The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
THE WOMEN STILL
CATER TO VANITIES
MAY BE INDEPENDENT OF
MEN BUT NOT OF COSMET-
ICS. MEETING SHOWS.

Robert T. Small, in a New York
letter to the Baltimore Sun, says the
+b;rd annual exhibit of women's activ-
;,ies held in New York under the
srsDices of the New York League of
Rnsiness and Professional Women,
devoted much of its floor space to the
arts and means OF feminine pulchri-
tude The keynote of the marvellous
4xbibtion was independence" That
meant independence of mere man. 1t
aid not mean independence of the
things that have made women beauti-
full in the future.
The exhibit is said to have included
exhibits Of about $50 activities of wo-
men in business, social and home life.
They ranged all the way from the
picture of a big gas works managed
bv woman down to the homely
sewing machine and the pots and
pans.
Much stress was laid upon the new
profession of tea room management.
Many women thrown upon their own
resources have attempted to run tea
rooms or luncheon places with no
concept of the business principles in
VOWED. 1t is realized that this is an
excellent field for the woman who
must earn her own livelihood and yet
lacks the business education which
would give her a lucrative position in
an office. Intensive training now may
he had in the management of tea
rooms. of small hotels, motor inns
and the newest of all, the repast places
the "bite-bar."
New York, in company with other
al the larger cities of the country,
has needed an exhibition to realize
the part that woman is playing in the
vorkaday life of the world. The sub
wavs and elevated roads in the morn
mo the rush hours of the afternoon,
the lunch time throngs in the longest
Cd downtown districts, all tell their
story of the place that woman has
taken beside man.
Nearly Every Field Open
Today there is virtually no held
from which woman is barred. Woman
no longer is the ornament or the para
Sites Naturally there still are some
left in the world. 1t would be a sad
nlace to live if women did not con-
slider themselves ornamental to large
degree But they are more and more
combining ornamentatlon with use1ui-
ness and the results are extremely
gratifying both economically and ar
tistically. 80.
At the women's activities exhibit
the cosmetic booths rubbed shoulders
and divided attention with the univer-
sitv and college booths that list the
manifold courses open to the CENTER
sex. =,
The silver black fox booth was the
source of mingled emotions. Women
looked first upon the fascinating little
live foxes in wire cage and next 10
the finished pelt on the wall, intended
10 grace the shoulders of some tar
woman through the chill OF winter
and torrid heat of summer. Here lem
mine feelings were torn asunder. Inc
women visitors thought what shame
# was to raise the foxes Just tor
Slaughter, and yet they looked with
longing upon the rich and sumptuous
furs the little animals provide,
Evidently one of the women,s great
est activities is politics. Several booths
were devoted not to the old slogan Oh
votes for women" but for women to
vote. Just because men abstain from
voting there is no reason why women
should follow them as civic slackers'
the booths demonstrated. Coolidge
and Dawes booths were countered by
Davis and Bryan booths and there
was much PROSECUTING among those
who stopped to look and listen.
There was just one attempt on the
part of the exhibition to curb one OF
women's newer and apparently great
er activities. No smoking" signs were
posted everywhere. This, it was ex-
planned, was merely to avoid the haz-
ard of fire and had nothing whatever
to do with morality Of the soothing
weed.