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Show B WHEN A WOMAN B CANNOT COOK. Hj Should a wife be able to cook, and, M, if she cannot cook, should the hus- Hj band be granted a divorce? This H! .was the issue in a divorce case in , H iSan Francisco in which a policeman H ,sued his wife. One of the coast pa- H pers takes the side of the policeman, H saying: H Advanced thinkers, feminists and M other theorists may dispute the po- H 'liceman's contention, but common H ..sense will be solid for the proposl- R -tlon that if It 1b the husband's duty H to provide the money for meals it is H rthe vife's duty to prepare them H provided always that she is not an ln- H valid, or that she Is able to earn K enough to provide a substitute in thd V kitchen. We hear a great deal about H the economic Independence of woman, K but until that ideal is reached she B must fulfill ber domestic obligations m or accentuate what the emancipators H refer to as her present parasitism. H The term parasitism is an lnBult to B the vast majority of wives, whatever H may be their financial status, for it is H a poor wife who does not earn by H her household labors far more than B the cost of her maintenance. It ap- M plies only to those women who re- M fuse to perform their part of the M marriage contract. When a wife sup- m plements her husband's income by go- 1 irig out to work or otherwise engag- HJ lng in business, It is perfectly proper K that there should be some readjust- H, ment of the domestic duties, and it is 1 conceivable that a marriage bo on- H tered into on the understanding that H the husband perform certain tasks j nsually allotted to the wife, but so long as it Is the man and tho man only who earnB the money it will be obligatory upon the woman to prepare tho meals. Some day we may have the misfortune to live under a socialized so-cialized slate and eat at a common table, but until that calamity occurB wives should not make husbands do the cooking. |