20 OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN BUSINESS WOMEN By DOROTHY DIX The assertion is frequently made that Women lnve killed the matrimonial loose t\!iai laid the golden egg bv going into gainful occupations. Unthinking eople laim that when women com >ete with men in business thev lower vages, aniJ thus make it impossible for nen to earN enough to marry on, and ■hat If every female could be shooed >ack out of factory, store and office iito her own torn* there would be a perpetual peal f wedding bells upon the air. This is rank nonsense. To begin with, wages were never so. high as they are at present. Part of the altitudln | "The Bayer Cross" j|j Crow—Yonr Guaran- in Pocket Boxet of 13, BottUt of 24 mnj f Vf' Bottles of 100 ÜBJHD It m The trade-mark "Asplrlrt" ;Reg. U. 5. Pat. Office' Is ■ 9t m guarantee that the monoaceticacidester of salicylicacid T n "3) ;if m in these tablets is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. r\ T U j'" - 'j Automatic The Telephone A "Greater for The Million Dollar Hotel By proclamation Mayor Ezra S. Meals has of ficially designated Friday, October 13, as "Greater Harrisburg Day." The Cumberland Valley Telephone Company is proud to recall to your mind that it is doing its share to make a "Greater Harrisburg" by replacing its old fashioned manual svstem with the up-to-the-minute AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE. Just a Few Reasons Why Careful investigation has proved the AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE to be far superior to the old-fashioned type. It gives much quicker service. It is direct. You do not have to depend upon an operator to get vour party. It abolishes tht "wrong number" nuisance. It is absolutely secret. It gives instant service constantly. Rush hours do not slow up your service. Increases in the number of telephones on the exchange do not result in quality depreciation. The number you call rings, and rings at regular inter vals of a few seconds, until you get your party. To learn other striking evidences of its superiority drop into the AUTOMATIC exhibit to-day. "At the Sign Federal Square Cumberland Valley Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania FRIDAY EVENING. • HARRISBURG Swß&t TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 13,'1916.' | ous cost of living Is because labor is so dear, and Heaven knows what we | should have to pay for things if there were no nimble-rlngered women weav ing silk and cotton and wool, or putting up peas and beans in the canneries. Every man would have to get the sal ary of a bank president In orcler to sup port a family if the woman working outside of the home was eliminated. If he got more he would have to spend mere, so the matter is as broad as it is long even on that basis. The real fallacy of the contention that women's competition with men in business keeps men from marrying proves itself, how ever, by the fact that it is only wom an's ability to support nerßelf that leaves man free 10 marry In just the cases where this problem arises. The poor young man who says that ; women lower wages and because of that he cannot make enough to marry on does not stop to think that if women were not permitted to engage In pur • suits by which they can earn money he j would not only not be able to marry, I but would be so burdened by a house . full of dependent female relatives that ! he would not have a penny to spend | upon himself. I The opening up of the commercial | world to women has meant the financial emancipation of men just as | much as it has of women. Up to the ; present generation there has been no ! more pitiful figure than that of the son und brother in an impecunious f*m j ily. The poor fellow was driven to death, toiling like a slave, to support a i household of women who took his every I dollar away from him. and, like the I daughters of the horse leech, continual- 1 ly cried "More. more!" | He could not think of marrying, for | there was barely enough bread to go | ! around. He could not dream of estab- j 1 lishing a home of his own. because it j was all he could do to Stagger along I under the burdens already laid upon j him. He could not follow any ambition i or fortune that lured him. because he was bound like a martyr ou the family ! wheel. Look at the old bachelors you know, grizzled. lonely, homeless. wifeless. ' childless, tieless old men, ending their solitary lives in clubs or boarding j houses, and you will find out that nine- ! tenths of them are men who are vie- ! times of the social system that kept i women in the home and out of the I working world. They were forced to sacrifice love and romance to the fam ily butcher bill. I know an old Southern gentleman ' who has often told me that at the end 1 of the Civil War he was the only man ! of his blood left alive, and that there were thirteen helpless women depend ent on him for their livelihood. He was engaged to be married at the time, but, marriage being out of the question, he ofTered to set his lady love free. She refused and waited for him thirtv-five years, until enough of his helpless women folk had died off to enable them i to venture upon setting up another 1 home. It was a tragedy of weary and watch- ; ful waiting that could not happen now, i because every one of the women who ! was able-bodied would decline to be de- ! pendent, and hustle out and get a Job and support herself. Brother has ceased to be offered up as a sacrificial goat on the family altar. Instead of sitting around and waiting for brother to feed and clothe them and take care of mothef and father, the girls roll up their sleeves and go to work, and not only earn their own bread and butter and cake, but con tribute far more toward keeping up the house than brother does. This not only makes the girls self respecting and Independent members of society, instead of forcing them to be parasites, but it leaves the men of the family free to live their own lives, to marry and establish homes of their own. which they could not do If thev had a lot of dependent women relatives hanging on their necks like old ladles of the sea. Every self-supporting: girl makes it possible for her brother to marrv, and she presents some other girl with a potential husband, and so anv man stultifies himself when he savs that it I is women's competition with men in business that is responsible for men not getting married. He will have to hunt up a better rea- ! son than that. That theorv doesn't hold water, and cut no wedding cake. RIPPLED SKIRT FAVORITE MODEL Touches of Embroidery or Braiding Used on Large Pocket Laps By MAY AfANTON 9178 (I Vith Basting Line and Added Seam Allowance) Four-Piece Skirt, 24 to 34 waist. This is one of the most interesting of the ' new skirts. The front and back both are inturned and lapped onto the sides so that there are plaits formed,but the back is gathered while the front is plaint There is a belt arranged over the upper edge and the skirt is adjusted over webbing i but it is the laps with the pockets inserted that make its characteristic feature. 1 They are absolutely novel, they belong to the season and they are most attractive. Here, they are plain but there is a great fancy for embroidering such features and almost any material can be treated in that way. Simple designs are the pre ferred ones but often simple conventional figures are carried out in Oriental coloring to give a rich and handsome effect. For the medium size will be needed, yards of material 27 inches wide, 4 1 / i yards 36, 4 yards 44 or 54; the width at the lower edge is 3 yards and 6 inches. The pattern No. 9178 is cut in sizes from 24 to 34 inches waist measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten cents. Greai Skin Meaier Says Nurse Judge speaking of j ) difk&s I /tomfyn V^POWDER/ " For years I hare us*?d Sykes Com > fort Powder for babies and for bedridden sik patients. It is a great healer for j a sore, chafed skin, and for bed sores." ' —A.M. JUDGE, Trained Nurse,llion.N.Y. A skilfully medicated powder, sooth ; ing and agreeable to the most delicate skin, particularly adapted for the skin of infants and children and bedridden nick people, though equally efficient for any skin irritation or sorenesnof adults, end for general toilet uses. 25 cents. THE COMFOXT FOWDEE CO.. Boetoa. Mass. 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In addition to j: officers representing the various - branches of the army, the board will contain clvllan members, whose choice < has been made with the greatest care. : In the recently enacted army ap- c propriation law $12,000,000 was in cluded for the purchase of machine ! < guns. Half of this amount is to be j applied to equipping the army and j half to the militia. . British Use the I .owls Gun The Vlckers and the Lewis guns I are In use extensively by the British army In France. It is said that the . Lewis gun is being used in Orst-llne j work and the Vlckers in the second 1 line. The popularity of the Lewis [ weapon in the British army has been | demonstrated by the large purchases j that have been made by the British | Government and what they have heard of the Lewis' gun efficiency in | actual hostilities has impressed many ( American army officers who are anx ious to have it adopted by this coun try. Secretary Baker returned to Wash ington from St. Louis. Brigadier Gen eral William Crozier, Chief of Ord- , nance of the United States Army, who was expected here to consult with the Secretary over charges published re- , cently that the failure of the War De- | partment to adopt the Lewis machine i ! gun was due to General Crozier's op- ! position, did not come to Washington. He had been making an inspection of army coast defenses and arsenals north of New York. General Crozier has denied a state ment made by Colonel Isaac N. Lewis, the inventor of the Lewis gun, that Colonel Lewis had offered to supply the army with his type of weapon as a gift. The disparity In the statements of General Crozier and Colonel Lewis was cleared by a letter from Colonel Lewis. He said that while he had offered his gun free of royalty charges to the j War Department through Major Gen- i eral Wood, then Chief of the General Staff and ex-ofTlclo president of the Board of Ordnanco and Fortifi cation, he did not make the offer to General Crozier or his bureau. No Hope in tlic Bureau, Said Lewis Colonel Lewis said he "knew from a somewhat bitter personal experience of more than thirty years that it would have been futile and foolish for me or any other American inventor out side the bureau Itself to offer any | ordnance invention to the Ordnance ! Bureau in the hope that It would find | encouragement toward development and final acceptance." Secretary Baker preserved the atti tude he has maintained from the be ginning, refusing to comment on the charges against Crozier or on the let ter of Colonel Lewis. It was learned that Secretary Baker 1 was aware that Colonel Lewis had per sonally offered to furnish Lewis ma chine guns to the army without ac cepting royalties, to which he is en titled, from the American manufac turers of the gun, the Savage Auto ** Good-Li vera" t' , „ ffNlLff / 1 *' M 1 have enjoyed ''" *-ip Good Livers CA BTCtfC i by VPIT VPIT LE | $ • *')V' A '' % J.' H Ve-nvin* b+mr.a * Sigpttur* WBpr ' ' "' ' " matic Arms Company, of Utica, N. Y. The expected tests to bo conducted by the special board will bring the Lewis gun In competition with the Vtckers machine gun of the 1915 model, which is being used in the United States Army. This is an im provement on the original Vickers. The board will be left free to recom mend more than one type for issue to the army. The Lewis gun is regarded by many officers as especially suited for aeroplane work on account of ita lightness. This also makes it ex tremely mobile.
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