The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-15
|tHE WORLD OF W0MANkIND
foples Of Interest to All Members OF
the Gentle Sex.
HEALTH AND HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Carefully Selected Recipes. Suggestions
o to the Care OF the Homo and
other Matters Entering Into
woman's Widening sphere.
FER TEN COMMANDMENTS:

HER TEN COMMANDMENTS:
These are the new commandments ten;
Which wives now make for married
men.
1-Remember that l am thy wife.
Whom thou must cherish all thy lie.
AThou shalt not stay out late at night.
When lodges. friends or clubs invite.
AThou shalt not smoke indoor or out.
or chew tobacco round about.
AThou shalt with praise receive my pies.
Nor pastry made by me despise.
6My mother thou shalt strive to please
And let her live with us In ease.
6-Remember tits thy duty clear,
To dress me well throughout the year.
7-Thou shalt in manner mild and meek
Give me thy wages every week.
eThou shalt not be a drinking man,
But live on prohibition plan.
eGThou shalt not fiirt. but must allow
Thy wife such freedom anyhow.
W-Thou shalt get up when baby cries.
And try the child to tranquiilze'
These my commands. from day to day
Boston Post.
"A western journal admonishes wo.
men that 1t is a mistake to marry; that
married life averages twenty years:
that at the end of that time the wife
finds herself a widow with $1,000 insur-
ance and five" children! 1t then goes
on to advise women that by remaining
single they can accumulate in twenty
years $4,000 and mot handicapped by
five children can face their declining
years! This moves the Philadelphia
Bulletin to observe: ",There ought to
be a provision in the criminal code
against such monstrous perversion az
this! Any one discouraging marriage,
by precept or example. ought to be held
criminal by the very act or utterance.
where does this reckless troglodite find
proof that marriage averages but twen-
ty years and that the hsuband dies
first? Where are the figures certifying
to the five children? Twenty years OF
marriage. even II that were the aver
age, would criminally derelict. If there
were but five children! And II the hus-
band and father died at the end OF
twenty years his first born would be
of an age to step in and support the
IdInlly, UT lie WOuluh oC thV Soae -
American boy known in trade! But,
as matter of observation. mar
rage increases longevity, and hus-
bands who are happily married rarely
die-at least until they have to-and
as a rule, they outstay the wife.
mo man or woman Of sensibility,
however, can consent to look on mar
riage in the sordid light enunciated by
this western destructive. What wo-
man, truly woman, would set $5Oot
self-earned dollars against the twenty
years love, companionship of the hus-
band Of her heart? If to be new wo-
man means the sordidizing Of what Is
sweetest in the sex, then the less we
hear and see of this monstrOsity the
better. As 1t is better to have loved
and lost than never to have loved at
all so 1t is better to have been mated
II only for year, with the man of ones
heart, than to live wretched spinsteI
and type write a million into an old
maids pocket! And even If but five
children as the unfeeling perverter OF
women claims. are the average of TWEEN.
ty years. connubial felicity, what
money could equal them? What more
delightful, more soothing to widowed
heart than five images Of the dear one
dead; five pledges of the future, five
bread winners If need be! No, indeed
IL the new woman takes this form we
renounce her; all men born Of women
who love to live in the light Of sweet
hearts eye, wife's eye, will condemn
and spurn the new woman in thi:
guise She shall be refused profit ant
place, the typewriter shall be denied
her. every calling that she Low adorn!
will repudiate her-men will shun he1
and women, the women that mel
adore, will have none Of her! The bird!
will refuse song for such one, thu
flowers withhold their color and odor
the sun shade his lances Of light. thu
stars fade in her sky, youth become
derision, earth a torment. For. afte
all, no woman can be really new unit
she Is born again in love and conse
Grated in wedlock! That is the sort o
new woman that revolutionizes tn
world. Where does woman shine 81
adorably as among her darlings! Ther'
she Is new indeed-the old, old stor!
always sweetly new-the love tina
makes the world young and always
newt"
An animated leap year discussion ha'
been In progress for some weeks amont
famous women concerning the question
Shall women propose? The Philadel
phia Bulletin strikes close to the mar!
when apropos of the discussion 1t says
Logically there Is no reason why tn
woman who approves the man shoult
not invite him to be her companion TO
h. life. 1t is merely the prejudice Of ira
dition that recoils at this. If love b.
what the pundits, poets and phllosoph
ers tells us. 1t can make no difference
which voice. prepoHnds the vital ques
4hn4 vn<a ktt@
much for the proprieties involved. Tn
crucis Of the problem is not in tn
asking. but in the knowing! Now. doe
a woman know her own mind firml
enough to be sure that she is askin
the man she Is best fitted to mate with
Judging from the poets and novelist
and some study of sociological phe
nomena, 1t Is to be feared that womel
are not so likely to come to wise de
cision as men! A man brings some O
the exactness he displays in business t
the resolution of his love! He know
what he seeks in a wife! AS q rule
most men figure to themselves thei
mother in her teens and seek her sim
divine passion that all the world love
in lover! But. on the whole, It 1
the true love that makes serene fire
sides, homes Of felicity. 1t is YER
doubtful whether women, with thei
immortal yearnings, their alteration G
strength, Of the heroic, the picturesque
could ever fall into the habit of choos
ing the safe man-the predestined ia
ther. the fireside sage. the exemplar
citizen!, The heroic fellow is charmin
In poetry, the drama, romance, but h
IL uncomfortable at the fireside! An
this, IL as rule, the sort Of perso
that captivates the young girls fancy
Il II II
"Now, Of course, the result OF VIC
mans proposing would be an imme
diate demand for the Byronic and pic
turesque fellows, while the really dc
serving men, preordained to be perfet
husbands and fathers, would be lei
tn lanRulsh In unnnPrited nalihan,