Show I 1 AND THEIR KW I 1 I low ilow different is tile the of the washington of of today from that recorded by tile the yard stick a quarter of a century ago in those former Ws tile the notion fiction writers unraveled skeins of yarns about the intrigues int ligues of society milady had flocks dt maids a butler a te team a in of dancing dashing boises with silver alts in their teeth a and i i d g gaudy a alidy 1 harness i a i i ie s decorations and at tile the end of miladys baity diess there e i e N was a i t trail r a i 1 a as s I 1 long ong as they aro arc short nowadays social distinctions still exist in washington just as they exist in gotham or on oil main street and they always will but impassible social barriers barn crt if they ever were a reality outside the sob stories stones have gone ito to the discard writers who send stories to their papers about social cliste caste in washington usually do so because they havo not been in fit town long enough to know what is going on oil or to get acquainted with the inhabitants ot what is in fit reality one of the most democratic and cosmopolitan cities in the nation duding the war more than half the wives of cabinet officers senators and representatives literally mingled and worked day clay after day with the most humble members members of their sex proving that brother kipling was waa right in ills his discovery that the colonels lady and judy are sisters faters si under their skins shins women have lave not only entered the fields of public service but in fit a lot of instances they are so numerous as to cause sonic some congestion is as is by tile the returns of the census bureau showing that one third of tile the persons in ili the employ of the federal state and local governments of the united states are women aomen civil employment is rapidly be becoming a profession dominated by women serving at first in minor capacities as clerks and typists the sex soon began to invade the fields of greater responsibility women now are occupying many positions in fit the federal government corresponding to that of bureau chiefs while an all assistant attorney general ranks just under a t abinet officer women hold offices as civil service commissioner district of columbia rent commissioner federal judges in fit district of columbia courts foreign trade representatives abroad deputy marshals assistant district attorneys deputy collectors of internal revenue etc of the more than employees of the federal government stationed in in washington about one half are women because of this fact the census shows a larger number of women in tile the population to the number of men than any other section of the country there is not a place of importance in the federal government starting with the white house or the senate and going down to the most unimportant bureau where women are not found meeting some of the most responsible tasks cabinet ladies have i renounced their old titles of distinction and now they prefer to be called women mis hughes is active in the affairs of the pan american scientific congress of which she is chairman I 1 mrs irs hoover qualified with her Iii husband isban d duran during the war as a leader and she has been almost constantly before the public engaged in planning public work and frequently she makes addresses she is now giving givin g special attention to the girl scouts of whose national organization she is president the first lady of the land mrs Ha hauling iding is occupied with countless public activities and she never seems happler happier than when she is rendering service to some group of people the activities ot the women of the wilson cabinet furnished a brilliant page in fit tile the records of achievements in the great war hundreds of women are qualifying themselves for the practice of la law w out of persons who passed the bar test in washington recently e leven eleven were women this very large percentage about one in ten tell shows that it will not be long before portia the lady who plead law for Shakespea shakespeare ie to write a play around will be forgotten because there will be so many women lawyers engaged in practice that we ine will soon consider them in groups instead of as individuals what is true in the capital and in ili public service is equally true in other parts of american life the statistics gathered by the census bureau the department of labor and other official acial agencies show conclusively that women are succeeding in their new adventure |