The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-27
Observations
War Puts Accent
on Shy, Honey
Type of Woman ;
BY Helen ESSary


that points TO stream lines. Nor
waist.lines. Nor 10 those dotted
lines that sometimes spring from
the eyes OF a purposetul female to
light on her prey
| am talking about a new trend
in the personality OF women. Some
people say that the ciyilization-sav.
ing. career type woman is 90
ing out OF style In her place,
these prophets insist, there now
comes softly into the eyesight and
into the heart OF the great Ameri-
can people, the home, or my.only-
career.is.my-husband type of wom-
an.
An interesting thesis and some.
what frightening this. And I'm
not prepared 10 deny or affirm It's
truth. But I do notice certain
signs and portents that indicate
women, up and coming women, had
better be practicing up on femin-
inc wiles II they want TO continue
70 hold their sphere Of influence.
whatever that overrated thing may
be.
Among the signs and portents
Just limited al are the women about
70 be brought into the political
foreground. refer OF course 20
Mrs. Dewey and Mrs Bricker.
Both these charming women are
gentle, soft-yoiced and so deter
minedly unopinionated that you
wonder II they are speaking the
truth when they almost in unison:
81 really haven't thought much
about that matter | leave such
things 10 my husband"
The trouble about women Is that
when opinionated they are so ter
ribly opinionated. They know all
there is TO know about all there
is 10 know about
When women first began TO be
smart in public. having got bored
with that sanctifed role OF the
power behind the throne, they
were a little grim TO behold. They
wore plain clothes and plain COM
plexions. straight hair and spoke
the truth when il wasn't at all
necessary. They behaved this way
because they thought poor dumb
things, that men would respect
them more.
They gave up guile and double
dealing and other accomplishments
by which they had been earning
their bed and board since the days
when the first amoeba set up Joint
housekeeping with the second
amoeb a in a prehistoric mud bank.
When you think how women have
labored in order to have men re-
spect them more you weep over
the poor things shortsightedness.
But we won't 90 into that prob
lem now. Later. career women
took II in their stride
Well get back quickly to the
new trend in women And TO wom-
ems rights era in fair womanhood.
Some people say that era having
run It's meandering, devastating
way through the two generations
since the suffrage crusaders got
themselves locked into jail, has
now come a headlong cropper IN
the White House.
Mrs. Roosevelt, the prophets add
N must confess that these proph-
cts are largely Republican pro-
phets), is going TO mark the end
OF the career Of publicly opinionat-
ed woman. The world, certainly
the United States world. wants TO
rest its eyes and sooth its nerves
on a self-eifacing home body.
War is so elemental a pursuit
that 1t brings the thoughts and
ideals OF human beings back to
To home and fam
lily. The millions OF men who have
gone of 10 battle have little con-
Germ with opinions and rights. They
want TO get back 10 a home and a
woman they love in the home.
The home body is due for re-
vival in popularity. This Is the con-
viction OF theorists who believe
they can see the pendulum swing
ing the other way-the other way
from the Eleanor Roosevelt type OF
woman. II Mrs. Dewey Is TO be
played up between now and the
FIRST Tuesday in November as the
home type-the type the world is
waiting for then. what will the
Republicans do with Clare Luce?
She is the Republican women
the country knows most about. No
matter how you try you can't class
her as a simple home body. You
might change her name to Clara.
That substitution in sylables
would kill a little glamor. But not
enough.
You might say that Clare is
home body on the basis that the
whole world Is her home But then
you could say that about Mrs.
Roosevelt.
The Joke is on the career woman.
Ehe pays heavy price for her sue
cess. Mrs. Dewey and Mrs Brick
er may set a new style in women.
Lansing. July 27-AP-The state
conservation department, In a Wild
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