| Show the new woman movement received a setback in pittsburg that cost mrs airs mckenna 10 and limited her future acts acta ot of violence to causes outside the culinary department of the household sho she had found fault with the supper prepared by her husband presumably comparing it unfavorably with those her father used to make and had bad emphasized pha sized her strictures by felling the theo theoretical head b of the establishment with a plate the magistrate who presided over the subsequent proceedings declared the new woman business was being overworked including the husband of the particular new woman before him and decided that hereafter within his jurisdiction the privilege of finding fault with supper should belong exclusively to man this official endorsement of a traditional prerogative of husbands hub bub bands may retire the practice that has fallen into disuse because of the dangers attending it it was certainly too much even in pittsburg to expect men to submit meekly to both criticism and assault and battery |
