| Show The Marriage l Problem 0 By J. J DASKAM BACON DACON Author of Tilt fl of hili Philip Th rho ere He I ing Must Be Ile Raised Railed to fo the Level o oJ of Other Daler Profession LONG T ONG before be filly fifty years it Jr will ill I 1 Iam am ant sure have hn dawned upon th the h avenge ai man That thai the chic uV c source ourn o of difficulty di in fn marriage as lIS it i. works Irk ou out to today oday day is b not no emotions emotional nor religious nor it i it Is b purely econom economic I say the chief source because e no 00 human relation Is ts so simple asto as asto asto to admit of but one or to re require quire but one remedy As Aa the m most oat Intimate of ot voluntarily as ae assumed relationships marriage a will Ill al always ways retain its Ire fixed prO proportion of ot unavoidable risk unavoidable complication unavoidable una error Therefore I feel that it tt Is a waste of or time to theorize over the emotional emotional emo ems problems which can never be settled sex by sex so ao to speak but must Inevitably be adjusted c couple by couple The hygienic problems the Ih contingent issue of 0 rational birth con ron control tr rol ot ran can be settled no more quickly then than the rhe steady heady growth of 0 popular education education edu cation arion perm permits ill and will be b. solved pre pr precisely eisely as a. soon oon as a would be safe e. in oIl alt probability p Judging by the th groning and intelligent interest in to every everything thin that rha pertains to ro health and sanitation with special stress siren on vitality and andon ton Ion I would say ay that dla this would auld rake lake t care car oj of itself J The religious problems problem s for tor thereat the g great reat mass of at Saxon Anglo-Saxon civilization tion no longer exist In to practical fact act f Feeling as I do that of or these aspects a of marriage the emotional can never be settled the hygienic Is ts on the way to being settled and the religious has been settled I Inow Inow now raw turn to the most Important aspect a of all for tor the tile woman of ot the T Twentieth century the century the economic This situation Is I. not at all emotional emo emo- ional t and does not present the the complications of at Individual vaga yaga flea ries Though all the conditions are r ripe ipe for adjusting It ft and end though e everybody's e mind should be by now nose pr prepared pared for It It though we are beIng being be be- ing steadily pushed to It It the public public pub pub- lic l ie mind is fa sot not engaged upon It asIn as ss asIn In la the hygienic field It has not been politely retained as a s gesture and preserved tor for Its Ira traditional and sentimental uses on oo the con can contrary Crary It Is violently resented and i Increasingly questioned And so 0 it i. is i. des clear that rha 1 I believe belie that nothing about abou us u. will toil seem eem more absurd ab al surd urd than Ihan the rh fact lac that hurt while hile we ce babbled bab bab- bled continually about aboul the rhe inestimable value of o oa a wife f and homemaker the she was ua actually worth whatever her hus hu husband band bandelt fell elt like giving itin her It would seem Idiotic to her that tha thata t ta a successful Independent wage wage- earner should suddenly turn Into a sort of or ward dependent upon whatever whatever what what- ever her guardian felt he could spare her for tor pocket mon money mony y No one has Ira seer ever contended that the Ille American husband is i. not nor generous he heis hela is la probably the mo most generous hut hut- band on earth earh man manor for or mart marl Hut flat each faeh one othe of o the rhe steadily increasing number of 0 wage-earning wage u women omen and today every very girl feels fer herself a potential wage earner earner looks look with a certain uneasy un um I f easy y wonder at a future futuro partnership I when wilen the It I conscience of the rhe junior partner part parr ner nor or vice ice president or managing director director di di- rector or executive te secretary seems rem l likely to 0 prick her i if il she he lays any definite dr claim to any personal income that har goes much muck beyond board and clothes Bodies and legitimate expenses connected con netted entertain entertaining in The lucky wage-earner wage who can continue to pursue her career at home after aCter marriage has long ago settled this question Thoughtful women are even now considering very seriously whether some arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar of ot time part work lightening light ening of ot dom domestic lc responsibilities by various community activities along the lines of day nurseries food service etc etc cannot be made to give ghe a n little freedom to the wife who willingly relinquishes her old Independence for family Life but who wonders If it she must give up lip ten ten-t tenths ten nth of ot It I 1 think we shall see lee this problem solved In the fairly fairly fair fair- ly Iy near future But nut It may take W 0 0 years ears before be be- before fore the great mass of women who do nothing at all oil but the work that all al almen men tell them Is la the greatest st of all cnn can hope to receive as automatically au as the government go receives receives re reo the Income tax their obvious obvious ous salary a fixed proportion of ot their husbands husband's Income Obviously before receiving It It they must qualify Quality for It it and this may surprise and vex a great many of them But nut if It they were certain of the salar salary you ou may be sure lure they would take a course of household economics b budgeting and child care as readily as they study stenography And If men want hom homes s a hun hundred dred years from now they must raise making home to the level of ot the other oUter professions open n to women C e Public Inc Ina Service i |
