The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
AS THE WOMEN SEE YOU.
MEN AND BRETHREN, HERE Is A
SWEEPING INDICTMENT.
Christine Terhune Herrick Is Moved to
Protest Against Those Masculine HUI
man individuals VINO Win Not Be Or
DERBY About Their Own Homes.
ISpoc:al Correspordence.l

Yes" she continued, in reply 70 an in
terrogative exclamation from her auditor,
another housekeeper. Il mean just what
/ sayl A man about the house who did
not make more litter every time he walked
through a room than a woman could clear
up in half an hour would save more time
and toll in the household economy than all
the washing machines, clothes wringers,
patent eegbeaters and meat choppers /
ever saw.
Now, there is my husband He is the
best, most considerate man | know. Yet,
when he comes in he throws his hat and
coat on the hall table instead Of hanging
them in the closet; leaves his newspapers
scattered ali over the drawing room; never,
by any chance restores 4 book he has taken
from the shelves TO its proper place; spills
cigar ashes on the floor and drops burned
matches all over the house. spend third
of the morning clearing up the mess he
has made over night. lie always leaves his
soiled clothes in a heap in the middle Of
the floor instead of putting them in the
basket where they belong, and just wish
you could see his bureau drawers"
The other member of the small confer
ence laughed aud sighed together.
my husband does pick up his soiled
clothes" she said And with the occa-
sional setting 70 rights l give them he
manages to keep the drawers of his bureau
in tolerable order. But when he comes in
on wet days ne invariably kicks of his
muddy overshoes in the middle of the
hall and leaves his umbrella TO drip on the
carpet. OF course that obliges a servant
to come and clear up the traces Of both"
A great poet has immortalized in a
phrase mans inhumanity to man. When
will arise the bard who will embody in an
epigram mans inconsiderateness of WON
an in the single item of careleSsness with
respect to making dirt and litter about a
house?
This criticism, be it promised, is not
aimed at those men who have royal dis
regard for woman's work and Worries who
minify her burdens and make no exertion
to ease them, or to that class of brutes who
seem to take a perverse pleasure in adding
to the tolls of the overworked household
drudge There are such creatures who
walk upright upon two legs and call them
selves men, who would even resent slur
cast upon their pretenslons to being con-
sidered gentlemen. With them gentle
argument has no effect, and the only way
to cure them of their pOrcine characters
tics is by the radical remedy of decapita-
ton or the application of a current of a
thousand or so volts from an electric bat
teIg.
But there are men whose chief aim is TO
make life easy and pleasant for their wives,
who are generous providers Of everything
needed for the household, who cheerfully
supply extra servants when they are
needed, and who are in most other respects
models of consideration. Yet these men,
all unwittingly, often nearly double the
work their wives have 10 do. Such care
lessness as that related by the two women
whose remarks head this letter is pain
fully common, and it is shown by the ten
derest and most loving Of husbands and
sOns.
One of the latter, model in nearly all
respects, cannot be trained 70 strike
match on his boot heel or on a match safe.
When he lights the gas or his cigar the
match is struck on whatever happens TO 10
most cOnvenient-the back of a chair, the
leg Of table, the side post Of the door, or
at best on the under part of the mautel
shelf, where the mark is plainly visible 10
any one seated near the fireplace. Ia vain
does his mother protest and urge That she
or some one else will have 10 20 10 the
trouble of washing off the ugly streak.
The offenders only reply Will be laugh
ing apology and hasty promise OF amend
ment, forgotten the next time occasion
tempts him 70 repeat the oftense. He is
not child, 70 be sharply reprimanded or
punished for his fault, but man grown.
who cannot be schoOled and scoided into
obedience.
What woman who is the mistress Of a
country house. during tue summer cannot
recall struggles 70 keep ia order the parts
of the house frequented by the boys and
men Of the homer What endeavors has
she not made 10 induce them % keep the
flies out By having the blinds shut on hot
midsummer noonsy What entreaties has
she not uttered that caps, blazers, rackets,
bats and balls may De kept in the places
assigned for them, instead OF being sown
broadcast over the family living rooml
Can she not recall the looks that have
been left On the porch or lawn over night
and been found IN the morning. ruined By
a heavy dew or an unexpected shower; the
hammock and chair and boat cushions
which have net a similar fatef What
house mistress, either in town or countTy
does not Gaily gather together, groaniEziy,
the newspapers and magazines which the
father and sons Ct tie house have cast
aside on foor or chairs when they had tn
ished With tbeni
Hardly a man can Be found who has not
some pet carels ssness Of which y Is almost
impossible 70 break him. One young nan
persists ia keeping MS soilsd collars and
cuffs in heap on the night SIDE q E.s
bureau and the clean ones IN correspond
ing pile on tie left, although a small lalll-
dry bag hangs close a. hand for the rsoep-
tioa Of the one AID hsndsons collar tex
awaits the accom- rnoaatioa II the ether
Another man cannot be pers1adsd 70 uss
bis shoe bag, and although Z = lOnzruGer-
Ing wife regularly picks up The slipper.
pumps and SHOES zAc aads kicking about
the fOOr and puts them IN tie receptacle
provided for then, she dos &. Sfih the fail
knowledge that sAe will have u rrTezt the
operation tee nezt tias her husband
changes MS tOotgear.
Nothing nes>i be aid about the agoa!ss
Of mind undergone by nest housewives
from beholtiuE tire state q disorder "a
which men keep thair writing desks IL
seems 20 b 4 necessity q a mans nature
THAI TIE d~po@itoyy n rs pap-rs Erog3d
re IN cous ton Of etsronsc untid4D<Ss.
His @g-s--Iozs thai lie Knows jar where
everything is-csa pat hss hand directly On
any paper h- xaats7 brsnz small cOfalert
u nss wife Her most rzuEioas efsoTEs 20
remove even portsoz q tee dr.: ~i.A
which every eoc1Ze1s - AoeraIy coated
are usually mt with Euch severity t<.zr
sle shrfnks z.th horror from ne .2ous5:
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