Show T TK K O 1 I P 1 ivla IVIa V S Sundays Sunday's d' d y s I INTIMATE MAT T TALKS WITH GI GIRLS LS THE CALL TO WOMANHOOD A new and broadening field for the women of America has ha been developed develop d dby by the war A unique opportunity and duty have been offered to them How they meet it will determine very largely the future economic and business relations relations relations rela rela- of the sexes We have now got the problem of women In work down to something besides besides besides' besides besides' be be- sides sides' the arguments of suffragist ora ora- tors The war has crystallized it still further A definite call is sounding to the women of this country The nation nation nation na na- na- na tion needs them and the call each month ls Is growing more and more dis dis- dis- dis The other day a s. saw a huge sign suspended before a large factory readIng reading read- read Ing One Thousand Women Wanted at at Once A year ago that factory employed only a dozen women m Its force of 2000 workers and those were used In clerical duties We Ve have ceased to be amused at the spectacle of elevator girls Instead of boys in pur ur office buildings building and In several women streetcar conductors conductors con con- are are being trained to take the posts made v vacant by the C conscription I t si em Ga of the men In California a women are coming to take the place of men more and more on the great fruit ranches It was up to tn them to do the work of ot the male laborers or see the fruit truit crop spoiled When I first saw the campaign posters posters post post- ers era of ot the New York suffrage workers showing w women men laboring side by side with men men in the steel plants factories railroads and harvesting fields I thought they were exaggerated nut But I know now they were pictures from real life A friend of mine Just back from London tells me ins a thrilling story of a Zeppelin raid In the crash of the destroying bombs and the shrieks of the wounded and dying the gong of an ambulance sounded dully As It stopped in the very center of the most exposed district eight women in khaki sprang out under the leadership of a ninth who coolly coony directed th the work instructing her subordinates in their ministering duties She was Mrs Kil Kil- Kilroy roy Kenyon of the Women's Reserve Ambulance corps In all that Inferno of horror those women worked for hours and not one f faltered until the break of the foggy morning showed that their task was done and that they could do no more They tell me that In every railroad station In France between the tl tiers rs of stretchers on which lie the maimed bodies of soldiers from the front you youcan youcan youcan can see the form of a woman readJusting readjusting readjusting read- read bandages bandage smoothing wrinkled pillows and helping the surgeons surgeon in their most gruesome tasks As a woman I am proud of the splendidly Inspiring record of the women of ot France and end England But what Is even more Imperative the wom women n of America will have trally tt t ta rally to the guns at home the home the guns of ot industry which otherwise will be drowned by the thundering call of war And it is up to them Just how they will meet the supreme issue that is growing always and everywhere more and more poignant The great historic historic his his- tone opportunity has been offered to them The gates have been flung wide for them At last the doors of the Doll House have been opened and they theys s have been Invited In to come into the the great reat world outside The rest is In their own hands Copyright 1918 by The Bell Syndicate Inc |