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DISILLUSIONED WOMEN
OFFERED SO MUCH; GIVEN SO LITTLE
Br C E. M. JOAD
THE position of women in
our own evuntry at the present time is a very curious one.
only to find another disillusion- ment awaiting them. For what is not usually realised is that for the middle-class woman there is no home to go back to.
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A horas may be defined as a cen "tre of inteest, activity and infusa ce in which the housewife has tradi- tionally performed important fune tions which demanded skill and merited respect. Growth of trans port facilities, increase in mechani. cal and electrical appliances and the encroachments of the munici pality have stripped the home of the majority of these functions and left of its mantold and varied du ties only an automatic routine.
Lost Wifely Skill.
- NEW -“ MOULDED
LINGERIE
SOLVING THE DEBUTANTE'S SLIMMING PROBLEM
THERE is an idea to-day, very
INFLUENZA IN ENGLAND TOO
NO TENNIS FOR MISS HEWITT THIS SUMMER
young
NOVELTY GLASS
FOR LOVERS OF BRIGHTNESS
Spangled glass is what I call it. It is something both new and charming is the way of glais. pavalent amongst older folk. that the débutantes neither eat
Miss Sheila E. Hewitt, the
Imagine a big centre bowl and enough, sor wear sufficient, cloth. ing On the other hand, pur phy. British lawn tennis player, who is covery if lesser bowls to be used sicians tell us that they are often ying it in a Bournemouth nursisg as either finger-bowls, or dessert- in green glass, but meeting people who are eating too home suffering from the atter of holders-all
Or imagine much, but seldom those who sat fecia of influenza, will be unable to spangled at the edges with dozens a plate or vase of rich, sunset too little! And nor dress desigs play in any competitive tesnis dur. of little silver "mtes.
are much worried by theing the present summer season. r
orange, spangled at the rim with silvery-gold fecks, amount of undergarments even the girls require.
"She is getting on extraordinari- ly well," said Misa Howitt's doo. It is a little difficult to follow for yesterday, "and her present the quick changes of fashion, in these cosdition is very satisfactory, but! things, and it may seem confusing tennis for the next five months of to the uninitiated when they hear so is definitely out of the question." frilly skirts and ruches, to be told on the Rivera asd was, compelled to of the return of the patticoat, of Mia Hewitt contracted influenza that they may not allowed to scratch from the hard court cham- add extra undergarments beneath. pionships at Bournemouth.
The fact is the foundatios gar-
The British Hopes" for Win-
Cafting free from the swaddling lothes of Victorian "prudery and
The middle-class woman deither ment-not necessarily the old" corac- protection, refusing any longer to brews nor bakes; she does not let, but a substitute-must be real bledon the illners of Mise Hewitt accept a situation which left them wash; she has no skill in the moak-ly fitted to the figure, and no less has caused much dismay in Tennis no alternative but to be drudges,ing of conserves and regards cookbination or vast and panties. These
carefully shaped must be the com- circles at home. toys or dolls, women have claimed, ing as, on the whole, a nuisance.must be so fise that no "bulge" and in theory have obtained, the To mitigate this buisance she goes
can exist! The Princess slip Bt- ight to take their places in the not cook so much as warm up food ting in at the waist cant even be of world on equal terms with men, that others have cooked for her: thin Shetland. now that rustling
of complete she does not prepare meals; she taffata cas be worn over. But, the concession adult suffrage at the end of the takes out of tins meals that are al- war was only a symbol of a wider ready prepared. She has no skill emancepation.
in shopping, but orders from the stores by telephone, or from the tradesman's van that calls at the door,
Down came the barriers that guarded the professions; women ould and did become solicitors, barries, doctors, dentists, mana- gers, accountants, directors; they
Thus the once-varied duties of preached from pulpits," stood for the home have dwisdled into wash Parliament, served on municipal ing up, leaning, sweeping and bodies, ran business. No profes-bed-making, a round of boring rou- sion was in theory closed to them.
Just Dull Drudgery.
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The change is status was accom panied by a change in manners. Women not only went about alose, they went about alone at night and nobody thought the worse of them; they amoked cigarettes in public, and only the old-fashioned object ed; they altered-the colours of their faces plain for all to see; dis- dained to conceal the fact that they possessed ankles and oven knees; ceased to expect men to offer them seats in traing and buses.
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tine duties which the woman of average istelligence can perform in a couple of hours in the morning, leaving her with energies unused and interests unawakened to get through as beat she may the great. tracts of unoccupied time in the afternoon and early evening.
Thus the root difficulty which besete the position of women at the present moment is that it is neither one thing nor "the other, and it, is neither ose thing nor the other because women are neither one thing nor the other. They are neither fish, fleeb, fowl nor good red herring.
The Modern Petticoat; The new idea of a petticoat has Womas's world has been disrupt changed considerably. It is mould ed, and though the traditional woed round the hips, and only starts man's place. in it still exists, it its fullness and frou-frou from the exists shorn of its traditional in-knee, or where the over-dress be terest and lacking its traditioan gine to fare.. digsity,
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The Lowest Lovel
The fact that must be insisted on when planning the débutante's wardrobe is underwear, which need not be unnecessarily expensive nor elaborate, but each Item must be chosen and fitted with care and skill."
Outwardly the change was great, yel it was always more real than apparent. If the young woman took it at its face value and turn- ed to the outside world for scope for her energies and employment for her faculties, she found a curi outs position. For although is theory she might enter where she would, in fact, the world persis tently refused to organise itself in such a way as to make room for her, or it made room for her only at the bottom. It opens the doors of its officers and exhorts her to en- ing shopping, lunch with a friend, The sort of clothes voru for ear. ter the professions; but it offers a matinee, dianer with a returnedly apring is the South of France her dull and drudging work, and husband, and, after disner, bridge, are the kind required for our aver when by dint of sheer ability or the radio or gossip" with one's age English summer, especially for gross conscientiousness she forces neighbours. Such a life is a cheer country and week-end visits. The herself into the same positions as waste of human capacity and ta casino and bridg frock is smart those held by men, pays her less lent, and, because for, most women for many of the season's decasione. for doing what they do.
life is no more thas this, I doubt if the level of instinctive happiness smong women has ever been lower it is at present.
Nobody contemplating the life of the average middle-class wife would have the face to insult her by sug
This should be quite an easy gesting that it involved the utilisa-business in these days at very well
all-ready-to- tion of her highest faculties
cut under-garments
Unfitting Education,
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Yet women's education continhes, as if the world were not only will ing but anxious to utilise the seri vices of its products. Our high
schools and universities pour an nually into the world a continual stream of highly accomplished and qualified for non-existent posta. What happens! Compelled to earn livisg, they are forced to take jobs for which they are not only n qualified, but for which the whole elaborabe process of their education unfits them.
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A little house duty in the morn-wear.
DON'T TAKE A HOUSE
WHEN YOU GO ON LEAVE Take a Barge
GIRL STARTS A BARGE
COLONY,
A colony of barge-dwellers has own up ds the Thames near Rich- mond.
During the heat wave I have no ticed that slim girls had under neath their slender tailor suits.and ensembles rather ill-fitted under wear, so that one could see erenses asd ridges that were quite unneces sary, and must be most annoying sponsible for the outside model. to a good tailor or dressmaker re
It is just the same mistake as trying on the latest hats over "a golffure wrongly cut and waved. So my advice for the députante who aims at baisg really well-dressed in to let all her foundations be as sound as she can afford.
A NEW GRAMAPHONE RECORD
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In public affairs the disillusion has been hardly less. Great expec-! lations were based upin the admis
By LAYTON & JOHNSTONE sins of women to Parliament. They
A selection of the haunting would finally put an end to that supreme folly of man-war-for
music of this successful New York which in pain and travail they. It is all the fault of Barbara show has been recorded by the supplied, the raw material of can- Glass, a young Richmond woman B.B.C. Dance Orchestra on nonfood, abolish the slums in which who gave up her luxury flat to live twelve-inch Columbia (DX404) re- they drudged and slaved away the open-air life in a converted leased on Monday nart. The ever- Their beauty, their hopes and their Dutch fishing barge.
popular Layton and Johnstose, too, happiness, reduce the appallingly Her friends visited her river have chosen "I've Told Every Lit high maternity death-rate, see to it home--and liked it. And thus a tle Star" and "The Song Is You" that new-born babies were ensured little colony of barge-dwellers has for their mid-May recording (Co an adequate supply of pure milk. sprung into existence. They all lumbia DB1100) place birth-control within the reach claim to have become one-hundred record.
of all, Most of these expectations per cent. fit" since taking to the
have been falsified; few have been realised in ull. The world goës on much as before, and in some way notabl worse than, before women took a share in its nanagement.
Better Off at Home. « And so there has arisen a move. ment of reaction and return, of reaction from public life and re- turn to home life. Ten years ago it was the ambition of every girl to leave hame, if only to become
river.
would catch on so, the young wo "I had no idea that the notion
mas who started the crazes told a Daily Express representative. "But there is no doubt" at all that these barge homes arebecoming amazingly popular. K
"In the first place, to live on the Tiver is so much healthier than living on land. And, secondly, it is infinitely cheaper, I should hate to live in a fiat once more.
a typist; to day many are found "Some people think that I am to wonder whether they may not forfeiting comfort by living is a after all be better off running a barge, but I am not doing any home, however small, looking after thing of the sort I have two large a man and bringing up his ebil rooms and a bathroom, and soin 1 dren, than working long hours of hope to have slectric light install- routine drudgery at everybody's ed. I could sot be more comfort- beck and call in an effice,
able anywhere."! --
This seemed to be the view of all the women in the oulung. But what do thei husbands think?
-What began ng a gesture, of dis- illusioned reaction is now repre sented in some quarters as a social "Hang this business," "'one of duty. It is mid to be women's them said as he brushed some water, duty to retire and leave the field of from his trousera. A man is mos employment to men. And so women allowed to live in comfort nowa return, or so we are led to believe, daya, Give me a house for comfort in increasing numbers to the home any day.
This is a good
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There's something rich and pleas isg about the idea. I believe the children love of brightness which made us clap our hands at the glittering, candlelit, tinsel-bung
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