Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 16 | Of Course the Wives Pay

OF COURSE THE WIVES PAY City Prosecutor Rogers complains that when he ha has secured conviction of ot men for wife wite beating or for tor those outbursts of ot temper which make arrest necessary the wives come In and pay the bill bUl and take the obstreperous hus husbands husbands husbands bands home Of Ot course they do In the first place placeIt placeit It is I the tha nature of ot the creature In the next it is the best thing the women can do In most of at those cases the husband is the tha bread winner He Is 15 the natural protector of the family And even It if he does make rough house of ot it once in a 8 while yet there thera are some compensations He provides money and confesses to a 8 love for tor the chil chU children children dren He works and he brings home homo the food tood and the clothing Maybe he wastes more than he should now and again But these are like the mistakes B of at the rest of ot us They are the exception to the rule And being the exception the tha wife wite Is winner to have the husband in the home rather than in the Jail Furthermore the presence of ot the husband about t the house at mealtime and during the night makes for respectability I and good form torm It is a con concession concession concession cession to convention A woman whose husband is in Jail even for tor beating her is at a social disadvantage Mr Rogers may complain till he Is blue in the face which would detract somewhat from ordinarily attractive features but the wives will wUl continue to come coma and buy their husbands free freedom freedom freedom dom Just as long as they can And down in his heart we dont be believe believe believe lieve the prosecutor blames them for forit forIt forit it it