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Show water in the house. I draw cistern water. I had seven children for him and had to raise chickens to clothe myself and the children. And what good was it all? There are no i pockets in a shroud." WIFE'S RIGHT TO SHARE IN INCOME Should Mates Be Real Fifty-Fifty Fifty-Fifty Partners? Women's rights, it seems, was not settled when political equal suffrage was adopted. Equal rights for women wom-en is still the most important question ques-tion in American home life today, according ac-cording ,to a questionnaire conducted conduct-ed among 6,000 women by the editorial edi-torial staff of the County Home. Fifty-one per cent of all the women wom-en who answered the questionnaire selected se-lected this as the "gravest and most Important question" of a long series submitted for their selection. Most of them narrowed their interest down to money matters the right of a wife as a partner to share fifty-fifty in the family income. The arguments brought to bear on the subject were many and varied. A Kansas answer carried the following fol-lowing indorsement: "When I was thirty I would have stuck up for the old idea that a man is the natural nat-ural head of the family. But now, at sixty-two, I am convinced that an actual partnership with the wife would be the salvation of many homes that otherwise will be wretched wretch-ed or wrecked. Experience has demonstrated dem-onstrated that, under our present system of equality in education and opportunity, woman is not only man's equal mentality but often his superior in business acumen : and she Is entitled to full participation in everything ev-erything pertaining to the welfare of the home." An Indiana woman wrote: "I have traveled the whole road. This very question almost broke my heart. I let my husband get hold of all the money I got from my parents. He spent it all for his farm and his good. I have no modern conveniences, conveni-ences, with an electric line right in front of our farm home. I have no |