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Show II WOMEN HOLD TO JOBS. I There vps a time when woman's l wage earning days ended with her fl marriage, but such is not the case in IBM these days when many wives are wage ll earners as well as the husbands, 'tin Whether this condition is due to the IH liigh cost of living or to woman's ul growing Independence and desire to M make her own way in the world is not fflj clear. Perhaps it is due to both rca-3ons rca-3ons and many others, besides. I ill A Milwaukee establishment advor- ffl llses "Mnny marriages are made in ll our plant. Come and pick out your tli " Th3 'ftCtorv docB not expect the M girls to leave tbelr work r.ftor they are Jra married. Hl There, aro furniture companies in MH . Grand Rapida which advertise for jm housewives who will work at least two jR hours each day, suiting their own con- ufl venlence as to when they will come, jj Mrs, Anna Lalor Burdio, special 11 Bsent for trade and industrial cduca- j tion for girls and women on the fedcr- l al board for vocational education says the forewoman has como to stay. She says the number of married women in Industry has increased 100 per cent since the war. This Investigator declares that the typical watchmaker of the United States is a 19 ycar old girl. She says women's email and agile hands are especially es-pecially adapted to the work of certain industries. Mrs. F. Josephine Stevenson of Call' fornia' told the Woman's National Bar association in Chicago that young men of America should marry at tho ago of 21 and the girls at the age of IS and that if the girl was working when she is married, she should continue with the work. Had she not included this last statement state-ment about the bride'6 continuing at work, her recommendation in favor of early marriage would have been senseless, sense-less, for there aro few young men of 21 years who arc filling positions carrying car-rying remuneration to permit their establishing es-tablishing a home and supporting a wife. |