The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-04-06

this late day enlist public interest,
or call fortl. the sympathies of a
National Council of Women.
WIVES AS WAGE FARMERS.
OF all the "rights" which the mar
ried woman of today has appropriat
edd unto herself, the right to earn
money Independently of her lord and
master is perhaps theleast objection
able in the eyes of certain ciaSs Of
husbands. But to the man whose
ideas of domestic happiness are
modelled on the old-fashiOned plan
in which the husband and father is
the wage Garner and providtr while
the wife and mother is the home
maker and beautifer, this new bid
for equality on the part of his spouse
is .wildering, to say the least. If
she is to divide the responsibilities
which have heretofore been his ex
clusively, he has vague and terrify
ing idea that it will behoove him in
some manner TO assume, o.
those duties which well formerly
hers. But why Ills
knowledge. o1'es Is
from lax o. trimming blank, or it
j. rni}ed to sewing on buttons OF
the cuisine Of the frying pan learned
in the days when he went camping
before he was married, and before he
knew that women had rights" He
married as he believed, then, not a
partner in business, but a wife to
love and cherish him, and make a
coy nest to which he could come
home at night after weary day at
the shop or office, and in its cheerful
and peaceful atmosphere find sweet
repose from his labors To a man
with such instincts and desires, who
is abundantly able to provide his
family with all reasonable comforts,
the thought of his wife engaging in
money making pursuits to the neg
lect of her home duties cannot fail to
be painful and disheartening. Only
recently a case came under our per-
sonal observation where a man de-
liberately deserted his wife solely be-
cause she persisted in teaching school,
and thus deprived him of the com
forts and attractions of home which
he longed for.
The passion for trade and the de-
sire for the accumula ton of wealth is
inherent in some women as it is in
most men. Such women as a rule
never make good housekeepers or at
least they are never home makers in
the delightful sense Of the word sug-
ges+ive of so much that is dear to
the heart OF man. But the principal
reason for the fact that so many of
our married women are developing
into business-wOmen on their own
IS not, as some one has
suggested, owing to ultra extrava-
CANT tastes in dress and surround
iDgs which their husbands unaided
are not able to cater TO, but is due
to a deeper and more significant |
cause. 1t is the growing spirit OF
with her condition which |
is tempting woman in every walk of |
life to rebel against esta hlished Gus
tom, and which is now pervadiDg the |
ranks of the housekeepers, and like |
an elusive viii O the nisp with its |
promise of gold, is leading them out
of their homes into the dark marshes
and lurking pitfalls of mistaken and
effort
Let US hope that the experiment
may be its own cure, and that |
women viii at length grow
content to be not winners OF bread
Then that is Unnecessary, but keep
ers of their husband hearts and up
of their homes, for; every
wise woman buildetll her house; but
he foolish plucketh it down with her
hands,
AMERICAN MOSLEMS.
Ore of the singular religious facts
IF recent days is the conversion of
IN American Christian to the faith of
,hn MnhammedonS Tho ran41amap