Show DAY OF fl ul DRONE orr opportunity APPO ri ira PAST PA 1 GREAT GREA I 1 V FOR WOMEN TO GIVE al AID av 1 I 1 the following artic article le hassent was sent with i a request that we re pu publish blish it the lady who made the request while not a resident has a urge large circle of friends here and the article is gladly given space we wish we could give cred it to the author but we do not know who wrote it the day of the femine drone is passing is ts past she never had very deep roots in our soil but now sha sh Is being lecog nihed as a weed and uprooted from our gardens thre is 13 no place fo her in this big different world which has changed so fast and so entirely only a few years ago it wis not good form lo 10 be serious serious socially your business was to add to the ga ety of nations now it shows 3 the ft olst 01 st possible taste tu to ibe be flIPP rit and fri frivolous olous today in every country on the glob globe your business socially and economic ally and humanly is to conserve con seive the material resources of your land and maintain its spiritual ideals we ve americal Amer icam possess a splendid heritage the most lofty ideal that the mind of a race ever conceived democracy the deter de tennin inin aaion that goern government ment of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth is born in us a part not only of our souls but of our blood and bone and fl sh As women ve re are not of the type to permit our men to stand the whole brunt of the service which war de mands in the sphere of military defense or of joining in the actual warfare of our allies we of course hie h t e po no part but there are dozens of dif frent rent organizations which offer ui an arl opportunity unIty to fit our bely selves f for skilled and necessary mer bervice vice 11 f the need should arise in the big work before tho the country no one will have time to both bother r with any insaf and unskilled person no nut mat ter how threat may berthat be tint per persons rila anxiety to help still these org anit ui itliong will wilt alm onla a bin u ill 01 pai pat t of the fead feminine nine pop ula illation tion but every comin in tho the 1 country countr no nu matter whither duties ties can yet join in tn sp I 1 irta a 9 grat reat un unorganized unorganized A army and by holding hem c strictly to the letter of its I 1 ie ell quire ments lie be cm c tn be doing her bit as tellingly as any so bodier dier at the front A little group of women in the highest official ci rles including the wife of the president have set an ex ample of frugality and simplicity which all women should feel it dobli batory to follow they have pledged themselves to give no elaborate en only plain fool will be served at their tables and their clothes will bo be marked with extreme simplicity now it must be obvious to everyone that there are even deeper reas ons for this than the f tet ct that the hour has come for ua to hustind our vast n nit ional resources we a a country have not so far suffered because of the war except in a coin few individual cases but since of people are living through the greatest horror possible it shows a coarseness of fiber a callous insen inen sibil ty to that mighty agony for us to ihunt the purple and pride of oui out wealth and gance ditl with aa half the world a house of mourning we should at least show our sympathy and respect for the war scarred souls of millions by lowering the lights and subduing our voices in a measure at least and now that se e are definitely in I 1 the war and will have to meet all of the si and obligations that it may demand of us it is expedient it is 13 profoundly necessary for the women 0 of this country fully to realize how indispensable a part they cao can play what valuable alu able factors factors thes must be even thy the most insignificant member of the great collective body of american housekeepers will be an important cog in the big machinery of conservation I 1 can perhaps make this clairer b by y quoting I 1 ng from an article hy h edith wharton Vh arton than by any wolds that I 1 can my after the fianer prussian vir of 1870 when france beaten to e fifth hei armies lost half hei tern terri tor occupied ard with not a insle ingle ally to defend hr interests athon ae n france was called on by hei het conquer 0 a to pi an nn indemnity of five tho s and million fi ancs in order to free her territory of the enemy she raised rais d that haae sum and paid it off beigh teen months sooner than the date agreed upon to the amazement and admiration of tbt world every economist will tell you that if france was able to make that incredible effort it wis because all over oer the country millions of french women laborers wives farmers wives small shopkeepers wives wives of big manufacturers and commission merchants foerch ints ind bankers hankers were to all intents and purposes their husbands bu business biness pirt partners ners and had had a alt datt t interest inte reet in I 1 n s iving n annu nd In investing vestin the millions of millions million 3 pled plied up lip to pay a frances ransom in her day of ned it is a glo ilous thing for the women of a country to have had such a share in its 19 red ernp tion at ate every stage in n fron french c h his tory in war in politics in literature in art and in religion women have played a slen splendid did and deceive dec sive part pirt but none more splendid or more de d than the obscure part played by millio nj of wives and mothers whose thrift and prudence silently s b bu it up her 1331 salvation in 1872 can any woman read that and not 0 be thrilled and now the same OF or port unity for thrift and prudence has come to us it is a quiet humble 4 humdrum task that is asked of us nothing daring nothing spectacular but this is our great moment the moment that comes once to every man and nation women of america Ams rica wake up n p ayour your country needs need a you just as much as she needs men in her army and ts g hernady her navy stop coquetting with your eel get culture quick athons ath let itt your t clothes s and your brub brid sports and your study el dancing go to the a 1 soldiers on the firing battle ground is the boas the carfaro rrt youve u on waste slack methods t household expenditure ubi buying unintelligent p tows foras youve got t 0 whole science of sat g quite different by tta t penny wise and bound oa I 1 trench ment chanco to recover your lost the matter of clothes it vo required of you to ls be dowdy but extremes ia ir frowned upon today you can prove if you do not meet thu this why tor toa bonior morrow you will be xii balance of the future mj ald ever wanting dont be a slacker I 1 |