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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY, MAR. 22, 1922.
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WOMAN'S MISSION BOARD OF CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE TO MEET
EATON, O., Mar. 22 Mid-year meeting of the Woman's Mission board of the Miami Ohio Christian conference will take place here, Friday in the Christian church, of which the Rev. Riley Baker Is pastor. The Rev. W. II. Martin, will address an afternoon session of the meeting. Dayton women haying places on the program are: Mrs. Sarah Swartzel, Mrs. Abble Denison, Mrs. Emma S. Powers, Mrs. Grace K. Smith, of Versailles, and Mrs. A. B. Kendall, of Springfield, are scheduled for addresses.
Departmental conferences will pro
ceed the afternoon session, which will open at 1:30. The day's meeting will
open at 9:30 in the morning. Spec
ial music will feature the program
Preparations are being made to enter
tain a large number of visiting delegates. The 1 aid society of the local
Concord Christian churches will serve
dinner In the church dining hall.
The Working Girl's Clothes By FREDERICK J. HASKIN '
should dress simply and lnconsplcu-1 dress at a time for church, office and
Endeavor Organization Planned
Organization of a county Christian
Endeavor union will be effected here Thursday! in a meeting in the Presbyterian church, it 13 expected. Officers, members and representatives of the Christian Endeavor societies in Preble county, of which there are 15 or more, will gather here for the purpose. The Rev. Frank I Freet, secretary of the Ohio Christian Endeavor Union, will be present to assist in effecting the organization and he also will speak at morning and afternoon sessions on the matter. Takes Control of Trees Council has adopted an ordinance placing under control of council the shade trees along the streets in town, while Judge A. C. Risinger. of common pleas court, has Just handed down an opinion In which he holds the town's shade trees are the property of Ihe lot owners. Council's ordinance prohibits cutting. Injuring or destruction of shade trees and provides penalties for violations, and contains a permit clause. The ordinance is said to have bten . modeled after one now In effect in Cleveland.
Judge Rislngers opinion relative to
lot owners' property rights in the
town's shade trees is contained in a
decision in a demurrer filed In a oasei
in which the cutting of shade trees was involved. A property owner obtained in common pleas court a restraining order against a neighboring property owner cuting down shade trees. The defendant demurrered to plaintiff's complaint and claimed property rights in the trees. The demurrer was sustained, the court thereby placing the property rights in the lot owner, but control must in no manner interfere with the public's rights. To Improve Church Between $4,500 and $5,000 will be expended in making improvements to the interior and exterior of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church. Redecoration of the entire interior of the church Is to be made, while the exterior improvements include painting of the spire and a general repairing of the roof, guttering, etc.
THE FORUM
The Palladium, Richmond, Indiana. Gentlemen In your Monday issue of The Palladium I noticed an article in the police court news in which the name of Helen Smith was implicated. To my knowledge there are three
persons in Richmond by the name of; Helen Smith, and I am not in anvl
way implicated in the item printed in Monday's issue. Very truly yours. HELEN LEONA SMITH.
NEW YORK CITY, March 22. The heavy bombardment of dress regulations which Is being hurled at the poor, surprised working girl in so many American cities has made no impression upon New York. Here working girls can still wear what they please. Their employers have laid down no stern and arbitrary rules for them. When Chicago department stores frown upon bobbed hair and rouge for sales girls, and when Newark banks forbid rolled stockings and peek-a-boo waists In their formal precincts, New Yorkers merely shrug their shoulders and smile a superior sort of smile. So far, they have developed none of these prejudices. "Short skirts and bobbed hair have nothing to do with morality and efficiency," declared the head of a large New York mercantile house when questioned on the subject. "Whether the skirts of our employes are six inches or twelve inches from the floor does not concern us. We stress neatness and dignity, but aside from that there is no effort made to influence or
coerce our workers. Dress is a matter of taste and habit. Wearing the hair short or long is a personal matter
which has to do with the individual
and no one else. We feel that cur people have the same right to exercise individual taste in questions of dress as the debutante or the society woman." "Yes," joined in his Junior partner, disgust in hi3 voice, "all such prohibitions are nonsense sheer nonsense. Business women should be permitted to dress as they please, just as men do. We do not object to bobbed hair for our saleswomen any more than we object to bald heads or side whiskers on our salesmen. In fact, when you come to think of it, bobbed hair is not half so offensive as no hair at all, is it?" And he smiled as he stroked his own sparsely-covered scalp. "Then the question of dress is a sensitive one with women. Tlwy won't stand much criticism on the subject. They are apt to get sulky and develop a grudge, and an employe with a giudge is worse than no employe at all." Suggestions, Not Regulations There is one department store in New York, employing about 3,500 women, which does have certain regula
tions concerning dress, but they are!
tactfully offered as suggestions rather than demands. An advisory committee on this important matter, elected
from among the saleswomen themselves, does the advising when necessary. Girls who wear thin waists, for example, are gently informed that it would be in better taste if they confined themselves to inconspicuous underwear, and girls who appear in extravangant decollete are politely requested to desist. Otherwise, the advisory committee seems to possess rather liberal ideas. Not even these limited restrictions are placed upon the 4,000 girls and women who are employed by a large insurance company in this city. When questioned as to this seeming lack of discipline, a business executive of the firm asserted that the company was concerned entirely with the efficiency of its employes and not with their clothes. - "If the girls want to wear short skirts or wear their hair bobbed or in Mary Pickford curls, they may. Some of the company's officials, of course, have their individual prejudices. By the way, a funny incident happened here the other day which you might be able to use in this connection. A girl came in to apply for a job as stenographer in Mr. (we'll call him Smith) Smith's office. She was the regular flapper type, with short hair and short skits and her face .
streaked up like an Indian squaw. Smart, though; and took her dictation without a hitch. "Smith, you see. Is one of the oldfashioned kind that is raising all this howl about the new girls and their clothes, and here was a splendid example of all he disapproved of asking him for a Job. We could see that he was impressed by her efficiency, though, so we hung around waiting to see what he would do. After a long silence he finally, said: "I'm sorry, but I cannot employ you, and I am going to tell you why. You may think me old-fashioned, but I want people with some degree of dignity near me while I work. Now, with your abbreviated hair and skirt ' Transformation Lands Job '"Oh, is that all?' asked tie girl in a relieved voice. 'Well.. that is a defect easily remedied. Longer skirts are easily acquired, if you insist upon them, and if you will only watch patiently for a few seconds I can
ously has long been voiced with mighty
eloquence by various groups for various reasons, but It has remained for a few bankers to come right out bluntly
with the great objection namely, the fact that frivolous clothes have a distracting effect upon the male employee. "Girls who wear gay clothes to business are too distracting to the young men in the office," said one of this group. "We are letting them out as fast as we can." Thl3 view is sharply challenged by Mary Alden Hopkins, in an article recently published in the New Republic, In which she says: "Why shouldn't 6he (the business girl) wear as pretty, silly clothes as the girl who stays at home to help her mother? Earrings and strapped toes
and high heels and strings of barbaric beads and everything else. "If you put it on the ground of simplicity for all girls and all women why, that's another matter. Maybe so and maybe not so. But the idea that red and orange and nasturtium yellow and aster purples belong to the girl whose allowance copies from her father, while navy blue and dark brown
jare the colors for the girl whose pay
bhow you that my hair is not really i envelope comes from her employe 1ia1Kaj1 nfr nil Clnl. n.UJnl. 1- . 1. ! It.!- . . . . . 1 1 Tl
bobbed at all.' Saying which, she took
out a few hairpins and removed the whole short part of it. Her own hair was neatly arranged in a soft, flat coil at the back as dignified looking a coiffure as even . Smith could desire. Smith was so surprised at first that his mouth fell open, and he had to cover up this loss of dignity by giving the girl a long lecture on her artificiality. Then he hired her at a god salary." This view that business women
this seems to me not fair at all. Why should a business girl be restricted to the type of ostume that no woman ever turns her head to look after on the street?. . , . "Headliner business women wear simple and unostentatious costumes because they can afford to buy the very best models and because by the time they are headliners they are beyond the rainbow age. But Twinkletoes, earning fifteen a week, has one
picnic. If there is any zip in the child I
that one dress is going to be the liven-1 est she can achieve. We would like J her to be Twlnkletoes before 4Jreak-, fast and after supper, but Sobersides j in the street car and office. But she; has aot money enough for two cos-' tumes nor experience enough for two personalities. She chooses thank God to be Twlnkletoes downtown asj well as uptown. . "For my part I am glad the grouchy, prosperous employers can not suppress ; her youthful folly. I adore the elusive beauty and silly gaiety of young things , coming and going from work. ... At : noon the girl workers hurry along the gray, stone-walled canyons, gay as a' crocus bed in the spring sunshine, I
chattering like squirrels, and heedless
as a bunch of puppies. Not one in & I I lL 3 . iliiMhln t
lcu la wearing uib muuesi uiuouicj frock recentlv recommended by four-1
teen clergymen. They are girls first and working girls second. "Women of brains and courage push their way into these frowning buildings, and women of force and determination hold the big woman jobs in the financial districts. But the silly little flapper has dared to dress as she fasrionably pleases in Wall Street itselt and powder her nose right under her employer's frown. She is the bravest of them all."
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A "Reel" of Real Estate!
SUPPOSE that at the end of the feature "movie" tonight a film entitled, "The Real Estate News" should be flashed on the screen in place of "Current Events." . , , After seeing exterior and interior views of all the properties for sale and for rent in Richmond, it wouldn't take you long, would it, to choose the house that suited you best? , . "Real Estate News" isn't shown in the "movies" but it CAN be found in the classified section of The Palladium. Those little ads give you a graphic word "picture" of practically all houses for sale or for rent in and near the city. , Sit up and start looking! Turn to Classifications 77 and 84. .,; - , : ;.'." Look Up and Down the Ads . Not Up and Down the Streets!, " Watch the Classified Columns ' '
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