The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-11-18


neip, leaving eighty.two per cent with.
out even one servant. Consequently
there are eighty.two per cent Of Aneri.
can women who have enough TO do to
keep them happy and contented il house
work is all they need. Not six per cent
OF all the women in America spend as
much money as fifty dollars per year on
their clothes. and that leaves nine ty -four
per cent OF American women who escape
the stigma Of extravaganza. Out Of
twelve million Of A merican families the
income OF four million OF these families
is less than $4OO each per year. Many
board because they cannot afford to
keep house, and do not raise family,
not because the wife prefers Parrot or
spaniel" to q babe, but because every ad.
ditional mouth to fill means a division
OF the food that is already scant enough.
Remember a poor American woman is
just as much an American woman as q
rich American woman, and with our
free school system is often just az re-
fined, cultured, and educated. The in.
come Ut nearly eighty per cent OF the
whole number Of American families is
less than $1,000 each per year, and those
housewives certainly have enough to do
to make income and expenses meet. Mrs.
Peattie ssye, i've need not fear to assert
and insist that were American women
to have more children their discomfort
would disappear" she applies children
as counter irritant for discontinued
women, without one thought Of children
crowded into q world, that is already
threatened with over production for
with our improved sanatarium and
scientific pathology the birthr ate exceeds
the death rate three million year, and
II those American women Of whom Mrs.
Peattie says man does not quite see
their raison d'etre, have nothing else to
recommend them they should be COM
mended for not multiplying and in
creasing an already over stocked human
market.
The Primitive Savage who fought
like any other animal for existence. was
true to the primordial law Of his being.
and multiplied without thought. and
lived and died for thousands OF genera.
tions, along side the mammoth, the lion
and the byens. His life was spent in
the same way and he followed his natur.
al instincts the same as his less erect
but moro hairy c,mpatriots. 10 the
swarms Of colonies thrown out by Phoe-
nicis and by old Greece, 10 the flood Of
Gauls and Teutons which burst over the
frontiers OF the old civilization Of
Europe, in the swaying too and fro Of
the vast Mongolian hordes Of later times.
The population problem came to the
front. Nature has no regard, whatever,
for the needs Of society, anyone who is
acquainted with the state Of the popula-
ton Of all great industrial centcrs, is
aware that amid large and increasing
body Of that population misery reigns
supreme aid 90 long as the natural man
is true to the primordisl law Of bis being
and increases and multiplies without re.
straint so long will the Struggle for ex.
istence in times OF peace be az sharp
and a. mercilees as that Of war.
Should the cultivated women bear
tho children, Mrs. Peattie suggests
and not leave the task to the Russian,
Jew, and poor Italian women the coun-
try would be the better for it. Such q
state Of affairs would not help the Rus.
sian Jew or poor Italian women IN the
least, nor the country either. The Rus
sian Jew and poor Italian women would.