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Bottle ( an wqvl t . ? - J? W; TV TV THEN the men come back, the women will welcome them with open arms. But will they welcome them with open jobs ? Will they hand over the positions in which they have "made good" during the men's absence? Wftll they hand over the nice fat pay envelopes they've enjoyed? Helen Ring Robinson opens up some vk. rVFttx7 PYririna rnifstirmQ in this zirtirlf Can you re-bottle a woman? How can you pour all these women in in dustry back into their homes and put the cork in? For the most interesting thing is not that women are turning lathes, working in munitions, making airplanes, building ships, but that they are reaching out for executive positions ! Think what that means ! And what is to become of that old standby, the "sponge" woman? Will she be sunk without a trace, that pretty little parasite who con tributes nothing? How is the adjustment to be made, what of the home, how do women them selves regard it? Helen Ring Robinson has some very pertinent glimpses of woman and her position in the new world after the war in "Releasing Women for the Top." The man who jumped into the sea BY ISRAEL SOLON A man is swimming after the little boat steadily, persistently, relentlessly. After the solitary life boat, already over crowded with men and women. "Get away! Keep away from us I" they shriek. "Knock him on the head brain him, somebody!" Then from the water came the proposal, "Sell me a place, one ot you I'll pay you well for if Who was this man that another, a man with wife and children, jumped into the sea in his place? This is one of the strangest stories of the war that has come to light m The kind of wife he had He was sick of it Sick of the same meals, the same office, the same wife. He went to New York. What women his friend's wife and sister-in-law were V He'd been a fool to marry the first girl that came along. Eagerly he saw more of the wonderful women. And then it happened ! A scream a woman's scream cut sud denly through the thick darkness of that house. When he got back to his hotel he knew ! Don't miss this illuminating story of the crisis in a man's life "Just Plain Wife" by William Dudley Pelley. Christmas color pages for the children Wonderful, bright-colored pages, made especially for the children ! One full of merry, irresistible Christmas cards all ready to be cut out and mailed to little friends. Two more of holiday fun with the beloved Twelvetree Kiddies. Others with fat Christmas stockings 'and holly wreaths for the doll house, puppies ana Kittens, tne nristmas tree blazing with candles, and Dolly Dingle herself with her soldier boy all just waiting to be cut out and played with. Special patriotic Christmas pictures In a double -page Ch'ristmas supplement, Pictorial Review is re producing three masterly Christ mas war canvases. These are Arthur I. Keller's "Keep the Home Fires Burning" and "There's a Long, Long Trail Awind ing," and S. J. Woolf's wonderful and llll poignant" His Soul Goes Marching On". In the ruins of an old church at Rambecourt, destroyed by the Germans, this great American artist secured his inspiration for this masterpiece. All reproduced in the original colors. Ready to cut out and frame. Little bewildered children whose fathers have been crucified for daring to fight Little homeless children whose mothers and sisters have been carried away to horrors worse than death ! A little baby girl waiting on a gutted doorstep a little baby girl with a face like an old woman, rocking herself back and forth, back and forth, droning, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry." And all about her the village crumbling, wrecked, deserted. One of thousands of children lost in the mad flights from burning villages ! When you hang up your holiday wreath and light your Christmas candles, think of them. Thirteen cents will send one of them a quart of milk! Read the article on these little children in the Christmas number of Pictorial Review. Largest 20-cent magazine circulation in the world 1,500,000 copies monthly PICTORIAL REVIEW Christmas Issufc Now on sale ' ' If there are no newsdealers in your town, or if your newsdealer cannot supply you, send 20 cents for a single copy or $2.00 for a whole year's subscription- to Pictorial Review, 226 West 39th Street, New York City. - t n n s I i i f -- . r i.
