, and during later
periods.

The Legend of Life tells us that man can not live alone, hence woman;
and the Pageant of Life shows that she has played opposite with
consistency and success throughout the ages.

The Sunday issue of the Philadelphia _Public Ledger_ for March 25,
1917, has a headline, "Trousers vs. Skirts," and, continues Margaret
Davies, the author of the article:

"This war will change all things for European women.
Military service, of a sort, has come for them in both
France and England, where they are replacing men employed in
clerical and other non-combatant departments, including
motor driving. The moment this was decided upon in England,
it was found that 30,000 men would be released for actual
fighting, with prospects of the release of more than 200,000
more. What the French demand will be is not known as I
write, but it will equal that of England.

"How will these women dress? Will they be given military
uniforms short of skirt or even skirtless? Of course they
won't; but the world on this side of the ocean would not
gasp should this be done. War industry already has worked a
revolution.

"Study the pictures which accompany this article. They are a
new kind of women's 'fashion pictures'; they are photographs
of women dressed as European circumstances now compel them
to dress. Note the trousers, like a Turkish woman's, of the
French girl munitions workers. Thousands of girls here in
France are working in such trousers. Note the smart liveries
of the girls who have taken the places of male carriage
starters, mechanics and elevator operators, at a great
London shop. They are very natty, aren't they? Almost like
costumes from a comic opera. Well, they are not operatic
costumes. They are every-day working liveries. Girls wear
them in the most mixed London crowds--wear them because the
man-shortage makes it necessary for these girls to do work
which skirts do not fit. All French trams and buses have
'conductresses.'

"The coming of women cabmen in London is inevitable--indeed,
it already has begun. In Paris they have been established
sparsely for some time and have done well, but they have not
been used on taxis, only on the horse cabs.

"I have spent most of my time in Paris for some months now,
and have ridden behind women drivers frequently. They drive
carefully and well and are much kinder to their horses than
the