Show Dorothy Dix Talks MOTHER WORKS NINETY HOURS A WEEK TO FATHER FORTY EIGHT AND COULD GET AT LEAST 31 FOR HER SERVICES OUTSIDE THE HOME SO HOME SO HUS HUS- HUSBAND HUSBAND HUSBAND BAND DONT DON'T BEGRUDGE HER POCKET MONEY SHE EARNS WHAT If is 1 ft a wife wit worth WHAT liY T According According- to holy writ the th prIce pric of o a good wit Is Ia aboTe ruble rubIn and certainly no DO man m n who nho ho has baa eTer ever been with one on will pule dis-pule the valuation No money noney can pay for the th love lov and tendernesS that never falter taller for or the tb loyalty that mates makes mk of or a wires wire's arms arma a haven of refuge to which a man nay may je turn when all the th world orld Is Ia I him for tor devotion that sUcks sticks to him Mm through sickness and poverty and even through disgrace No money can 4 pay for or the th ot or the tb wife wit who breathe breath froth frech fr Into a II man when hit his hi own heart h art fall him and who make of o her shoulders a a ladder on which chICh ho he climbs to success No money can pay for tho constant thought the study ot of hIs bis comfort the th little the th In- In InvarIable ln In varIable putting of at his hia pleasure and be- be be before toro be-toro fore foro her own that a a good wIre wit gives her These finer thIngs thins of wifehood can only be paid for tor In the th golden olden coin cola ot of appreciation But Bat DOROTHY DIX there ther 1 li Is also a Tory Tery material aide aid to wifehood value can be b computed In n dollar dollars and cents and Iti It Is to this that I wish to call the tho attention of ot men Particularly do I desire to call It If to t the tho th attention of tho those gentlemen who wh puff out ut their th t vaInglorIously rl u when they th y speak peak of f supporting theIr th lr wIves and ind who wh mt to think that matrimony I li Is a graft for fr women and that theIr wives who wh have nothing to t do but stay atay at home homand h m and nd do their housework and bring up their child children ron lead lives of f ease ACCORDING A ACCORDING to the census report only out of ot on In this thi country keeps any sort of ot servant That throws taro all of ot the work ot of the tb remaining households upon the tb wife and moth cr er and a student ot of o home homo economics economic ha has haa recently prepared the tb tot fol tol lowIng table showing the number ot of o hours hour the tb housewife lab labors n and what she he ah would earn in actual cash It if she sh Were a hireling Instead ot of ota ofa ta a wife wit and mother mothr whose who labors are ar given gratis to her family In a week the th average housewife spends fends Thirty hours hour in cooking and dishwashing which would wul be cheap at 10 Laundry work twelve hours houn 4 Sewing and mending sIx alx hours hour 3 Housecleaning ut cl fourteen f urt en hours houn 70 Managing and marketing seven liven ven hours hour h ur 7 Care of children orr hours hour ACCORDING A to this scale the housewife spends spend ninety hours boure a week c working for tor her family and earns 39 3 at the th task talk This is com corn her h r service Ice on an unskilled labor basis although In actuality the woman may be b a blue ribbon cook who ho ho could get ret a chefs cheri wages In any kitchen except her own and an expert besides b ild a bei beia bela Sa a miracle worker who ho can con get so much out ot of o a dollar that she sh would lie be the th secretary of ot the treasury It If she sh had her just deserts Nor dOli doe It snake make any allowance for the th wifel wife's wit as aa a lick sick nurse nun Yet there ar are few families In which a five Or r dollar day trained nur nurse nun would nl have havi hav to t be called In several times time a year If the tho th wife wit and mother mthr were not on n the Job Neither does do it take tak Into account a wife's Social services the th work she ahe th does as hostess hosten and her hr h r labors lab r rIn In making friends friend who are ar valuable to her h r husband in his hil business Yet the price of f pr press agent comes high MOREOVER n the th wife wire job Is one on that has no holidays nor time tim oft ofton ITA on Sundays In which It differ from that ot of the th average man who works from four forty to forty eight hours houn a week In la contrast to his bis wit odd ninety-odd hours hour These will doubtless by sur surprising to many husbands who reel feet that all that their wives wires are ar entitled to Is their board and clothes and that It Is preposterous for them to expect exp ct to be b given glun a afew afew few lew dollars dollar a week to spend as they thoy please They Th y never look upon their wives as a workIng women who I are entitled to t a s pay envelope on n Saturday night Still less lell do they think of themselves th s as the meanest sort of f siave Ilave drivers Simon when when they rofu refuse r fua to t give their wives even ven a small percentage of f the tho th money mon y they have earned with such luch faithful and exhausting labor Yot Yet there ther are an many men m n who consider r themselves hon honest est eat and honorable and who wh even ev n delude themselves Into be bl believing lieving that they are good husbands who practice this sort ort of peonage on their wives BEFORE B they were married they talked In a large and generous way ay to the th gIrls Iris they were wr courting about their sharIng every every- everything thing thine when they were married They swore at the th altar to endow their wIves wires with all their worldly goods but hut after atter they are ar married the wives found that they could not count counton on these rosy promises They found that they had been shanghaied Into matrimony and that they were expected to work without wages There are ar thousands thousand upon thousands thousand of f women married to well well-to-do mon men who never nev r have a single lIngle dollar of thur own Sometimes they have hav charge charae account accounts at the th beat best stor storsand and can buy whatever finery they want but they have havi hav no money In their purses purse and they have hav to t givs an Itemized account of every cent that pu passes through their hand hands They have no money money that comes to them as II their own wn right with which they can gratify a personal taste or help their poor relatives If they thy desire to do so o IS IT auy any wonder that such women knowin knowing that they thy have baTe hT earned la a good rood salary and that they are ar being cheated out of ot the tho th wage that rightfully belong to them come corn to hate hat the th husbands who are ar so unfair to them and feel feet themselves In padding bills and go- go 0 Inc o-Inc log Ing through their husbands husband's pockets Many a 11 mans man's man penuriousness makes a liar and a thief ot his wife It Is only after the th average mans man's man wife wit dies dl that he real roal realizes Iz izes she sh was wu a financial asset Instead of f a liability When hs he hu has to t pay some lome om other woman the th wages wage wag of cook cok and nur nuts maId and governess overne and housekeeper and seamstress and hopper he begins begin to reflect that perhaps his hi dear dud MarIa Marla did earn oarn her board and keep kep after all yB r NE of ot the reasons wh why widows so often otten are In a l a hurry to remarry Or E C is because they discover that a It wife's labor Is scab labor and that she sh Is the tir only worker In the world who doesn't have hav to be b paid DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Mothers of Sickly Children Read What Mrs Baker of Boston Says I down down- just down My boy was wr run just about skin and bones bone I and no appetite writes Mrs Baker of Boston I t am ant wrIting you OU In the th hope that oth other r Mothers will read thu vOluntary testimonial regarding Cod Liver Oil Tablets Tablet My Mybo bo boy Emanuel manuel wis wa wa run nin down com corn completely just about skin and bones bonu also alco Irritable and with no appe appe- appetite appetite tite I r I noted a wonderful moot ment In him while taking your tablets and purchased three more boxes boul Ill UI appetite pp pIcked up and he h Is II I now sturdy and stron strong A cheerful ch youngster and Ind a happy mother want to thank you Tou You may print this at any time Ume or anywhere you wish MRS IllS ALBERT E BAKER 33 3 St Boston as n Natures Nature's N lur greatest health build fer er and nd strength gIver elver I Is Cod Liver Oil Its If full ot of o of o the fIrst everyone clu eT knows knos that But pity the th poor Por how children children can they take tak this thia nasty nauseating naus naus- eating tuft that Invariably blY upsets ti their r small mall delicate stomach Most of them cant can't and o now now- now thank none non of or them th hav have to For now Cod Liver Oil corn com cornea lit Iii are tasteless sugar coated tablet tablets that are as ss easy euy a y for the kids kid to take tak as candy and 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