The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-18

counter or do some other cheap work
until he found woman who would
support him.
| The shoe does not fit The other foot
at all. Girls are just as sensitive
about their poverty as boys could be.
And they feel just as keenly the idea
of being pensioner on anybody's
bounty, even though that person be
father or husband.
IF you do not believe this, stop and
count upon your fingers the daughters
of wealthy fathers who are doing fancy
work for rich friends at ridiculousiy
low prices, or giving a few genteel
music lessons SO that they can have a
| dollar now and then of their own.
Your fingers will give out before you
! have half done.
! Count the wives who are saving lit
tie Sums out of the house money SO as
| to have nickel or two, which they feel
/ is all their own"
! But, Miss Anthony" l ventured, at
Is the lot of woman to get married.
| You surely are not opposed 10 matri-
mony?"
No, arr not exactly opposed TO IL, !"
admitted this naiaeY champion Of the
completeness of her sex. But am
opposed To it as matrimony now is l
do moi think men take right view of
natrimony, or that women do, either.
This came to me very forcibly last
evening as | stopped at one of tho sub
urban stations and saw the men sitting
around on grocery boxes and chatting.
Every one of those men had some thing
to say about having a wife TO support.
Now, ! hold that a woman should
be ashamed to have man support her,
even though that man be her husband.
AS things are now, woman Is ashamed
to have her brother support her. She
thinks it all right for her husband to
do so.
When a man asks a woman To be
his wife, he does not mean that he
wants her for companion. He means
that he wants her to keep house for
him, be petted by him, and do as he
tells her. In return, he will pay for
her board and clothes. and when he
dies she shall have one-third Of any
thing he may leave.
my idea of rnatrinony," continued
Miss Anthony, with enthusiasm, is
that married woman shall be com
panion for her husband in all things.
II she has family. il is duty she
owes her husband to bring up her
children. until they reach the age
when they do not need every minute of
her time.
"She should then be so capable and
so trained 10 supper. herself, that she
can either assist her husband In his
business, or conduct a business Of her
own.
Whatever men may have 20 say
about this idea, as an idea. there are
verY few men who would not be glad
. 20 have thirty or forty dollars a week
added TO their incomes. Il by 80 doing
the wife did not tire herself any more
than she now does running L sewing
machine ali day and sweeping carpets.
besides blscking stoves and working
over washt1bs, a. most wives have 10
do.
Stubborn statistics sbosT tina. only
one family in FIVE keeps hired help
Do you suppose that woman would
work sny harder gsttsng up Lar
brief. than she would polishing her
husbands shirt front? And don't yoa
suppose her husband would lore her
just az welI for doing IL
She could pay IalnsrDan for
month ont 81 one days WORK. AID
could wear nice dresses, too
When women can Tose." said Miss
Anthony, looking through her sp7e-
tacIes in a dreamy wsy as though SAC
could see line o. women walking TO
the polls with ballot IN hand. working
women viii hare q rnsscss easier t4sse
Q. il.
Women win thea b. iaaspe r1lts ~.
and working girls will ~ treated ssith
respect When = girl gees inio I'd of-
See 10 work she ,an ~ very tart - tase
man s=ho IL too iaaD.lAar. ise vii not
dare TO discharge ber. Why Beezuse
she ha@ ballot And i Is ts4.sstS ilas.s
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