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wEONESPAY, AUGUST 2, 1922,
French; Marriage
Customs Change
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Many Girte’HappiiyWidded After
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Number* Educated Gentlewomen
, Ard EaVnfrifl Their Lining <le
lnere«eiho r Yeah—NisW J
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r LoridonP-'-French j>afbfitW know no
better than English parents what to
do With' their daughters, writes a
Paris correspondent dor*; tow Times.
When tfallftoortte -Unduly; de-
I ayed, a<Hl6n becomes (We. FOF"
remody*!
men to go round, and girls must look
for some alternative to wifehood and
motherhood when they leave school.
An aim in life is essential. Their
parents are the first to realize this,
and turn reluctantly from matchmak*
ing to the "birtro of q ca—or. ffiho glrln
are less reluctant, because thqy do,not
despair of finding a husband l ■find are
glad to think Jilfey wi\y, meet**hinr and
choose him
Sometimes thewid/eams are realized,
and there are-many happily married
women in France who have ft been
wooed and Won'tn the*.
They met they husbands through .’their
work. The npmbers of edueirtedJ gen
tlewomen who iare theft llfinj,?
or preparing io, dp so, inrreaM dfeery
year. The liberffl professions niixfldde
many There are a
few notable eases where women are
associated with big concerns,
hitherto only/run Jiy men. w agricul
ture women som<‘tin£taMffireet their
estates, but there isyy general fem
inine outdoor man
ual labor. can be
counted on ofeffind; farmers are al
most as rare.
Uphold? Modern Mothers.
Mme. Leon Daudet in her recent
book, “Comment Elever nos Fllles,”
puts herself on the side of modern
mothers in such things as sport and
liberty of thought “within measure,”
but is opposed to the idea of Women
taking a part in politics, law, medi
cine or business. She does not be
lieve they will find happiness in a pub
lic career; “La veritable vie des
femmes est a la maison.” She would
have her daughters accomplished in
fine arts and fine manners, charitable,
domesticated, “sachant composer un
menu et au besoin I’executer.” They
should excel in well chosen sports, and
in their late teens Balzac's novels
might be set before them.
In all they do they should be
watched ever and guarded. For daugh
ters so educated marriage is the only
desirable end. Thej’ are ill fitted to go
out into the world.
M. Pierre Soulalne in his novel, “La
Rue de la Paix.” draws a vivid pic
ture of a girl brought up in this way
who Is forced eventually to earn her
living. It does not offer an encour
aging outlook, and one feels the girl
who must earn her livelihood needs
something more than the education
which even a delightful and virtuous
home can give. She emerges from her
Child Falls in Oil
Well and Is Drowned
Electra, Tex.—“Daddy—Dad
dy, help me!” were the agoniz
ing cries which came from the
ten-inch opening of an oil well
here. Rescuers worked fran
tically, but the narrowness of
the hole, which was 180 feet
deep, handicapped their efforts.
It was a race with death which
lasted five hours, but death won,
Rising water In the hole
drowned the child before grap
pling hooks were fastened into
the clothing and the body was
drawn from the well. The child
was Lee Gandy, four. He step
ped into the opening of the well.
Manuel Proves He Is a Dare-Devil
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CongreMinnn Manuel Herrick of OBluhoma, .who admits he Is the "aerial
daredevil of congress," being strapped In the army plane In which he attempted
to thrill blase Washington. Hla pilot, L. J. Maitland, took Herrick through
the loon the loop. t»U spin, falling leaf and every stunt known to aviation.
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,«hep \oo ■woman to stand
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Tfeaf .there are French] women -if ho
that fhejr daughters #mat
be. r l?PMer armed fqj, .life is evident,
but they, belong gjqpe generally
petite boqrgeoisle rthap. to the grapde
bourgeoisie, or the aristocracy, jjot
until quite lately have women of the
upper classes cohtejWpMted* x takttig up
Paid outside ‘their h’omes, and
the pfrospfefct tonfourfds 'them. Mihy
mothers would like to see their daugh
ters mrtrrfbii unsuitably rather than
not nYarried and forced to earn their
Jiving. j. c :w.
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hitherto have been forbidden. The
cinema has many attractions for them ;
It is easier than the stage. The Rue
de la Paix offers many opportunities.
Shopkeeping appeals to the practical
artist which is latent in so many
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Business attracts more than cook
ing, houseclearfyng, gardening or run
ning a car. 'Ueacbing Is more to her
taste than nursing. She does not look
with fayor on any occupation which
takes her away from her family alto
gether, which spoils her hands or
destroys the outward signs of her in
w'ard grace.
I She strives to her wage-earn
ing work and her private life as far
apart as possible. The freedom which
comes to Frenchwomen with an earned
income does not often run into li
cense. Sound common sense and a
practical conception of th< value of
money keep most girls from extrava
gance, even when family traditions
fail.
Sailor Tells
Strange Tale
Exciting Adventures Follow
Wreck of Vessel on Coast
of South America.
WATCH INTERESTS INDIANS
Sailors Spend Weary Months on Coast
Waiting for Rescue—All on Verge
of Starvation When Picked Up
by Coast Guard.
Houston, Tex. —A strange tale of ad
ventures In the wilds of South Amer
ica, of shipwreck and weary vigil on
the coast was told recently by Captain
Whlttemeer of the Mount Evans.
“It was in 1893, during the days of
the sail boats,” Captain Whlttemeer
said, “that I had what probably was
the strangest adventure of my history.
“I was very young then, and had
been to sea only a few years. I was
still with the St. James, a sailing ship
on which I set out for my first voyage.
“On this voyage we were out of Rio
de Janeiro for Valparaiso.
“We had been out several days—l
forget the exact number —when a gale
hit us. We tried to stay safely out
from shore, but all efforts were futile.
For three days we were battered and
torn by a heavy sea. and on the fourth
our vessel was cast on a reef near
what is now known as Good Success
bay.
When we saw that the ship was
doomed we decided tn leave her.
•‘We went overboard in lifeboats and
rowed for 20 miles up the coast.
“We built a fire and waited for
morning. It was terribly cold. Our
clothing was wet and fear was felt
for several of the men.
Watch Interests Indians.
“When morning finally came we de
cided to split into two parties. One
party was to take the boats and try
to reach the coast guard station, the
tUUNSULI WEAIHEH ~BUFfERTJ~
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If Moving to Another State You Can
Get Just the Information You
f Want From the Government; l i
Washington.-*-“What. is the health
iest place In the United States?”, .
“Is there any place in Florida where
a person can live tj»e year round
without getting majaria?” !V , Ts
Questions like jthesej come almost
dally tq ,the weather bureau of the
United State# Department of Agricul-
f Tjtye latter is evidently from a
corfegppnde.Jjit who Is discouraged by
Nevy ; mosquitoes and wants to
try poipethjng qlse. Inquiries of this
type/ including questions on the tern
peraturei clinjate, rainfall, and similar
factors olj weather which affect living
conditions, business, or work In some
distant locality, are taken care of by
the climatological division of the
weather bureau.
The inquirer is usually supplied with
■ -printed data giving a great many facts
-about the section he is Interested In,
as well as a letter answering bls spe
cific questions.
The weather bureau has 10C printed
sectional descriptions of this character
which it sends persons asking about
conditions in definite places In conti
nental United States. Similar data are
also available for Porto Rico and Ha
waii. Information about Alaska is in
preparation.
Needs the Money.
Tucson, Arlz. —After playing every
part in life’s cast from lumberjack
and prizefighter to the graduate school
of a great college, Fred (Kid) Wedge,
who attracted nation-wide attention
when he hoboed his way to Harvard,
plans to leave Tucson to fill a movie
contract. Wedge declared he intended
to employ his profits to return to Har
vard, which he was compelled to Iqave
on account of waning finances.
“It’s only a means to an end with
me. I haven’t lost the old ambition.”
declared Wedge. “I expect to take
Mrs. Wedge and the boy to Cambridge
this fall and I need the money.”
other w as to return to the ocean beach.
“I happened to be one of the 13 to
return to the beach.
“We had gone about 15 miles when
we were stopped by a river. It was
not wide nor deep, but it was very
swift and great pieces of ice floated
on it.
“We were still standing on the bank
of the river when we saw a band of
Indians coming toward us. I stood
close to where they emerged from be
hind a small knoll, so there was noth
ing for me to do but await develop
ments. The others ran.
“The Indians surrounded me and
looked me over curiously. For some
time I was undecided what to do. I
was frightened. The Indians were re
puted to be cannibals. Then a woman
in the band noticed my watch fob.
“I took out my watch and gave it to
her. I was surprised to find that it
was still running. The ticking noise
proved Interesting to her, and she di
rected the attention of the whole band.
“The rest of the party observed that
I was having no difficulty with the
Indians and started back to me. As
they drew near they came in for a
great deal of comment from the In
dians, but there were no Indications
of violence.
“I walked slowly away from the
Indians. No effort was made to stop
me. When I had drawn a short dis
tance away I halted and motioned the
others to follow me. They, too, left
the Indians without difficulty.
Live on Grasses.
“Afterward we learned that these
Indians were known as the Terre del
Fuego Indians. Their name was de
rived from the land in which they
lived, dubbed Terre del Fuego by sail
ors, because of the peculiar blue light
that shone over the Islands at times.
The Indians wore no clothes except
a loin belt, despite the extremely cold
weather. The belt they obtained from
the skin of a Gunaco, a species of
deer that thrives In that territory.
“We lived for several days on what
few grasses we could find and upon a
small shellfish, something like a clam.
We growing on rocks.
“About ffWeek later we reached St.
John’s lighthouse. That Is a coast
guard station for the Argentine govern
ment, but a boat calls only once every
three months. For five months we
united for a boat to call. During that
time one of our comrades died from
exposure and the rest were on the
verge 6f death by starvation when we
were picked up by the coast guard
boat Amatlo. We found out that a
revolution had taken place In Argen
tine and that It had been necessary
to take off all the coast guard boats.
“We were taken to Oosxvnr, the most
southernly port In the world, and
stayed there for about a month before
we finally caught a boat to San Fran
cisco again.”
Lace Curtains for Flah Nets.
Portland, Ore.—Crowds of Portland
people flock dally to the banks of
Sandy river. 14 miles from here, to
fish for smelt which are now running.
Hundreds of automobiles are parked
daily along the highway and traffic
officers are needed. The smelt are so
numerous that big hauls are made
with al! sorts of improvised drop nets,
ranging from bird cages to lace cur
tains.
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VERYONE knows the story
of the goose that laid the
golden eggs, and everyone
r knows about “The public
be d—d.”
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Well, when the public began to hold
its nose over professional baseball and
when the public began to talk about a
drastic censorship of the motion pic
tures the owners of the baseball goose
and the movie goose realized that it
was high time to quit "The public be
d—d” policy and to send out a hurry
up call for the best goose-doctor to
be had for love or money.
Now the construction industry, hav
ing arrived at the point where the
average man Is afraid to build a
house and even the most reckless
takes out heavy insurance, has sent
out an S. O. S. call for the goose
doctor —and has got him on the job.
Which is to say. as most people
know, that Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis has left the federal bench to
make and keep baseball straight und
that Will H. Hays has quit the office
of United States postmaster general
to make and keep the movies decent.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the third
goose-doctor. He has taken the job of
making and keeping the construction
Industry straight and efficient.
Former Judge Landis is supposed to
get about $50,000 a year. Former Post
master General Hays Is reported to
receive a salary of SIOO,OOO a year.
What former Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, former Vice-Presidential
Candidate Roosevelt, gets is not known
—but he will earn his salary, what
ever it is.
From one viewpoint Dr. Roosevelt
has the biggest and hardest job of
the three. Construction Includes al
most everything from the putting to
gether of a hen coop to the erection
of a 20-story skyscraper and from the
laying of a cable to the building of
a reservoir dam. In fact, it Is one of
our most important industries. First
probably comes agriculture, then the
construction Industry and then trans
portation. Right now, you know, there
Is a tremendous shortage of homes
and living quarters all over the coun
try, with high rents, and a host of at
tendant evils.
Doctor Roosevelt Is probably a good
man for this job, as Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy, they say he never had
a single strike In a single trade In the
government shipyards during his sev
en years. There must have been
something like 100.000 civilians in
these shipyards. Credit for these con
ditions is given to Dr. Roosevelt’s
round-table conference methods under
which a grievance, real or Imaginary,
could be threshed out.
These round table methods will be
a feature of the American Construc
tion council, as the new body Ir called,
under the management of Dr. Roose
velt, Its first president. Apparently
something of the kind Is necessary.
Lack of co-ordination In the construc
tion industry certainly has brought
lots of trouble to all concerned. The
workers have not had steady work.
Violent strikes have been common.
Spring in the Arctic
When one looks at a map of the
Pacific ocean and Alaska, the Aleu
tian islands, straggling off toward Si
beria, seem to be well up toward the
North pole. It comes as something
of a shock, therefore, to learn that
spring is well under way up there
near the arctic circle. Proof of this
■has just been brought to Tacoma,
Wash., by the American freight
steamer West Nimrod, which arrived
Hold-up methods have been employed.
Capital and labor have often “got to
gether” by methods that have sent the
“get-togethers” to prison. The public
hasn’t been able to build, even at
prices that were practically prohibi
tive.
President Roosevelt talks freely con
cerning his job. Here’s an official
statement by him, just as he wrote it :
“Every component part of the build
ing industry has joined in the forma
tion of the American Construction
council.
“Problems the council will attempt
to solve Include two of immense im
portance to the public—ending unem
ployment and lowering the cost of
building constructfoD.
“No effort ever has been made to co
ordinate various branches of the
building industry, although It is the
second largest induMry In the United
States, giving employment to 2,000,-
000 men and with a delayed program
of new construction estimated at $15,-
; 000.000,000.
“There has been no system in build
ing construction, no co-operation be
tween contractors, material manufac
turers and labor.
“It Is the aim now to bring all the
forces of building construction to
gether.
“Reports from members of the
American Construction council show
that the building industry is so far
revived that already a shortage of
skilled labor exists in certain local
ities.
“And it is predicted that before fall
there will be a general shortage of
common labor.
“It is felt that great danger lies In
efforts suddenly to resume all the
great building projects that have been
held up.
“To avoid this danger It is planned
to lay out a national program of con
struction w’ork In the four great di
visions—highway, railroad, municipal
and private building.
“Thus labor will be steadied. In
stead of an overwhelming rush of
work at one moment and stagnation
the next—a feast for labor followed
by a famine —an adjustment of the
program can provide continuous labor
for everyone.
“By team work among all construc
tion interests a clearing-house will be
established to collect Information on
projected building. Obstacles to low
ering the cost of construction will dis
appear.
“Labor will be better off, with steady
wages the year around. The material
manufacturer will be able to operate
his factory on an even load. The con
tractor will not be held up for lack of
material.
“In this manner the entire industry
can be put on the same economical
basis on which other industries are
run.
“More than 250 national associa
tions have joined In creating the
American Construction council. There
are ten groups—architects, engineers,
general contractors, subcontractors,
construction labor, material and equip
ment manufacturers, material and
equipment dealers, financial, bond. In
surance and real estate organizations;
public utility construction depart
ments, and representatives of federal,
state, county and municipal bureaus
of departments concerned with con
struction.
from the Orient with a lot of big
grasshoppers on board that were
picked up 600 miles from land. The
ship's officers report that besides the
Insects that alighted on the decks the
sea was dotted with quantities of
them that had fallen from exhaustion.
The grasshoppers are equipped with
air sacs, in addition to breathing
tubes. Tacoma biologists say the
grasshoppers are able to fly long dis
tances, and. when they alight on the
water, are buoyed up by the air sacs.
These authorities also assert that the
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“The council will operate through an
executive committee of two represen
tatives from each group. Each asso
ciation will elect delegates to the
council and all groups will have equal
voting power.
“All meetings will be open to the
public. Adjustments of differences
will be canied on in the open.’’
That is merely a formal statement.
President Roosevelt says other things
which give further indication that he
knows just what sort of a job he is
tackling. For instance he says, in the
New York World:
“Naturally the people sought relief
in law. In this instance we passed
housing laws and rent laws that were
so extreme that we couldn’t have
imagined them ten years ago, but they
were not only passed but upheld by
the courts. Now, I don’t object to
those laws, but they had one limita
tion —they brouglit rents down in
many instances; they landed some
profiteers in jail; they gave tenants a
standing In court which they had nev
er had before; but they didn’t provide
the buildings which the people so des
perately needed.
“In the meantime thoughtful peo
ple realized that there was something
the matter much more difficult to deal
with than profiteering. In a word, it
was waste. Twenty per cent is looked
upon as an outrageous profit; but the
committee on the elimination of waste
of the Federated Engineering Societies
gave our leading industries the once
over and found that we were wasting
double that amount. That, remember,
was the obvious waste. It didn’t in
clude the waste of needless competi
tion. It didn’t Include the waste
through failure to use methods not
hitherto employed.
“All dis-service is waste, but there
are a hundred conflicts in the con
struction industry which result In the
duplication of effort and in loading
upon the ultimate consumer the cost
of a lot of unnecessary work. The
law cannot stop these wastes. No
one can stop them except the industry
itself —and thte Industry cannot stop
them unless all factors in that indus
try come together for the common
purpose. Thai is what the organiza
tion of the National Construction
council means. It means that all con
cerned have agreed to come together
on a program of maximum service.
“There is nothin/ socialistic, then,
in this undertaking. There is nothing
Utopian. There is nothing unselfish,
even, or altruistic about it. It is sim
ply a case of a great Industry which
has not been doing very well pulling
Itself together to see what can bo
done. If this had happened forty
years ago the main idea might have
been higher profits, and some one
might have suggested some restric
tion on the output. But we know bet
ter now. America is learning fast.’’
big Insects came from the Aleutian
Islands, where they are abundant in
the spring.—Christian Science Moni
tor.
Musical Modernist.
“Did you know that you sang off
the key when we were rendering “The
Star Spangled Banner.” "I suspected
it,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I al
ways want to sing the words of that
song and I thought maybe my tune
would pass without much notice, us
a little jazz effecL”