The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-28
Observations
Most Working
Women Aim at
Husband, Home
BY HELEN EssARY

| have been conducting my own
poll in Washington on the problem
DO women want to work outside
the home after the war;
The answers TO my question Ia e
been almost entirely negative.
"or example. Want a Job after
the war;" a young secretary e&-
claimed What, Me want job.
90. Listen, darling, as soon as my
husband comes home I'm going 10
quit this place so fast there won't
even be a powder trail left behind
me. I'm sick OF coping with the
great broad world l want to look
after my own man for a change
/ want children OF my own. There's
seldom personal profit in being a
secretary 10 the best boss alive
I've learned this. too. III never
be jealous of a secretary when I'm
a wife. Why the wife has all the
breaks Only she doesn't know II.
Give me a home and let me stay
there Ask any girl in this whole
building what she thinks OF careers
bet you'n ind ont they agree
with me"
! did ask other girls in the build
ius. Not all. But 10 in a row
All OF them agreed Careers and
near careers are the biggest illu-
sion young women ever ran after
o.. Let the older women have the
careers outside marriage. The
younger ones want TO go back to
the career OF marriage before it's
too late
Both the unmarried and married
women workers agreed on what
they wanted out of this world.
I've no prospect OF a husband at
the moment" one not-too-young fe-
male said. But I've made up my
mind to get me one. Surely out
OF all the crowd OF returning vet
Grams there will be somebody who
wants TO be looked after by my kind
Z OF = woman"
was amazed that only a few
OF the girls | talked with had even
! a faint wish TO hold their Jobs
after the war In Washington.
swarming with government girls.
: | was prepared for a general tend
ency to stay in the excitement OF
outside life But no
Il can't honestly say | haven't
prohted by my experience at earn
! ing my own living" an important
| bureau chief told me But enough
ii enough From now on I'm rea-
| dy 10 leave the business OF rear
ranging the world to the boys who
have been out fighting to save II.
How can | or any other woman
| know what ought TO be done? Not
when you compare us with exper-
! fenced men"
There you are. The emancipat-
ed woman. having been given
chance az expressing herself (what-
ever that Isl is generally eager
now TO change the stage for self
expression. Hitler said "Kirchen,
| Kuchen and Kinder should be the
motto for all women. Maybe, indi.
rectly, he has forced it, not only on
his country women but on the indie
pendent American woman. Joke
on US, isn't IL?
/ FASHION NOTES Meet Sena-
tor Willard Tydings OF Maryland.
| Here. my dear is a husband who
| likes his own wife's hats. Eleanor
Tydings head. which > very beau
tiful. was decorated with an eI
citing Victorian toque from which
black ostrich feather rose and
curled
That's nice hat OF my wife's"
said the senator studying Mrs.
Tydings' elegant profile at a wed
ding reception. Explain why
ike it?-WeN, because il has line.
You'll notice men like hats done
up with wings or quilts. Or some
thing definite. The hats they don't
like are those squashed down az.
fairs that weren't anything even
when they came out OF the hat
! box
Z Someone admired Mrs Alice
. Roosevelt Longworths Persian
lame gown. simply made but radi-
ant with soft color She said
That 5 the dress got for Paulina
/ fher daUghter) wedding I vowed
II NOA4u lOOh llNely ana eHCd pc
from that idiosyncracy that affects
/ n ost mothers Of brides the IItttie
e number"
Mrs Carrere Barbour also escap-
cd the affection OF the little beige
number when her daughter was
married She was in shiny blacE
satin short sleeves. long skirt and
low square neck Hat-an insane
but beguiling combination OF black
satin. red ostrich and slick blue
satin bow. The camellla fasten-
ed TO her sable stole and the blue
rosette on the bodice matching the
blue bow on the nat gave that
smart new effect OF decorations