The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-14

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 takes his place on the bench. It had to do with the latest revolt among the girls. We are all fa- miliar with the urge which drives youthful married women to rebel against the slavery of the kitch- en and the thralldom of pots and pans, to leave their bed and board to live their own lives and elnan- cipate themselves into interior decorators, style specialists, and any other occupation wherein they will not run the frightful risk of contracting "dishpan hands" We know about the unmarried :. maidenS who, when fashion de-
 n1ands abbreviated skirts hack theirs of ct the 1atdriff ;&who when 8 dash of face rouge is proper insists ngpainting her face
 like. a Siwash sQuaw en' route to a potlatch;s and who when coul1- selled by Ma and Pa to get home at 8 reasonable hour after the dance enters the family abode sic simultaneously with the milk bottle and the morning newspaper. These are all well-known and ac- cepted signs of instruction in young womanhood; of uprising against convention and tradition as laid down by the undertaken past, and of the international de- termination in the female sex that its members shall be as free as men-and a little freer.
 America, Awake!
 All these symptoms of a serious state of unrest in the much.bet- ter half of humankind never both- cred me particularly. Youth has ever been restless, and while the exhibition of modern restlesSness among women has appeared to me at times trifie unrestrained, I al- ways thought restraint would come with advancing years. I ney- CT believed that things were as bad as fault finding elders repre- sented them to be. It was my i'm. precision that the rebellion was confined to certain small groups which typified no one but them selves. I discover that1 have been living in a fools paradise and that while have been asleep the house has been burning to the ground. The spirit of rebellion has spread so widely and infected all classes of the feminine world so. conn pletely that this depar tment is panic Striken. It was bad enough when chalnbermaids decided to become movie stars and dashed oil to Hollywood leaving the beds url- made. But when the winners of beauty contests decide thst they will no longer abide by the rules laid down by pulchritude pageant promoters and when they look upon the crown of Miss Ainesice" with the same enthusiasm Bstup0n . hat five years old, it4is time the nation awakene1 to- the peril which, threatens It's very life.
 The Rebellion Begins
 The presence of theriper was made obvious a short .tinne ago. A gorgeous young think had beaten out all her competitors in 8 local elimination beauty context held out in the Corn Belt: She was to 90 on to the national free-for-ail at Atlantic Cty and the trip was to be subsidized by the bathtub mag nate of her home town. To the consternation of the contest judges, who had already put themselves on the spot for select ing her over the other local en- trants, and to the rage of the rnagnate who had bought the transportation, hired the drum corps to see her of, and taken on a high pressure publictyN man to smoke up the girls chances (and incidentally to see that the world became acquainted with the superfine quality of. Blotzenburg's Bathtubs), the gorgeous young thing went altogether ghaywire. She would not pose ina bathing shit, thereby violating the rule that beauty contestants, if the battle for the crown of sAEiss America" got very close, might be required to wear nothing but gold tootil and . pair of ten-cent store jade ear rings. She would