The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

| ''Ddlly InI0nlcleE QBIlulnE Ter IlldlIltu
 sisters domestic misery. Such is the
 emancipated female The moral of il all being--so "The Average Man" says If you are a bachelor, remain q bachelor, or you will be written down
 an ass. If you are an emancipated fe-
 male, don't marry. Remain emancipa-
 ted. You have already ruined many
 homes; don't plunge yourself into the slough of despond you have created for
 others. If you do you will make your
 husband more Wretched than yourself.
 This discussion on marriage and the | decay of home life has been marked by
 a particular severity toward men. It l has given women splendid innings, | both the married and single. : lover of Freedom" Writes-"We cannot all
 marry and a large number of us don't l wish to. We are happier as we are, and
 why should we be called selfish for that? Don't men please themselves? | They think of themselves all the time. | Do they only want to marry us for our 1 good? Not q bit off it.' Naturally, once in a while, the sterner sex have l gotten back at these fair but eXasper- ating correspondents. A Bachelor writes; I've been greatly amused at the Womens abuse of the men; but l
 believe there is no law compelling wo- men to marry them, and if they are half as bad as the women say, they would be great fools to do so" Then he tells of a cousin, great, big tall woman, who was always saying to everybody Men are such brutes,' while at the same time she was doing her level best to get hold of one of the brutes. Because she failed in this, mn remained bruts, in her opinion, to the end. Otherwise, says this provoking bachelor, one at least might have been dubbed a duckie darling.''
 One writer lays all the blame for the alleged decay of domestic life upon British wives and mothers. To-day, he says, is essentially the day of the mar ried woman. The unmarried girl is nonentity. However. beautiful, accom- plished and charming, she is easily eclipsed by her older but married rival This being so, the girl is. in common with the home, neglected by the moth CT, whose own amusement takes up her entire time. and is left with the fixed idea that when in her turn she too is married sine will take good care to ob- tain the attention and amusement she is now missing. In this way the evil of domestic decay is apparently to be per petuated until the men take it into their own hands to relegate married women to their proper station in the home. So at least thinks one man, and if we i,ylt ,,FJ Jy,e IirI,p tatx ly by what is seen in London society, this estimate would not be very far out of the way.
 In it's more serious aspects this dis cussion turned upon certain glaring de- fleets of the English law. Married wo- men have not the rights they ought to have. A wife cannot obtain divorce upon merely proving that her husband has committed adultery, she must prove cruelty as well, whereas man can cut | the woman adrift upon the former | charge by itself A married woman, | having property of her own, must have l the husbands cooperation in dealing | with it, whereas man can dispose of 1 his property without the wife's consent, l and may, at his death, will the whole of | it away from her. The attitude of the | British man, one writer said, is to be l master and keep the woman under. Truly, she adds, the pride of manhood 1 1arkeneth counsel and we owe much td he American gentleman, while another 'efers approvingly to that American aw which gives a widow one-third of Ter late husbands estate, and hopes hat soon a bill may pass parliament | nsuring the same act of simple justice Q English-women.
 HENRY TUCKLEY.