Show howe about out oui of the dark ages the women problem mrs by ED HOWE Q 2933 boll 1111 seram lc mccrabb lIc CABB who has haa spent J JOSEPH more than forty years in studying science as aa teacher and writer Is considerably encouraged indeed his general conclusion Is admiration for the human race and he goes so far as to predict the disappearance of ignorance and poverty by the year ear 2000 only GS years yeara in the future being a leader he of course cours j e gives g I 1 ves tile the credit to leaders por for such improvement pro as wo we have made ande in the united states I 1 give credit to the genius of 00 people find anil not to a few leaders lei iders who usually make more trouble thun than they do good real progress conies canies from the farms shops offices and not from tile the rostrum my opinion Is that leaders ten ders led the people into the dark ages and that the people finally had to lead themselves out after much unnecessary suffering and trouble you say there la Is no sense in it I 1 say there Is and another fool argument Is on 0 0 1 I have noted among my male friends generally ene rally 11 an old married man writes me a shifting attitude toward women in general aji as it if the female of our species had not lived up to its reputation for being earth ly seraphim and cherubim but had demonstrated unsuspected traits of selfish scheming and unbridled conspiring I 1 have been wondering if the women problem Is not weightier more pressing than capital vs labor international peace war vs pence international debts and the like A long time ago an old monk wrote it Is less lesa misery to possess the unshapely wife than to guard the shapely for nothing Is safe when all men sigh for it it Is hard to keep a thing that many men covet A married woman hath bath ninny many needs and whether she be wrathful foolish deformed unsavory we learn her faults first when we have married her A horse or an ox even the commonest slaves are tried before we choose to buy them so also with clothes kettles chairs airs and cups a wife alone la Is not to be had on approval lest she be found wanting before we marry her 1 I poor wretch must hang toy my head among my fellows it Is sufficient suHl clent refutation of this writing to say old monks and old married marled in men en know nothing about women that blessed knowledge Is possessed only by young men who armed armed with th gallantry go forth to seek them I 1 I 1 am hearing that fl L long noted as a brilliant writer and bachelor with a bad disposition Is now no w very happily married A new york preacher who called on me recently talked about it and joseph who called on the kenchens Men chens ens on the occasion of their be second cond anniversary says the busi hand band Is the poll politest test and most cheerful man ln in america I 1 asked the preacher about mrs menchen oh she Is a nice woman she does her part he answered but I 1 have never seen a greater change in a man what did mrs M rs menchen do that 8 so pleased her husband I 1 have heard of only one thing during mr r kens bachelorhood he was constantly making a row because american women have quit baking bread which Is cheaper una and better when made at h home ome soon sonn after his marriage the story goes mr passed through the kitchen and saw his wife stirring up a batch she had learned the art from an old fashioned mother and has haa been baking bread ever since no doubt mrs learned other good old fashioned ways from a good old fashioned mother so no wonder it II ii Is very happily married 1 I have little use for plans writes james truslow adams but if we could put into force a five year plan by which individual americans americana would order their lives better tor for five years america might become a nation of which we could be proud our claim to tn morality has collapsed and our complete failure to do anything about it has swept away any possibility of our i giving other nations any better or indeed as good a standard of rational or international morality as ae they already possess 0 0 an old editor in michigan says some people accuse me of repeating of writing the same old things well political graft and waste keep repeating crimes that might be cured keep repeating dont they repeating seems seema to be the big thing so eo I 1 repeat facts warnings I 1 repent repeat and repeat just as the banks fall and statesmen fall to keep their promises after they get in ofal office c 11 after the civil war thousands ot southerners who had always been poor claimed they lost ancestral estates and slaves in the destructive conflict A tot lot of similar deceptions c will be attempted by northerners in years following the IN 1032 12 depression |