| Show p O 0 O The Household Edited br by ue Az Antie nIU O GOOD GOOD-BYI It Is a truism that has hag been pointed out so man many times that one ono hesitates to do It again again that that though thought In the tho small things of ot life wom women n are arc Inclined In Inclined In- In dined to hysteria when hen it comes to the really big things the they are tre rc the best I sports ports in the world There Thero aro are women who will have havo a nervous chill chili after alter a bridge party because the Ices were a quarter of an hour late Jato from tho caterers caterer's cater ers er's but they will keep a stiff upper lip and somehow hing the family through unscathed when they have to dispose of ot their own personal fortune to keep the tho oldest son from dl disgrace grace Such a woman a-woman will play the bab baby when little Tomm Tommy has to have ha his adenoids out and never nevel bat an eyelid when she l as to go o for or the operation that may mean everything And there are arc young oung women who eat their hearts out over overa a weeks week's s separation from rena their husbands hus bus bands who do keep up their spirits when those same husbands go off oCt to training camp or over seas If It you OU dont don't know that about women you dont don't know much And if It you ou do know that then you ou haven t been es especially especially especially es- es surprised over the tho fact tact that there has been so little war-time war hysteria hys hys- teria since wo we actually sot got ot down to brass tacks In this matter of or winning the war Before Detore tho the war became a areal areal areal real Issue In our lives hysteria was usual That was in tho the days when women wore red white and blue millinery mil mit- and deck flecked if lVA nut mt In flags of of astonishing sill g si size i to show h o their ho patriotism And Abd in those days there thele was quite a a. bit of ot hysteria over oer soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers and people who didn't understand understand under under- stand stancl women so soVen well Ven as the they might I have predicted that this thc hysteria ever vcr ever the men In let uniform would continue Well ell ell of ot course there are aro somo some few cases of ot It still but according to one of oC the people active in tho the commission on oil training training- camp mp that ort sort of or thing is rare enough now Among the time hundreds of ot thousands of ot cases of personal service rendered naturally enough there have havo been ca cases es of ot sentimentalizing over the themen themen themen men says SaR this ob observer ervel Sh Showering them with unnecessary luxuries god od- od mothering and th them m arl arid and adopting them have all been discouraged In over every way possible I Fussing over o the tho men Is not the time idea ea at all nil all and It Is be bo almost unheard u of ot |
