Show TWO IDEALS OF THE FAMILY For Comparison One May MayBe Be Called Despotic and the Other DemI Dem Dem- i I To-day To two Ideals of the family are for Cor mastery the mastery the old despotic des des- j family of Roman origin and ec ec- sanction based on the authority au an- of the husband and the mergIng mergIng merging ing of at the wife's legal personality In his bis and the democratic family of ot Germanic Germanic Germanic Ger Ger- manic origin based on the consenting and md harmonious wills of two equals The rhe one goes naturally with pioneering pioneer pioneer- ing agriculture ure and warfare which put ut men to the fore the other goes with industry peace and city life Ute which add to the consequence of wom worn en n. n In as women escape I from abject mental dependence on men and find a point of view of their lawn own the they spurn patri patriarchal claims I f and expect marriage to be the union r of or equal wills What with more girls than boys bos in the high schools and bait half as many women as men in college col I lege it Is not surprising that women women more and more enter marriage with a aI I connubial ideal of ot their own Nevertheless Nevertheless Never Never- the men they wed wed- wed many many of ot them them cherish cherish the conviction that the husband Is the rightful head of the tho family The resulting clash of Ideals Is none the l less ss disastrous because ItIs it itIs itIs Is only an incident of a transition process In social evolution Century Century Magazine |