I would gladly do the work if I could receive her wages, but were I to discharge her, my husband would expect me to fill the place without pay. He never imagines I can need anything but food and shelter. Not infrequently men of this kind are quick to praise women who wear the latest style of dress. The bitterness of heart, the suffering, the cruci- fixion of pride which these brutally selfish and blind husbands have caused and are causing refined women, is beyond words to express. Love, happiness, sentiment, all fly from such a home.
Life becomes a dreary routine of duty and marriage a bondage.
Men like these have no business to possess wives. They should keep slaves and concubines. These are the men who drove women out into the world to wave the flag of emancipation. If the old man had never been selfish and inconsiderate, the new woman would never have existed. It is a pity that some self-made men did not lose the pattern before they completed the job.