But with all kinds of amenity, one is too often
in the dark. What we need is a Ladies' Directory dealing not with ladies but with Ladies'. There should be warnings about the boiling hot water at the Café Royal and the apt-to-fly-open door of the ladies' premises at the Savage Club. There would be a system of grading by stars—no marks at all for any that have not the basic requirements of soap, towels, a wide enough shelf for your handbag; one star for a cloth towel, two for Kleenex, three for free cosmetics and a nail file, four for a good motherly shoulder to cry on. It could, in fact, include the ladies' ladies, some have fingers too rheumaticky to fasten straps, all shop ladies' room attendants, like a Davy lamp going out, turn nasty as a warning five minutes before the shop shuts; the theatre women tend for some reason to be the dregs of their profession--though I do remember one dear old ex-dresser who, on a January night when the heating broke, worried for the cast : 'The poor girls,' she said, 'they'll die of cold. It isn't as if they had anything on.'
THE OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR ALL TRUE RADICALS
CHANGE TO THE
DAILY HERALD
OUTSPOKEN INDEPENDENT
MORAL SUPPORT
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