Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-22

We all KNOW women VINO make
n a profession, make indeed a
wv fine art, of always being dis
couraged, anxious, burden
ed and blue.
Terrible persons they are, too. They
whine about their houses, their voices
at the telephone are weary and hope
less, they complain to their husbands,
scold drearily at their children, and
when you meet them they tell you
long, sad stories of paperhangers,
servants, punctured tires, illnesses,
money depreSsionS, cans of baking pow
der that didn't seem to raise the bis
cults at all and grandfather's abScesSed
teeth.
To me they are almost worse than
She gangsters about whom we hear so
much. The other day read book
about gangsters, and while the murders
to their account were many and ap-
palling, at least they were confined
mainly to their own ranks. They
killed murderers and gangsters and hi
hackers and bootleggers, individuals
who could well be spared.
But these other murderers; these
whining, complaining, despairing wom-
en- destroy the lives Of their husbands,
children, neighbors, friends, just as
ruthlessly, and justice never catches
up with them.
There are so many Of them now
hdays! Women whose incomes have
been somewhat affected by the world
wide depression, but whose budgets
have been getting the advantage OF
the lowered living and rent prices, too.
Women who are absolutely reveling in
all the discouraged talk one hears on
all sides; repeating it, eXaggerating it,
making it much worse.
Many that I know are not actually
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questions and they reluctantly have to
admit that; well, yes, Toms business
is doing pretty well, and-well, yes, the
man did lower the rent, finally, and the
children are well and the weather Is
beautiful and sugar and bread and po-
tatoes and beef haven't been so cheap
since 1903; but, oh, my dear, aren't
these times terrible, and what on earth
are we all going to do?
X
IA S q special celebration this Thanks
giving, to mark this unusual year,
Ut would be wonderful to run q few OF
these professional depreSSers to earth
and silence them. One Of them was
talking to me the other day while on
'her way into town to go to a beauty
parlor, get her fur coat out of storage
ana SEE d IIlONl6. mere WAS q
day that to an East Indian woman, a
Chinese woman, a Russian woman.
would have seemed to indicate only
idleness, luxury and wealth. And yet
this woman filled an hours train trip
with long dissertation on hard times
She was having her children'S teeth
Strengthened and she thought the prices
dentists charged were Scandalous. Still,
one had to have the best. Her girls
were going to private school and she
didn't understand how so many women
could afford to send their girls to an
other school, the charges were simply
terrific There were seven vacancies
in her apartment house, wasn't it aw-
sful? There were four cases of typhoid
IN town, did know that? The news
papers said that the unemployment
situation in the East was getting worse
and worse. She had read somewhere
sthat our Navy was simply farce. She
Thought the American Government was
simply joke. In Europe they laughed
1Rt us.
And so on and on, for almost an hour
She left me depressed, and all but
physically sick.
Yet this woman is pretty and well
married, she Is only 35 and has never