If you can imagine a smiling, dreamy-eyed bombshell that explodes in silence, aimed at men's minds instead of their bodies, rocking fixed ideas upon their foundations and shaking innumerable old notions upon their pedestals until it is hard to tell whether or not they are going to fall, perhaps you can get an idea of the first effect of Mary's advertisement.

Wherever skilled workmen gathered together her announcement was discussed, and nowhere with greater interest than in her own home town.
"Seems to me this thing may spread," said a thoughtful looking striker in Repetti's pool-room.

"Looks to me as though we had started something that's going to be powerful hard to stop." "What makes you think it's going to spread ?" asked another.
"Stands to reason.

If women can make bearings cheaper than men, the other bearing companies have got to hire women, too, or else go out of business.

And you can bet your life they won't go out of business without giving the other thing a try." "Hang it all, there ought to be a law against women working," said a third.
"You mean working for wages ?" "Sure I mean working for wages." "How are you going to pass a law like that when women can vote ?" impatiently demanded a fourth.
"Bill's right," said another.