St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-17
weather, when the coaI-bin is in the

weather, when the coal-Dln is In tne
cellar.
Strong-minded women with nothing
else to recommend them to public favor
are poor Investment. They should
never be married by men who feel that
their calling is in the direction of the
piow or the plane, for before the honey
moon has developed symptoms of lmuch
wane, they will be be called upon to
clean the oil-stoYe and set the griddle
cake dough nights before they go to bed.
Such pursuits as these are not always
pleasant to the robust man whose reSpir-
atory organs are in good condition, and
whose hankering after SonorOuS Slum-
ber passeth all understanding.
Strong-minded women grow more
abundantly in Kansas and Washington
territory than in any other portion of
North America. 1t is not to be
wondered at that in Kansas
and Washington territory bright
cursed thing, strong drink. 1t is not
strange that in these communities much
of the soil is used in the manufacture
of drunkards' graves. 1t is all that
could be expected of men who have
been brought up On bottle.
You will not find it particularly enter
tanning to sit around the house warm
afternoons with your crochet work,
while your wife is down town getting
signers to petition asking the govern
or to appoint her veterinary surgeon of
the state. There are but few men who
can find even ordinary enjoyment in
warming the milk of a Jersey cow for
his own offspring, while it's mother is
out performing her duties as notary
public or sanitary inspector: No man,
mr. noff 40 hnr oh mfr
devoid of principle he may be, can go
out nights and enjoy himself to the
fullest" extent, with the knowledge
that his wife is chief of police or mayor
of the city, and that his eldest daughter
was elected police judge by an over
whelming majority at the last election.
This is what the husbands of Kansas
and Washington territory are now do
ing.
There is not very much ghoulish glee
in mans heart when the news is
ntly broken to him that his wife is
serving on the jury, and is locked up in
back room with eleven men who let
the hair grow all over their face and
never read newspaper.
No man, however devoid of feeling,
would like to have his wife come home
tired and cross from her duties as fire
warden and kick the furniture to pieces
because he hadn't got supper on the
table. These are few, select few, of
the experiences man may expect who
is imprudent enough to link his fortunes
with those of woman whose mind all
lies in her brain.
If strong-minded women took as much
interest in supporting their own fam
lilies as they do others they would be
entitled to more sympathy than is &C
corded them nowadays. Ii they would
come home from their work every Sat
urday night and toss their earnings for
the week into the lap of their
husbands in the same cheerful
and willing manner that they
argue they should do to theirwiyes, there
would be no objection to their going cut
and getting job if they wanted to; but
when they assume to run the entire ma
chinery of domestic happiness, hoard up
their money with which to buy scented
tooth wash and stuff to make their hair
look like taffy, and compel their hus-
bands to do the washing and bring the
baby up on bottle, they are oyerstep-
ping the bounds of common decency.
Man, made in the image of God, just
Imagine yourself standing in the front
door of Kansas cottage, your apron
spotted with grease, dishwater dripping
from the tips of your fingers, the smell