Show Magazine Section HERALD-REPUBLICA- N Magazine Section L Sunday October 7 1917 AM AUTUMN ( IQI7) DREAM U ' s J I JIf t TT N ordinary times — and ordinary' times have been almost forgotten — that word Woman spelled a certain definite magic of nature There might be many minor differences and every spectator of womankind might well have his own way of estimating the word but — well she was at least a skirted creature associated with certain ideas of “feminine occupations' AH that is changed In the year 1917 you can make no one picture and call it Woman Woman in this fateful hour is various to a wonderful degree She is actually fighting in men's garb She is a machinist an engineer or a trunk porter She is a chauffeur an aeroplanist’ She is a farm worker She is & Red Cross girl She is a bride stepping proudly the romantic path to the altar She is a mother plodding in the unromantic work that lies so far behind the front of battle but that will stand in the whole cycle of history as belonging in the real battle line of life The glory of Autumn is for all of her crowning without sign of preference every phase of her honorable effort and prophesying the ultimate glory of peace that guiding star of woman 's’ aspiration S ) |