The Post-War "'Damsel "The interests of woman should be confined to the four K's, Kirche, Kleider, Kuche, Kinder (church, rene, cooking, children"—Tho Be-
Of all the revolutions in Central Europe brought about by the war, the most astounding is that of the German woman.
In pre-war days it was improper, not to say outrageous, for a woman to wear openwork stockings, to climb to the tops of omnibuses, 6 powder her nose. Paint or lipstick was unthinkable, as it was to smoke cigarettes, or to earn her living in other but the teaching profession, if she were the sister, daughter or wife of an officer, a higher civil servant, or Inid claim to any social estate at all.
At 25 a girl was an old maid. At coffee parties the unmarried retired to the background, helped the hostess and sat modestly in erners on the most uncomfortable An engagement was binding as the marriage tie; a broken engag>- ment, however much the man had been at fault, disgraced the girl, who could rarely hope for another matrimonial chance.
The allerly wives of generale and government officials ruled feminine society with a rod of iron all worner taking their husband's rank, no matter how high or low or how petty that was, Girls' education, though good, ignored Latin and mathematics, and differed s0 completely from that of their brothers that small boys des-ised cheir sisters from their nur-serv days. Woman's physical inferiority in a military state enhanced this difference. Tt was considered that girls forced by circumstances to take up office work were exposed to unwelcome atte tions on the part of their colleagues fand employers. Those bold enough to do a inevitably lost caste and hopes of a suitable husband. To be smart was to be sinful: severe lines were drawn between women one married and those one admired.
Young married men saw to it Jealoualy that their wives dresse!
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