The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-03
RESPECTED HIS wIFE's RIGHTS.
So He Gave Her Half a Day Every Year
to Go Ont and Eninx Herself

A company of men at a corner gro
Gerry down in ''Missoury" were speak.
ing OF the rights of wives, when one OF
them said:
Its shame the way SOME men
treat their wives l know husbands
who think their wives are entitled to
no consideration whatever. and who
treat them very little better than serv-
ants. They keep them at work all the
time, never spend any money on them
II they can possibly help it, and never
allow them TO go away from home on
a visit or pleasure trip. Such men are
brutal and it's a pity they have wives -
THAT that's mighty p'intedly sensi-
bic talk, now, mister" agreed an old
fellow from 'Possum Ridge, who had
| been an interested listener 81 know
lots o gist seech men as you speak of,
an my notion is they're blame mean
Thar,s ole Jack Hymer. up thar on Pos
| sum Ridge. Treats his wife scandal
Gus; keeps her workin' right long, day
after day, an year in an year out, an
never lets her go nowhar. Blame my
hide, men, but git powerful sorry fer
ole Jake's woman sometimes"
You wouldn't dream of treating your
wife in any such way" some one re-
marked
Il reckon wouldn't"
You realize that she has feelings and
longings, and love of recreation and
pleasure, and you treat her according
ly."
''Of course do. Blame it all, q wife
is human bein' like the rest of us, an
she's got right to enjoy life. That's
my notion of it, anyhow"
"And it's the right idea, too"
That's the way I figger it. Take
ole Jack Hymer's wife, now. What
sort o pleasure kin she find in livin'
when she jest has to dig an scrape an
tug an sweat ever day o. her life an
never go nowhar ner see nothin'P Thar
can't be no enjoyment in no SIGH way
O. Twin"
mo, indeed"
Now take my ole woman. She
works, O. course, but she has her pleas
ures right along an she feels that thar's
somethin' to live for When's she's
workin' she kin look forward to the en-
1oyments that's in store for her, an
that kind o braces her up an keeps her
in spirits"
at makes her feel that she has some
thing for which to live"
You bet. Makes her feel like life
want all howlin' wilderness O. work
an hardships 1t does me good to see
my woman enjoy life, an l take keer
that she does it What's the loss o.
little time anyway"
at isn't anything
That's jest what I think, an SO
says to my wife: 'Thar's time fer work
an thar's time fer play an when the
time fer play comes say make use of
it."
You allow your wife to drop her
work and cares and worries and go
visiting with her friends"
Il do. / jest give her a chance to
have a good time. Ever year when she
gifts the corn crap laid by, and the
harvestin' done up, thar's sort o. idle
time, an tell her to take a half dav
off some Saturday an 60 a-visitin
l tell her to jest turn herself loose an
have rousin' old time of it an enjoy
life. She has barrel o. fun. an it does
her lots o good; an then l don't lose
nothin' by it. What's half day out O.
year, specially when the works all
done up?''
No one said any thing, and after a
short pause the man from 'Possun
Ridge went on.
Eyes, Stree" he said IF thar is anv
thing I'm keerful about it is seeing to
it that my wife has her rights an priv
ileges. not only give her Saturday
afternoon off ever year, but twice
joorin' the last forty years I've let her
walk over into the next county
to visit her mother. an let her
stay all night one time, at that.
That was shorely givin' her a chance.
Yit that amt all. Once bout ten wear
ago | brought her down we're to a hang
in, then two years arter that let her
walk down yere to show street parade /
Then | give her money. too, you bet
Lots o. times when sell the butter an (
eggs she saves up give her twenty-five !
or fifty cents, even when | don't gin I
more an five dollars or six dollars. ] 7
don't lose nothin' by it, cause she /
spends it for groceries or somethin'. an I
it makes her feel like life was with liv- /
in ] tell you, fellers, b'lieve In treat /
in woman white, myself. Thar amt /
no sense in a man actin the hog with .
his wife, an, fer one, jist won't do it"
-Chieapo Tribune