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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

And they like to employ married
women because they are more apt
than unmarried girls to stay on the
job. Married women, having known
the protection of a home, don't usual
ly return to work except for good
reason. And that reason is-nine
times out Of ten--another persons
welfare. Children, or the unsuccess-
full husband, or the care Of an old
mother, are typical reasons.
Which-honestly usually spends
more money upon her clothes and her
amusements, the working girl, or the
working woman?
And which has the fuller and COM
pleter life, the woman who marries,
bears children, returns to work, and
shares the fruit OF that work with
the husband and children she loves,
or the unmarried woman who goes
on successfully, up and up, achieves
her buyer-ship and her $4,000 a
year, and finds herself at As alone,
necessary to nobody, needing nobody,
cheated out Of the very essence Of
a woman's life?
NEED sELF-EXPRESSI0N.
Every woman ought to marry, every
woman ought to have children, and
every woman ought to have, over
and above the domestic responsibilities
that are being made lighter and light
er every year, some form of self-ex-
preston.
And even the richest women in the
world are going after It Only to-
day, the newspapers reported that one
Of the richest of all American women
accepted a government appointment
that means seven years Of humble
and srduous service-without pay.
Another-worth several millions-is
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

in other things we do, at least, We
may think about it.
II they marry at II and 10, the
girl and boy; marry, in a word, when
they WANT to, before wretched sec
ondary considerations Of budget and
expenses come in, marry just because
they love each other, and are happy
and free, and unafraid Of life, then
their children-according to all the
scientists-inherit these qualities, too.
CHILDREN BENEFIT.
What IL his father and her daddy
have to make themselves more or less
responsible for the adventure, Il only
means that they support, together, the
two youngsters that they would be
supporting separately ANYWAY.
Fantastic as that sounds, would it
be any worse than the jszzins and mo-
toring and dressing and drinking and
dancing these these same fathers are
paying for now?
And supposing Betty married safely
at II, and the mother Of an s-year-
old and a 6-year-old at 27-could there
be a better age for her 10 begin to
do the work she wants to do, no mat
ter what II is?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

Girls there are serene,
Beautiful and gay;
Tempting forms that mean
All we can portray.
Blinded lovers say
Psyche leads the rest;
Be that as 1t may,
I love Helen best.
That's, Aggrippine,
Hours on display,
Sheba's lovely queen,
Cleopatra-they
Easily can sway
Hordes at their behest;
But with due survey,
I love Helen best.
Passing years have seen
Millions fall as prey
Where vampish maids convene
In bold array.
Every laughing day
Has at its request
Tempting forms-but stay!
/ love Helen best.
L'envoi
Prince, shout Hurray
For beauties, East and West,
But when I'm not astray
l love Helen best.
C. C. N. Y. Mercury.
Babe: Darling, yonr roommate has
just been run over by a truck.
Ruth: Shoot it! She had on the
blue dress 1 was going to wear to
prom.
-Vassar Yagabond.
A wealthy young lady named Bleau
Had a poor but good looking beau.
Said FIeau to her beau:
viii you geau to a sheau?-
Said the beau: IF you'll bleau Il!
geau Fleau.'
Rutgers Chandelier.
"They think I'm drunk, hic-
coughcd the movie photographer, as
be reeled away.
Black and Blue Jay.
In the old days a college girl had
TO be naughty but nice. Nowadays
she has to be nice and naughty.
MINI. Ski-U-Mah.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

EIRST Stude: When / was sight
4 seeing in Italy, 1 came across a
girl who went to Varsity. 1t was in
a very quaint city.
Second: Genoa?
First s.: No, but 1t didn't take
me long to get acquainted.
Texas Ranger.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

I had ny way" ended this peppery
girl, who wrote, by the way, a most
entertaining letter, married women
would be forbidden TO work, on any
terms, at anything a girl could do"
But isn't this girl wrong? / think
she lie. She spoke Of my "old-fash-
Toned, sentimeDtalizing attitude" but
Il seems to me that her attitude is the
narrow one.
RECONCILIATION POSSIBLE
1t seems TO me that she answers
the old question: Can a woman have
both her domestic and her business
life successfully combined?' with an
emphatic mo 1t seems TO me that
she would feel that a slow-going,
plodding man with a brilliant wife
must keep that wife cooking, sweep
ing, washing and ironing in his kit
chen all her life, because married wo-
men must have no money except what
their husbands give them.
And certainly one Of the most i'm
portant things our generation must
do is reconcile those two things: mar
risge and career. They can be recon
ciled, of course, because any two
things can, if both are true. All good
things join together somewhere.
LOVE EDUCATIONAL.
And if we women must pull our
house Of life apart, and rebuild il
nearer TO the hearts desire, then st
least the sooner we begin the better.
My idea, in the article she scored
so mercilessly, was that seventeen, or
eighteen, or twenty is the time when
we really want-blissfully, illogical.
ly, uncalculntingly-to marry the
dearest boy in the world, and the
time when Nature makes motherhood
the natural and easy thing.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
Men Like Employ Married Women They Are
Experienced; Do Not See Possible Husband in
Every Office Caller

and electric stove and ice box and
janitor all complete-and see Rob
constantly, Of course, and 90 to the
thenter and to Sunday dinners with
him,
Is she TO blame If this tempts her?
Income, independence, work that she
loves, why should she sacrifice them
all for the shaky financial position
Of a struggling Doctors wife? why
should she begin to worry about Rob
Wilson's dinners and headaches and
dentists bills, and to laugh half-des-
perately and half-amusedly when her
office friends cay pityingly: "Not an
other? So sooni"
LIKE BEING BORN.
Getting marrit1 is little like get
ting born: tie a natural thing, with
its natural ups and downs, and the
less you worry about il beforehand
the happier you are apt to be. Some
persons never would get married at
all, If they really understood exactly
what was going to be required Of
them; and a good many more
wouldn't get born at all.
1t seems to me that we would come
a great deal nearer TO our ideals for
our children IL we encouraged them
TO marry early, and helped them with
more than money, If they took our
advice. Granting that we are
long way from our IDEAL in this, az
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

ter than the woman who has borne
them? And that the unmarried girl
can handle the illnesses Of middle-nged
men and women, and babies, more
wisely than a wife and mother can?
Such a preposterous view wouldn't
hold Of any other business, would it?
Imagine, for example, real estate
magnate arguing that he wished to
employ only young men who had never
had any experience with real estate.
Imagine a housekeeper saying that she
would only hire a cook who knew
NOTHING Of cooking.
Think about this for a minute, you
office girls who are satisfied with your
work and your pay, and are jealousy
watching the intrusion OF married wo-
men into your ranks. They arc much
surer on their feet than you are; yours
is the weaker position.
Men like TO employ married women
because they are cheaper!" RACES my
little unknown correspondent.
LIKE EXPERIENCE.
But that isn't the only reason.
Men like to employ married wo-
men because they are experienced
The great adventure Of life is behind
them; they know wifchood and moth
erhood. They are not still in the
market, seeing a possible husband In
every man who comes into the Of
flee.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

The critics review Of recent
motion picture:
"A charming love scene occurs
while Eloise. the wash girl, hangs
her clothes on the line"
Nine out of every ten men In the
audience wanted their money back !!
KENTUCKY Cardinal.
II see where the Dodge Brothers
have gone in for track"
"How sor'
"They arc advertising 4 new
coach" Rice Owl.
A lady, evidently from the eoun-
try, walked around the big town a
while and finally clamped herself
down to a park bench. She had only
been seated a short while when a
man walked up to her. Madam, i
must demand that you get up from
that bench" he said.
"who are your" she replied
haughtily.
I'm the man who laid his wet
paint brush down where you're sit
TIM" Illinois Siren.
Christmas presents may be rough
" divided into two classes-those
we don't like and those we don't
get. Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
What's wrong with this sentence?
"She asked him for a kiss, but he
told her he wasn't that kind of
boy" MINI. Ski-U-Mah.
A sausage Is as strong as its
strongest link. Columbia Jester.
A sin is Imagination plus action.
Columbia Spectator.
John dislocated his shoulder
"Zattso? Howl"
"Practicing some new dance
tops in a telephone booth"
Denver Parrakeet.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
THE B E ST

He: Will you marry me?
She: Yes.
He: But the doctor SAYS ny liz.
will be short.
She: Is it insured?
Lafayette L.g,.
"Didyour father die intestate?'
Nav, Arkansas"
Texas Ranger.
The postal service Is up in tn
air in more ways than one.
Lafayette Tyre.
II prohibition weren't such a joke
there wouldn't be 20 many Jokes about
It. Colorado Dodo.
Traveller: For ten days jour
neyed on without seeing a singue hui
man being. Then, on the eleventh, /
came on q wretch swinging from a
gallows and ] said to myself, eat
last! am in a civilized country"
Brown jug.
what do you hear from your son
at college,"
THE local bank reports that he
is well and happy"
Dartmouth Jack o'Lantern.
Lady: What color curtains have
you?
Floor Walker: Oh, they're all
shades.
Dartmouth Jack O. Lantern.
why leave your shoes in the
sum-
Il wanta get 'em shined, you idiot"
MINI. Ski-U-Mah.
Didn't you know you'd met Harry
before?,
"Oh, yes, we went to college to-
gcther:"
"Old friends, eh?'
mo, roommates!"
-Notre Dame Juggler.
Adam, Quick. The baby just
swallowed a safety pin.'
And Adam laughed and laughed,
for he knew safety pins hadn't been
invented yet.
Black and Blue Jay.
Old gentleman: Yes, my boy,
when 1 was your age, 1 could run
100 yards in ten seconds.
Skeptical youth: What did they
use to time you with in those days,
sun-dials?
Hamilton Royal Gaboon.
First Coed: Why so angry?
Second Coed: You told me that
Billy was a gentleman!
First Coed: And he wasn't?
Second Coed: BE was.
Vanderbilt Masquerader.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

Tommy, why don't you come to
our Sunday school? asked q lady Wis
itor. Several Of your little friends
have Joined rs lately"
Tommy thought q minute and then
asked, Does q red-headed lid BY the
name Of Jimmie Brown 30 to your
SCHOOL,"
Eyes, indeed" replied the lady.
"well, then" replied Tommy, with
an air Of interest, "I'll be there next
Sunday, you bet. I've been looking
for that kid for three weeks. and
never knew where to find him."
THROUGH A SCOTCH MIST.
She: What is the difference be-
tween your office and your club?
He: At. my office, only one chair
revolves, and at the club they all re-
volve. Cornell Widow.
ION the level, will this hiv rum"
"On the level, not so good; but
you should sec her COAST"
Nebraska Awgwan.
Officer: Ny man, why do you hold
on to that lamp post?
Drunk: Hic-it tried to walk
away, oshiffer, an 'ust ashed 1t to
TAX noe home. ID 100 .-,,'
Vanderbilt Masquerader.
4 saw your girl this afternoon
did you sec her new gold tooth"
mo, she had her mouth closed
"Thcn it wasn't my girl"
Ohio Wesleyan Mirror.
NATURE NOTE
The possum Is a small fur bearing
animal found in America. The O'Pos-
sum Is the Irish species Of the same
family.
Dartmouth Jack o'Lantern.
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Poised on dangers brink,
With brow uplift, he coolly stood,
And watched the kitchen sink.
Rice Owl.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

Magazine Agent: Is the lady Of
the house home!
Maid (smilins): No come right
in.
MINI. Ski-U-Mah.
Someone in the dark: I think
you're terrible.
Someone else In the dark: Let me
try again. I'll do better next time.
MINI. Ski.U-Mah.
Grandma: And promise me, Al
bert dear. If you ever come across
a wayside brook, don't drink 1t, but
gargle It.
Columbia Jester.
We're having 4 new house built 10
match the perfectly stunning door
knocker mother brought back from
Boston last week.
Vanderbilt Masquerader.
why did you strike the telegraph
OPERATOR" the Judge asked the
darkey.
"Well, yo' honor" said the culprit,
II hands him a telegram for my girl
an he starts readin' it. So / just
nachurally up an hands him one"
Iowa Fnvol.
"I've Just been reading the Great
Masters"
Shakespeare, Dante and Thack-
eray?'
~No. Edgar Lee Masters"
Dartmouth Jack O. Lantern.
"Cheer up, old man, there are
lots Of other fish in the sea-"
II know it, but the last one took
my bait"
Green Onion.
High: You know that manicur-
st in Hauton's?
Sign: Yeah.
High: Well, she sure nailed me
9oi1'.r-' 1'scNIL ~ o. .
Vanderbilt Masquerader.
"Sir your daughter has promised
o become my wife"
"Well, don't come near me for
Iympathy. I knew something like
hat would happen to you hanging
around the house five nights a
week., Brown jug.
BE: How old are you?
She: Old enough to know you
,etter. Michigan Gsrgoyle.
Y. NJ: What is it makes rs better,
purer and cleaner men than we could
,ver be otherwise?
G. A: Our ideals.
Young Men: No; our laundries.
Black and Blue Jay.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
MARRIED GIRLS KNOW.

Are we seriously to suppose that
an unmarried woman understands the
teaching Of little girls and boys bet
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
TRUE FICTION

These college chaps are talking,
talking, nearly all the time,
But to their conversation there is
neither sense nor rhyme.
They will tell you Of their loves
how they make the girlies wall,
But never Judge a college hound en-
tirely by his tale.
Washington Dirge.
~How II your golf these daysi'
$50 rotten nobody will listen to
me-.
-Coiumbia Jester.
II q said that it Is customary in
certain tribes in the South Sea Isles
for the men to devour their wives as
poon as said spouses set little old.
Evidently It Is q place where men
are men and women are eaten.
MINI. Eki-U-Mah.
Hostess: Really, cannot place
you. -.
Stupid; Oh, that's al rishtI I'll
find q seat.
BLACK and Blue JAY.
'Have you Kissed the brdeT
No, but ! think 1 could"
MINI. Ski-U-Mah.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

THK BAD OLD DAYS.
Open plumbing eobblestons
streets antimaea8ars
tin bathtubs horse hair sofas
wax flowers under glass
ginger pop family
album ,. plush-coversd furni-
turS sideburns char
AIDES -. snun crazy
quilts -. nishtcaps
lesches Those who were a.
ways thinking about the good old
Many a woman win sacrifice any
thing for the sake Of her complexion
including her complexion.
Pitt Panther.
Jack. Professor says that we are
here to help others.
Jill: Yesf. =
Jack: And I'd like to know what
the others are here for.
Nebraska Awgwan.
Charmed, I'm sure" said Saint Z
Anslem, when asked why the perfectS
ly poisonous looking cobra refrainet
from sinking a mean fang into the
brown flesh of the Hindu spelI-binder.
--Sctyr. a.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
CLAIMS UNRELIABILITY.

Everyone who has superintended
woman, as ! have" she wrote.
knows thai married women are unre-
liable and ehangeable and that they
work for the fun ef the thing, and
that everyone Of them who gets a
- takes il away from some girl to
y hotn il means bresd-and- butteri If
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

~ my mai tne otner Gay tnere was
furious letter from a girl i
never saw, girl who disagreed with
me violently about something 1 had
written, and who said she couldn't
breathe until she told me that / was
! wrons-wrong-wrong?"
IT seems that some weeks ago, IN
speaking Of unmarried working women
and married women who would like
occupation and income. I suggested
that Il might be a good plan for
a woman to take her happy, young,
love-experiences first, pick her hus-
band and make her home, bear her
children, and THEN-when these
same children were ell in school, and
old enough to be left for a few hours
every dsy-THEN study for a pro-
fession, or 20 into shop, an office,
a school, tesroom, library, a hos
pitsl, or any other Of the thousand
places that are waiting for steady,
intelligent women workers.
This girl was wild. She said that
married women were the curse of Of
fees and factories and professions,
because thsy would work for less
money than girls-she said that hsv-
ing 9 husband 10 hack her financial.
iy and spiritually gave a woman an
unfair advantage over the unmarried
woman who must pay all her expenses
herself.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

Love and marriage are highly edu-
cational experiences, whether one
takes them in a Stun basement, or
in a palace, and motherhood is su-
premely important in the development
of any woman's character. It is
great pity-we all will at least con-
cede that!-that any woman has to
miss these wonderful things.
And too many, thousands and
thousands Of fine young women, wait
for them too long. In Europe it is
not uncommon 10 hear that a man
and a girl have waited ten-twelye-
fifteen years for sufficient income to
marry on. And even here-even in
rich America-there is a good deal
Of hesitation, too.
While they are waiting for the
s24OO or $1,000 that they must have,
to begin deeently, lots Of our girls
20 to work. Once working, the dan
ger beginsi
GIRLS LEARN VALUE.
For lots Of girls find out that they
are financially valuable 10 the com
monwealth. 1t may not sound like
an enormous income to a man, but
the $50 a week, the 1925 a month,
the creeping up 10 $40OO-to $500
a year-means delicious independence,
to a woman. 1t means that, with
her sisters income. she can share
little flat, with easement windows
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

He: Say, Kid, would you like 10
zee something swell?
She: Oh, yea
He: You just drop these beans In
water and watch them.
Carnegie Puppet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-23
WEDDING TALE
VERIFIED
TO-DAY
Mrs. Guy 7. Scott Was
Married Last Week
to Colonel Hall

Although she is still playing hide
and seek with her friends. verifica'
tion of the marriage of Mrs. Guy =
scott and Colonel James F. Hail,
United States army, which was
being persistently rumored yester'
day. was obtained this morning. the
wonder of it is that they. were able
to keep the secret so long, for the
wedding took place last Thursday
in Mrs. SCOTS apartment at the
Dresden, the Reverend Doctor G,
Ernest Smith performing the cere-
mony.
brides family were in the plot to
keep the secret, for they blandly
dened yesterday any knowledge OF
the marriage, although they must
have been present at the ceremony
Mrs. Hall is still reported sout OF
town. due back tomorrow so II
has not been possible to obtain any
authentic information as to the
couples future plans. Colonel
Hall, however, was at his post
yesterday.
ficer, is stationed at Fort Hum
phreys, Va. His bride is the widow
of Major Guy r. Scott, United
States army, and a daughter-in-laW
of the latt Senator Nathan b
Scott, Of West Virginia, Tomorrow
evening Mrs. Horace Macfarland
will entertain at dinner at the
Chevy Chase Club in honor Of
Colonel and Mrs. Hall.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-23
MISS LUCINDA STEERS
70 re MARRIED TONIGHT.

Guests from other cities who will
attend the wedding of Miss Lucinda
Steers, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Walker steers, and Ber-
nard Pope Day, tonight have as
sembIed in Washington. Among
them are the bridegroon's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph p. Day, OF
New York and Short Hills. N. J.;
Miss Mary L. Day, his aunt: Mrs.
May and Miss Steesia May, Of
New York; Harold Weber and
Edwrd Sessions, of Chicago, class
mates of Mr.. Day at Harvard;
William Crimes, of Baltimore, an
other classmate; Terrill Marsh, of
East Orange, ". T.: W. w. Hall. Of
New York; Miss Mildred Furrow.
Of New York: Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence III. Stuart, of Massalon. Ohio.
The wedding will be at 8 o'clock
III. the Church of the Transfigura-
ton and afterward there will be
a small reception at the home of
the brides parents in Emerson
street.
Mr.. Day has just graduated from
Harvard University and in his
senior gear was president of the
Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and
treasurer of the Harvard Advocate.
Miss Steers and her sister, Miss
Thyrza Steers, who is to be her
maid Of honor, attended the COM
mencement exercises at Harvard
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-23

and the Harvard Yale boat races
at New London, Conn, after which
they motored to New York. They
returned just in time for the gar
Gen party which Miss Helen McCabe
gave last evening at her home in
Chevy Chase.
Mr.. Day and his bride viii spend
their honeymoon at Hot Springs
and after. the middle of July viii go
to Manhattan Beach, N. r., for the
rest of the summer. They expect
to make their home in England
for a year or two while Mr.. Day
continues his studies at Oxford.
Two sisters of the bridegroom,
Miss Pauline Pope Day and Miss
Laura Pope Day, are among the
bridesmaids and there are alsB two
of his brothers In the wedding
party, Charles Pope Day, the best
man, and Joseph p. Day, an usf1,r.
The other usl1ers are Jack Brook
house and Churchill Satterlee, of
Boston: John Borg, Of New York.
Reginald Levy, Of Chicago; Dana
Durand, John Summer Wood and.
Paul Verbeck Heiss, of Washing
ton-all classmates of Mr.. Day ut
Harvard. Miss Mary Alden Irwin,
~ SMUT THIS, M. J.s MISS DOTOEny
Eleanor McCabe, Miss Mary Vlr-
GINA Lilies and Miss Ruth pleas.
ants Stabler, Of Chevy Chase. are
the other members of the bridal
party, with little Miss Diane steers.
small sister Of the bride as flower
girl.
Miss Kathleen Gruver was hostess
at luncheon today at the May
flower in compliment to her cousin
Miss Helen Russell Gruver, whose
marriage to Robert Everett Kline,
jr., will take place tomorrow. The
guests included the girls OF the
wedding party.
Donald Kline will be host at din
ner this evening in his home on
the Chevy Chase Parkway for his
brother and Miss Gruver preceding
the rehearsal for the wedding
The guests viii include the bridal
party.
Colonel William Donovan was
host at dinner at the Chateau LIE
Paradis last night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-23
SAILING SOON FOR
TRIP ABROAD.

Mrs. william A. Rodenberg, OF
1901 Macomb street, wife OF former
Congressman Redenberg OF Illinois
viii leave for a European cruise on
July l., and will be accompanied
by her two sons. william Roden,
berg, who graduated last week a;
Virginia Military Institute, and
Robert Rodenberg, who is a stu
dent at Devftt's Preparatory School
They will visit Portugal, Spain
Italy, France. Algiers, Sweden, Nor,
way and Scotland, returning id
time to enable the older boy TIC
enroll at Harvard Law School this
fail.