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CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
TRADITION OF.WOMAN DEPENDING ON MAN IS BROKEN.'
"Do you know, Margie," continued
Paula, "women as a rule are good to
each other I mean the women who
work. Of course, once in a while
you run across a woman who is filled
with petty jealousy and envy, but you
will find women working outside the
home have become most helpful to
one another.
'One by one we are proving alj
those old traditions untrue and con
ventions impracticable that men
have built up and thrown around
women.
"For instance, we have believed the
man-made tradition that women do,
not stand by other women who are
accused of breaking the seventh
commandment. We knew we stood
by them, but we believed the other
woman did not"
"But Paula," I said? "how do you
account for the ostracism of women
whose names scandal "has touched?
I have in mind a woman to whom
Dick bowed with the utmost polite
ness and with whom he often stop
ped to chat when he met her, but he
tried to forbid me talking to her at
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"That is just it, Margie," said Pau
la. "That is why women have the
name of being hard on each other.
A man will talk -to a woman who has
incurred the enmity f Mrs. Grundy,
but he will not let his wife talk to
her. Then when his wife is cool to
the woman all the world, including
the husband, says: 'How hard you
women are on each other!'
"But Paula," I expostulated. "I
did not do as Dick wanted. I kept
my 'friend it was Kitty Malram--until
she died, and at last Dick came
around to my way of thinking." '
"Well, I found when women had
to work they found sympathy and
help from their own sex. The only
disinterested help ever given me in
my battle of workday life was from
women who were on the road to suc-
: cess. Men have helped me often, but
not one of them did so without hav
ing a personal interest in me in
stead of my work.
"Added to that 'is always the sex
jealousy of the men you work with.",
"That is right, Paula," I said. vl
have known only one man who actu
ally believed woman was man's
equal. And he is dead."
(To Be Continued)
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TO TRY MONETT AND TAYLOR
ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE
New York, Sept. 14. Judge Hand
in the federal district court today
dismissed the plea in abatement filed
in the interest of Frank S. Monett,
former attorney general of Ohio, and
Jacob C. Taylor, former president of
Labor's National Peace, Council,, in
dicted with Congressman Frank Bu
chanan and others on charges of
conspiring to foment strikes in muni
tion plants in an effort to stop ship
ments of munitions to allies. They
must now stand trial along with
other defendants.
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DEMOCRATS WAKE UP
Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 14. The
Maine election has started boom in
contributions to Democratic cam
paign fund, and according to guid
ing heads of campaign, nas given
Democrats an awakening, which
was "just what party needed at this
time." (
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CAR STRIKERS PARADE
New York, Sept 14. Flaunting
banners and carrying signs striking
street railway -employes and sym
pathizers marched through heart of
Manhattan today in parade of pro
test against Interboro and allies trac
tion companies. '
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South Bend, Ind. Science hall,
Nfltre Dame nniv., damaged $3.0,000
by fire.
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