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Show M&i, Not Woman, Is the Usurper. Is man the usurper of woman's work? Chicago clubwomen declare he is. For years we have listened lis-tened to the strenuous howls about the fair sex crowding our male population out of employment which properly belongs to men. But, after all, it's man who Is the "goat" in trades and professions. He has "butted" into the work formerly monopolized monopo-lized by women.' Members of the Hull House Women's club of Chicago said so in & symposium on ?Women in Trades and Professions." ,Mrs. Sally Hallowell did most of the talking, and she is a person who has all women's interests at heart, j "1 am tired of hearing men whine about the intrusions intru-sions of women in business," said Mrs. Hallowell. "If they will pnly state their cases to women's clubs the members will be the first to look for justice." jus-tice." The speaker insisted that on every hand are man dressmakers, man milliners, man hairdressers, hairdress-ers, manicurists, and,, in fact, men to do all the things women especially like and claim as their own. She did not approve of this and neither did the women who were; present. "Women engineered engi-neered their own evolution from the making, of cheese and butter to the designing of gowns," continued con-tinued Mrsi Hallowell, "and, now man proves a 'buttinsky' in every work she chose for her own. When women ventured into the industrial world men held up their hands and cried, 'Her sphere is in the home Now, It is only a silly .and sentimental senti-mental girl who will hang around a house waiting for some man to come along and volunteer to support sup-port her. Families are better clothed and fed than ever, and I maintain women are responsible for this." Mrs. Hallowell, like other Chicago clubwomen, club-women, is a capable exponent of the old theory concerning con-cerning blowing one's own horn. But man has usurped woman's work, unquestionably, for this Twentieth century Chicago clubwoman has slid it. And what a clubwoman says in the windy city is law. A i |