Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-04-02

end Is a reflection upon the ehiyalry of
the race
she is taking the bread out of the
mouth OF some man. She is not, as she
sometimes believes, bringing two loaves
into the family, but, on the contrary, Is
cutting It in two.
The greater the success she wins in
mans sphere the greater the risk she runs
of utter failure in her own--that of mar
rage and the home. No man cares TO
marry an independent woman. especially
one whose earning capacity is equal or
superior to his own.
Ii IS the nature of nan to want 10 be
looked up To by his wife. and under these
circumstances be cannot he
" ay not: Since when have women OF
any account looked Gp 10 man fer MS
earning capacity or measured him by IL.
Only the last paragraph Of the letter
seems OF general interest enough 10 VAR
rant discussion.
For whatever may be the individual
opinion of the working woman. She is tn
established fact, and the nost comforts
able theory Of economies il not the most
correct one. is that whatever is is right.
Tut WHY Sbould man be measured
hy lis earning capacity or Il woman by
her lack of il oone OF the greatest
philosophers ana poets the world has
known were unable 10 make as eomforta-
bic living as fai.s to the lot of the
{ y :
greatest men have wen their success by
the freedom from pecuniary cares guar
antced them by WOm1n's fortune
The old NTeinlan Who. when George
Washington asked him rather reproachs
fully IN the course OF an alteration
where he would be if he hadn't won his
Independence for him, rotorted. And
where would y0u be if it hadn't been for
the Widow CuStiS:" was wise i'm his
question For Martha Washington'S
broad acres and many slaves did a great
/ deal 10 advance the political interests Of
the father a. his country.
I Napoleon tooE the command Of the
army Of Italy from Josephine. who won
the appointment for him from Barras
/ Without it he could net have been En-
I peror
i Gladstone. Di>raeli and any number Of
other statesmen, living and dead did not
/ balk at the financial superiority of their
/ wives which won success for them, nor
/ did their wives look mp to them the less
/ because they were thus able to help
/ them.
/ it may be urged that these women did
/ not earn money. They merely had IT,
! But surely il would have been The more
creditable to them if they had
/ There are many women nowadays who
4 possess certain mental quickneSs. a ca
/ pacitY for intellectual yolte-face which
enables them to succeed in professions
/ where that aiertnesS Is the chief requisite
/ of success and where men of doubtless
superior mental calbor fnil lay the thor
oughness and resultant slowncSs of their
work
There is much that passes for intellect
nowadays that merely gives the alluson
of it--a sort of sleight-of-mind. if one
can coin the expression. ut which women
are and always viii be adept
But the women who possess ii and win
money by it when they need the money
are not less capable of rendering unto
Caesar that which is Caesars. the re-
spect and love and obedience which they
have given always to what they most adj
mire in him-which is not intellect, but
/ force.
And Caesar when he is at all worth
while, knows it, and does not worry about
having his wife look up TO him, what
ever her earning capacity was, is. or
may be.-Nixola Greeley Smith in New
/ York World.