Show I t I i I I f Portraits of Women of 1 1917 91 7 THE WIFE r By Winona Wilcox college girl Irl I 11 the m nt l T THE Independent ot of nil Ill women the i Is the th nut most powerful and tin tIll wife i is the most l critical The up t tu date daU- wife Starches searches the time Wall und nail woof wont of or lifo lito with a n ma- ma glass It Tl I I b her r 11 duty she the p genei to tn hunt up tip flaws Claw In existence with existence a view to lo ionic leme- them Modern l feminism and ethics combine tl to raise t. t woman from her hI inferiority tl to man and with her new dignity ha hn has come conic un unlimited un- un limited responsibilities I 1 How fow- However ever er all nfl the time special literature re for fOl women nil imer hH trading clubs lec- lec tilt tun music U e clae e mothers mothers' clubs eluI and church take take- cne eln that she lie IK Is constantly reminded nf ut and la to pel peI form her imer a t of oC duties Something lit lu-avy lu att hangs over r a wife's head day and night hl It Tt IK h the haunting n e of oC om duty left teft undone undone undone-of of failure to as- as other othel with a a. aview j tc o s or nm view fw to UK Its Improvement Therefore Timers There fore Core when outside material ril l runs ruit short the wife well turns her magnifying upon h herself and gu her ber own mn I 1 Has lIas sho Iio made the thi jf sit kiting letting ki let- ting time the baby play with a cube when sims she first t ha have given iven it ita a ha ball n Horror slie she hn has lur darlings darling's development nl forever r AVas tas she sine selfish when site sho It took lock a whole morning to carry corry the time ten children ren a n. basket of or candy anti and frivolous toys ton She wn was was was' net And wasteful wl too She fhe should henl have h sent nl her check t to II time the a tl pent ent of or the Wen Choi The critical wife does Itoe not liot permit herself I lr on one aLvin of oC Jo Joy In itt such a a. natural Instinct as rocking her hr baby a hr to sleep On the time other shil Md 11 of hEr ber doormat tl t t IK itt ivl nl always ways way something civic or on social al wl itin to be he criticised ll a mid I d some home propaganda to lu h be loi spread Rmon among unfortunates unfortunate whom ho j ha M 1 hf been n an and found wa wanting wantIng- ii Li If 11 she is ill an aim ordinary wife Ie in an ana I a average M erase crac ho homo 1 sine she hc becomes more mol time the slave lne than time the mother of or her hr children n If s sIne h he is a rich rioh woman I II with a i great establishment to manage man mall age nt anti and a n social set sot to entertain I I she develops n nervous OliS I a 1111 Is forced to tn tlc desert her lux luxurious urious surrounding part parl o of tho the I year Eal for or restful change aunt and 1111 I I soo e occupation like c lied tod Cro t In Europe I I But flut ie's ies nc neer ne'er r a u cloud without without with with- out tit a silver lining With bo so many N handy bandy which It Il IK Is her duty In to criticise time the husband IM Is rather neglected Time was when hn a u wife concentrated tt her lar critical 1 faculties i amid forming it-forming activities entirely j I on oil h her ber r mate mat B By her hel marring marriage vows VO i iI the site became a a. kind of oC I I officer very elY much responsible for tOl I 1 her hr mans man's misconduct I I The wife of or 1917 In 7 Is U lIn ul I I from rom earlier or varieties II by ly her tol toleration tol- tol of time the eccentricities o of all I i I male pEr persons husbands included Though woman shared mun's muns I life lito from fm-em time tile creation 1511 she still stilt 10 rc- gards onie 1001 or mf his Imis normal and I I j I characteristic I aa as t. t or 10 CI ini- ini I immoral I II But Hut the Ull wife who lio Is i I fortified with th time the host best 1917 theories i iI does not mint express astonishment I whatever a n rumba ml ma may do She Is f far better qualified l to I Judge I man an than ever cr before ht htmL but sh sine she refrains ro- ro from flom telling him so Nn- Nn i an and hysterics a as a method of Gf controlling man maim are arc re out of or ofa I fashion a sh hh ion Thus This wisdom Is 11 the finest ln lIl ripest t. t highest l fruit u of feminism It H does oes I not hot sh show w yet in lii th the lowering of oC I II divorce fI figures un s. s but hut It is Iii bound hound to tu todo todo I do 10 vo so some lay day I the men who laugh i iI I most at nt feminism m are nrc time the very 1 ones I who profit most by Ly It II I I |