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CONTENTS of the GftfLDEN AGE

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Wages and Wanderlust . 45S Slavery and Oppression 459

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

The Twentieth Century

Girl

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Sweetness ...

ProifiMJwdve a_uj Independent

Komaitce and Tragedy

pr«'xw and P«rai-hei'ualla 45<

The Savin! LTi fi»rtu nates 457

“Ami Hathaway” (poem) 453

Educational 1 tains ____________453

¥n-jHij.'?' Hiuids Ucid Out to Girls ......................... ..460

In Hopes of a Glorious Pnhire ...............-

Sundry and Divers Criti-ciwma -_____

The Gift of Speech

Discoiitcut (poem)

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

‘'Woe to you lawyers” —................... —.....461

The Washington Conference, as Seen by a Hoosier —.......463

(.'tuna, the Nemesis of Christendom ______—.—..404

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Something TntereBttng about Stare ..— , — .....—469

HOME AND HEALTH

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Sundry AtteUrtk I tains .................,.,, ,,.—.. ,, .,,—.,...-—.454

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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

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The Twentieth* Century Girl

(Alias Volat Popriis)

Number 68

IT WOULD not do to treat such an important topic as will be embraced within this article under any such brief heading as the mere word “Girls”, and so we choose in part a Latin title for the same loveliest and sweetest of all human themes. It is Oregon’s motto. It means, “She flies by her own wings,” and it well represents the story we have to tell. Oregon is not averse to being in the union. In her own sweet way she conveyed the hint to Uncle Sam that it would be quite the proper thing; but at the same time she would like to have Uncle Sam and everybody else know that she is married to him of her own volition, and that if worst comes to worst she can get along all right without him. Hurrah for Oregon, and for the girl that she so well represents!

We have no apology for discussing this subject. We could not think of a more attractive one. The man who said, “There is nothing in the world more attractive than a little girl— unless it is a big one,” expressed the true sentiments of every sane man, and most of the insane ones. Men are made to like the girls, made that way by the Creator, and made that way by the girls themselves, because they are so lovable. Indeed, many a man down in his heart has really regretted that the Lord made the girls so attractive, because of the too large place they have had upon his affections and interests.

The first man came to grief because he thought more of one wisp of a girl than he did of his Creator. The angels before the flood came to grief for the same reason; and many a man who might have been a bright-shining star in the first resurrection has gone the way of the death that shall know no waking because he has committed the fatal error of letting some human being have the very first place in his heart, the place that should be reserved for the Creator alone; and that human being has usually been the girl that he loved, the one that became in deed and in truth an idol in his heart. So this subject, while it has its lighter phases, is one of mighty import to humanldnd; and we expect to treat it largely from that angle.

Trustworthiness and Sweetness

A YOUNG man writing in one of the New

York papers a few weeks ago discoursed at length on what he considered the follies of the girls of New York city. He pictured them as freakish, alluring, improperly clothed, walking with mincing steps, overpainted and overperfumed, and went on to say that the real American girls were not to be found in New York, but in such cities as Columbus, Waco, Nashville. Spokane, Boston, and Philadelphia. Little the young man knows about it. New York is a great city, the greatest Jewish city in the world, the greatest Negro city in the world, the greatest Irish city in the world, and one of the greatest German cities in the world. But it is also the greatest American city; and if the • young man knew where they were, he would find in New York a million or so of the finest ty of American girl that ever lived.

When a man has married a girl that was born and brought up and lived all her days in New York city, and found her to be the last word in honesty, modesty, steadfastness, love, sacrifice, and goodness in thought, word and deed; and then, after years of bliss, death has robbed him of her companionship and he takes another life companion from the same identical environment and finds her to be the same identical kind of character, it makes the young man’s asseverations about the girls of New York look silly.

New York city, big and bad and good, is full of girls that are innocent, happy and true blue; girls that are spreading kind words and kind acts all over the stores, offices, schoolrooms, hos-

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pitals, restaurants, factories, and homes of earth’s greatest city and are capable of making and do make the finest wives in the world; girls that are not mere fashion plates and theatregoers, but that can cook and mend with the best of them and, when it comes to intelligence and up-to-dateness, have no superiors anywhere. And what is true of New York is generally true, the country over and the world over.

Sometimes men appreciate the companionship of women too much. Isber Sarah, a middle-aged

times to with her to come

Syrian, r widower, attempted several get his daughter Marjorie, then living aunt at Iselin, a suburb of New York, back home and keep house for him, and be company for him. She laughingly put him off, and he suddenly lost his mind and tried to kill her. He is very contrite now, saying, "‘I don’t know why I did it. Why, I wouldn’t harm a hair of Marjorie’s head, but 1 was so lonely without her.” Marjorie did not realize how much her father missed her, but she knows now and has freely forgiven him. Meantime she is pretty badly chopped up with a butcher knife, which he wielded during his period of aberration.

Another case that did not terminate in the same kind of tragedy, but was a tragedy to one of the parties nevertheless, was that of a young man, Harry C. Anderson, who fell in love with a stenographer, Bessie Gitnik, and, in Bessie’s own words had followed her “all over town for two years”. He refused to consider himself an unwelcome suitor, so Bessie sought the aid of the courts to get rid of him. She narrated that when she got off the train to go to the office •> was always in sight; when she returned at x^toht he was always on the job; and when she went for a walk on Sunday he was always plodding faithfully along in the rear. The young man, investigated, turned out to be a proper person, really in love with the girl; and the court was puzzled to know what it could do to help Bessie. Our prophecy is that Bessie will be Bessie Anderson sometime instead of Bessie Gitnik. There is no use trying to dodge one’s fate or to dodge that kind of wooing. She must be a pretty nice girl, or Anderson would not be so persistent to have her at all hazards.

Progressive and Independent

Winifred Black, writing in the Evening

Journal of July 19,1921, says that she has

discovered that with all of the fault-finding about the present-day girl some brand-new virtues have appeared; that she doesn’t faint, like the old-fashioned girl; she doesn’t cry if -you look at her; she doesn’t lace herself nearly to death; she doesn’t wear shoes two sizes too small for her; she is not afraid of mice nor .....

snakes; she can take care of herself; she is not catty; she does not believe everything she hears about another girl and whisper it from ear to ear at the next tea-party; and she doesn’t any longer take the man’s side as a matter of course. Good for Winifred, and good for the modern girl, even though her remarks do hint vaguely that other girls, in the remote past, had some ■ weaknesses to be deplored.

We would hardly need to suggest that the modern girl is independent. The criticisms of her rage largely because of this. It is contended by many that she is too independent, that human beings were not intended to be overly independ* ent, but were rather designed to be dependent, mutually helpful to one another, and really need- . ing one another.

Romance and Tragedy

FACING a future which is almost sure to include much of suffering and sacrifice, every girl is alive to the tragedies of life; but nature has kindly endowed her with the romance of mind which veils these tragedies and clothes the future with primroses and forget-me-nots* Such a mind, however, sometimes has marvelous faculties for seeing virtues where none exist.

There wasLandru, the French Bluebeard, who was guillotined in February for the murder of ten wives and one boy. While he was in tha Sante prison, Paris, he received a love-letter from a girl in which she said to this wretched man, “You are the type of man I have dreamed of as my future husband, strong, cahn, brave, handsome, and relentless. When you are re* leased I shall be waiting outside the prison to take you home.”

Foolish as one may adjudge the writer of that letter to be, the effect of the letter itself was instantaneous. Landru was delighted, and said that if only he had known this woman at the beginning it would have changed the whole course of his life. The seemingly reasonless devotion of many a woman to a man has not in*' frequently resulted in the transformation of his character.

■ One cannot be too sure that the girl who seems to be light-hearted and even frivolous i s as light-hearted as she seems. An instance occurred - .recently, showing the depth of feeling that lies F beneath a happy exterior. A girl of fourteen ■'failed to pass an examination in one of the public schools. The matter looked so serious to I. "her that although she took the announcement of her failure calmly, and with every apparent in? Jdication of composure, she went home, found a loaded revolver, and killed herself. This is the rC. - proof of how deeply she felt what she appeared to feel hardly at all.

In another class of jolly, happy-go-lucky girls E?, & teacher read two poems, one a gay piece and £ the other filled with pathos. She took a ballot g? to see which piece the girls liked better, and to her surprise found that without exception they

;F" had preferred the sad poem.

A feminine writer in the New York American, g? 'discussing the vein of romance in woman’s £ character (designed by nature to preserve her ^S/youthfulness and make her an object of perpetual interest) gives expression to the follow-fci ing, which we print with some doubts as to the g;' accuracy of the ideas expressed, but the F' thoughts themselves show that romance is there, k in the mind of the writer, and seeking expres

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U' "A woman may be plain-featured and bad-tempered, even a cripple; but if she can keep a man guessing i- she will win out over all the baby faces and come-hither § eyes. So with men. We wonder why a woman will run away from a handsome, rich, considerate husband who loves her, and take up with a romantic blackguard who abuses her. The answer is, She knows her husband; and the rascal has the lure of the Unknown. Hence— Keep ’em guessing! Preserve the mysteries! Let not the intimacies destroy the preservative reticences! We do not want to be sure. We are children, and love a game. And the essence of any game, even the two great games of Love and Life, is that we shall not know what comes next and what will be the end.”

The chances are that if one knew the author of the above he would find some dainty, demure little woman who would no more think of leaving a kind husband and running off with a romantic blackguard than she would think of trying to .Pilot a rocket to the moon. But she likes to think —as doth the boy who, in the spring, dresses and Si - talks like Captain Kidd or Geronimo—of the

; things she might do if—if. And when her hubby jttiw the article, and identified the author by game; quaint expression familiar to him from long usage, he said nothing, but smiled inwardly, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes. Not for worlds would he miss that streak of romance in that one whose ways are to him so dear. That the ways are not always consistent does not bother him; it is enough that they are hers. The writer of the following little poem accredited to Shakespeare saw the point:

“Ann Hathaway, she hath a way; But were it to my fancy given To rate her charms, I’d call them.heaven; For though a mortal made of clay Angels must love Ann Hathaway;

She hath a way so to control,

To rapture the imprisoned soul, And sweetest heaven on earth display, That to be heaven Ann hath a way;

She hath a way, Ann Hathaway—

To be heaven’s self Ann hath a way.” ;

Educational Items

'TMIE winner of the mentality test at Simmons

College, Boston, in the spring of 1921, was a typical mountain girl from Leadville, Colorado, a Miss Constance Bouck, 19, tall and athletic.

The figures of the U. S. Bureau of Education show that more girls than boys graduate annually from high schools and that the proportion of girls in the total attendance at college is on the increase. The Bureau thinks the time is approaching when as many women as men will be enrolled in universities and other higher institutions of learning.

New Castle, Pennsylvania, has a most remark- -able girl, Betty Jane Hamilton, twelve years of age, who has completed the entire four-year high school course, leading in the honor class at that. Her English is above the ordinary and she converses fluently in French and Spanish. While she has been pursuing her high-school studies she has found time to study music, and at last reports was as much interested in dolls and roller skates as she was in her other activities.

Dr. Eliza1 eth B. Thelberg, head resident physician at Vassar college, has an unusually high opinion of the girls now passing through Vassar. She says of them: “The girls of this generation are splendid, capable, honest people”.

Mrs. Dora Thompson, Administration Assistant Principal at the Washington Irving High School (New York’s principal girls’ high-school)

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is opposed to the plan of forcing too much school work upon girls. She says that the double sessions are an evil, as they necessitate unwholesome meal hours, are fatal to normal home life, and force the girls to travel during the rush hours when all New York’s transit facilities are taxed to the utmost.

Walking and Swimming

ENGLISH girls have a world reputation as pedestrians, and their accomplishments in this direction are being imitated in America. On the first day of January, of this year, two girls, the Misses Mary Milsk and Geraldine Somers, of Los Angeles, California, started on a zig-zag journey of 10,000 miles to Washington, where Miss Milsk will make a life sketch of President Harding. The girls are to walk the entire distance, not accepting “lifts” at any point, and when the journey is completed are promised that they will be given leading roles in Al Christy’s moving pictures. Miss Milsk is a professional free-hand artist and expects to make her expenses along the way by drawing pictures.

A little miss named Alma Mann, only twelve years of age, has established the women’s pedestrian record in the Canal Zone. The distance is approximately fifty miles, and she covered it in 16 hours and 26 minutes actual walking time, which, in that hot climate, is remarkable time for anybody.

Another young lady that is doing some walking at the present time where not many of us would care to keep her company is Mlle. Eleonora (probably plain Jane Smith if you knew her real name), who is now giving tight-rope performances at the Crystal Palace Circus in London. She will attempt to perform Blondin’s famous feat of walking across Niagara Falls on a tight rope. Probably she will not emulate Blondin’s method. He carried another person on his shoulders. When he was half-way across some villain who had bet that Blondin could not perform the feat cut one of the guy ropes that held the cable in plaee; but Blondin accomplished the almost superhuman feat of maintaining his balance, even with the great and unusual handicap of having another man of his own weight resting upon his shoulders, and he and his living burden reached the opposite shore in safety. Blondin is dead; but the man that he carried was living at last accounts and remem

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bers vividly the time when he swayed back ancfY forth over the boiling cauldron, wliile Blondin*® balancing pole went up and down, up ant^down^ in the frantic effort to regain his equilibrium.

Girls have attracted wo rid-wide attention by; the strength and skill which they manifest a* swimmers. In August of last year a young girl, Mi ss Winnie Appleyard, swam from Rochester to Sheerness, England, a distance of sixteen 7'; miles, in 8 hours and 32 minutes. A few weeks earlier Miss Millie Gade, a Danish swimmer, twenty-two years old, now swimming instructor . at the Harlem Branch of the Y. W. C. A., swam around Manhattan Island, without making a stop, in 15 hours and 57 minutes. This is a long swim, twenty-five miles, and a dangerous one, on account of the great amount of harbor traffie encountered. Miss Gade is the second woman to accomplish this feat, Miss Ida Elionsky having done it in September, 1916, in 11 hours and 35 minutes. Miss Gade swam from Albany to New York in September last, and is planning to attempt the English channel next September. H she succeeds she will be the first woman to perform the feat, it having proven too much for even the Australian expert, Annette Kellermann.

In August, 1921, Miss Dorothea Behrman* age nineteen, who holds three medals for fancy diving and swimming, disregarding her frantie father’s telegraphed instructions not to attempt it, jumped into the whirlpool rapids of Ausable Chasm in the Adirondack Mountains, one of the wildest streams in the East. She accomplished the feat, being in the water four hours and covering a distance of 1050 feet. She escaped with a few scratches from the jagged rocks, and is the first woman to perform this feat.

Sundry Athletic Items

PARIS chorus girls have taken to boxing and have found it a profitable novelty. A series of feminine boxing-bouts have been inaugurated at the Casino de Paris of Leon Volterra, and it is said that all the front seats are sold for weeks in advance to American tourists. Feminine boxing has spread to corners of the world where it would not have been looked for. The modern Chinese girl, it ?s said, boxes uncommonly well,-and is adept at swimming, wrestling, tennis, and gymnastics in general. There are no feminine 1 gymnasts anywhere to equal the Japanese girls. . They seem to have marvelous strength and per* feet equilibrium.

. Since the girls have taken to boxing it is commonly reported that a type of man once common ~ around New York is no longer safe, and indeed some men now fear to return a lady’s nod or smile for fear of what may happen if she suddenly changes her mind and discovers that the one she smiled at is not the one she first sup-

posed. Thus Benjamin G

-, a tailor, was

E-S knocked out by a well-directed left hook to the jaw delivered by Miss Louise Rahner, of Rich-l|> mond Hill. Benjamin said that he only asked Louise if he could help her on the street car, when she hit him. Then again, Miss Dora feC Greiner, age twenty, whipped Elias S----, age

K._ twenty-seven, on a subway train and dragged him to the police. The passengers were highly delighted with what she did; so it was probably all right. But if Elias was a married man it would make it hard for him to explain when he got home, with a fair chance that he got another walloping from his better half. Doesn’t the & Constitution say something about cruel and unusual punishments being out of place in this country, and doesn’t double punishment for the

B same offense come into that class?

Women doctors in England have been discuss-s* ing at length the question as to the effect of oVer-strenuous athletics upon motherhood. Dr. C. Cowdry, Principal of the Crouch End High

School and College, London, writing in Lancet says that she has been unwillingly - vinced by the logic of experience that the : ferences between the sexes are profound

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vital; that the children of sporting mothers are ( nervous and physically inferior, comparing bad. Iy with the stalwart sons produced by slight women in the Victorian days. Dr. Arabella ; Kenealy, a celebrated physician, agrees with Dr.

Cowdry, using almost the same language. Dr. Letitia Fairfield, who during the war was medi-Bal officer to the Royal Air Force girls, has Warned girls against playing football, boxing or motorcycling. She notes that the children of Strenuous athletic women are usually females, rarely males, and if males are usually puny and y Helicate.

L’’ Other women doctors who discussed the ques-|. tion seem to disagree seriously with the opin-|| - ions advanced by Doctors Cowdry, Fairfield and fe - Kenealy. Dr. Mary Scharlieb, an eminent sur-IpL £eon, thinks that athletics are excellent for girls, takes pains to add, “Provided care is taken ever them”. Dr. Jane Walker thinks most of the criticisms about women in athletics are not sincere.- She goes on to say:

“The lie about puny children was nailed to the counter years ago. Investigations were made concerning the 1 families of athletic women who had been to Oxford or Cambridge. It was proved that they had beautiful, healthy children, and plenty of them. The trouble is that some timid mothers are beginning to be fussy about their girls, and there is danger of healthy exercise being interfered with.”

While we think women, like men, may easily overdo in athletics, yet all will agree that it is far better for a woman to have reasonable physical development than to be undeveloped; and sometimes emergencies arise where a good physique is of great value to its owner and not infrequently to others. In July, in the summer of 1921, in the vicinity of New York a well-dressed woman jumped from off a dock to save a drowning boy and girl, and saved them, too. On the same day another lady jumped from a balloon three miles in the air and landed safe. Late in the fall, in the same city, three young women rescued several horses at a fire that destroyed several automobiles. Rescuing horses at a fire is dangerous work; for the horses become frightened and unmanageable.

In the fall of 1920 two young women, Miss Alice E. Wilson, of Ottawa, and Miss M. A. Fritz, of Montreal, travelled two hundred miles in a rowboat, doing all the rowing themselves, down the desolate East shore of Lake Winnipeg, in search of fossils for the Geological Survey of Canada. On the entire trip, which took them a month, the only human being they saw was a lone Indian, fishing.

The Camp Fire Girls, an athletic organization for girls started in 1912, now has 125,000 members, with a considerable membership in England as well as America. They Acknowledge seven aims: beauty, service, knowledge, trustworthiness, health, work, and happiness. A lively girl, Helen Bullitt Lowry, writing of their achievements, says that they have found that they can have as good a time without any men along as the men can always have when there are no women along; that they have found that they can build their own fires, construct incinerators and barracks, and police them, do the Australian crawl (Now what do you suppose that is?) and climb mountains. She says that a generation ago “camping” to the average girl meant a canoe and a proposal, and that the

average girl was merely a pair of feet pasted to the hem of a dress, but that the twentieth century girl has rebelled—against this picture-book sort of girl.

Natural Beauty and Cosmetics

OF COURSE women are beautiful, the most beautiful things in the world. Mr. Albert D. Kossak, recently from Poland’s court end the Hapsburg palaces at Vienna, says that the American girls are specially so. He says that they are all thoroughbreds, that none of them are ordinary, that they have beautiful feet and wonderful eyes, but that they paint too much. Mr. Kossak is right, right all the way down the line, and just as much right at the end of his story as at the beginnning. The clever American advertiser has lied to the American woman until he has deceived her into thinking that she looks better enameled, kalsomined, painted, varnished, puttied, striped and plastered than she does the way God made her. The advertiser knew that he was lying when he did this, but he wanted to sell his wares (at fifty times their value), and so he has filled the street cars with advertisements of lip sticks, eyebrow pencils, hair renovators, and face rectifiers until it makes a sensible human being sick to look at them.

Once we knew a young girl who had a marvelous complexion, as beautiful a combination of tints as the human eye could wish to rest upon. An older woman, who had tampered with her own complexion until her skin, unvarnished, had come to look like a rusty shoe, persuaded the girl to use paint and powder; and she ruined the gift which nature had given her and which had made her an object of more than passing interest to every one who saw her.

We know an older woman, twice her age, who has never used paint or powder of any kind; and her complexion is as fresh and beautiful today, more so probably, than that of the average girl at eighteen years of age. The women of the world are ruining their natural beauty by paying heed to the lying advertisers, and the newspapers do not dare tell them the truth for fear of the loss of advertising patronage.

Soap and water, and plenty of it, not only on the face and neck and arms, but all over the body, is better than all the cosmetics, and is not the dead give-away that cosmetics are. In New York, last summer, Magistrate Cobb sentenced several truants to a fine of $2 or a day in the

Tombs. Among the number was Miss FriedavJ

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. When she came before the judge sho -was so painted and powdered that the judge’s ' alternative sentence to her was that she should wash her face, and he added that in his judg- : ment it would greatly improve her beauty.

But there is fun to be had even from the follies of life. Betty, the niece of a friend, has arrived at the age of three. She recently landed on the dresser and managed to collect a box of face powder and a bottle of toilet water at the same haul. Straightway she made a mortar of the two, and applied it in true Parisian fashionface, lips, bands, neck—and besides that gum* " mod it well into her hair and over her dress and shoes. Hurrah for Betty. When she grows up she will be an adept. Makes us think of another young lady of the same age who got hold of her mother’s bottle of “New-skin” and plastered it all over her face. When her father caught her at it she smiled demurely up into his face and said, “Mama’s nu-ldn”. It took about a week -for the New-skin to wear off. ’ „ .

Dress and Paraphernalia

ATU the niceties of dress are in the hands of the girls, by common consent. The young man may be dressed ever so beautifully until he reaches the age of three, when he wants pants. The older he grows the more he veers away from feminine garb, and by the time he has reached manhood he dresses like every other man. None of them have any style, to speak of. To all intents and purposes they look alike. Their neckties are different; that is about all; and nobody pays any attention to as small an item as a necktie. His sweetheart may notice it once; nobody else will notice it at all. But not so with the girls.

The girls like nice clothes. Let the courageous who doubt this rise up. It is so; it always was so; and as long as there is a girl left it always will be so. And they like a lot of other things besides the clothes. Let the prophet Isaiah 3: 16-23, Revised Version, give a Hst of some of the things:

“In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents; the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume boxes, and the7 amulets; the rings and the nose jewels; the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, _

and the satchels; the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.”

Not only does the modern girl like clothes, but she gets them and is dressed infinitely better, looks infinitely more comfortable, and youthful, . than ever before in history. The custom which took ten inches off the length of women’s skirts took more than ten years off their ages all around. Only a connoisseur now can tell the • difference between a girl of eighteen, twentyeight, thirty-eight and, dare we say it, forty-• eight. They all dress alike and look alike.

Professor Einstein, exponent of the relativity theory, on the eve of his departure for Europe told his impressions of the dress of American girls. He said, as reported in the press :

“I think American women are lovely, of course. There i& no distinct type as far as I can see. But they dress ■ remarkably well. All classes of girls dress like Europ. an aristocrats. For instance, a girl passed me in the street who looked like a queen. She was dressed not only in - tjle best style but in perfect taste. I thought that she was the daughter of a millionaire, but she turned out to be a typist in this hotel [Hotel Commodore]. Why, even the working girls dress like countesses. This is a wonderful thing.”

Superintendent Peter A. Mortenson, of the Chicago Public Schools, says that in his own work in the effort to protect and guide the young wf women of Chicago he has been handicapped by feck of cooperation from the mothers of the girls, who seem to resent any efforts or any suggestions regarding dress. For several years in every high school in Chicago they have had a dean of girls, whose duty it is to observe the conduct and dress of all the girls and to warn them against extremes. This is an excellent Ciistom and one which should be in force everywhere, and given parental support.

The Social Unfortunates

IT IS. rare that a girl deliberately goes wrong. She is usually more sinned against than sinning; but as there are naughty boys so. there are also naughty girls, though not nearly as many of them. There may be girls so stupid that they d& aot know the dangers of close dancing, night-riding in automobiles, drinking liquor, and smoking cigarettes, but very few men could be found that, would believe it, and when such girls go wrong they have only themselves to blame.

Most girls; are good girls, even the bad ones. JhhnB. Rockefeller, Jr., foreman of the grand jury that investigated commercialized prostitution in New York, said that as a result of his experience at that time he was convinced that eighty percent of the girls who go wrong would do right if they could have an equal chance to do right. The age when girls go wrong is the same age as the boys, about eighteen to twenty. Accurate data on this are available, based on reports covering the cases of 2,517 unmarried mothers under the city's care in a period of four years.

As with the boys, so with the girls, most of those who go wrong are children mentally; and this aspect of the situation is now receiving close attention. The New York Probation and Protective Association now has a woman physician present in the Women’s Court each morning who subjects first offenders to psychiatric tests and advises the magistrate as to their mental abilities. More than one-half of these girls are found to be mentally below par. Some are so deficient mentally as to be properly rated imbeciles. One girl of nineteen was found to have the mentality of a child of eight. As a result of these discoveries many girls formerly sent to prison are now placed in asylums.

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Occasionally but rarely girls are active partners in crime. In May, a year ago, in New age, it was alleged, lured a man into a dark hallway to be robbed by her accomplice, who took Simon Darwo’s watch, stickpin, two rings and $6; and then he and Catherine went to the movies. Simon waited until they came out, and then had them arrested.

Paris has customs which would seem to us here to tend the wrong way, but are probably not so considered there. On November 25th of each year, St. Catherine’s day, thousands of young women who have reached the age of twenty-five without being married flock through \ the streets, exercising their traditional right to \ embrace any man in sight. They usually travel in bands, forming laughing rings around the men, from which the men can escape only by kissing each one.

Paris has the reputation of being one of the hardest cities in the world for unprotected girls and women without means. Well-dressed citizens strolling along the banks of St. Martin’» canal some months ago were startled at seeing two neatly but poorly dressed girls throw thena-selves, hand-in-hand* into the water. Rescued, the facts revealed that they had been two days without food and were penniless. Both were under the age of eighteen years. Real assistance came to them as a result of the publicity given the case.

Wages and Wanderlust

GIRLS are more readily contented with meager wages than are boys; but their needs are just as great, or greater, and the wages that are paid them have a direct bearing upon their safety. In New York there are great numbers of what are called hall bedrooms, little rooms only six by nine, which are not overly attractive places f»r a girl to live in during all her idle hours. Girls who are forced into these rooms or into sleeping six in a room in the regular ordinary-sized rooms, as is now not uncommon in New York, chafe under the conditions imposed upon them and seek a change, sometimes to their undoing.

Housework is one of the most varied, interesting occupations of humanity; and there are so many electrical and other devices nowadays to lift its burdens that it is a wonder there is such a general dislike for it. Myriads of girls who are shivering for insufficient food and clothing, and who are earning a most precarious living by working in stores and factories, and spending most of what they earn for rent, would be far better off working in some family where food and shelter would be certain and an abundance left over to provide clothes and even to allow for laying by a little for a rainy day.

Just why it should be esteemed a privilege to work for a man in an office or in a factory or store on wages barely enough to enable one to keep alive, and why it should not be esteemed an equal privilege to work for a woman in a home, for wages that are really better when the cost of food and shelter is considered, is one of those things that do not appear on the surface. But servants are hard to obtain and hard to keep, and girls are not safe in some homes.

Miss Gertrude M. McNally, third vice-president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, claims as a result of investigations of wages of women at Washington that the average salary of a women is $200 less than the average salary of men, that during the war only five percent of the women appointed to civil service positions received wages more than $1,300, while forty-six percent of the male employes received more than that, and that the salaries of women experts in the women’s bureau of the Department of Labor are limited to $1,800 (with the exception of three, which are $2,000), while the same law allows $2,750 to $5,000 in the bureau of efficiency and other bureaus where comparable positions are filled by men; also that women working at technical work in navy yards, arsenals and mail equipment shops are paid less for their skilled operations than men in the same department are paid for pushing trucks.

Between 50,000 and 70,000 girls disappear annually in the United States. Many of these, of course, go to the cities and for reasons of their own do not disclose their whereabouts. In New York city 3,GOO girls disappeared, in Boston 198; but many of the latter were located. Various causes are assigned as to why the girls leave home: to see the world, to secure an education, to improve the matrimonial opportunities, to secure financial gain, to secure better treatment elsewhere than is possible at home, to avoid uncongenial matrimonial matches arranged for them by their parents, to relieve the heart of sorrow, to cover up a mistake, to manage their ' own affairs, etc. The percentage of immorality among them is small. Sometimes they leave because of quarrels at home, and sometimes because the boys in the family receive preferential treatment. Sometimes they leave because they wish better clothes, and sometimes they desire to get away from what they consider a humdrum life to get into the movies.

Anna Paportsky, age sixteen, weight 210 pounds, caught in the toils of the law, said she stayed away from school to cook for an invalid father and mother, that she was the best cook in the neighborhood, and that she did not wish to return to school because the boys and girls made life miserable for her by calling her “Baby Hippo”. Anna was sent to jail for one day to teach her to have more reverence for the law.

Two Boston girls, Marion and Mildred Winslow, set out from their home in Boston one Sunday afternoon for a ten-mile hike. They suddenly decided to go to New York, and after accepting numerous lifts from automobilists landed on Broadway the following evening. They fell into the hands of the Association for Proper Housing of Girls, and the next day wer« put on the train for home. ??

Cases of aphasia and other mental disturbance account for some disappearances. Miss Elsie

: Wolke, eighteen years of age, daughter of a . lamer in Lakewood, N. J., wandered for thirty-six hours in: dense woods near her home. When found she was unable to tell her name, but reg; membered that the number of the family letter hex was 87.

Miss Pamela Beckett, a wealthy and fashion-W. able society girl of London, wandered for nearly Y three days, hungry and shivering, in London suburbs. Miss Helen Lyons, of New York, a week before the day set for her wedding put her wedding dress under her arm and wandered fe/ forth, nobody knows where. Miss Jeanne DeC Kay, daughter of a millionaire Chicago packer, TJ disappeared, and her body was found floating in 'Y the Chicago River.

Y Two hundred very intelligent, and we think ..r very wise, young women a year ago last fall sailed from England to New Zealand with the , avowed intentions of trying to find good husbands in that far-off land; and without a doubt 2- most of them have succeeded by now. The World ' War has left few marriageable men in England, y and, they are in such demand that many girls j • must remain unmarried or look elsewhere for < life companions.

E' Slavery and Oppression

||Y. A S LONG as Satan continues to be the god of |H? this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) the strong Ri' will continue to oppress the weak; and woman, lip being the weaker vessel, will continue to be exH’.' ploited. There are plenty of girl slaves in China, ifo where during the recent famine ten-year-old ' girls were sold by their parents for $10 apiece, fe" There are still slaves in Turkey, in the harems.

story is in hand telling of the strange experi’ ences of Signorina Bufaletti, daughter of a Turin Pr •' musician, reported drowned when the Italian steamship Ancona was torpedoed by a German submarine. Her family mourned her as dead for six years, but have now learned that she ||y was picked up by a Turkish boat, and sold a slave to the Sultan of Turkey, where she is now I" a prime favorite in the harem.

The Searchlight- and other anti-Catholic publications give numerous instances of convents and similar institutions which are alleged to be run as harems, where thousands of poor girls are enslaved for- life and’ their children de- Stroyed' in quick-lime' or buriedi within a few howus. after birth. Many a thick-necked priest is. said to have the Sultan out-sultaned. Of course the Constitution forbids slavery, but what politician in this country lias the courage to face the facts and demand that the doors of these institutions be always open to investigation? And murder! Ugh!! What politician would think of trying to bring a priest to the gallows? Catholic votes would at once cease, and his political death would be certain.

Major Bascom Johnson, attorney for the> American Social Hygiene Association, declare# that the traffic in women and children commonly called the white slave traffic is increasing, due to the great increase in the number of girls and women who can neither marry nor find adequate means of support. The half-dead League of Nations Council has taken up this question*. Many girls have been lured to Central and South American countries by white-slave agencies', which signed the girls up as performers in sups posed music halls. One escaped and told it.

In some homes there is a land’ of informal slave, where an older sister is made cook, seamstress, laundress, and maid of all work for the entire family, without thanks and without allowance. Nellie Bly, writing in the New York Evening Journal, advises such girls to insist on. an allowance and on some leisure time, so that they may have proper opportunities to develop^ the same as the other workers of the family. She advises that the home duties after working hours be shared by all hands.

The New York Times reports a case of slavery in Paris extending over the winter of 1920-1921, which is heart-rending. The police searched the. house of a fisherman and his second wife, and found the fifteen-year-old daughter of a former marriage imprisoned in a small garret where there was just room to turn about. The girl waa a living skeleton, covered only with a few dirty rags, and bore countless bruises and scars. The only food she received was a few crusts, and her only way of getting water was by collecting raindrops from the roof in an empty sardine can. Having been kept there throughout the winter, next to the snow-covered roof, her feet had been frostbitten.

It was a custom among the Eskimos until recently to permit only the useful members of the community to live; and hence young girls, requiring more care, and being of less use than boys, have been commonly put to death. The custom has been recently abandoned, but it# practice in the not long ago past is responsible for a shortage of wives still existing in the frozen North.

The girls of Czechoslovakia, and of all Central Europe, are reported by investigators to be abnormally small. Six years of underfeeding, abnormal living, war, and desolation have left their mark. A party of travelers going through a paper-box factory in Prague noticed the 'diminutive bodies of the workers, and were surprised to learn that all these workers were in their teens instead of being eight to twelve years of age, as they appeared.

Friendly Hands Held Out to the Girls

THE New York Probation and Protective

Association, previously mentioned in this article, touched the lives of about 2,000 girls ’during the past year. Their funds are too small to enable them to accomplish all they could wish.

A Woman’s Police Precinct has been opened in one of New York’s crowded centers. It is perhaps the first of its kind anywhere. The idea is to keep runaway girls who have committed no crime from coming in contact with hardened criminals. Part of the work of the precinct is a training school for police women.

The Girls Friendly Society of New York aims to help girls find homes, amusement, friends, and good food at reasonable prices. The Society,

BREVITIES

In Hope of a Glorious Future By e. d. Baikam

ENCLOSED please find $1 for renewal of my subscription to The Golden Age for the ensuing year. And here, Mr. Editor, I wish to express my approval of your publication, which is all it claims to be, “A Journal of Fact, Hope and Conviction”. Formerly inclined to skepticism, since reading The Golden Age and the writings of Judge Rutherford, I see things in a different light. Although past the allotted three-score-and-ten limit, I have taken new heart and live in hopes of a glorious future. Long life to The Golden Age I It should be in every household. I do not want to miss a single issue. It is worth its weight in gold, and is a source of great comfort to me.

which has sheltered about 1,000 girls in the past ten years, maintains a vacation house at Huntington, L.I. Of course all are familiar with the good work done everywhere by the Y. W. C. A.

Inwood House, formerly known as the New York Magdalen Home, has launched out into a ' new plan for caring for first offenders. The new

Inwood Boarding Homes are designed to give . girls recreation and education, and at the same • time to exercise a restraining influence upon them until they have learned the art of disciplining themselves so as to withstand temptation.

The girls of the South Philadelphia High School have agreed to obey the following ten commandments laid down by the faculty; and as these are good sensible commandments we have pleasure in presenting them to our readers and commending them to the attention of every good girl who wishes to stay good and to make the earth a better place for herself and for all:

“(1) Girls should be simply dressed at all times. (2) Avoid rouge, too much powder, and extreme decollette. (3) Avoid loud talking. (4) A girl should not take a boy’s arm on the street. (5) Do not grunt ‘uh.-huh’ when you mean yes. (6) Discourage extravagance on the part of the young man who invites you to the theater or to dinner. (7 Refrain from reading aloud explanations on screens of movies. (8) Do not speak of illness. Keep your conversation pleasant. (9) Send your young-man caller home at 10 p. m. (10) Wear simple jewelry.”

Sundry and Divers Criticisms

By Dr. Paul A. Zahlman, N. D. TN YOUR issue of January 18, Volume 3, ■T Number 61, page 240, under the heading of “Solving the Railroad Problem by the Golden Rule’’, I beg to differ from the writer. As I see it, the only just system of compensation for the employes of the railroads is that of public ownership and abolishing of wages; all to get paid by time checks, for a track walker is just' as necessary as an office employe, or more so, as far as the safety of the public is concerned. I honestly believe that this is the only just method to adopt.

And again, on page 247, under “Debt-Paying that would be Ruinous”, I would like to ask: If he were given a rest from work would it hurt

.-him? Just as if a person owed me say $10,000 I could afford to take a rest, as I would have the means to buy what I needed to keep body and soul together for myself and family. I could enjoy the beauties of nature, of art, travel, etc.

By all means let Europe pay its debts; it will give some of our hard-working American fellowmen a change, a chance to rest their weary bones and Eve; whereas if they rested now they would starve. No matter how badly they need rest now, they could not think of such a thing.

Again, if anyone is willing (whether he owes it or not) to give me wheat or corn or clothing or even copper (I could sell that), I would not worry; for I would be provided for. Our forefathers never worried when their cellars were well-filled. Of course, they usually filled these themselves; but surely it should not matter if : someone else filled our cellar for us.

Let all the workers produce less, so as to use up that $500,000,000 or billion each year. Would ’ it not be nice to have every man work only five or six hours a day? There would be less ' sickness for people could take better care of themselves then. Those that wanted to work longer (which would not be necessary) could repair our streets, beautify our cities, and fix up their own homes, a task which a good many are compelled to do on Sunday now.

Also on page 250 under “Away from the - Land” the writer says: ‘Tn Russia, now Socialist, the farmers who had been expected altruistically to produce enough for themselves and plenty for the city simply lay down,” etc. Now the truth of the Russian situation is that they had to feed a lot of soldiers who had to be used to keep some of the robbers and murderers such as Wrangel, Denikin, etc., (under the help of the Allies) out of their country; and besides, which has entirely escaped the attention of the writer of the article in question, Russia had one of the greatest droughts in history; everything burnt up.

“Woe to you Lawyers

By John Buckley

TEN years ago, a retired member of the legal „ profession told me that if all the lawyers s ■ in the city had their deserts, more than half of y- them would be in the penitentiary. Coming from £ whence it did, this was a surprising statement. ' Several years ago, a prominent judge, in an A’ address before the Twentieth Century Club, said that "the people should send business men to represent them in governing bodies, instead of lawyers”. The judge was not a practical man! Every business man knows that he cannot neglect his business to make laws for the dear people; while politics offers an ideal opportunity for a young lawyer.

That the young men realize this, is proven by the fact that sixty-five percent of our legislators are lawyers, while they represent but a quarter of one percent of the population of the country. I am not seeking to disparage any profession or any set of men. The lawyer is a necessity, and it would be just as foolish to condemn the calling as it would be to condemn ministers of the gospel because some go wrong.

During the late war, a young lawyer was called in the first draft. He secured diseased urine from a hospital, through a medical friend, and was exempt, as having Bright’s disease. Later, he was appointed to the Draft Board, was able to give his girl a valuable diamond, and purchase an expensive home.

In a small city where I lived, the church held a fair, and tickets were sold for chances on an organ, which was to be raffled. At the time of the drawing, a prominent lawyer and politician found himself in possession of a ticket but one number removed from the winning one. With a pen he changed the number, claimed the organ, and took it home. When the true number was presented, and he was asked to return what he had stolen, he told the committee that they had been violating the law, and that if they made any trouble, they would be prosecuted. The church that had been robbed was forced to buy another organ for the girl who had won it. The lawyer, however, had made powerful enemies, and it was not long before he was disbarred for pension frauds.

At present, in Boston courts, one judge, three or more district attorneys, and a number of prominent lawyers, are waiting trial for blackmail and other misdemeanors; and while they may not be guilty, we may very well suppose that “where there is smoke, there must be some fire”. ,

No man can wholly resist teaching and environment ; and we are all human, and with human failings. Teach people how they may be able to evade the laws, and it is to be expected that some will avail themselves of an opportunity that offers advancement. It is deemed very proper for a lawyer to do what would send an ordinary man to the penitentiary. Every criminal knows where he can find an attorney to defend him, and there is no organization for the commission of crime that does not have its legal adviser.

Our hard-headed legislators sometimes introduce before their representative bodies measures that only excite ridicule. It must not be supposed for an instant that they are as foolish as the bills that they sponsor. By presenting such measures, they secure support for reelection, and possibly the bill may contain a clause that will nullify a measure to which a friend or client is opposed. Again, it may discredit an existing law that they are paid to oppose.

Our world contains three classes of people: smart, medium, and dull. If all of the intelligent were conscientious, the world would be well-governed. Such is not the case, as we know; and to put the management of our affairs into the hands of a class, as we have done, is unwise. We are trusting our affairs to a class that is so numerous that they cannot all make an honest living.

The lawyer or the judge who is conscientious, and a Christian, we can safely trust. If he is capable, honest, and a student, we can ask no better servant for the public. We face a fact. Our laws are made in a great part by criminal lawyers. By this I do not mean that the men are criminal in fact, although in some cases that may be true. The men that we know may be above criticism and of the best; but we do not know them all; and the outbreak that we find in Massachusetts will be easily found in other places, if we look for it.

The Gift of Speech

By II. B. Coffey

OF ALL the blessings which the Airnighty bestow’ed upon man at the time A' his creation one of the most essential is the human voice; for vocal sounds were the first vehicle for the communication of thought. Without oral language the happy phrase, "The fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man,” could hardly have been an expressed idea.

Indeed, aside from being the first and most primitive mode for thought transmission oral expression is also the most ideal method we have for expressing ourselves. Training the youth in oral English has more to commend it than has the written method; for language is the tool of everyday life, and how few can use it effectively—how few are complete masters of self-expression!

Robert Louis Stevenson has said:

“There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to have a fact, a thought, or an illustration pat-to every subject; and not only to cheer the flight of ' time among our intimates, but bear our part in that Jg great international congress always sitting, where public wrongs are first declared, public errors first corrected, .:7g and the course of public opinion shaped, day by day, a little nearer to the right.” . *

Modern thought expression has resolved it- . self into a number of divisions. We have public speaking, which means oral English delivered by a speaker to a number of individuals called an audience; declamation, meaning the oral in- 3 terpretation to an audience of another’s thought - . from memory; oratory, meaning that branch of • public speaking wherein persuasion through an appeal to the emotions is effected; and extern-pore speaking, argumentation, conversation, and oral reading.

In argument the speaker attempts to prove a given proposition true or false. If an opponent is present, and waiting to reply, this form of speech is called debate. In extempore speaking .7? the speaker forms language for the expression of his thoughts at the moment of delivery. Oral reading involves clearness, intelligibility, and sympathy,, as is proven in this verse from the Bible: “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused sj them to understand the reading”.—Neh. 8:8. -~

Present-day inventive ingenuity has sought .12 to abbreviate but cannot eliminate the necessity for oral expression. Learning, according as it is used, has the power to multiply either good A

or evil. The printing press, conveying thought <

to the mind through the eye, has been a power- J ful factor for the multiplication of ideas of in- ’ dividuals. The single sentence, “Thou shalt not surely die,” the first lie to fall from the lips of J a mortal, has been repeated until it has per- . meated and colored the thought of our entire social structure. —

Yea, more, aside from the conveyance of hu- J man ideas by the press, we have the human . voice recorded and can reproduce it at will. The question arises, When will these artificial methods reach the climax of their perfection and will the necessity for them ever continue! More marvelous changes than have been

wrought in the past await us in the future. Conveying ideas by printer’s ink has furnished the opportunity for much cheating and lying. Much of our news has been false propaganda, in the interest of the few, to control and keep in subjection the minds of the many. But ingenious devices are appearing on the horizon which promise to eliminate opportunity for fraud in conveying ideas.

Some day each human individual may carry in his vest pocket his own private wireless telephone, through which he can receive reliable news from various parts of the earth and communicate at will with private individuals wherever they may be. Then, too, the necessity for the phonograph will be practically eliminated when the prophetic wTords of Jesus have had fulfillment, as they must: ‘All that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth’.

Each individual who in the Golden Age renders himself obedient to the great Prophet and Lawgiver like unto Moses, will gradually come to possess a perfect voice, which will need no recording as a means of preservation; for men will then live forever.

The gift of speech cannot be appreciated now. Only when the curse shall have been “rolled away” can there be complete happiness and harmony. Now discord mars the beauty of human expression. Argumentation wall not always be admired as an art. Some day yet future earth’s millions shall see eye to eye, and this will in no wise mar or injure the individuality of anyone in the least.

Some day every vocal chord of every individual will be attuned to perfect harmony. This some day will be at the end of the thousandyear day nowT dawning when Christ’s dominion shall be delivered to the Father. We may well expect as a fitting sequel to this momentous event to hear the swelling anthem, “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”—the blessings of . speech included.

China, the Nemesis of Christendom By 0. L. Rosenkrans, Jr.

AT THE present moment the affairs of China, and the relations of that country with Japan loom large in the public eye. It is admitted that the prospects of a naval holiday hinge on a solution of the Chinese question. In a recent article by Herbert George Wells, the prominent English writer, he advances the opinion that unless the Powers by mutual agreement guarantee to “leave” China “alone, while she reconstructs”, protecting her from agression, and conceding “her the progressive abolition of extraterritorial privileges and the same unlimited rights over her own railroads and soil and revenue that arc enjoyed by the Americans and the Japanese”, the Disarmament Conference will be a failure and merely a prelude to another war. But he expresses a doubt whether the assembled diplomats at Washington possess sufficient clearness of vision to forego their competitive zeal for the exploitation of Chinese resources.

Admitting that Japan is inspired by justifiable motives for national protection, Mr. Wells says that that nation is “now pursuing an entirely "European’ policy in China; intriguing to get a free hand in Manchuria and Eastern Siberia; scheming for concessions, privileges, and the creation of obedient puppet governments in a dismembered China; planning to divert the natural resources of China to her own use”. Wells considers this policy a mistaken one, arguing that Japan’s proximity to a rich and prosperous neighbor, allowed to rehabilitate herself without outside interferences, would insure the island a monopoly of its foreign trade.

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