Show DOROTHY i ALl S I H fI niX fiX the World t 1111 Woman Voma Writer I ITHE THE GIRL WHO MARRIES TO QUIT WORK WILL FIND THAT WORKING A HUSBAND IS A POOR JOB WHILE HOUSE HOUSE- HOUSEWORK HOUSEWORK HOUSEWORK WORK IS HARDEST OF ALL ONLY LOVE MAKES IT ALL WORTH WHILE now how and then some conic ome optimistic young oung woman who isho has bas been E earning her bread broad and butter butler In the schoolroom or stol stoic e or announces to her ber friends that she is going to quit work ork and get git married a Whereat all the married women smile a cynical smile For they could tell her if rt they cared to divulge the secrets of their i ledge that when a girl gets married she does not lay off work She undertakes a life sen sentence r tence at hard labor r lET HEY could tell her bel that to a few a very ety ery few I women matrimony Is indeed a loafers loafer's e I i r here horo a pam pel ed queen has to do but to SI Sit Bit t ton gly on a sill silk cushion and twiddle h her thumbs but that that that- tho number of oC o such omen who aho ho find a snap sy is isery cry ery cry i iTo To the vast majority of women getting otting LI- LI t married means the beginning of the DIX ous life lore It means tackling a job that makes stenography mere childs child's play and clerking In a store or keeping books or working In a factory a pleasant diversion For there is no other woman in the world who works so hard and toils such unmerciful hours as does the wife and andI mother molher in a poor family There is no union day for tier her She I has no hour off at lunch Her day does not start at 9 S o'clock and end at 5 It begins at 6 and runs around to 6 again be because cause there Is no hour of the day or night In which she he Is noton noton not noton on duty and subject to call If It needed CHE HE can neer ne er knock oft off work ork and call it a da because a womans woman's SHI S J vork ork in the home is ne neer ne er done lone She must be forever cooking meals and sweeping floors and sewing and mending clothe and wash ash washing n ash ashing ing little faces because these things have to be done o o cr er and 0 o er again every da year in iii and sear ear ea out outTo To make a home that is clean and ant peaceful and cheerful to make a 11 husband happy and contented and to raise up a family of ot fine chit dien Is the that any woman can ean do But nut It Is ark BOrk the most physically exhausting the llio most nu nue e wearing ind md soul trying olk In which am an an woman oman ever engages and the tho girl who ho ho under the delusion that she can spend the remainder ot or her tier life liCe in Ie eness is due to ha hae ha e a duel CI uel awakening Sho She will wll find that marriage is no sinecure I She will find that she has to work ten times as hard as she ever worked before that husbands are cantankerous and harder to get along with than any boss that standing behind a counter Is not as fatiguing as standing over a cooking stove that manipulating a washboard is far less agreeable than per performing forming on the keyboard of a typewriter that there are no holi hell holidays holidays days and vacations for the poor mans man's wife that no pay enve envelope lope on Saturday rewards her services and tha that whether the game is worth the candle depends altogether on how much she loves her husband HE girl who marries to get out of oC o work makes the mIstake THE RHE T of her young oung life unless she gets a t Ich man foi fot a husband She Sho jumps from the tying flying pan Into the fire and gets what bat she de desen sen seres es for why ehy hy sho should ld be an as lum for the lazy woman oman an more than it is for tor the lazy laz man No 1 man who ho ho has a spark of ol manhood in him leam of slacking oft In his work ork and taking things easy as soon as he gets mauled On the contrary he girds himself up and takes a flesh grip grin on his and puts more punch and pep into his work because he lie has taken on new responsibilities and has mal mote e Incentive e to try to succeed His idea of oC being a good husband is to work for lor or his wife A woman should bring the same spirit to marriage She should not look upon matrimony as a graft but as a career and her desire should not be to get as much as possible out of her husband without making any return for it b bi bt to play fair fairand fairand fairand and pull her half of the load The wom woman does not do this is a cheat HE able bodied woman oman who doesn't do her own house housework ork and sew sew- sewing T THe ing log when hen her husband is struggling to get a start in business the woman oman who lies on her touch couch and 1 leads eads novels no els all da 01 Os who gads the streets and then hurriedly hurnE throws together an and nessy dinner that she assembles out of paper bags and cans the theL woman oman who ho Is too laz and shiftless to keep herself lid tid and her houe hoube hous ey clean i is a quitter and a loafer She has defaulted on her ber part ot of the matrimonial partnership which is a working partnership In all justice and honor a woman Is Just as much bound to work for her husband as he is to work for her She has no noMore More right to become a parasite than he has and and there can bo no more degrading motive for a woman to enter Into matri matri- matrimony of her of the worlds world's moo mony than just to get out doing part work Working a husband is a poor Job And It never pays For only these marriages succeed in which the husbands and wives work side by side and put their he hearts and their backs Into it DOROTHY DIX COP right 1 1025 25 b Public Ledger Company |