| Show RIGHT TO SHARE IN INCOME should mates be real fifty fifty partners rights it seems seeing was not settled when political equal suffrage was adopted equal rights tor for women Is still the most important question in III american honic home life today according to a question narrO conducted among women by the editorial stare staff of tile county home fifty one per cent of all the women who answered the questionnaire selected this as tile gravest and most important question of a long series submitted for their selection most of them narrowed their interest down to money matters the right of a wife us ns a partner to share fifty fifty in the family income the arguments brought to bear on tho the subject were many and varied A kansas answer carried the following indorsement endorsement Indor when I 1 was thirty I 1 would have stuck up for the old idea that a man Is the natural liend of the family dut but now at sixty two I 1 nin am convinced that an actual partnership with the wife would be the salvation of many homes that otherwise will be wretched or wrecked experience lias has demonstrated that under our present system of equality in education and opportunity woman la Is not only mans equal mentality but often his superior in business acumen and she is entitled to full participation in everything ery thing pertaining to the welfare of the home an indiana woman wrote 1 I have traveled the whole road this very question almost broke my heart I 1 let my husband get hold of all the money I 1 got from my parents lie ile spent I 1 it t ill all tor for his farm and his good I 1 have no modern conveniences with an electric line right in front of our farm home I 1 have no water in the house I 1 d draw w c cistern water I 1 had seven children M f for r him too and hild to chickens to clothe myself and the lie children and what g good 0 od was it till nil there are no pockets in it shroud |
