Show Working Wives 5 Keep Romance Bloom Blooming lg Ur nT MAY CHRISTIE Copyright 1922 by lay by May Christie Contrary to old fashioned Ideas 1 I take my hat off to the married woman who who having a husband with a small smal Income helps helps shoulder should r tho the financial burden and an outside job i 1 admire her courage and her energy Marriage so often means a a. genera slumping of ot the faculties a a heavy settling down down a a dolce far tar laziness which leads to trouble an and particularly fat tat And fatness is he grave of hf t love e So Su too Is poverty I am afraid I have havo observed since my arrival In this country that many married women women wo woo wo- wo men avoid both those painful issues by b putting their shoulder to t the e wheel and working after arter marriage mar mar- rl riago gc I I I I I I I I I In Jn America It isn't a disgrace In England it would lea leau to the na national na- na I bugbear bugbear talk Isn't it awful So and can support his hili wife in the state to which she she's s been accustomed Poor dear she she's s secretary downtown No i 1 shant shan't t call on her her etc Therefore r J. J In ln England we wo have that tragedy trag-ed the lon long engagement The boy In in a Position to be married mar mar- ried ned so 80 the long ong courtship is drawn i out out year after atter year until the first I return return rosy Ur has has' deParted deParted- never ever to I That se seems ns a pit pity doesn't it it I Here In the l States tates there would be bo beno no such difficulty for the wife would II i ifo I earn her I quota and triumph in x 11 io I fact fac fo hed he'd be alt all the more mOle I r roi i it An And I am ani sure that outside work I especially J i In ln the early earl stages stage of a I I marriage marriage renders a a. woman more In In- In n- n JI i and d companionable a able contrary to what t the c critics w say l contrary And Ana isn't It better for both I parties to contribute to the upkeep of ot ota a little Ittle home me where were they tey can lh liv lIn j I together than to postpone marriage i until love has died or both have havo i grown so 80 accustomed to each othe I Ithan th than American every thrill Ways has as f are gone e peculiarly I suited to this fifty fifty-fifty marriage In England d. d a girl wouldn't t make sOul sOul- clent salary y to warrant her lier lea leaving a her kitchen unless unusually unusual unusual- she ly iy brilliant were But 1 AmerIcan girls have golden O op- op I I no They can carl earn as much muchas I as men men anti ancl lay plenty by for tor a rain day or the arrival of a fI new ba baby y I There mere are excellent cheap restaurants everywhere h hert where e the evening meal jo may ay be enjoyed together g not to mention men men- I tion ihl In 1 the drug stores Unknown nl in England a and 1 quick i i service counters at a ver crate erate rate Transit Is very rapid an aria ana absurdly nv cheap about one fifth 0 of Chi what It Is In on England So younG American wives who are po pondering Whether It mightn't be JI a good hl to o help I John or Gene or George g with ft the Ilg financial lg burden at atthe the start t remember your our golden OP op 1 in no other country in inthe In the n world orld chance h n would woul Uld you have this cs 1 i. i |