The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-21
Observations
Need Seen For
Women TO Help
Work Out Plan
BY HELEN EssARY
Don't keep remembering you're

Don't keep remembering you're
women Just be people
This used 10 be the battle cry
OF the feminlsts. ! always thought
II a thoroughly silly cry For when
did men stop thinking they were
"men' and become just "people'P
The answer is Never" But we
won't go into that subject here to-
day. II is OF women who have not
forgotten to be women and have
let being people" take care OF its
own problem that | am about to
speak.
The consensus OF opinion among
the Washington women to whom
] have talked after election was
relief that the suspense OF wait.
ing for Nov. I to decide who was
TO run most OF the world was over.
Now they could go about their nor.
NAL affairs OF "being women and
not trying TO be people And
what a pleasant change,
Thank heaven | don't have 10
run the world or get any closer to
llb lAAdh Ag4AS OAA AAAN
bed in the afternoon and telling
somebody who also has a half hour
10 waste what | think over the
phone about the awful mistakes
Roosevelt has made" said one
frank female.
Another declared, What want
TO think about now Is whether or
not the cold pack permanent wave
is better than the other kind"
And another said, I've worried
about the war and the election and
the war and the election until |
developed violent Indigestion. ! can
only pray for the end Of the war
Help with war work the best can.
At the moment. I'm going TO settle
down TO re-doing my winter drap.
cries. I've come to the conclusion
that the smartest thing a woman
can do is TO make her own home
as pleasant as possible. II the right
length curtains will soothe the
nerves OF my hardworking family,
then me for the curtains
Most women will tell you, when
they are speaking honestly. that
they enjoy some sort of,work with
their hands. This confession, for
example: I'm Mortified TO discover
that I love polishing brass And
think Of the time | used 10 waste
pretending | was an Intellectual.
Why, getting a good shine on my
sitting room fireplace fender is one
of the most satisfying things l ever
did"
And another for the true story
output, younger generation depart.
ment speaking: We've noticed
that mother is never as happy as
on the maids day out when she
goes about the house washing spots
off the woodwork with an old wash
cloth. In many ways mother is tha
best maid we ever had"
Mind you. don't say all Wash.
ington women are so worthily do
nestle. But | do say almost every
woman has that particular streak.
Undoubtedly inherited from Eve,
the first woman on record who
wanted to tidy up here and there
even though she did same with q
fig leaf.
I'm convinced that some OF those
women who are reconciled to be.
ing women" and not people
ought to be more prayerfully con
suited about the making OF the
peace. II is true that women have
been known to make trouble. But
they have kept the peace more
often than they have destroyed 1t.
I'm speaking now of peace in the
home which is the center OF living.
out Misunderstanding.
keeping the family in a good hu.
NOR, being a liaison officer be-
tween the butcher and papas peck
etbook, provides training for seat
at any peace table.
Here's one bit OF advice any
woman could have given the Dunn
barton Oaks gentlemen: Don't
talk so much about what We are
going to do with Germany until we
get at least a toe inside her bor-
der" Prewar experience with 4
brush salesman has prepared any
housewife for this wisdom so over.
looked by the postwar planners.