o o BE PREP PREPARED ARED WHEN THEY J COME BACK MISS AMERIC o 0 Were hero so busy thinking ln of oC what wo can do to help win the war and gloomy loom and frightful as ag It Il ma may be bc we wo are so fascinated In It that we dont don't have time timeto to think what's going to happen after after- ward An American soldier on tho battle battle battle bat bat- tle field Is s said ld to have looked about at tho the frightful ul desolation and to have havo shaken his head and said to his companion companion com com- panion Sure Its It's a h h h- of a war but Its It's all weve we've got ot So though the womans woman's phase e of or the war Is frightful sometimes In fact her battles as a rosult result of or It t arc harder to fight than those of or the men still men still Its It's all she's got Sot and she Is 18 fascinated b by it it But sometimes sometimes' we do Just have to peep prep through h the chapters that arc are coming We Yo know leno lenoIl It Il will end some Iome sometime time lime and we wc know leno that there will be Interesting developments th then n for COl those who have ha weathered It lt it Now there Is ono one great bl big stupendous effect that this war Is I going oln to have o on u us Americans Ameri Ameri- cans It is a surprise In store for many It will slip In gradually at first an and then some morning well we'll open our eyes and know It this it-this this great big stupendous thing thing has has happened We e are going to become In a n measure And perhaps for us Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans there thero Is no outside Influence that could be so 80 beneficial as 15 this that Is coming back with wilh the soldiers from France Millions of or young oung men arc are over there now absorbing this great Influence and though hough they write home homo assuring you ou that they hoy arc are homesick and th that t the they can cans endure the parley language and that they haven't seen a single French girl as pretty as half halt a dozen back home and that th the French are aro back hack numbers and that the they haven't I enough h bathtubs and that 1 Kap Napo ape tomb Isn't a patch on Grants Grant are absorbing French ideals id French Ideas We e always alwa's are by those we sincerely a ai and there Isn't a single Sammy fj Il over there Is there Is there who there who hats haia back word that ho Is ie all an lo for French and that there Is j I e of grit left In the French am and the they there are re doln doing the decent thin the Americans it Isn't a sup sups supe kind of admiration So that In Ini that tho t comes of It wont won't be th the a at ai lion of oC a a. few Cew ow mannerisms Ita it a aa a true absorption of a France that will have a ben very be ben effect on our American society a a after the million odd boys bos com come It has always alwa's been the wa war p wars After It was all allover over the thai ac who came back brought a a grea grew of Corel foreign n Influence with them them and his soldiers com coming n Greece brought broush t a strIng care ence of things thinS's Hellenic and rul m classic In Interest that proved pro loJ o reaching far Importance h who arc are notably obdurate abo about t. t E up their own ideals for far tho those hr hrand of and who ho have ha been used to to 1 in Ing foreign influence for lor ce CM 1 were decidedly Influenced in is tl th century b by the contract of ot thin dlan dhian If Ir the they had not been the they could have produced a tal taken en so readily to spiral putt putte would l khaki hakl which I Is the Indian India for Cor dust have b become corte the great color for lor field uniforms The Crusaders Crusader coming comins back t ti European Europea n home el perhaps Imore I b 11 m more ro of the Influence o of othe the eat eis ea eathem them than the they ever er left of or Cl Chi Ch influence In the land of ot the j pr PI Women's clothes lothes became decided fled If I through h Crusade Influence lecture never nc would have ha devel it did without this Oriental Ini Inti Ideas nor would life lire have Ye been e without It ItIn rn In ordinary times of peace th of or the land are not the theo 01 bring In or to be bt read ready to rc eb dun eign Influence of or an any sort ei eap not the class o of young roun m nT f now pom going to be most Influential change Women omen through uh the the thet ei Paris fashions have alwa always s 's b bei beer el sympathetic with French Idea Ideas young ol n men of or leisure art stud etude men in the diplomatic service r felt the influence of or French Id Idea 3 Ideas but the they were fe few In r and the sort of ot French influent felt was not so deeply national n which the Sammy Is fretting fretting- fi tic fro The They were JH never er so 0 Mill near nea French heart In their Amerl Americ hotels hotel in Paris as ns arc the tho bo bop bor are now sleeping or finding mow moi quarters as barracks barrack l 1 from Crom a l time one-time French Frenc stable I IA A deliberate effort Is n mr the part of oC the officers and SUI suc as the Youna Youn Mens Men's tian tran association to get s-et the men menai their leisure time in making a si such phase of oC French IndustrIal or artistic activity as x IE mTh most interesting to them Ai Anc American men have ha been eager ento ey en to o take advantage of this The American farmers farmer's son I Is ii tt mental notes of or the thc thrift and ency of the French farmer fanner he i nc how his fields are plowed to the corners he ho observes es hl his imp simpie P E efficient methods of Irrigation and t m methods 0 of pruning trees the most of ot cr c every patch of J will bt be back baek It Il When hen he comes that J t e sort of or French Influence spread about his community There will be those who are STILT STILTing macl nw mUD In Ing the efficiency of certain big In undertakings s In the There those who will ill com come comeI filled tilled with are arc enthusiasm for th the si apt l I y st m of or street cleaning cleaning 1 thil of In ht rants paris where nere the me C M C. I that e is so very err J ter tel for Cor purpose i cities cm less Jess than that of ot our own If Ir those soldiers ever eyer become Id 9 nl municipal activities om Over bermay bw ber Be 1 with that that nUL may be sure will be better bolter for their M having nB S1 t i tOr in France Franc t Americans o r Of Or course the faulty UK will not bo be Mind blind to French faults fault for the most part French or a American faults are 1 arc are f faults of oC an In o older and a fairly small tabt l and amI ours our are those of or an 0 ov O Oance 9 ance of oC resources the foj en enOf Of mo more Interest l to ill 1 our land than those influences S n the tho French ide ideas s that g such sue concerning back bring hair art women's clothes L women women's u a n ad meal U s women I. I P ideal Idel jf Th y Th-y will ab absorb absorb- orb orb- II lull tie e that W domestic arrangements t c ce JIW little June and the these thele unnoticed bo e be he the tho very tn r will perhaps 4 here here ha hlis hl mother over the wife or sutra with without out establish trying to tn tJ month Months or years ihle ble to Tho The full till effort effect is medieval 31 IJ EC isa E diet dc No 0 one one In n en ti what could have dreamed ra rato crusAders crusade the tho cru u mont the return of or society to mean to ever every cn Pj Please ot of C lC f knew what a r one fI de the theart was to have ha on and aDd charmIng much more cha art alt how lion clOI cloth n nn be bea would of color olor a no result sult r ron I iU t on ocI ot or bla I Ihn I IOne One effective frock Crock colored ea hn has a bl big bier d design I ln o of f tw thC i ski it worked out nt at th tune hot bottom om and Ind J t tIt ular sign design r t ton ton It H Is la an nn Irre Irregular skirt Int side of the ek lot 0 t them only one ook on sided i Joo Ot hen hem t I it t gives sided one a one on one J look frock but but n a 1 attractive c ight t t n n. t DA I 1 It is 15 5 shop y yA bead ba g rs r I Is rL r A new The Tc e lo 10 Ion l L ha basket hasket ket of or flowers floors In d b worked s the tho basket S II n 8 pattern like w WO organ 11 on b biho bround it are the from ng shade IH lo Rr round of oC a neutral liker like th he ba 1 a r t le 18 shaped Just ends In pOID tho iho F he side I Ir r j.