The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-16

some frontier place who has to eat his
own sinkers and dOughnuts, and pin his
clothes together with horseshoe nail,
VINO IS SO enamored with femlnlnlty ne IS
willing to marry anything in petticOats
that comes down the pike The giided
youth whose club chef is an artist, and
need to marry for q home, and he is apt
10 remain single until late in life.
Everything that makes man independ-
ent of woman reduces WCmanS chances
OF marriage, and how these women who
the husbandIess girls Of the next genera
ton Is question we must leave with
4 their consciences to settle.
To offset the boy who does tatting, and
who SPENDS his evenings studying out IN
the Ladies own how to drop two and
purl one, and skip three" we have the
strenuous young woman who is being
taught how to do carpentry. and who is
warranted to be able to drive d tack in
the wall without MASKING her thumb and
spelling q square yard of wall paper. The
Oretically this criss-crOss system of edu-
cation may have much to recommend it.
No one can deny that men would be bet
I ter employed spending their time knit
-tlIlB HIS S Tommy soShs, or WoIklIls q
set OF Battenburg doElles Tor birthday
present for their wives, than in sitting
about smoking and sTd piping race stories
It would also be money IN q man s
/ pocket If his wife. when she is smitten
/ with a mania tor making an empire
chair out of a cheese box, could do the
B day. carpenter, but there is another and a
practical side to the question, that BODIES
j
4 Everyone knows that The most aSgra-
waiting thing on earth is the perper ual
! wife offers up the most tervent. pray
/ erS for grace to endure her affections is
when her husband begins to relate now
/ ne made coffee and Orolled bacon Wnen
I he was camping In the woods. and 10
I Institute q comparison between that nee
/ at home.
/ Now. the man who is a graduate Of the
/ cooking class and sewing school Is not
10 or ar D. o.
/ never say, Now, my dear, JUST SIT down
/ and read a novel while I get dinner, and
I tucks in it it VIII make Mrs. Smiths look
] like a paved over remnant on. bargain
! day No, he VIII merely stand at one
I side and call attention u every thing than
goes wrong, and tell how. much better
he could do it if he wanted TO.
The woman who is an amateur Carpen-
! ter wiz be just as obnoxious She mas
| cat down the whole vine and oak cheory
/ with her little hatchet. 1t win even be
absurd to ask a young person who Is
/ handy with chisel. and plane, and saw.
! to lean upon YOU ana, what IS TAR worse
( it Skaters the last illusion of masculine
i woman might know as much about
books as d man, but as long as ne rould
she was bound TO look up TO him. Wher
she, too, can set up a stove and get tbs
toOthpicks she is as good a man as ne is
She has Climbed sup the knowledge tres
and eaten the last apple
Phere is something wrong, anyway
with the modern fad or encouraging WO
men in doing things they We're never in
tended to do When We hear OF one run
ming a buzz saw or breaking rocks On tnJ
street We make a great to-do over II
as If il were some notable achievement
but the wonder of il Is. the wonder o
the dancing dOg-nOt that she does t 81
well. but that she does it at an
Men have been doing these things FOL
Z ages without attracting the slightest at
tention and it is d humiliating fact tina
it takes a woman of genius, when sht
breaks over the ropes that smut in hel
sex. to compete with a scrubby office boy
/ in doing masculine work,
But in world that is long on mar
riagea BILE women, and short on marrytue
men, there is some reason in providing
/ girls with accomplishments that VIII rem
der a husband about the house less OF {
necessity. No such argument can be Of
fered for the other side Of the question