Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 239, Hammond, Lake County, 29 March 1912 — Page 11
Friday, March 29, 1912.
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The Evening Chit-Ghat i .". By RUTH CAMERON
A foreign prima donna and professional beauty has burst Into print with an Injunction to American women to spend more time at thetr toilet tables, in order to bring their husbands to the proper state of subjection. Madame announces that our men do not love lis as the French lovs thetr women. A Frenchman, she says, will ruin himself to buy ornaments for the object of his affection, whereas an American man almost never comports himself In this admirable way. And this unfortunate state of affairs, fthe explains to us, Is due to the fact that American women do not spend enough time in making themselves beautiful. She. herself spends several hours daily at her toilet table, and any normal French woman is willing to employ If she may fascinate for one hour. Stuff and nonsense. Tes. Madame, that's not very re- . fined, I know, but it seems t be the only way I can fitly characterise your advice. v I think the women of America have been hearing altogether too much of this sort of thing lately. There are, to be sure, some of us who think too little of the duty of looking as well as we can. But there are Just as many who think of little tlse. 1 I don't know much about Frenchmen, but I do know that the middla class, backbone-of-the-nation, average American man does care about something besides physlcaul beauty In a wife. Madame, the prima donna, thinks the only way to keep your husband in love with you Is to spend half the day at the toilet table, fighting away old ag, and simulating youth and beauty after they have departed. And what pray is to happen to the babies, the kitchen tire, the eupper, and a few other little incidentals about the house that occasionally require attention, while mother is chained to the toilet table, penciling her eye-brows and massaging a threatening double chin? If an American woman wants to keep her husband's love. I don't think she needs to go through with any cuch farcical performances as these. tt her take a reasonable Interest in her personal appearance, studying becoming colors, adopting, or if necessary, adapting' becoming styles, and putting on her clothes neatly and carefully. Xjrt her give a reasonable amount of time to the care of hor person, keeping always perfectly sweet and clean, and doing everything' in her power to keep healthy. It her keep all fretful and complaining notes out of her voice. If I were a husband, nothing would drive me from my home mora quickly than a wife with a fretful voice. I?t her keep her mind from stagnating and her horizon from narrow 753 Hammond
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ing by reading and talking about the world's progress, and the things that count. We read that men fell In love with Madame tie Stael after "he was sevent Why? Because she never let her mind or spirit stagnate. I
Lt the American woman take n Interest in her husband s work. Let her try to be fair-minded, kind, and considerate in fact, obey the Golden Rule In her household relations, and be a livable friend, as well as a lovable wife. Let her remember the enthusiastic, fine souled girl her husband fell in love with and Idealized, and never let that girl wholly die within her. Let any American woman do all or half these things, and even if she has no toilet table in her home, I think that In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, she will be able to keep her husband's love "Till death us do part." To be sure, 1 don't mean that it will be the kind of love that will make him ruin himself to buy her ornaments. Merely the Inferior American quality of love that makes a man glad to toll to make his woman a pleasant home, and eager to come back to that home when the toil is done. RUTH AMERON. LABOR NEWS There are more than 2,000 union car penters unemployed in San Francisco. An attempt will be made to organize the Russian laborers in the vicinity of Fresno, Cal. The Atlanta Federation of Trades recently celebrated Its twenty-first anniversary. A co-operative grocery store and meat market has been started by the union members of various trades at Sioux City, la. The entire police force of Somlyo, Hungary, has gone on a strike for more pay. At present Its members receive $10 a month. The government of Victoria, Australia, is arranging for the emigration of over tw0 thousand selected men and women workers from Scotland and England. During the last sixteen years the total amount of sick, death, out-of-work and disability benefits paid by the International Molders' Vnion was $3,066,821.15. In the big steel mills of Nova Scotia and the Soo, men are not only compelled to work seven days a week, but they also have to work In shifts of eleven and thirteen hours. Twenty-eight successful "sanitary strikes," Involving no question of hours, wages or union recognition, is the record for one year of the cloak makers' union of New Tork.
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A system federation of the employes In the operative department of the Denver & Rio Grande ratlroad. numbering approximately 3,000 men, has recently been affected. .Industrial disputes were less numerous In New Tork state in 1911 than in 1910, the bureau of meditation and arbitration having recorded 216 strikes and lockouts in 1911, as compared with 2B0 in 1910. Steps are being taken for the forma
tion of a federation of all employes of electrical workers for corporations in the territory of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Artcona and British Columbia. At the end of 1910 there were 69 registered trade unions In tha United Kingdom, with an aggregate membership of more than 2,000.000. These totals compare with a membership of 211,091 in 166 unions in 1880. Changes in weekly hoars of labor taking effect in Great Britain in 1911 affected 105. 6S7 working people. Of these, 4.887 had their hours increased by 13,906 a week, and 101,200 had reductions, amounting to 674,140 hours a week. Vital' statistics ascribe short lives to printers, on the average, but the recent report of the public printer shows there are employed at present in the government printing office at Washington 50 persons over 65 years old. At the recent election of officers by referendum vote of the International Printing Pressmen's and Assistants union George I Barry of Rogersville, Tonn., was re-elected president without opposition. Joseph C. Orr of Chicago was re-elected secretary, defeating F. M. Wilke of Milwaukee. - The Bakers and Confectioners' Union has established a co-operative bakery !in Minneapolis. Emporia. Kansas, has a street fund which is to be applied to giving work to the unemployed. The American Federation of Musi cians will hold Its next annual convention on May 29, at Omaha, Neb. Wages of union workmen generally have increased twenty per cent, in lesa than three years at Waco, Texas. Practically all wage earners at Barre. Vermont, with the exception of the city employes are members of some union. At the international convention of the Molders' Union, to be held next May, a mortuary benefit plan Is to be considered. The salmon fishers of Perth, Scotland, demand a raise of wages, which have for thirty years been $4.80 per week of 66 hours. A new local of the International Boot and Shoe Workers' Union ' has been formed in New York takes in that branch of the trade known as carpet slipper makers. Tho brewery workmen of Milwaukee, Wis., are taking steps for the formation of a brewery workers' alliance, to be formed on lines similar to the railroad federations. . . , Plumbers at Fort Worth, Tex., have gained an advance of 60 cents a day tor this year and will have another 60 cents a day Increase for the next two years, signing every shop in the city.
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