing in color captures their imagination
and puts them In a mood to get what
ever of good the wearer has to give.
Because man has not had to depend
on his physical attraction for what suc-
cess he has attained. men are not in
fluenced by such things. Lincoln's
clothes hung on his gaunt frame. with
no effort at fit or becomingness. Men
are never handicapped If they choose to
reverse the accepted order by wearing
long hair, and yet had Mrs. Sherman
bobbed her hair she never In the world
could have been elected president af the
General Federation.
The womanly inclination ia toward
making herself attractive. When she
gets into civic work she immediately
wants 10 beautify her locality. She
plants trees. makes parks, and reclaims
the waste places. Because her inclina.
ton is to nurture and conserve and to
heal she wants to establish free clinics,
build hospitals, and improve laws gov
erning sanitation and health.
All OF which bears out the point al
ready made that womans method is
different from mans and that there IL
very definite need of her introduction
Of this method into the conduct Of our
human affairs.
If we could broadcast information of
the fine and wholesome and original
things that American men and women
IRE doing in communities all over the
country, If the skill and high degree
of technique Of the writer's and editors
could be used to jazz up" the worth
while, constructive things as they do
The other kind--why, that would do
more toward making America great
than all the organiza tions in the coun-
try could do.
And how much Of interest there is in
this broad, wonderful land of ours And
how fine and true the heart Of our
America is when you find it How
much of sentiment and kindness and
humOr and whOlesOmeness one finds
among just plain Americans
There were nine speakers a. a meet
ing of the Western Federation of Wom-
ems clubs one day last spring and seven
of them quoted poetry. Yes, there Is
a lot of poetry in the soul of Amer
lea. Don't think you are the only one
feeling and thinking and trying TO
write poetry. Amy magazine editor will
tell you that everybody is doing it.
1t Is perhaps in the west that one
finds the most spontaneous expressions
of the American spirit, that one sees
and feels the idealism upon which the
American nation has been built
In California there is Federation
of Business and Professional women.
Sitting in at one of the meetings the
writer saw and heard women lawyers
and doctors and other professional
women. Public officials and big bust
ness women holding executive offices
were there. And sitting among them,
smiling and sweet, there was a bright
faced girl. Merry lights played in her
brown eyes, and she had a captivat-
ing smile as she made her report. She
was the president of the Girls Bust
ness club, which is composed of girls
who have gone through the Juvenile
Court and who have been assisted and
loved back to real life with all of its
joys and its promises and its satisfac-
tons.
Needless to say that the judge of
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