| Show ii i T THE E LOOKING GLASS GLASS GLASS' 1 Increasing CO Cost of Living Lowering Lowering Lowering Low Low- ering of M Mens Men's ns n's Wages by Employment of Women and Girls' Girls Desir Desired Jor Financial In Independence In- In o dependence Threaten Marriage Marriage Marriage Mar Mar- and the Home Unless Radical St Steps s. s Are I Taken A Contented Wife Contented Wife Declares That Wom Women's ns n's Foibles in Dress and Manners Are Due to Husbands Husband 1 Who Like to See Wives ip in Latest Styles No Matter How Freakish They May B Be J BY liv S GREAT man many persons who have ha A their attention upon the Looking Glass Glasa seem to believe bellove the tho girl who earns her own living Is la the most Important vision reflected upon Its surface Some of or the these e observers view vie her sympathetically and admit admit- others say the they cons consider Iller her a menace A wife tells us today that her Cant family II has not enough to live IIvo on because of ot the tho competition In Industry of women omon with men But sho she Is broad broadminded minded enough to add that the women I work worle because they havo have to live and that tho the solution of or tho problem lies not In J keeping the women at home but in fn equal pa pay for tor equal work so 80 that t men inca In may a not be displaced as aa they are ara frequently today by the tho employers employers' argument that he can hire three thee 56 6 a a. week girls for the price of ot one iS man Another wife protests against the general Jeneral use uso of ot the tho word vord parasite as applied to women who live at home A feminine reader In Arkansas In Informs informs In- In forms torms us that the greatest evil e of at modern life Is the of or young oung girls to rush Into marriage merely to avoid being belnE called old maids This young woman Is nineteen earns a better better better bet bet- ter salar salary than most moat of or tho the young oung men sh she knows has saved 1000 learned to cook coole keep house and sew and says she docs does not Intend to marr marry until T I n nm sho she m fl Is twenty t oK h eh 11 t h lii t T will wn i have e something n i to o offer th the man manI a I marry besides s a big doll to admire None Non of ot m my friends who married within with with- in th the the- thelast last two years yeats had ever saved a a. penny none of at them knew how to sow sew keep house or cook and to my personal knowledge e all of at them married mar mar- tied ried men who are arc not ablo to keen servants so they have had hall to do all nIl their learning since marriage and It Itis Itla I Is la much harder to learn all alono alone than when you ou wore were at your our mothers mother's knee I Peering over the tho shoulders of at these various students and observers of the tho I supporting self young oun c woman n a as sho appears in the tho Looking Glass I am I sure that whether her Influence bo he for good or ill it Is a n permanent Influence ence that We wo are going to have more moro and more moro of her eventually when a girl finishes school or college she Sims will look for a 1 Job or adopt a n profession pro pro- i nl as Inevitable as her brother does oes today I Since It Is going to cost us more and I moro to live li wo we must marry later and 1213 1113 by Th The Iba Pr J Publishing Co Endowment of Motherhood the Solution of Money Problems Surrounding Wedlock unless she sho earns carns her own living what will the tho young woman oman of ot the future do between graduation and her wedding da day In the few cases In which her father might be bo able and willing to support her for ten years or more marc she would become moro more and more moro reluctant to lIv live as ns a more or less ornamental drone The situation la is precisely as fiS one describes It young it-young young w women meo havo to work In fn order to live and yet ot by doing doing- so they the make It more and more moro Impossible for men to marry them and anu support them E. E ENDOWMENT OP What hat Is hi the answer I confess confes to a strong sympathy with the solution which II IT G. G Wells Yells and others othera have havo of ot- ot the ered the state endowment of or motherhood mother moth hood Eventually society will have to forbid tho the continuation of degenerate degen degen- erate crate human stock stacie and once having guaranteed the quality of or it Its future citizens It should free motherhood from dependence on the good or I evil qualities tho the cy or weakness weakness weak weak- ness nes of tho the Individual man A state is vory generally held to be enriched by bv tIle Hie birth of ot children h healthy alth In mind and body and b by making It Impossible Impossible Im Im- Im- Im possible for any other sort of children children chil chil- dren to bo born we would eliminate the main objection to the endowment or of mothers A large number of Intelligent women In tho the United States believe wives should work for Cor a n ln living hiving after marriage mar mar- There Is no reason V why h a childless woman should hould not continue In whatever gainful occupation she aho I pursued before her marriage But the I woman who b bears ars and rears one ono child chili I or 01 several Ic children has undertaken the I most arduous work ork In the world 0 rid and to add support self to her burdens I seems to me mc cruel Injustice WO OMANS I tIO I Wo o 0 are atc all aU taxed to maintain the armies of ot death and wo ce 0 all nU accept that tax as a matter of course but t l tho the present time the arm army of life tho the mothers of oC a nation must depend for tor subsistence upon the good will and the efficiency of oC each Individual man As Asa a 0 mass men are willing enough and self sacrificing enough hut but the task they set themselves Is growing more and more difficult and may become ultimately altogether Impossible Of Ot this threatened threaten ell condition women are more aW aware re than men and the tho whole womans woman's movement feminine whatever you ou choose to call It It Is Indirectly a n movement for tor the emancipation emancipation pation of at men from tram economic obligations obligations obliga obliga- a- a greater ter than the they can bear The letters of ot readers follow Dear Surveying Madam Madam Surveying modern In tho thero Looking Glass I find tho great great- est mistake o We wo make these da days clays s 's Is Js marrying too soon A number of oC young girls with whom I havo have been closely closer associated havo have married at between tho the ages ues of 17 and n 21 21 and not one In tho entire ten len can cook a decent tn meal mOal al alfor for her husband The Idea Iden that girls are arc old maids mald and aro are sneered at nt when the they go down tho the street Is tho the ono thing timing that drives many a poor vain aln girl Irl to the tho altar when she knows nothInG nothing nothing noth noth- ing of ot housework and If It she sho only had sense enough to realize It there Is no greater honor in a a. young oun girls girl's lIfO life than to be called an nn old maid who can cando cando do 10 things I am a young oung girl girt of nearly 19 19 and ha have havo e never noyer entertained tho the Idea for one moment that I could marry before I Iwas Iwas was as at least 21 1 I am a a. stenographer and got a better salary than many young men do when they take someone someone someone some some- one under their wing to care for I have havo been working twenty-six twenty months and havo have invested around 1000 which Is toda today drawing 6 per cent aU ally I can cook and do clO housework of oC all kinds except sewing sawing which I am now learning and do not think I am doln doing moro more than every girl should know how to do 10 before she even entertains entertains entertains en en- the tho idea of ot marrying None lono of m my chums who have havo married within the tho last two years ears has ever saved s a penny penn none of at them know how to cook to-cook cook keep house or sew sen and to m my own personal personal per per- knowledge the they have haYe all married men who are not able to have servants the they have had to do clo all their learning since and it Is much harder to learn all alono alone than when you ha have havo havea vo a kind patient mother to teach you I I am a strong h healthy h girl and am thankful that I havo have something to of offer offer ot- ot fer the man whom I marr marry something besides a big doll to admire for tor I am am very ambitious and hope to have havo and know even more moro than I do now when I tako into consideration the subject of ot matrimony It is my 01 intention to tobe tobe tobe be a helper to the man I marry instead of a little helpless weakling that has hasto hasto hasto to have the doctor about three times a week The Tho helplessness ss of the modern woman Is her greatest fault In Intend to avoid It SUNSHINE E Dear Madam Among Madam Among all my ac acquaintances ac- ac I find women are what the themen themen themen men make them If It tho the husband is good the tile wHo i Is III Just as aa anxious to save as ho Is 13 In some Iome cases more so Some men expect their wives to fib In fib In plain words throw a bluff blurt If you OU ask them thorn why the they do It it tho the answer is My h husband wants mo mt to In classIng classIng classing class- class Ing worn woman an as ns a parasite do men stop to think that she works Just as hard I as some somo men Sho She Is la th the first to get l up in the morning and the last to go to sleep at night In case caso of at sickness f it Is she ho that sits up rom Wom jn n are called lazy yot yet I of often ofton ton feel that I would rather do my hug bus bands band's work than my myown own Of Ot cour course wn WI cant can't do both both o go out to earn carn money and keep keer house Women are aro considered extravagant I will state m my own case caso My husband Is very vory good in every way war yet t h ho he wants meto mo me moto moto to paint and powder and wear whatever what what- whatever ever over happens to be the style My dress must bo be very cry short hort and narrow so no much so that I often orten feel teel embarrassed as people naturally think It my own taste So you see men are aro as bad as women You will find them thorn pretty evenly matched CONTENT T Dear Madam There are arc women who work worl for pin mone money for tor I know some of them still I agree asree with you OU that the tIme majority n need cd tho the mone money and I ome need it badly Yet I also agree gro groth with th S 8 S. J. J who says they lower the wages es 1 and deprive men of ot work As one Instance during the holidays ono one of ot time the best stores in the time city laid off oft men In many departments an and ami kept girls because they ald said the theA could have three girls at 6 G per week for tor foron forone on one onA man Many lan girls there thero get only 54 4 to 5 56 some Bom cashiers rs who have other work to do and nd when hen they mal make e a mistake their entire wa wages e aro at kept kepL Few Pew men get 13 18 many Set got but 10 or 1 12 Most of the these e men are aro married mar mar- ned ried arid and man many of oC the single ones have others dependent on them besides needing more marc pocket money than the I married ones All AIl of or them have to dress dress' w wll Jl to keep their Jobs Yes Tes tho the women need neel work But hero here labor Is a two two-e two edged ged sword that tha t cuts both ways The They need work orl because because because be be- cause they work and lower the wage of rather father brother and son But what aro are they to do Starve S S. S J. J Is on th the wrong trail for tho the remedy The remedy Is to compel employers to pay equal wage for tor equal work worle No o man can cnn ulvo Iv the best hest In Wm him on a a. stan standard ard wa wago of at 12 or H. H Ho lIe cannot get gel proper nourishment in these high high- priced times unless ho he Is piling up I i debts Of ot course he must bo ho worried and discontented and a discontented employee is not worth his pa pay A man mannot mannot mannot not sur sure surd of his Job doesn't take much Interest st In iii It So the bosses themselves themselves themselves them them- selves are blind to their own Interests and should be made to see straight Then thin things s will right themselves men will give gh better service with better better bet bet- ter encouragement ement and will then be beable beable beable able to keep the women at home G Gt Get t tafter after the bosses I A SLAVES SLAVE'S w WIPE WIFE I |
