Show I eo o JJr 1 l S Y ti tiD r rr r. r r r r n. n e e a Ll 1 J. J W W D r r I V Ve Iz I 1 J r T I LR T x r c t the Question r r That's Th as j v J Society Girls Are Are f Asking Each Eack Other r Today Now That y They Have Decided to to t Forego a Butterfly Existence and arid Go to Business r I li 1 lU IX r MIss 0 Katherine k Force f Whose a Sister Wedded i t tj j John Jacob Astor Aslor Has k Gone Into the Real Estate oJ I Business r II I I I h I SI S 3 I i A I J I By Helen Helen H. H Hoffman Hoffman u If MORNING Good afternoon GOOD Good evening How do you do 1 and other old established forms of polito polite salutation are being abandoned by society girls today Instead theres there's a L like business nod and a aVery avery very serious inquiry Where are you working Corking now now And its it's true Last years year's social butterfly has hasa a job She has bas gone to work invading the business business busi busi- business ness world as a n. wage earner in close competition with frith men mero man Of course theres there's a reason Everybody's working nowadays or ought to be bc and even the ancient prejudice of the British upper classes against persons in trade and the corresponding objection over here bere to a s business person no longer exists Besides didn't Helen Taft the daughter of an nn President er-President of the United States get a n job re recently recently recently re- re as acting president of Bryn Mawr College And Annette Abbott Adams a University of California California Cali Call fornia graduate got a L job as assistant United States general attorney-general at a year In Paris countesses and marquises have been working side sideby sideby sideby by side with shop girls behind the counters in department stores just to show that such things can be done today So Where arc are you working now has beCome become become be be- come quite the customary salutation in drawing- drawing rooms and smart restaurants and fashionable gatherings where the younger members of the social elect assemble That is s to say this applies to a large and increasing ever-increasing number of or young women whose r f education and reading were as carefully watched f r r. r as the precious hothouse blooms with the similar b j pu purpose that purpose that they should represent the ornamental ornamental orna- orna t mental side of l life e. e But the world has witnessed many extraordinary extraordinary f nary narl changes during the past few years and none of them has created more favorable comment than this step taken by daughters of the rich which led them from the fashionable haunts of society to the practical world of the mahogany desk and andr r typewriter and to the artistic life lire from rom which business business busi bui- and good toda today numerous women of talent ness nass judgment are arc coining small fortunes this influx of good- good Th There for re are arc many reasons s into women looking capable young high highbred stand ou outmost out outmost the workaday life but two of these the theres there's most Ct t conspicuously For Far instance affecting S society so EC- world war ti How w many innovations society in m in ci ty in general and md small groups of v c of the particular date from rom the beginning war reared fo for a ati Prior to the ti war wr young ng women purely social life who dared theby the unconventional l wita by showing a n desire desh to occupy themselves than fluttering fluttering flutter uttering utter utter- something more worldly practical bit courageous for no one cares ing were just a to hear it said of or her her that she is a little queer queer- I Soci Society ty in Search of a aJob Jo Job and shattered kingdoms But the war which h in in many forms at the same sam old wo world ld injustice time sh shattered numero numerous s lo rockbound traditions to the New World Worl was One of these as applied that well bred young oung women women of social standing for cither either were not to go Co outside their narrow set diversion or occupation I If they they Knew v the penalty to be paid spelled ostracism Few ever er braved this bl bugaboo But the war called forth the heart of h humanity humanity human human- manity man man- ity and ind women women as ns well as is men in high as well as aj lower Jower positions in society responded to the call Now who is going to stop a ne new i idea a when it gets Ich to rolling lolling g 1 t r This is the exact position of numerous young women women who acquired a taste for work during the war Who Vho is going to stop slop them The scene is is changed that's nil all And with it th the living conditions conditions condi condi- of pence time The society woman who in war pre-war days found ehe Eho could manage quite nicely on an income of ot to a year for clothes and md entertaining entertain entertain- ing is perturbed th these se days to find how difficult it is to retain her herold od social life on thes these c limited incomes Rather than economize women prefer to earn the difference between the old purchasing value 3 of their incomes and the increased cost of living t today a successful young business woman told me ma She said to maintain the tho old standard of ot living lhing by earning earning- the difference A striking example of this new regime of business buni- buni ness riess women is shown in the three thee months months' successful successful suc suc- ce career of Miss Katherine latherine Force of New Nerr York Miss Force a handsome young woman of the thc early twenties haD haa been prominently identified with the smartest circles of fashionable society Both she and her sister who was Vas married a few years ago ngo to Col John Jacob Astor who later Inter lost liis life lire in the sinking of the Titanic were not only noted for their good o d looks but also for their athletic tendencies Both young women scored victories in the tennis matches and golf gol to tournaments held heldt at t Bar Harbor Me Mc Ic their summer summer summer sum sum- mer home for or some years These pleasant diversions were ended when Force went to France to help care for tho the i Mi Miss s ces shortly before this country entered the r reIl ogees war A After t r several months of or this work she became be be- of the corps of or foreign workers for the ther came cam one suite state d derailment department r Stationed ct an important post in the tho south of France she helped throughout through through- out the final year of the war handling passports and other war emergency work that swamped tho derailment department offices state te Though she had been educated to take her in m the social whirl Miss Force proved pro a Place lace headed clear-headed young woman in m transacting ClOY governments government's s buss business So much so that that tho t ho t the e b erm berm of restlessness listlessness which got hold f so many young oun war workers when they discovered how well wen they could do things pricked her ly Im Pm going io to work she announced one ODe day to her astonished d and amI family Before they ll had d recovered from this shock Miss hiss Force Norio ex ex- Mrs Mina liina C. C Van Winkle Is Now Head of the Women's Bureau of the Metropolitan l Police Washington IX D. C. C J ro uw COD rAC S rf A a s I r e 7 J fi S 'S t I-t r 1 L d r l t U v vf 1 0 h r f t l i iE trY AlfA I J er r I that henceforth she would be known in business parlance as a real estate broker With splendid health which enables her to do a avast avast vast ast amount of work and a tremendous optimism Miss MiEs Force has made her presence felt in the tho bustling roal estate market ma of New York buying selling leasing and renting city and and and- county country Y I I. I property Sitting at her desk in the office of the Plaza Realty Company discussing a CIa deal with her clients Miss Force represented a pronounced pronounced pro pro- flounced innovation in this practical world of 01 brains versus dollars dollar lUak Making ng a Name Kame in Business At the head of this concern is Miss Lillian A. A lI Moret or el eln a n pretty young society woman who dett de de- tt a t SIX six months ago that fashionable society held flout noue- noue pf of the pd id charms for her after her war experience ex ex- perit nc t h covered many months and the tho Whole llO c. c country in organizing the tho collego college women in into o nursing corps Peal estate is essentially a womans woman's busin business busi- busi ness n Miss Morse pointed out Women know instinctively what appeals to to women in making a i onie I believe if more women architects planned our homes and arranged the little comforts comforts comforts com com- forts and labor Jabot saving devices necessary for a happy home that more people would live in their own homes rather than hotels and people would retain their homes longer The third of this group of energetic business businesswomen businesswomen businesswomen women is the Countess Mary Tolstoy who before she married the Count a n distant relative of the famous Russian writer was Miss Frothingham a 1 member of one of the old families of N New ew York The Countess Tolstoy is young and slender and pretty and no one would guess at meeting her that she worked throughout the war in Franco France Francom Francein in m hosp hospitals from daylight to sundown Widowed a n few years ago and bored with the the- social life the young Countess preferred a business career to social boredom As this trio enjoys an acquaintance with the greater part of or New Yorks York's richest families they have an advantage over many of their male com com- pct tors That a bu business iness career ns as many mothers have argued might spoil their daughters daughter's matrimonial l chances is not borno borne out in truth troth For example the engagement has just been announced of the tho beautiful Adelaide Sedgwick one of or the most popular popular popular pop pop- ular young women of New Yorks York's smartest social set to John Monroe a L young youn artillery officer who served with the French troops Mr Monroe Monroe- ia is is a member of one of the tho wealthiest and proudest old New York families bromes Miss Sedgwick who nursed in English hospitals hospi and later risked her life lile for nearly two years yeara till the tho wars war's close in canteen work at Calais and Boulogne where nightly air raids were frequent and most moot disastrous was about the first young war worker to enter business as a s diversion diversion from war and war pre-war society When it became known that tho the beautiful young war worker had made a great success as designer of gowns ms in a fashionable Fifth avenue shop it caused d a n mild sens sensation among her smart social friends Her r young friends commended her hermany for her enterprise and talent shown and many of them followed her har e example ample and went to work choosing vocations to which they thoy were most adaptable Miss vicks vick's social status did not suffer by reason of her now new life Rather if anything anything anything any any- thing it enhanced it and sho she s still U retains the tha greatest popularity among amonS' the he younger set However However However How How- ever her business career cancer will be bo cut short in the tho autumn autumn by her marriage One of the tho most enterprising young society Miss Bliss Adelaide Sedgwick D Da Has Created a Stir Among Her Society Friends in New York by Designing Gowns in a Fashionable Fifth Avenue Shop matrons who has recently joined the tho ranks of 01 business women is ia Mrs Alma Dodworth who with all the dignity and grace of a popular hostess hostess hostess host host- ess has successfully assumed the great responsibility responsibility responsibility of conducting a fashionable tea room and managing a big candy factory at nt the same tim time Mrs Dodworth is young and pretty and her hez clientele is confined almost exclusively to the fashionable set who have bave known her both a as the tho charming Miss Miss Dodworth and later as the o of Pierre the celebrated French portrait painter During tho the war Mrs Dodworth was one of tb the most tireless drivers in the thc Womans Woman's Motor Corps Corp of America sometimes working 24 hours at a stretch transporting wounded and sick Bick soldiers from camp and boat to hospitals b and doing th the tho same duty for civilians during the influenza epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- epi- epi demic in New York Recently following her divorce ce Mr Mrs Dodworth Dodworth Dodworth Dod Dod- worth resuming her maiden name entered the business world in spite of the fact that her parents parents' parents parents' parents parents' par par- beautiful homo was open to her bel and her income was large enough to make her fn independent independent dent for life Ufe But anyone who has haa been enga engaged in same seine serious work does not wish to fritter her time away said this young business woman I Z 1 am nm most happy in my enterprises Tho The few law months month that I have been in business have havo proved most satisfactory and scores of lof my old friends who come to luncheon at my t tea a room have havo begged me ma meto to allow them to come como in and do some work just to get the e. e experience per they thoy say All tho the yo young women whom I knew during my war work arean are an anxious ous to find something they will be capable oi of doing well Tho Those o who have bave gone into various varion professions and business and md taken up social ser ser- service service vice work havo have proven most efficient and shown great initiative The day of tho the idle woman I believe has hns disappeared forever Where Hard Work Is FashIonable A wc wealthy thy matron who led the tho war forces forces- 01 ol women in volunteer service is Mrs MIna C. C Van Winkle WinkIe formerly of cf Newark N. N J. J but now the tho head of or the tho Womans Woman's Bureau of the l Metropolitan Police of Washington D. D C. C Mrs l Van who became a 1 widow shortly before tho the war went to Washington and organized the speakers' speakers bureau for the food conservation campaign Another member of society who has won a reputation in in tho the professional world is Miss Mary Jay Tay daughter of an old New v York family who saw service abroad with Miss Anne Morgans Morgan's Committee for Devastated France Miss Jay is taking a 1 leading place among among- the tho well known architects of the country While the arts and professions as well as business business busi busl- ness have bave attracted a big number of young socIety society soci socI- society ety women the drama is also included in this group Only recently Miss Margaret Grosvenor Hutchins surprised New York society by the announcement an an- that she had joined the tho ranks of professional professional pro pro- stage folk For nearly a 1 year she saw MW saw service in France as a telephone operator for the tho government first at the aviation headquarters in Paris and later at the tho headquarters of the tho American Ameri Ameri- can Commission to Negotiate Peace Pence She is the daughter of a n wen well known New York banker Another young woman who recently chose choso a n stage career is Miss Marion Gilbert Gilford daughter of Mr and Mrs John Gilford whoso whose family for many generations have been identified with the tho social life of fashionable New York Tho The number of young society v women omen who have gone gona to wor work is legion legio and md this number is constantly con- con increasing so BO that when smart society asks of its members Where aro are you working now 1 it means exactly eXl what is asked A |